Post #350342 by I, Zombie on Wed, Dec 19, 2007 7:44 AM

On 2007-12-19 07:29, tikiyaki wrote:

I found an amazing piece of inspiration there by Don Ralke called "Savage and Sensuous Bongos" - I know....Don WHO? - no label in their right mind would re-issue this because about 5 of us would buy it, but it's AMAZING. I downloaded it. I seriously doubt that anyone involved with this record is thinking "Man, I gotta get my royalties for this record", if they're even alive.

Tikiyaki,

Actually Harkit Records did -- with Darrel Brogdon of the Retro Cocktail Hour doing the liner notes. It also includes cuts from Ralke's Bongo Madness. http://www.harkitrecords.com

That said, I agree with you. If a record is long out of print, I see no harm in offering it on a sharity blog. However, if it's in print or recently re-released (like Ralke's "Savage and Sensuous Bongos"), it shouldn't be made free to anyone who wants it. Yes musicians like yourself and Waitiki deserve their dough; and it burns up a lot of us here at TC when we see some chump offering up someone else's new music for free download. Likewise, small record labels like Harkit, that bust their hump to bring back such a classic also deserve their dough. And the best sharity blogs will take down an LP if it's pointed out to them that the LP is still in circulation or was re-released. I just checked Xtabay and it's not there now -- so maybe that's why.

Probably like a lot of folks here, when I see something available on a Sharity site that looks like an old LP out of print, I do at least a minimum search on Amazon (or just google it) to see if it's still out there. If nothing comes up, I'll download it. It's probably not a perfect system, but it works for me.

I,Z

[ Edited by: I, Zombie 2007-12-19 08:09 ]