Dan Gould

Well, its now 11:15, three hours after I logged on, and I've gone through every PM and email and updated the list accordingly. That'll teach me not to post the list after 10 PM and then go to bed. What a mess - but there are worse "messes" to clean up. So, everything is up to date as of right now, and I'd like to point out one late addition, a very nice Japanese pressing of a classic Riverside, Bags Meets Wes.

I've been curious about this label, too. I have the Newman, its pretty good.

We are a complete embarrassment right now. I haven't felt so ashamed about my team since the last "Massacre". We come home and lose two of three to New York and two straight to the Angels. Nothing less than horrifyingly pathetic. And what the hell do I know about matchups? I said that we usually hit Lackey, he carries a no-hitter into the ninth. Doc Holliday is facing the Rays, turns out the Rays beat him regularly, and beat him again. At least the Yankees are losing and we aren't losing ground in the wild card. As for Teixeira, it feels like that move the Sox made with Gagne last year - best team in the league making a trade that seemingly makes them potentially unbeatable. Of course, it turned out they were, with no help from Gagne. You'll see some major bidding war break out for Teix in the fall. Best thing though is that the Cubs are crushing the Brewers with Zambrano sailing. With the Sox looking like crap, its time for me to just commit to the Cubs and forget the defending champions who look like shit.

Please see the New Stupendous Sale Thread!

Yeah, it is - great bop by some old masters. Anywhooo ... to all those who have bought and paid in the anticipation of prompt shipping: Fat Chance. Actually, everyone who has paid and isn't expecting a single shipment at the end will have their packages go out today, Tuesday, without fail. And, since I've mostly cleared out the pending sales, that means that the M's through the R's will be posted later today.

What's sad is that she has apparently chosen to deliberately alter her look, to become less "human" looking. So I don't know if "butchered" is quite the right word - it wasn't a plastic surgery gone wrong. Otherwise I agree with you. I don't think butchered is the right word either, though you can certainly question the professional ethics of a plastic surgeon who agrees to attempt to make a client more "feline". Seems to me anyone in the profession should be obligated not to perform surgery but to refer the patient to a competent therapist.

Well he was cruisin' for 5 innings and then started throwing batting practice......i can't figure out Dice-K Actually the first two innings were pretty bad and he was lucky (again) to have only given up one run. He is constantly poised over a precipice of disaster and it caught up with him today. These things even out in the end and when you walk 60 batters as a starter, you're going to be in deep doo-doo someday. Their one hope tonight is that they almost always pound Lackey, particularly at Fenway (Remember the playoff game when you could practically read his lips saying "I hate this fucking place"). And I think the Jays have Doc Holloday going, so there's another chance we might have to slip back into first. And Rasner for the Yanks. None of the match ups are positive for our competition, so we need to take advantage.

Its definitely a big win when you beat the Brewers on the road when their big (and I mean that in all senses of the word) acquisition starts. If they contain the Brewer offense and then get into their bullpen, they should be OK ... with Zambrano going and I presume Harden gets a start too, they've got a good chance to win the series, and a great chance to at least split, which leaves them in the same position with four more games off the schedule. Yeah, its early to talk about games left but every one of them counts and lately the Cubs have looked like they were wishing that the clock would run out when its only the third quarter as it were.

yes Yeah, those were some pretty hot pictures but was it the angle or something that made her left boob look different from the right? Or maybe it was the fit of the bikini. Whatever, it was distracting, and not in the way intended. But would you bring it back anyway, Evan?

The Yankees get crushed, the Rays are losing, and what do we have to show for it? FUCKING NOTHING BECAUSE OF THAT SQUINTY EYED PIECE OF SHIT WHO CAN'T THROW A FUCKING STRIKE TO SAVE HIS LIFE.

Uh ... no she most definitely isn't.

Excellent news.

That's her daughter Lourdes. Looks like she has a Frida Kahlo unibrow thing going on too. Looks like she'll have a lifetime of waxing multiple parts of her anatomy ... seriously, is the father some man-ape? Poor kid.

Don't forget Marty, he's a .280 career BA guy, low OBP and nothing special power. And some think he's insurance against Abreu departing! Bring it on - replace Nady with Abreu and see how that goes.

Can I ask what the heck is going on here? I'm getting slammed like when these listings were first posted! Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I guess a whole bunch of people have been returning from vacation lately. So, welcome back, enjoy the bargains!

Other factors involved with Criss Cross and Savant/HighNote. Things I'm not comfortable discussing. Hope you understand. Gotcha.

How much is impossible because of sharity blogs and how much is impossible due to changes in the biz separate from the effects of these blogs? I've killed a couple of projects because of the blogs. Most of the other problems in the biz were started by free downloading of pop stuff, but this ultimately destroyed the business structure we all lived in. The blogs are the final nails in the coffin for the small guys. Would you consider the Savant/HighNote guys one of the "small" guys? Because I see that they are regularly releasing new material. Same with Criss Cross. I have the feeling that Sharp Nine has been hurting but it seems as though the final nails haven't hit everyone. Or it could be that I am unaware of separate factors that help those others guys keep going ...

Mike, Deleting the thread is completely unnecessary. Jim removed the links to the site. Discussing the impacts of sites like this guy doesn't do anything but bring important questions out in the open. As for your question, I bookmarked the site the last (first) time that it got mentioned here. I've never been moved to download anything and really only check the site a couple of times a week to see if he needs my help in deleting non-OOP material.

How much is impossible because of sharity blogs and how much is impossible due to changes in the biz separate from the effects of these blogs?

besides vinyl under coats, there always were home-made cassette copies of albums.... Not always.

Well, the stealing is far greater now because of technology. I don't know how many people managed to walk out of record stores with some 12 inch vinyl under their coats. But I am not at all sure that you are right about how casual these people are. Consider what was said above about the guys getting brand new BN or Classics reissues for free, and the "ethics" espoused at that site. Those aren't casual music listeners. They are hard core jazzers who are happy to steal the music they want. Same with some of the comments I see at the blog that inspired this thread. Those folks seem like hard core music lovers - and when they find out that they can't have something for free because it is available commercially, they spit bullets in what some of them think is righteous anger.

Jim, my one problem with your scenario is that for the vast majority of bloggers and their users, there is simply zero interest in buying a legitimate copy if it becomes available. We all talk about "doing right" but I don't get any sense that there are many people who are regular downloaders who even think in those terms. So if this kind of word-of-mouth momentum builds so that some people get some gigs in the future, great. But I don't see how it builds to a reissue that puts money in their pocket. I think most people who might have bought won't buy it when they already have it.

B.B.'s talked about his background in gospel music. He clearly made a decision based on economics, as his story so amply demonstrates. He didn't feel the blues more than he felt gospel. He went where the money was. And he certainly brought the same artistic skills and inspiration to his gospel tunes as he did his blues. And no one can deny that his music wasn't "vapid".

Actually Paul I've got to make one more comment: For many years, B.B. King has told the story of how he'd play his guitar on street corners in Memphis. When he'd play a spiritual, he always got a "praise the Lord" or similar comment from passersby. But when he played the blues, that's when they reached into their pockets and tossed money into his guitar case. And B.B. made note of what type of music helped to keep his belly full. Now, is B.B. King's music "vapid"? Or is at an expression of what is deep inside him? Is he an artist, or was he Hanna Montana 50 years ahead of her?

I'm not going to keep arguing with you Paul but I am quite sure that Free does what he does because of a paycheck from Florida State University.