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Oh haven’t seen this thread yet. I’m with you all there. There’s no reason to be pissed at the band nor Rune. That would be like being pissed every month they don’t release anything.
Von Till has a healthy point.
Quote:being a participant in some extremely gratifying and exciting alchemy, not a bloody @%$#@! consumer.well put, too.
ah yes if in Hamburg, best vinyl shop: http://www.qype.com/place/22592-Zardoz-GmbH-Hamburg
got me the latest Cure album and the Who’s Quadrophenia with a nice picture book.
We do, jtr.
Yes I’m lucky to have a couple of brilliant vinyl shops in my hometown, so it’s probably easy for me to rant. :lol: But I also order some stuff online, CD’s and vinyl. Which is bad actually, I should support those shops more…
The most modern gadget I have is a Nintendo DSi, which plays music from SD cards. So I had to get itunes because of the DSi’s format requirement. All this to have music to listen to on a plane but it was way too loud in there. Bah. Went to Hamburg, awesome place btw.
Maybe some vinyl freaks are offended by the digital generation. Me I’m not. What offends me are two things that came along with the upcoming of digital distribution.
a) The customer’s demand. Customers think they got a right to art and its choice of container. Because they got the latest devices with tons of GB, they demand it be filled and switched and updated and whatnot. This must never be the artist’s concern.
b) The perception of art’s value. I know of people who are actually offended if they have to buy an album when they only like 2 or 3 songs on it. Art has become a self service supermarket.
And as the first bad consequence: More or less obviously there’s a demand for free music for everyone everytime everywhere a-creeping. Just because this is technically possible and totally zeitgeist and people have lost the ability to wait for an album release date.
In ye olde days music has inspired people, so they went and bought some technical things to listen to it. Now the gadgets inspire people, and they demand music to use them.
jesus, I’d make a good preacher.
