Battling Technology....Arrrrgh! - Tiki Music

S Swanky Tiki Socialite Hapa Haole Hideaway, Knoxville, TN Joined: Apr 03, 2002 Posts: 5398	S Swanky Posted posted on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 8:47 AM On 2007-01-09 13:58, arriano wrote: Considering the time and expense, you might want to consider whether it would be better to simply purchase the music online and download it directly to your computer and then the iPod. The records I record are not on CD and may never be on CD. The vast majority of music is "dead" this way. I have maybe 8-10 feet of LPs lined up and maybe 25% of it is available to buy through Amazon or Ebay in some form and I bet a tiny fraction of that is available through iTunes. This is my big gripe with the DMCA and the RIAA. I can certainly understand wanting artists to be paid for music and for there to be a way to get money out of downloads and shares. But, I would like to see some sort of exception for recordings of music that is long out of print. Music that only exists online because someone has the LP, EP, 45 or 78 and recorded onto their computer. And they likely had to buy that record second hand, not new. It was out of print before they were born even. I like to listen to my records in the car. And there's just one way to do that. Record them and burn a CD. Soapboxery over. That's why we go to the trouble.

On 2007-01-09 13:58, arriano wrote:
Considering the time and expense, you might want to consider whether it would be better to simply purchase the music online and download it directly to your computer and then the iPod.

The records I record are not on CD and may never be on CD. The vast majority of music is "dead" this way. I have maybe 8-10 feet of LPs lined up and maybe 25% of it is available to buy through Amazon or Ebay in some form and I bet a tiny fraction of that is available through iTunes.

This is my big gripe with the DMCA and the RIAA. I can certainly understand wanting artists to be paid for music and for there to be a way to get money out of downloads and shares. But, I would like to see some sort of exception for recordings of music that is long out of print. Music that only exists online because someone has the LP, EP, 45 or 78 and recorded onto their computer. And they likely had to buy that record second hand, not new. It was out of print before they were born even. I like to listen to my records in the car. And there's just one way to do that. Record them and burn a CD.

Soapboxery over. That's why we go to the trouble.

Post #278423 by Swanky on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 8:47 AM