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a rose tinted view of the past mayhaps robbery?
possibly, why, do they make my face look fat? shall I try another colour?
nah, it's fact. its easier and cheaper to make discs these days. it was quite a prohibitive experience in past decades. someone had to really want to put your music out for you cos most mere mortals couldn't afford the pressing fee. ask flying nun or simon grigg. you had to plan your releases out by what you could afford.
PR has got a lot more insistent too, they got better at their job, their craft, selling shit you don't want to buy by process of attrition. haven't you noticed? ads on everything. -
re issues are technically studio only as there is no band to gig the record (excluding the likes of SLF etc who still live to this day)
lots of bands don't gig in nz so as far as we''re concerned they're studio only, or might as well be.
then there's the likes of steely dan who were all ring in session guys apart from the core 2 (don't ask me why I know this, perhaps I don't)
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agreed the thrill of the chase is part of it.
and i guess it's no different now.
very different now. mis managed misdirected promo clogging the communications channels, and shear quantity, much of it of no interest to one persons tastes. It's a lot of work to wade through it.
the small record stores have come into their own with that issue though. go to galaxy records in chch and there are no trestle tables, its stocked with a particular market in mind and the latest mariah is nowhere to be seen, knowing full well that the people who go to that shop aren't interested in it and the owner isn't interested in attracting that type of purchaser. A sale isn't just a sale, its very specific, and their efforts are appreciated, even if it is at the cost of them making easier money. -
embarrassingly mine mostly come from myspace, I don't usually look, they find me, like minded music searching out others. if we were all as lazy as me though that wouldn't happen.
I've been a bit disappointing with pitchfork of late, i'll give those other too a look though.
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we're witnessing an inventive flowering not seen since the eighties when hip-hop, post-punk and house / techno all changed the landscape.
I love your positivity simon, and your negativity too though (cough- dire straits-cough)
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I think you miss the point. Once again,
I didn't have one point, I had a multipoint angle, a large part of it was a change in attitude, assisted by a not "piss easy" to steal product. the change in attitude would be media commentators and any music enthusiast not complaining about any new protection they couldn't easily circumvent and understanding the need for them.
I've not said I expect DRM to be un crackable, just annoying,
You can shoplift past the checkout operator, but its not quite as easy as if there wasn't a checkout person standing there in an unmanned store.the uploaders/downloaders - aren't govts looking at pesky legislation to invade everyone's privacy to keep that in check? if and when that comes in I'm sure we'll all wish we'd just pretended drm was uncrackable, paid for the things and got on with pretending the internet was untouchable.
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I think he did in his blog:
rather than
ie instead of, excluding the first, doing the second
It's much much easier
change in attitude
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nah we had to work a hell of a lot harder to access the stuff back then.
small wonder records catalogue and an NME would sort you, but my comment was more you could find the interesting stuff cos it was written about. now you have to sift through promoter written puff pieces all telling you their acts are the next best thing and really most of it isn't, and as you said there is so much of it, that's one of the biggest things that turns me off participating in music fandom. walk into real groovy, see half a mile of trestle tables and walk out again. Too much chaff the wheat is buried deep. you have to have the patience to wade through this stuff and if you lived through periods were there was a lot of interesting stuff happening right on the surface and written about directly in the appropriate publication etc.
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sound recording and plug ins.
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you keep going at the "clients are evil".
When have I said that, I said all people are inherently evil not just clients. :)
are you pretending they're not?I'm an equal opportunities discriminator,
but my point remains, to focus on drm is evil is to throw the baby out with the bath water. I'm a professional software user with nasty copy protection on it. I'm reasonably good at computer noodling and some of the stuff I use seems impossible to work around illegally. its probably not impossible but its bloody difficult and if its difficult for me then its difficult for 90% of the population. so I own legit copies. I have no need to crack it and its really easier to own the copies and get the back up than to buck the system and get a degree in computer code in order to crack it. That's the sort of system we should see our media comentators push for instead
if duanes having trouble ripping a disc then that's a success in contolling distribution isn't it. its a failure in pleasing the customer which is the thing that needs to be addressed but in the argument of impossible drm its a vote for doable. add that to a change in attitude from grumpy child smashing his toys to intelligent adult with an acceptance and understanding of why the process is necessary and you've got a workable situation.