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Where do the on-demand services fit in this discussion? I have used Rhapsody to listen to all of the unreleased cuts on the new Miles Davis box for free, as a part of their 25 free listens per month deal. Could that be construed as some sort of circumvention here? This discussion is going to change as a result of upcoming increases in bandwidth and new models of distribution arise. What if you could listen any album ever recorded at SACD resolution any time you wanted? How much would that be worth each month? Each year?

It got released as a double disc set, and it is powerful. Mary Lou solo is the best way to hear her, IMO

That was my first thought, too! That would completely suck.

I did notice that a bunch of the Miles Davis titles are gone already.

Am I the only one that thinks that the track "Vertebrae By Vertebrae" from Bjork's last album owes more than a great deal to the cut "Chieftain" on this set? What an odd coincidence... edit for sausage-finger typing...

It'll have to get me by until it shows up at BMG.

You can listen to them for free at Rhapsody -- they have the set. http://www.rhapsody.com/milesdavis/thecomp...ecornersessions

My co-worker bought it, and it is in my Amazon wish list. I have been a fan of Ross's for a while -- his blog is worth digging too.

That is the deal -- they play a song that was popular the summer that you were 16 and partying, you get that warm feeling of nostalgia, and the company's logo appears. Repeat until logo = warm feeling. Mission accomplished. Devious and outright mechanical, but effective.

Hindustani, Carnatic, Qawaali, Mugam Love it!

that live show that appears on the second disc of Exodus is like a freight train -- when that band got rolling [no pun intended] on the tune Exodus, there was no stopping them. Love that.

For extreme behavior, see the episode where he hangs with the indigenous peoples of far Northern Quebec. They eat a seal or sea lion raw -- the whole thing. They put some plastic down and butcher the thing right in the middle of the kitchen. Blood everywhere. Wow.

i dunno -- could it be a fake? It is so consistently off. Sounds like a bad Stan Kenton chart.

Well, actually... Some of the tracks are kind of "diddling" around in the yards, but in college, I used to blast the acetylene torch tracks out of the dorm room. I have 100+ hours of recordings of asphalt roofing kettles that I've made over the past few decades (with an excerpt released on disc here.) I think that the "Junkyard" LP was probably an influence. I have many field [no pun intended] recordings of antique tractors and steam engines. Some of them this summer benefited from my new dual condenser mic setup. I haven't found a place to host these sounds online for easy playback. Thoughts? Here is a lo-fi clip of one of the engines i recorded this summer: It is awesome, with that odd singing squeak and the never-ending clicks.

You talkin' 'bout these? Hot dog! Those are they!

Two recordings: The 1963 Winternationals. This is an LP of drag racing sounds, recorded live. Never seen another copy. Stack Music, Vol 2. on Folkways. Sounds of locomotives on LP.

Is that embossed? Hell yeah!

Do you have a code for this? What does it work out to in the end? Anytime I can get under $6 is time to pull the trigger on a batch.

I like the original cover, but I also dig the Columbia LP version, too.

Dang! That looks like the list I was about to send.

I don't exist either...

I did this a couple of years ago with a $90 RCA to USB converter from the fine folks at Pinnacle. It comes with some software to create menus, chapters, etc. It worked well; my only beef is that it worked best after installing a 2nd hard drive. [Per Pinnacle's recommendation.] That, and it is less than real-time when all is said and done [like you might get with a standalone unit].

uh... cuz it sucks & nobody w/o nostalgia gives a fuck about a bunch of poorly aging ex-jews, whatever their few past triumphs? oh, but they're an established "brand" & wow, look who bites, again... granted, not that there's a wealth of contemporary competition for acid funk & it can't be much more boring than new prince album but he had waaaaay further to fall too. killah priest the offering ugk undergound kingz raekown presents icewater polluted water boot camp clik casualties of war keith murray rap-murr-phobia sean price[/p] mixtape whose title i can't remember public enemy how you sell soul to soulless people... ... other stuff i'm forgetting. *** sal jumps in to say he digs PE too, Alfie screeches but admits he likes UGK also; WD is the wildcard. *** Talib Kweli is a mediocre asswipe-- how many chances does he get?--& doublefuck Kanye's U2 (or something; Andrew Lloyd Weber?) aspirations before they even drop. What, no Slim Thug on there?

Beasties were playing garage punk before they did the hip-hop thing on Licensed to Ill. See their compilation of that material "Some Old Bullshit." IMO, the stuff on The In Sound From Way Out was a much more consistent effort in this vein [albeit a compilation!] That said, I thought Off the Grid was a nice tune from this new album!

I remember reading in the back of some hifi mag some years ago about someone that would repair your damaged records with locked grooves. They would play straight through, then, but man that has got to be some tricky business.