Sinister: the "If You're Feeling Sinist*r" live album

[Ben Harper]

All of the proceeds from the live album go to DEC's Asia Quake Appeal  
(http://www.dec.org.uk/), so perhaps someone who can't buy the album,  
but gets it from someone who has, can just donate the equivalent of  
$10 US (or more) directly to them.  I think everyone would be happy  
with something like that.

--Ben


On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:49 PM, honey at missprint.org wrote:

> 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
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