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kosmo vinyl

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Re: Musicological banter
« Reply #120 on: July 14, 2013, 08:56:00 am »
it would appear the douche's smartphone auto-corrected Criz R. to Chris R. while searching twitter..
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« Reply #121 on: July 14, 2013, 10:49:27 am »
I was apparently DJing in the douchiest club in Chicago last night... at first I though it was spam, but no bot could create such douchbag profiles.

https://twitter.com/_jwalks/status/356290970951761920

Those profiles are so money...  ::)
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Re: Musicological banter
« Reply #122 on: July 14, 2013, 11:00:24 am »
My peeve is with labels that physically release something only on vinyl (because sound, man) and digitally only in MP3 or iTunes (because BULLSHIT, man).

Compact Discs are dead. 

I guess I wasn't clear. Some labels offer downloads of their vinyl releases only in MP3 or iTunes, both of which are lossy formats that are inferior to CD. If they really cared about sound and not just looking cool, they would offer downloads in lossless formats, e.g. WAV, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, BWF. Even better, they would offer downloads in higher digital resolutions than CD.
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« Reply #123 on: July 14, 2013, 07:19:26 pm »
My peeve is with labels that physically release something only on vinyl (because sound, man) and digitally only in MP3 or iTunes (because BULLSHIT, man).

Compact Discs are dead. 

I guess I wasn't clear. Some labels offer downloads of their vinyl releases only in MP3 or iTunes, both of which are lossy formats that are inferior to CD. If they really cared about sound and not just looking cool, they would offer downloads in lossless formats, e.g. WAV, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, BWF. Even better, they would offer downloads in higher digital resolutions than CD.

Ok that makes sense.  I guess the problem is that most people today listen to music on a shitty phone with shitty ear buds and they don't really care about sound quality. 

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« Reply #124 on: July 15, 2013, 02:35:20 am »
Nigel Godrich, Four Tet and Thom Yorke are not streaming service fans. http://blbrd.co/1bBf0tU Wondering if lesser known, younger bands will follow suit.
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Re: Musicological banter
« Reply #125 on: July 18, 2013, 07:44:52 am »
A counterpoint on the streaming services issue

From Kudos Distribution, a leading distributor of UK indie labels.  Streaming is the "2nd largest income source for our labels."

http://www.kudosdistribution.co.uk/streaming-services-again-2/
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« Reply #126 on: July 18, 2013, 08:41:38 am »
I saw you tweet that a bit ago.
 There was also this from Damon Krukowski of Damon and Naomi/Galaxie 500. In summation, he thinks that all streams should be completely free while owning the music itself would still come at a price. Essentially the Bandcamp model.
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« Reply #127 on: July 18, 2013, 09:28:12 am »
There is no one size fits all approach, as even some of Kudos's labels as use bandcamp in addition to more traditional distribution.
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« Reply #128 on: July 18, 2013, 05:21:20 pm »
Yeah agreed.
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« Reply #129 on: July 18, 2013, 06:35:40 pm »
i think musicians should go back to selling their music out of the back of vehicles.  you know, like music making ice cream mans.  like musical digestive food vendor trucks .  it could be the new rage.  the new hipster.  the new new.  roaming vans selling hard to find, exclusive songs, sometimes with the very fucking band on the truck recording the damn song right there and then spitting it out the side like a japanese ticket restaurant.

yeah.  take that.

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Re: Musicological banter
« Reply #130 on: July 18, 2013, 07:00:46 pm »
great idea, but the word exclusives just turns into people gouging others on ebay...
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« Reply #131 on: July 19, 2013, 10:27:19 pm »
Oh hey. There's a link to my Storify thing in The New Yorker. That internet is a weird place sometimes. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2013/07/spotify-boycott-new-artists-music-business-model.html
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Re: Musicological banter
« Reply #134 on: July 22, 2013, 12:28:45 pm »
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