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How many others of you are out there are intentionally skipping out on the now readily available "Sky Blue Sky?" I guess I'm either ridiculous or an old traditionalist. To me there's still something very exciting about physically going out the day a favorite new album comes out and taking it home to really sit down with it, on a stereo, and not via an mp3 or online stream. It just seems impersonal to me. I'm sure record labels wished there were more folks like me out there, but I know I'm in the minority here. so, who else out there in VC world is with me?

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To me there's still something very exciting about physically going out the day a favorite new album comes out and taking it home to really sit down with it, on a stereo

 

The fact that I have been playing the crap out of SBS since Sat will not keep me from doing that 5/15.

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To me there's still something very exciting about physically going out the day a favorite new album comes out and taking it home to really sit down with it, on a stereo, and not via an mp3 or online stream. It just seems impersonal to me.

 

Is it the forced 'How's it going?' that you get from the young cashier at your local music store that makes it more personal? I think having the music delivered through your computer while you sit there in your underwear is the NEW personal.

 

 

I'm sure record labels wished there were more folks like me out there, but I know I'm in the minority here.

 

Not only do record labels wish there was more people like you, I was there was more people like you. And wait, did you just say record labels want more minorities to buy their CDs?

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How many others of you are out there are intentionally skipping out on the now readily available "Sky Blue Sky?" I guess I'm either ridiculous or an old traditionalist. To me there's still something very exciting about physically going out the day a favorite new album comes out and taking it home to really sit down with it, on a stereo, and not via an mp3 or online stream. It just seems impersonal to me. I'm sure record labels wished there were more folks like me out there, but I know I'm in the minority here. so, who else out there in VC world is with me?

 

Hey Greg, I'm definitely feeling you. I've sort of had this personal policy of waiting to listen to stuff ever since YHF. That was a unique case, of course, because we weren't really sure when it would officially come out. But listening to that record so much before it came out kind of took away some of the excitement and freshness for me. I mean, I still love it, but somehow it just wasn't the same as hearing something for the first time on release day.

 

Now I admit that, in this day and age, it's unrealistic to expect stuff not to leak early. And I have listened to SBS once through. :shifty

 

But that's it for me 'till May 15. :)

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I listened to it once when they streamed Saturday night and will not listen to it again until May. I may listen to the single "What Light" though because it is killer.

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I've always had a policy with highly anticipated albums (er, by "always" I mean since 2000 or so) of waiting until I could really sit down with a complete album for the first time, preferably in isolation, and listen to it in its entirety without interruption or distractions. Whether that happened on release day, or before, wasn't that important. My first experience with SBS wasn't too far from that. Since then I've listened exactly twice ... the other part of my policy being to listen a few times and then take a long break to see what songs I remember best and which ones I "miss" the most. So for me, short of any possible live experiences, that's probably it until May 15th.

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I've always had a policy with highly anticipated albums (er, by "always" I mean since 2000 or so) of waiting until I could really sit down with a complete album for the first time, preferably in isolation, and listen to it in its entirety without interruption or distractions. Whether that happened on release day, or before, wasn't that important. My first experience with SBS wasn't too far from that. Since then I've listened exactly twice ... the other part of my policy being to listen a few times and then take a long break to see what songs I remember best and which ones I "miss" the most. So for me, short of any possible live experiences, that's probably it until May 15th.

That sounds like more than one policy to me, young lady. :P

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I'm not so much a purist as I am disinterested in the torrent thing nowadays. My computer crashed awhile back and it took awhile to get all my iTunes, etc. worked out again. I have never gotten around to reloading the torrent software. I have heard a song or two and the songs are damn fine.

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I'm waiting too. I usually jump all over the leaks, but for some reason it's starting to bore me, and I sure don't want music to bore me on a regular basis -- that would be horrible.

 

Waiting for release day might make no sense to some people, but I like having the real CD, the lyric sheet, the artwork, and listening to it on my stereo speakers or headphones, not sitting at my PC. Luckily, no way is right, no way is wrong.

 

And there is a little bit of me worried that my current love for Califone means I'm not in a place to hear SBS right now, from what people are saying about it.

 

What Uncle Wilco said in another thread rings true for my current musical state of mind: "I'm starting to think this is more of a mood record and maybe i'm just not it the mood yet."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And hey *looks up* - it seems I'm in darned good company here! :wave

 

:cheers

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How many others of you are out there are intentionally skipping out on the now readily available "Sky Blue Sky?" I guess I'm either ridiculous or an old traditionalist. To me there's still something very exciting about physically going out the day a favorite new album comes out and taking it home to really sit down with it, on a stereo, and not via an mp3 or online stream. It just seems impersonal to me. I'm sure record labels wished there were more folks like me out there, but I know I'm in the minority here. so, who else out there in VC world is with me?

 

 

Totally with you.

 

I know Wilco made the stream available, which changes the context a bit, but I've never understood people clamoring to hear leaked, and often unfinished recordings. It's a long gestation to birth a beautiful, perfectly formed little bundle of rock. Fetuses are weird looking. Let that baby grow!

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Totally with you.

 

I know Wilco made the stream available, which changes the context a bit, but I've never understood people clamoring to hear leaked, and often unfinished recordings. It's a long gestation to birth a beautiful, perfectly formed little bundle of rock. Fetuses are weird looking. Let that baby grow!

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And see for me I think what's the difference if I listen to it March 3rd or May 15th it's still basically going to be the same album come May :ermm But I assume people just want to have the album itself and play it when everything is new to them, I can see that. To me though it makes no difference-plus I couldn't wait! :hmm :music But I also can't wait to have the actual album in my hands I guess having it new is exciting...I don't know?!?! :D

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I guess the one serious drawback that I can think of by waiting two more months to listen to the record is that everyone will be bored to death of debating the record and how boring/brilliant it is/isn't, and I'll have no one to engage in said activity. I suppose there'll be a flurry of record reviews to debate over at that time. I guess I'll have to live with the 14 hours of backcatalog Wilco on my Ipod for now.

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