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Not "essential" in my book, but I don't think you'd feel bad about not paying too much for it.

Couldn't agree more, actually, only that I've come to use the internet to get my "audition copies" for older, "archival" material. It's saved me from a lot of what would have been unsatisfying purchases, and freed up a lot of cash for what I know I want. More informed purchasing with less physical clutter. The Internet IS your friend!

Ooh! Ooh! I hope it's me. I hope it's me. If you've lurked or posted around here long enough, you'd be sure of who I was talking about. Aw crap! I never win anything. Well then, climb off the manup and just TRY HARDER! John(?) just needs to come to Texas, walk the streets (and dirt roads, and gravel roads, and interstate hi-ways, and wooded paths, beaten and otherwise) with us, and learn how to talk right, that's all. But not in the summer. That's INDOOR time!

No...think about it - if "loss of exclusivity" was at work, why would anybody be pointing out the option of getting the material in the exact same format (needledrops and CD rips) for free instead of paying for it in some halfass cardboard box? Do European PD laws mandate that eligible material actually be sold? In another thread, Mr. Lowe is singing the praises of another PD label, one that adds value by providing quality work of their own enterprise. With that type of enterprise, there can be no quarrel! But this stuff (and Proper, and Lonehill, and all the other leeches)...it's an easy way out for all concerned. Easy and cheap. We all like easy and cheap, but when we start defending them as anything but... World gone even more wrong, that is.

You do know that that material was released in Japan before Lonehill copped it, right? And that the Japanese issues were available (and may still be) on torrent sites? How do I know this? Because, like you, I saw this set and thought, hey, I'll make an exception here, no toehr way to get this stuff. Then I got the generic liner notes & photos, blah blah blah and felt kinda took. Then I found out about the Japanese issues and felt a little pissed off. Then I found out about the torrent sites and felt like a total sucker. Which, of course, I was. Live and learn!

I'd never claim to be holier than anybody. Good LORD no! But smarter? It's times like this I gotta wonder...

Yeah, WU is where I got the other forecast above (click on the 7 Day forecast link: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=zmw:63101.1.99999#forecast . I'm a big WU fan myself, trust them as implicitly as any weather service can be trusted. but from my experience with them, an 80% chance of "occasional rain" means that there's an 80% chance of getting sky-spit here and there. If it were were going to be worse, they'd predict something like an 80% chance of thunderstorms, isolated or otherwise. We'll just have to wait and see, eh?

Channel 4 is ON This!

Disembodiment!

I'll even add this bit of nuance, based on personal experience - go ahead and be a sucker if you're too lazy and/or not inspired enough by the material to look for stuff like this anywhere else. Just don't claim that you're not a sucker and/or not lazy and/or just don't give a big enough damn about the music at hand to pay real money for real issues. To think that paying some jiveass jakeleg group anything to make some CD rips and needledrop dubs for you is "perfectly acceptable" is an insult to everybody, especially to yourself. To say, "hey, I know it sucks, but ya' know, I just don't give enough of a shit about this particular music to go hunting for it any other way", well, that's at least honest. And if it's an entirely economic decision, if you really can't afford it, then definitely use the internet, and save your money for when you can start exercising some intellegent financial discretion. Pissing away your money on stuff like this only delays when that time can come.

You do realize your BASIC line of "reasoning" could apply to ANY downloadable piece of music, even if in its "regular" (tangible) form it would be 100% legit and royalty-paying? You can always get something cheaper somewhere out there if that's all that matters to you. No, I didn't realize that. Thanks for making me aware! I'd only call them a sucker if they paid good money (or any money) for a knockoff of the original instead of an original. So back to the beginning - how big a sucker are you, anyway?

