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i usually like NPR, but to fail to mention "Love & Theft" or any Dylan at all is a travesty.
-justin
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i agree with most of the posters in this thread: i download a good deal of music (full albums) in .mp3 (stealing) and then listen to them until i decide if i want to buy it or not. i have hundreds and hundreds of physical CDs and continue to buy them almost weekly. i want the full quality. i want the artwork. i want a back-up. when digital finally wins out, we'll have lossless downloads. the only reason we don't have them now is that the vast majority of people don't care/realize about sound quality. we have the bandwidth and storage space...we have the technology. that being said, analysts already predict that there will be no technology to supplant Blu-Ray in terms of physical product. what we are moving toward is high-quality (uncompressed) video and audio downloads purchased via the Internet. what happens when your hard drive fails? do you have to re-purchase? do you get to re-download based on your purchase history?
at any rate, i buy all of my albums via amazon and will continue to do so until they stop making CDs. but have you guys been in a Best Buy recently? their CD section has shrunk and the selection is nothing like it used to be even a couple of years ago. same deal at Plan 9, the state-wide (Virginia) independent record store. not to mention they closed half of their stores... i don't think the death of the CD is over-hyped in the least. it is happening, unfortunately. also, i don't think it will have the same hardcore following the vinyl has, because your hardcore music nerd (the person that will still buy physical product), will still be buying vinyl for the superior audio quality and the aesthetic value.
-justin
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earlier this year, i was able to get the $105 Goodbye, Babylon box set from a third-party amazon.com seller that mistakenly had it listed at 7.99. my thinking is that it should have been 97.99 and it was sealed and brand new. either way, they honored it... deal of the century if you ask me.
-justin
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i think this is Wilco's In Rainbows. they've taken everything they've learned over the past few albums and made an album that is unquestionably Wilco-esque and at the same time, fantastic. yeah, it's not revolutionary like Kid A or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but it isn't trying to be. they're on the other side of that, making consistently great albums.
-justin
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Which 930 club show are you talking about? If it's one of the ones from '08 I need to somehow get a copy. I know they aired one of the two shows on NPR, so I'm thinking it's probably that one, though I would love to have a recording of the 2/26/08 show. I don't think a set list will ever get better than that (for me at least): http://www.wilcobase.com/event.php?event_key=1107
As for KT, it's easily got some of my favorite recordings on it. That version of Handshake Drugs and One by One are great.
i'm sure he means the one you could download officially if you pre-ordered the Ashes of American Flags documentary. it is from 2008, i think, not sure which night.
-justin
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Spin
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no scans then?
-justin
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Spin
in Just A Fan
would be amazing if someone could post scans.
-justin
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well, i was at the Vienna show obviously. i think they'll hit The National in the Fall (fingers crossed). they won't play the NorVa, but they may play C-ville...
-justin
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they harvested Harvest yet again?
hasn't that already been remastered recently?
i think they did a DVD Audio version, but that's it.
-justin
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i think that is fairly obvious.
problem being that Wolf Trap isn't actually there yet.
-justin
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does anyone else find the piecemeal way they are doling this out really annoying? i really want to read the list and their comments, but i don't want to go to this website 20 times for 20 days to read them all.
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any sign of the torrent yet?
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i always thought it was "she knows nothing of happiness."
-justin
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so, they are not selling it at the shows then?? damn...
-justin
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Now I'm on to the second disc and this thing is just wonderful. I wish the liner notes (all I have is the vinyl copy) listed where each track came from. The only thing I would change is I would have chosen the slower version of Love Vigilantes that has been out for awhile.
correct me if i am wrong, but i was almost certain that "Love Vigilantes" was the same version as the one that has been out awhile, which is off of an iTunes-only compilation.
-justin
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Family Guy.
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I must have missed this.
I've listened through Around the Well today and I like it quite a bit.
Kinda pisses me off that I bought Shepherd's Dog through Sub Pop just so I could buy the Boy W A Coin single and get an "exclusive" CD with 2 songs and now all are on this. oh well. It was only $9.99 at Best Buy.
