I can "feel" your excitement in receiving packages of unsampled music - I
have always bought that way too... sometimes because i have read a snippet
of a review - but sometimes just because the packaging is so interesting and
creative - you think the music will be too.....
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From: <Brian.Power@cso.ie>
To: <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>; <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] r.i.p. SMALL LABELS
quoted 142 lines I copy you on the "feeding the beast" near obsessional behaviour inherent
>I copy you on the "feeding the beast" near obsessional behaviour inherent
> in an mp3 players owners' day-to-day existence ; and I have previously
> posted here as to the merits of digital music providers in hastening the
> demise of electronic/idm music by virtue, ironically, of its "try it
> before
> you buy it" music streaming services and ones apathy towards music
> generally as a result this.
>
> Until I had recieved a gift of a 40 GB ipod last Christmas I was receiving
> the occasional box of CD delights from FE or other [insert mail order shop
> of choice] retaillers and labels every one or two months. Often I was
> buying music completely blindly, as in I had never, ever heard it before.
> I'd often walked, drenched by the relentless Irish rain, for up to an hour
> to collect bulging packages from the Post Offices sorting office on the
> outskirts of town. I was like a child, on arriving home, who'd been let
> loose for a one minute sprint around a sweetshop, grabbing what looked
> nice
> on the eye and only sampling for the first time their assorted flavours
> afterwards, with a mixture of delight and disappointment. But most often
> delight.
>
> So I'd already had about 23 GB's of mp3's on my hard disk before I got a
> broadband connection last April... And I've about 2 GB's of space left on
> my 40GB iPod now.
>
> Yet I've only bought about 12 or 15 CD's since. It's all become largely
> web
> based downloads, whether it be from online digital music providers -
> subscription (eMusic) or pay as you go (Bleep, Kompakt etc.) - right down
> to the hit and miss mp3 blog sites, label freebies, podcasts/mixes etc.
> Sure I've got some form of p2p ftp software on my 'puter aswell, but I
> exercise extreme control over it's deployment for the download of music,
> UNLESS there's little or no other choice in sourcing the music digitally
> i.e. it isn't for sale on the web as an mp3. And I always first try and
> pay
> for downloads directly from the labels before hitting the big boy
> providers.
>
> Does the instant gratification of immediate download and subsequent
> appreciation match up to or equal the anticipation and appreciation of
> receipt of mail order/store purchased goods ? Kinda...
>
> I do still intend to purchase hard copy releases. I do still intend to
> purchase well encoded mp3's from labels or providers. But I'll probably
> rarely ever savour again the innocent delight, not to mention the hour
> long
> walk (I've since got wheels), over rain soaked streets in super saturated
> clothing, in picking up the latest treasure chest of mail order CD's from
> the post offices sorting office.
>
> Breathe in deeply this musty whiff of nostalgia people ; for these are the
> very things we have lost in the firewired-up broadband adulterated digital
> lifestyle revolution of today.
>
> But you could do a lot worse than to pick up Low either live, on disc or
> even on hard disk as an anecdotal antidote...
>
> np - Thuja "Pine Cone Temples"
>
>
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>> anyone thought about there being a connection between
>> mp3 downloading and inability (by labels) to sale
>> physical product ?
>
> yes and no. it depends on the people on the downloading side. i had
> never
> bought a LOW
> album until i went to kranky's site and they had a free download of
> "(that's how you sing)
> amazing grace". after i heard it once i was looking up the album it was
> on
> and sending
> kranky my money. i must have listened to it another time before i got the
> CD. same thing
> happened with downloadable songs from calla and the walkmen.
>
> then again, i am not enamored of the mp3 format except as something to
> stream on my
> computer at work, to check out things in order to buy the "real" release.
> i want the other
> tracks a song goes with, i want artwork, i want lyrics, i want whatever
> the
> artist has bundled
> up with their music to offer it as a complete work. so to me an mp3 is
> not
> satisfying in itself.
> i do not own an ipod, nor do i intend to.
>
> for someone who does however, every song is just to feed the beast. i
> know
> people working
> on getting a second ipod because their first one is now too small. once
> they start
> accumulating tracks they can't stop - and they're not going to start some
> kind of file
> management/backup system or (god forbid) delete anything (at least, not on
> purpose). i
> think that mindset, coupled with an indifferent attitude towards having
> "the real release" and
> perhaps a bit of crying poor, can lead to rampant downloading and hoarding
> of free tracks,
> legal or not. but this is just a hypothesis, based loosely on personal
> observation. i know
> millions of people actually pay to download, but i've never met one.
>
>
> d.
>
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