David & Katrina wrote:
i don't intend just to live of a tape of jansch or anyone else. i do intend to order a shiny cd when i know that i do like him and have a rough idea of which one to buy. although shops like virgin our price have flexible returns policies they rarely have a good enough stock to be able to find new things and experiment musical preferences with.
Do they really let you take things back now? Wonders will never cease. You don't even get a receipt here. You just have to fuck off if you don't like it. Which helps explain my lack of experimentationousness.
i know from working in an our price that i would have to order a jansch cd especially, special orders are exempt from their returns policy and as such there is no way i could experiment cheaply.
I think you should just tape it and have done with it. Unless you especially want a CD. The price is built into the CD anyway, and Bert's table will hardly be affected. Lenny Waronker will be the one to suffer. Home taping is a good way of giving/getting something to listen to without handing over huge sums of cash to Lenny Waronker.
i really do not feel that a cd recording is of immediate threat to the band's future revenue, but it must be realised that should a mass production of Tigermilk on cd ever originate illegally, it would probably have been done by someone that we (as the list) know. simply because it is us (the fans, friends, record company, etc) that own the original vinyl Tigermilk, so it is most likely that the cd used would have originated from one of us (as it is unlikely that a cd produced from a tape would be accepted by any but the most worthless bootleggers). this is one of the most horrible realisations on this subject, and it is this i would love to prevent. we can serve ourselves and protect the band we love simply by restricting our own copies to tape format and not a digital (master) format.
I don't really agree with this. Someone said that loads of copies were given away at a party so probably Nick O'Teen or someone equally evil got hold of a copy. Also if people are paying upwards of seventeen thousand pounds for a vinyl copy it could be that they are doing it with the intention of making a huge profit by producing bootleg CDs. Any news about the stolen goodies? I dreamt about it you know. Quite a good one. Been having a lot of funny dreams since I moved house. Spooky. Who is Bert Jansch? Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------