I have another single, I think Passing Afternoon with Forsaken, but I think it's a live radio take and this one is studio (or home studio i guess).
i did the same thing, i ordered Shepherd's Dog through Sub Pop to have a lossless copy of the bonus disc. then, when my shipment was lost (along with others), they threw in the "Boy With A Coin" single for free, which was even better because i was really digging the .mp3 of "Carried Home." now, both are pointless. it is good that you have the "Passing Afternoon" single though, because that version of "Dearest Forsaken" is pretty nice. you are correct about that BTW, the Around the Well version was on the Sub Pop vinyl single series and is home studio...way out of print.
-justin
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I have one too. Where do you determine the market value of books?
abebooks.com. a prefect quality copy starts at around $50 or $60, i think.
-justin
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bought a first edition h/c two years ago and have seen it double in value (at least) so far (depending on where you buy), considering it is in perfect condition.
-justin
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yeah, the interview/feature would be nice too.
-justin
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But see, Justin, that's my point. I'm not a desired demographic. I dont fit in with the Dylan crowd, I'm not into Disney stuff. RS doesn't focus on what I like, and that's OK because they need to sell magazines. I'm sure Gwen sells more covers than Sonic Youth/Wilco or any of the other bands I dig. I appreciate your admiration for Dylan, though.
it is a bit more complicated than that. even as a massive Dylan fan, i don't fit into their demographic either. i buy the issues with Dylan interviews/features (one every two or three years) and that's about it. RS is pretty much the only magazine (because they are so big) that Dylan even deals with. besides that, the reason we don't fit into their demographic is simply that we are apparently discerning music nerds. aside from featuring airbrushed pop stars that don't even make music on the cover, they generally heap praise on any pile of shit that comes across top 40 radio these days. they're literally the Entertainment Weekly of the music world. now, we can't be too elitist and say that the mag needs to only focus on the new Animal Collective album and an interview with Jandek, because we know the general public isn't going to buy that. and still, some of their essays and articles are quite nice, but the main focus of the magazine is supposed to be music and now their target market is apparently tweens and James Taylor-listening ex hippies. there has to be some middle ground, but whatever that middle ground is, RS isn't anywhere within sight of it
-justin
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well, i was with you up until the Bob Dylan part. then you lost me big time.
-justin
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i agree with you about the sound. it's got a lot of high end. also, the unreleased stuff on that demo are not too revelatory.
yes, he should just put it out online. i mean, what's the point of physical media anymore? get vinyl if you want it. otherwise, if neil really wants to cutting edge, putting it all in the cloud is the way to go. then just update that. playboy just did something similar.
although the demo is cool, it's not user friendly and the rumors are that there's a shit load of easter eggs. neil young is infuriating!
i saw what looked like a release schedule for reprise on rustlist that showed all the albums being re-released as remasters as well as harvest moon live and toast.
by any chance did it give a rough timeframe?
-justin
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that would make sense, wouldn't it? however, the entire albums from this early period are not on the archives. only select songs.
like he said, the full albums are not on there.
but, to answer the question anyway, the market for the remastered albums is still going to be pretty high. i know i want to replace my old copies. also, there will be plenty of people not buying Archives, who want the remasetered albums (::raises hand:
they really should have included the full albums on Archives though...it wouldn't have been but a handful of songs to make it complete...
what a mess this project is.
-justin
What music have you purchased this year?
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stuff released this year:
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
Bon Iver - Blood Bank [EP]
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
My Morning Jacket - Celebración de la Ciudad Natal [EP] [Record Store Day]
Iron & Wine - Norfolk 6/20/05 [Record Store Day]
Iron & Wine - Around The Well
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Yim Yames - Tribute To [EP]
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life [Deluxe Edition]
Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Neil Young - Harvest [Remastered]
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush [Remastered]
The Beatles - Stereo Box Set
Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes [Remastered]
Bob Dylan - New Morning [Remastered]
Bob Dylan - Before The Flood [Remastered]
R.E.M. - Murmur [Remastered]
older stuff:
The Band - Music From Big Pink
The Band - The Band
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding [sACD]
Bob Dylan - Infidels [sACD]
Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming [sACD]
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - On The Corner
M.I.A - Kala
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists
Various Artists - Goodbye, Babylon
Various Artists - American Primitive, Vol. 2
Skip James - The Complete Early Recordings
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food [DualDisc]
Beck - Mutations
The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Tallest Man On Earth [EP]
holy shit..that's a lot of stuff. i think that is everything. definitely everything that i can remember.