Posts by Simon Grigg
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I don't see the point in buying it through iTunes when I can easily walk down to the shops and buy it for a couple of dollars more. I can see huge potential in buying either out of print music, or obscure stuff that would cost $40+ to get imported.
thats my problem, there are no obscurities. I've never really looked at iTunes before and really expected more.
Maybe my required obscurities are more obscure than most...
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OMG - isn't it awful?
actually the whole store is deadly dull...I can find absolutely nothing I'm even vaguely tempted to buy. Back to Emuisc and Beatport
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She says that at Canterbury University the prize for deluded ideas went to her fellow studentl, Roger Sheppard, when he announced he was off to start a record label.
I used to drink far too much whiskey with Roger in 81-82 upstairs at Warners in the Square. He was working in the record shop in Columbo St. I used to ship the funny indie 7"s I was distributing back then to him for Chch sales (Hercos, Gordons..which was not a FN record..Mockers and the like) and had got to know him fairly well because of it. He rang me about Sept 81, to place an order, and said he was thinking of starting a label. I told him not to be so bloody silly. How could you start a label in Chch? The worst advice I ever gave anyone. Thank god he ignored it.
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Well I do, one less thing for me to charge or take out of my car so it doesn't get stolen sounds good to me.
but there is nothing new in a phone that plays music..the S/E W950i holds 3000 odd songs with a six hour battery..more time than my iPod..has a touch screen etc...its already there. All we are talking about is the brand
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But less so, perhaps, in the US, where the big global mobile brands aren't so utterly dominant, and where there's room for Sidekicks and Blackberrys.
Isn't the US cellphone (rather than the smartphone) market pretty much dominated by what deals the big four providers have done to give away or substantially discount phones for their customers? Smartphones on the other hand tend to be purchased
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The phone thing - yeah, it's no doubt coming and might be a Nokia/Moto/Sony killer..
only if they can get a retail structure in place globally to compete with those people, and the iPod infrastructure / network doesn't count. Those companies have a street retail presence everywhere in the world that dwarfs Apple's...the iPod may have a presence out there but in sheer volume the cellphone market so very much bigger. Those companies have a head start that is almost insurmountable.
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I think the packaging is pretty expensive. I gather it costs them $90 to produce.
perhaps, but there is a certain irony in seeing The Pin Group and such in such surroundings. It feels like a 180 degree twist from where FN started from.
Then again so was Fiona MacDonald who is conspicuous in her absence, especailly when one consdires that FMR / FN probably spent more on her than most of the rest of these records combined.
That said, its a tasty must have package (and Amplifier have it for $120) (and as a plug!!! have just put a bunch of my old records up too..Features / Suburban Reptiles / Screaming Meemees etc..more to come)
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Ihug's help desk has gone from very good in the Wood and post Wood days, to absolutely appalling these last twelve months.
I agree with you on the email support too...an email re hosting issues took two months to get a reply. The issue (with the www. and the non www. versions of a site displaying differently)had resolved itself in the interim so I forgot about it until I got a snarly email suggesting I clear my cache (it was actually a DNS error at their end) two months later.
Ihug have had some very good people working there in the past but many seem to have been "rationalised"
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Young people these days just don't know what house music is any more, mutter, grumble, etc ...
Ha ha, yes...my daughter (12) thinks my taste in music (aside from The Beatles which she and her mates all love) sucks.
I actually think its been a hell of a year for new music and reissues of old stuff. I've been looking at a best of for my blog and its been quite inspiring...
And talking of emusic and House, there was a huge swag of classic early Chicago stuff on their, Fingers Inc and Marshall Jefferson and the like. Frankie Knuckles "Your Love" but it seems to have gone, which is a shame.. But I just found the new Andy Weatherall there, and that is a killer! I have it on vinyl but I need it for my iPod so...
Oh and one more thing totally unrelated but mentioned way back...how on earth do Warners get away with retailing the 4 CD Flying Nun set for $150+ !! What a scam....
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Digital Rights Management...its basically the record companies trying to control the use and distribution of their copyrights..it sucks. I'm far too tired to go into it in detail...best go here
But suffice to sa its a reasonably good indication of why major record companies are in big trouble.