SPEND, SPEND, SPEND
Any of those dmca bastards that say bloggers are killing the art of buying music ought to have a look at my next bank statement.
Just last week (and I admit it was a bit of a binge spend to make up for not having been in the record shops for a month or so), I spent £120 on sixteen CDs (mostly new stuff I've been meaning to buy, but there were five old things that I got thanks to listening to songs on other folks' blogs), as well as the £25 or so that I spent directly at ROLinc filling in the gaps in the Paul Haig collection.
I'm not looking for any plaudits or medals....simply a recognition that those fuckers who insist we are the enemy have got it very badly wrong.
Oh and while I'm on the subject, have a read of this and smile....
One of my purchases cost me just £4. It was called Independents Day : ID08 and it contains 29 songs over 2xCDs.
The sleeve-notes say the following:-
This album is dedicated to the millions of music fans who like their music from Independents, and respect their Independence. There is no quick definition for the music itself, but there is a world of difference between the large music multi-national companies and the small entrepreneurial companies who make the music, and who have been responsible for almost every new sound and genre in the past fifty years, brokering a position of unrivalled influence along the way.
The spirit of the independent sector is embodied in this album with artists covering songs of other independent artists on one disc, and the performing artists and their labels recommending the new artists featured on the second disc.
So remember everyone, while I do make mp3s available for a short while, it is in the hope that if you like what you hear, you will go out and spend money supporting the act/band/singer in question. I know that a great many of you do that already....so thanks.
mp3 : Maximo Park - Was There Anything I Could Do?
mp3 : The Prodigy - Ghost Town
I also know I dont really need every day to direct all you clever people to where you can buy things. Get surfing.
Oh here's some originals just in case you didnt know them...
mp3 : Go-Betweens - Was There Anything I Could Do? (live version)
mp3 : The Specials - Ghost Town (12 inch version)
Happy Listening.
4 comments:
thanks as always man
ghost town is one of the most powerful songs i have ever heard
i live in the middle of america and even we felt the deep haunting sadness of that song when it came out in '81
Love the Maximo cover, thank you!!!
Hi! As a matter of fact blogs are the main reason why I started to buy new albums again. Right now, they are also my main source of knowledge of new artists (I really don't feel like going through MySpace searching for new groups playing the music I like), or to know what the ones I already knew and liked are doing. Generally I find radio stations just too boring, or just too tied to the hand that feeds them... Including the Spanish Radio 3, which is supposed to be the best one around this small town where I live. Blogs are also the reason why I'm remembering so many old or not so old musical pearls, that otherwise I would never hear again! If you put all these things together, blogs are the main reason why I'm going again to gigs and concerts. Blogs are killing the art of buying music? Bah!!! Thanks to blogs and bloggers music as an art is being kept alive. You just have to search the right blogs according to your musical tastes. The music industry it is just too lazy in order to be innovative. It' easier for them to sue than to create.
Thanks Villain!!! ...and all the other musical bloggers!!!
exactly what my opinion is as well,. is there a good way of introducing new and interesting music? the mainstream keeps pushing forward big labels' bullshit, and blogs can actually really check whether they really've got something to say and whether they're worth listening to. so that's why they're afraid. I'm only willing to spend money on a thing after I know I like it.
Post a Comment