Yes, I agree as well. What I was pointing out is that some of the people getting so enflamed about this issue are the ones who have gladly accepted burns of needledrops and pressed cds without paying money for them. As such, the artists STILL are not being compensated for their work under either scenario. As a lawyer, I'd expect that you would fully understand the degree of this hypocrisy. I'm not making judgments here. Just saying to those same people: Quit while you're ahead, and be smart and know when to STFU!!! For the record, my argument in this thread has never been about royalties. It's been about how pwned a consumer is for paying money to somebody for something they could get for free. or in many cases, legitmately. I'm pretty sure a lot of this stuff is still in print, and what's not still in print, you can find through Your Friend & Mine, The Internet, or through Friendly Collector Circles. If it's in print and you want it bad enough, buy it. Period. If it's not in print and you can't afford "collector's prices", show a little initiative, get over the technophobia, and realize that somebody somewhere has made the same material that you're willing to pay these skeezers good money for available for free. The "you can't get this anywhere else" argument is fallacious in the extreme extreme. The royalties thing is about how immoral are you willing to be at any given time, and what do you do to compensate for it. "No perfect life in an imperfect world", etc. Whole 'nother discussion there. This argument is about just how big a sucker are you, anyway?

Oh yeah, tornado nuts! I'm just saying, if all we're looking at here is an 80% chance of isolated thunderstorms in the morning and an 80% chance of occasional rain in the evening, in my experience with forecasts, that means that the odds of the game becoming genuinely unplayable, or even "sloppy" are next to none. Then again, what's really driving all this, I'd imagine, is TV. Fox would no doubt prefer a guaranteed play-through than even one small rain delay. Fox...grrrrrr..... I'd feel better about a postponement if the forecast was looking more gnarly that it now does. But I guess you can never be too cautious, or something.

I'm not getting "atrocious" out of this: http://www.kmov.com/...8;img=1&c=y Per: http://www.wundergro...%2C+mo#forecast Today Much cooler. Cloudy. Chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms in the morning...then occasional showers and isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon. High in the mid 60s. Temperature falling into the 50s in the afternoon. Northwest wind around 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Tonight Colder. Occasional rain. Low in the mid 40s. North wind around 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Not "perfect" weather by a long shot, but certainly playable unless some heavy, sustained stuff comes through.

Julie London? Howlin' Wolf? I think there might be some connection... http://www.carrothers.com/comedy/julie%20london.mp3 NSFW, btw...

The Golddiggers Goldfinger Bill Hand

Sunglasses aplenty!

Hey, here's a video game right here!

I get that football has a more visceral appeal than baseball. It's got people hitting each other and wearing armored uniforms and all that good stuff. I enjoy it well enough myself. I understand that basketball is fast and furious and has flying sweaty people. I like it quite a bit myself. What I don't get is how anybody thinks that the way to broaden the appeal of baseball (which will then get you bigger ratings) is to just keep hoping for the "more appealing" teams to make it to the WS. That's just lazy thinking. There's a circular logic bordering on the inbred that drives the "only a few teams have any national appeal, so we'll just hard-pimp those teams, because they're the only ones with national appeal". There's plenty of young, appealing talent in the game these days...MLB needs to get off its ass and think forward about this, start getting creative and aggressive about marketing all its talent, invest in the future, ya' know? Not that the game will ever again regain its position of dominant mass popularity, but geez...

a-HA!

That pink label BN mentioned on Durium's blog..about 35 years ago, when there was only one Half Price in Dallas (or anywhere?), they had three copies of it on the shelves of a quarter each. Did I pick one, two, or even all three up? Of course not. DOH!

To make matters worse, if tomorrow's game is rained out and if there is a Game 7 on Friday night instead of Thursday night, I will be unable to view it, since I have a gig booked for that night. My impending rage at having an employment opportunity possibly conflict with the culmination of a six-month investment of more life-energy than I've been able to muster for several years is exceeded only by my heartfelt disappointment that the World Series TV ratings will be even lower than they already would be if there is a game on Friday. Dammit Rangers, why can't cha' be more appealing?

Too bad there couldn't have been (per the New York Times blogger quoted above) "A matchup of more appealing teams, say the Yankees or Red Sox against the Dodgers, or especially the Cubs," Casual provincialism would have been rewarded, appreciation of craftsmanship would have been rendered even further irrelevant, money would have been made, and Wall Street would get a ray of sunshine. And THAT, sadly, is the way America go.

I tried...