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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.
Quote:We obviously can’t live without making a comparence.true.
but lemme still say: sonic youth could never have made Blissard.
I don’t think you were bashed by anyone. I didn’t bash you.
[preachyteachy mode ON]I see an open mind not as something one can claim from the other. It’s something one delivers in the first place. It’s how one deals with all the contradictionary point of views of all the others. It’s easy to tolerate same-thinking peers, there’s nothing open minded about that. [preachyteachy mode OFF]
In this special case: Allow the artist to make his art available as he sees fit and accept it without feeling screwed just because one prefers to get it on a different medium. The only one that got bashed in that topic was the band itself. By an open-minded fanbase of psychonauts.
Quote:Hell, I thought, I’ve always seen psychonauts as open people. And that thread was a bummer.???
“but thats OK. it doesn’t matter anyway. it’s still those with the least to say that will be heard…”
’nuff said.
btw my wish for next month’s song: “no evil”.
I find it quite interesting that we have a pro and contra vinyl discussion. I rather see this thing as a pro and contra album subject. Yes one can listen to a whole downloaded album and pick his favourite tracks on the LP player. But doesn’t the latter format imply listening to the whole album? Maybe even take a break after the last song faded?
Quote:Have you thought that maybe they actually don’t want you to listen to it while driving in traffic and not paying attention to the music?Prince and Kyuss come to mind who released albums on CD (Lovesexy & Sky Valley) with almost to none song indexes. And Kyuss even instructed the listener with a “listen without distraction” note on the sleeve. So they screwed the customer’s preferences?
you’re a very silly young lad.
geeez, this hasn’t anything to do with old and new and hippie and whatnot. it’s probably a decision of sound. recording by steve albini and putting it out on vinyl simply go hand in hand.
but yes maybe it’s a basic cherish-the-vinyl statement from MP’s side as well. in these dark times of customer lead download demands. the latter is the doom that must be fought. hail to the cildren of the future who shall worship the arts again as intended by the artists.
