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It rarely pays to be (too) honest these days. Anyway, it shouldn't be anything to do with the TV. What is probably the case is that the DVD player, while it is possible to unlock it to be multi-region, hasn't been unlocked yet.

2012 Why bother?

This post made me sad. Hearing music the way it's supposed to sound probably does seem quaint or ridiculous to a lot of folks now, especially younger people. My 25-ish nephew, who definitely likes music, visited me about a month ago, and I don't think he had heard any music on anything except computer speakers or iPod earbuds for years, if ever. I can beat David in the "sad" department. I haven't had an actual stereo system with speakers in 10, probably 15 years. CDs get listened to on the computer or portable CD players. I do have a turntable, but it is only used for digitizing LPs. I've never once heard an LP on it properly, i.e. through a stereo system. I'm sort of looking to change this, but with small children and a likely in-town move next year, it will probably be two more years at least before I can do anything about it.

But be sure them reds still take oaths on the queen or that free shipping deal may be over fast! (Kind of perverted, anyway - free shipping from UK to OZ! Holy shit!) Yeah, that's kind of wack. And free shipping to India and South Africa too! I'm sitting here in Canada, and I don't get free shipping (still part of the Commonwealth last time I checked). It wouldn't be such a big deal, but Amazon.ca is definitely the poor cousin to Amazon.com and even Amazon.co.uk in terms of selection and price.

It all comes down to taste, but I loathe reboots and will never accept Craig and this new gritty Bond. Won't watch another one as long as they continue in this vein. No skin off my nose (or theirs I'm sure). For that matter, I certainly won't be watching the reboot of Superman or Spiderman. As the guys in Freakonomics put it, only put your money on things you want to see more of and withhold it from things you want to see less of. I don't want remakes and reboots (and generally not even sequels though there are honorable exceptions), so they just won't get my dosh.

There isn't a feature that makes the image go full-screen? That's pretty much standard on all the packages (might be tucked away near the pause and fast forward buttons).

HAHA! I probably should ignore this set too, as I'm more of a 50s-60s jazz fan, but HEY, it's a new Mosaic! I like a fair bit of early jazz, but I am very particular about vocal jazz -- not a fan of it in general with a few exceptions. Ella is not one of those exceptions...

Yea! A Mosaic that I can safely ignore. Sort of feels like more money in my pocket already.

very interesting - don't know much about this label - how legit are they (anything like Membran?) probably will have a lot of this material already. Can't seem to find track listings for the set. This was the most detailed I could find, but it still leaves much to be desired: I think between Odyssey (Savoy recordings), Birk's Works (Verve), Afro (Verve), Complete RCA Victor Recordings you would have all or virtually all of this except the Capitol recordings. Since I do have these, it isn't nearly as tempting.

I don't know about the music, but the song titles look like straight out of J.R.R. Tolkien.

I was spinning this, as well as Black Fire and Smokestack, as the little kiddies came to the door. Didn't seem to scare them away...

I used to be able to play clarinet and saxophone at a reasonable skill level in high school (usually 2nd or 3rd chair out of 15 or so clarinets). I later picked up flute. I even joined the jazz band, but I found I just wasn't a good improviser. The chord changes and so forth weren't innate and frankly practicing just didn't make me better at playing jazz. I knew I wasn't going to cut it as a professional so didn't pursue music in college. I kept the instruments but don't play them much any more -- often only once or twice a year.

I guess I'll never understand why the record industry seems so determined to push the remaining few fans willing to pay for legit products into the blogosphere.

How about "The Whiter Than Thou Album"

I believe on the other thread, someone found it was just under 50 tracks that overlapped with Affinity, which makes it even more of a no-brainer in my case. I just need to come up with the dosh now!

I'm sorry but it is just incredibly lame that TOJC omits two available tracks. It is such a short CD. I paid for the legit product and I do feel ripped off.

And I just placed an order with them two days ago. Shoot.

Not sure this is precisely a bargain, but another one of these doorstop sets is coming out in Nov. The Decca Sound -- a 50 CD box set. In virtually all cases, they start with original LP artwork and contents, but then fill up the rest of the CD to 75+ minutes. It's running a little over $100 in the US and about 75 GBP at the usual suspects. Not sure I need this when I have so much else to absorb, but I will at least consider it. I think the most useful listing of the contents is this one (which isn't disc by disc but by composer): Decca Sound contents There is also a 6 lp version, which frankly seems stupid, and a 5 CD sampler of the best of the box. I lost interest in the sampler when it was clear that single movements (rather than complete works) were included. I suppose the lp version is a slightly different kind of sampler (it might have complete works at least, but I wasn't interested enough to press into the details). I will give them some credit for moving beyond obvious choices. No Beethoven symphonies at all but the Septet is included and several recent recordings of the String Quartets by the Takacs Quartet. I would have a bit of overlap with Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony (Chailly) and Haitink conducting a couple of Shostakovich's symphonies, but that seems to be it. I would deduct a couple of points or stars for including some of the Three Tenors crap (including Andrew Lloyd Weber's Memories I kid you not!). I honestly don't think the audience for the Three Tenors and for this box set overlap that much , so it could have been left off...

Agree with this. What I don't quite understand is why we keep going round and round on this on nearly everyone one of these threads. It's a discussion going nowhere. However, I will admit that I appreciate it when someone points out a more legit* avenue for a PD reissue, since I don't always know all the alternatives. * particularly for Americans.

Sorry can't help you. The same thing happened to me with a Rem Koolhaus book on Shanghai where it was available for pre-order forever then finally cancelled. A year later someone claimed to be selling it on the internet, but then they wouldn't respond when I asked them what they were really selling.

I got the 5 CD version. I had the High and Mighty Hawk in some other format -- it probably is the best of the bunch. I'm enjoying the Rex Stewart, but it is kind of old-timey even when it was recorded. Still Willie the Lion Smith is on 3 of the cuts. I wasn't as taken with the Cozy Cole or Earl Hines (as much as I had hoped anyway). I am going to listen to the Budd Johnson and Strayhorn (Hodges) in the next day or two. I do have reasonably high hopes for them.

Right, this was discussed on the other thread. I'd rather have the compact box, esp. as most of these albums are right at the 40 minute mark. Sound quality is probably about the same for both

I can't speak about these ones specifically, though most of the time the Avid releases try not to split albums across CDs. On the other hand, the Felsted Mainstream collection box set (9 albums on 5 CDs) has several of these splits, so I'm going to have to do some ripping and reprogramming.

Ok, I want this: Africa at 78 rpm 4 CDs of African music rescued from 78s and put on CD for the first time. Price is a little steep (around $50), but not completely outrageous. Currently listening to a podcast with a few of the cuts to see just how revelatory this actually is -- and whether I can hold off for a while. Ok, having listened to 4 out of 100 of the tracks, this is really quite important from a musicological perspective, but probably wouldn't be something I would listen to for pleasure often (unlike the massive Africa 50 years of music boxset). So I am definitely going to hold off for a while and see if the price drops.

There are a couple of sites like this. I had a theatre company that used IndyGoGo. I think you want one (like IndyGoGo) that even if you don't make the campaign target amount, you still get the proceeds. At least a few of these sites, if you don't hit the target, you get nada.