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the Internet and music
I must admit I love the Internet. I just decided to look for a very hard to find music artist. Sure enough, a google later, I found one hit (challenge, try to create something that makes one google hit). It was in fact the track listing for the album I had original heard the artist on. It's a hard to find, vinyl only, so I probably won't end up getting it, but it was nice to see that La Loca actuallly existed.
In a seperate search I found Twin Tone's site. I was looking for a Skunk album which I'd only ever heard one song off of. The label is now defunct and the album out of print, but they have a arrangement where you can get custom made CD's from their out of print library. Cool.
I got to hear a bit of Tulear Never Sleeps on The World on NPR. I liked what I heard. The samples on the website didn't sound as cool as the selections I heard on the radio.
Oh, this is a good space for me to put my opinion in.
The major labels are yelling and screaming because their sales have been going down the last 4 years. Yes, piracy is a part of that, but piracy has been around a long time. Which did you buy more of prerecorded cassettes or blanks? The record companies enjoyed a windfall of sales with the advent of CD's. Many people who had amassed collections of vinyl and cassettes converted their collections or at least part of their collections. They did this because the old copies were worn out, the sound was cleaner on CD, or they could buy once and it would last "forever." I remember people waiting for this and that to be released on CD. It took quite a few years for the majority of the content to make its way to CD and people to get around to picking it up. Well, that feeding frenzy is over now. Once you have a CD it doesn't break (like cassettes) or easily scratch (like vinyl) or wear out (like both). I don't have to buy it again. The Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" I bought in '85 still sounds the same. In addition, the labels market most of their product to the under 21 crowd. Then they complain that their sales are declining. Byte me. Support independent artists like Michelle Shocked and Aimee Mann
In a seperate search I found Twin Tone's site. I was looking for a Skunk album which I'd only ever heard one song off of. The label is now defunct and the album out of print, but they have a arrangement where you can get custom made CD's from their out of print library. Cool.
I got to hear a bit of Tulear Never Sleeps on The World on NPR. I liked what I heard. The samples on the website didn't sound as cool as the selections I heard on the radio.
Oh, this is a good space for me to put my opinion in.
The major labels are yelling and screaming because their sales have been going down the last 4 years. Yes, piracy is a part of that, but piracy has been around a long time. Which did you buy more of prerecorded cassettes or blanks? The record companies enjoyed a windfall of sales with the advent of CD's. Many people who had amassed collections of vinyl and cassettes converted their collections or at least part of their collections. They did this because the old copies were worn out, the sound was cleaner on CD, or they could buy once and it would last "forever." I remember people waiting for this and that to be released on CD. It took quite a few years for the majority of the content to make its way to CD and people to get around to picking it up. Well, that feeding frenzy is over now. Once you have a CD it doesn't break (like cassettes) or easily scratch (like vinyl) or wear out (like both). I don't have to buy it again. The Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" I bought in '85 still sounds the same. In addition, the labels market most of their product to the under 21 crowd. Then they complain that their sales are declining. Byte me. Support independent artists like Michelle Shocked and Aimee Mann