quoted 2 lines Shouldn't there be a rule against selling CDR's on Ebay?
>Shouldn't there be a rule against selling CDR's on Ebay?
>
There should be and of course there is.
But just for argument's sake-
I might be a huge Bola fan, but I'm never going to find a complete set (or
incomplete) of the Shapes 12"s. So what are my options outside of buying or
trading for a cdr if I ever want to hear this music?
1. Napster or similar program- debate as much as you want, but mp3 is never
going to sound absolutely as good as a vinyl or cd master.
2. Emusic or similar service- probably my best bet and their catalogs are
extensive, but they're not gonna have everything.
3. hope the label re-releases it- I understand that labels might not have
the money to make thousands of copies of a release especially when they're
just starting out and also if they are making both cds and vinyl. And I
understand that they won't have the time or money once they get bigger and
have more bands and projects on their plate to go back and re-release stuff.
But who knows if I would've ever heard the "Richard Coleman Devine" EP if
Schematic hadn't re-pressed it a couple months back.
But at the same time, nobody but the label and/or the artist should profit
from the sale of their product. Then again, I don't think any artist make
music for people NOT to hear (unless you're the Residents, then all bets are
off).
To take it a step further, if you did allow the sale of cd-rs, then not only
would the official releases end up on cdr, but the bootlegs and unauthorized
remixes as well. But then again as someone else posted, aren't many of the
songs on the MASK series unofficial remixes anyway? And those were sold by
the label for profit, were they not?
Which then begs the question 'Well why didn't I just buy it when it was
originally released?' I wish I could afford all the records I wanted. I wish
I knew which records were available. I wish the internet/physical record
stores actually carried them.
So in the end, the sale of cd-rs shouldn't be tolerated. But I think there
has to be some consideration to the fact that some of these releases are so
rare/limited that it is unreasonable to think that I as a regular consumer I
don't have a chance of getting this music any other way.
On a semi-related note-
I saw at a local store the Autechre vinyl repressings. Tri Repetae was 20
bucks. Incunabula was 20 bucks. Is there a reason that Chiastic Slide was 25
bucks at the same store?
Just a buch of hypothetical questions.
Sorry if it feels like Ethics class all over again.
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