On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Lawrence Mikkelsen wrote:
Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone who does have the good luck to live in a country where the iTunes music store is available would be at all persuaded to re-encode the tracks as good old fashioned MP3s and upload them somewhere, or else put them onto a CD and post them to New Zealand.*
Motherly Duty here. Lawrence's geographical dilemma noted, we need to resolve such requests with the almost biblical list rule not to trade copyrighted material via the list: we could debate the ethics of free music trade for aeons (don't! I do it enough in my head) but the issue is legality, which often doesn't correspond directly with morality, and just might threaten the continued existence of the list if handled wrongly. I'm not a lawyer, so my suggestion here is if you're going to request content that's pay-for in at least one country, then a commitment to give the equivalent amount of money that you would have had to pay to the band, record company (although I expect they have no mechanism) or somewhere worthy would be a good one, and one I bet the band would be happy with at least. It would show good intent. If you're stuck for a good charity, I can make a suggestion for a particularly B&S themed one: http://www.meresearch.org.uk Also quite selfish, because, if you help them find a cure by contributing, it'll make me well enough to fix the archives. And on that theme, here's an interview/article about the band from The Times last week, including his rough time with ME (the disease, not me): http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-1982088,00.html Excerpt: Murdoch talks about when he fell victim to ME in his early twenties, when he abandoned his degree at Glasgow university and lived with his friend Michael. "He was also part of the city's ME hardcore," he smiles. "It was here that we turned into characters from Last of the Summer Wine, reflecting wistfully on our better years!" ... It's as though the energy denied Murdoch in his ME years is now the creative fuel that runs his life in Belle and Sebastian. Contrasting here and now with there and then, he likens himself to Prince Caspian in C.S.Lewis's "The Silver Chair". "He's strapped to this chair for years. Eventually, when he breaks the enchantment, he's rescued. It's not as though there aren't bleak times ahead - but from then on, everything to him is a game. Because he escaped the chair." Kind of a pity actually, as I'm just re-reading the Narnia books to see whether C.S.Lewis was actually a sexist pig as alleged or a good storyteller, and I'm only halfway through that book. Grr! Spoiler alert. But I'm all for breaking chairs. Be good, Honey x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+