Imperial Bedroom is considered by many to be Costello's best album. It's production however is the best of any of his albums, remember there are more musicians playing, and he had Geoff Emerick of Sgt. Pepper fame producing the thing. While it didn't sell nearly as well as My Aim is True (which I think outsold any of his other albums), it is considered a Classic along the lines of Pet Sounds. A new Costello tribute album just came out, and the title is "Almost You", a tribute to an Imperial Bedroom song. I personally don't care so much about production (my current fave was recorded in a kitchen on a single mic), but I had friends who hated My Aim is True due to it's shitty production they would say "The songs are brilliant, but I just can't listen to the album, because of the cheap production".
Actually they have always asked fans to only trade their LIVE recordings, and NOT copy or trade their studio recordings. This is very very common, however this has nothing to do with p2p networks as a vast majority of the files found there are studio recordings copied directly from CD.
First of all Brewster doesn't have the resouces to deal with the "Church" of Scientology. If you want to put up your money to defend against them feel free, but don't go and tell the Archive what to do. Secondly most of this stuff still exists at the Bibliotheca Alexandria's copy of the wayback machine. Check out http://archive.bibalex.org, and that is unlikely to change, Brewster was smart enough to send copies to places with different copyrights.
Considering there is still an IBM ad on the sidewalk on the north side of California between Fillmore and Webster. The stuff doesn't wash off in the rain.
Bzzzt Wrong. The Mechanical is at least $0.07/song (more for longer songs) which goes directly to the songwriter, and is paid by the publishing company, not the record company.
Actually these books ARE illustrated, with a decent cover. I was suprised by the quality, I was expecting the books to be akin to a printed out version of the Nethack documentation, but they have the quality of an O'Reilly. According to Brewster, they cost about $1.00 each to make.
I talked to Colin the head of the Amazon Associates program a few months ago, and they absolutely do not find this acceptable, however they have somehting on the order of 20,000 associates, so it takes a little while for them to see trends that would ferret this behaviour out. He said they had seen it before and told the companies to stop, or they would cancel their Associates account.
You can read Steve Albini's rant which breaks it all down. Be advised thought that this mythical band that Albini writes about would be more successful than 99% of the bands that try to make it.
They did FILM this guy catching an 85' wave off the North Shore of Oahu on IMAX a few years ago. Nature did a episode on the storm that caused these waves.
Duh, Richard Thompson is one of the 20 most talented guitar players in the world, who has been around since the 60's. He is in that less than 1%. How much does the the most talented laywer, doctor, programmer, or used car salesman for that matter make? He can get $50 a ticket and sell out a 2500 seat arena, although he couldn't sell out a 20,000 seat arena at $10 a head. What you said is nothing more than a anecdote, there are 20 places like the Bottom of the Hill, which has 2-3 bands playing at $8 a head EVERY DAY for every place such as the Warfield which has 1-2 shows a week, seats 2,500 and charges $30-$50 a head. 2-3 grand free and clear, Tell me who is the greedy one?
I would like to know where you get the statistics that the majority of artists make the majorty of money by touring, because it just isn't true. Very few bands make much money touring, maybe the biggest ones who either, no longer make new records, or have huge arena shows that sell 20,000 $50 tickets make money touring. But these are only the top 1%, the other 99% of the bands out there, you know the ones that if they are very lucky become U2 or some band that you like, bust their ass to drive 6 hours a day to play in a small venue (bottom of the hill here in San Francisco is a good example) which holds about 200 people, charge $8 or less for tickets and then distribute that money to 2 or more bands who have generally 4 or more musicians, and one roadie each. If they are lucky they will sell 50 tee shirts at $8 per, but only a profit of $4 per, which brings us to a total of $1800 split over 10 guys, $180 per, wow tons of cash. But you get to spend an evening in San Francisco.
$15 is a drop in the pan considering they are downloading the music on a $1500 computer through a (probably broadband) ISP which has a cost of something like $50 a month. If they are getting free access from college, then it is especially small compared to the cost of education. Last time I checked most CD were purchasable either used ($5-$10) or in on sale ($12), I buy more than 4 discs a week, and I don't remember the last time I paid even $15 for a disc. It's funny that the most affluent of our society bitches the most about the cost of music. If you don't want to pay the piper, then don't listen.
One of the big problems with slashdot creaming over google all the time (such as dismissing alltheweb's crawl size) is that Google pays for banners on slashdot. Do we have a conflict of interest?
Think about it. A bar holds 200 people, if they are lucky that many will show up, who pay $8-12 a pop, there are 2-3 bands playing that makes $2000, split between as few as 10 people makes it about $200 per person (don't forget the roadie or 2 and they have to pay the sound guy), they need somewhere to sleep, to drive 200 miles between venues, and meals, usually dinner is provided by the venue, but breakfast and lunch is not. Profit comes down to less than $100 per show, and it is damned fucking hard work.
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Imperial Bedroom is considered by many to be Costello's best album. It's production however is the best of any of his albums, remember there are more musicians playing, and he had Geoff Emerick of Sgt. Pepper fame producing the thing. While it didn't sell nearly as well as My Aim is True (which I think outsold any of his other albums), it is considered a Classic along the lines of Pet Sounds. A new Costello tribute album just came out, and the title is "Almost You", a tribute to an Imperial Bedroom song. I personally don't care so much about production (my current fave was recorded in a kitchen on a single mic), but I had friends who hated My Aim is True due to it's shitty production they would say "The songs are brilliant, but I just can't listen to the album, because of the cheap production".
Actually they have always asked fans to only trade their LIVE recordings, and NOT copy or trade their studio recordings. This is very very common, however this has nothing to do with p2p networks as a vast majority of the files found there are studio recordings copied directly from CD.
They just allow you to get to the premium content if you click through some long Mercedes Benz ad. On a side note, this news is now 4 days old.
First of all Brewster doesn't have the resouces to deal with the "Church" of Scientology. If you want to put up your money to defend against them feel free, but don't go and tell the Archive what to do. Secondly most of this stuff still exists at the Bibliotheca Alexandria's copy of the wayback machine. Check out http://archive.bibalex.org, and that is unlikely to change, Brewster was smart enough to send copies to places with different copyrights.
Considering there is still an IBM ad on the sidewalk on the north side of California between Fillmore and Webster. The stuff doesn't wash off in the rain.
Ameboa has plenty of CD's for $1-$10 used. The new stuff usually is $12-$14.
Ars Technica has a history of being more than a little biased with Apple/PowerPC stories.
Bzzzt Wrong. The Mechanical is at least $0.07/song (more for longer songs) which goes directly to the songwriter, and is paid by the publishing company, not the record company.
Actually these books ARE illustrated, with a decent cover. I was suprised by the quality, I was expecting the books to be akin to a printed out version of the Nethack documentation, but they have the quality of an O'Reilly. According to Brewster, they cost about $1.00 each to make.
I talked to Colin the head of the Amazon Associates program a few months ago, and they absolutely do not find this acceptable, however they have somehting on the order of 20,000 associates, so it takes a little while for them to see trends that would ferret this behaviour out. He said they had seen it before and told the companies to stop, or they would cancel their Associates account.
What dorm are you in? Towers? Where is your advisers office?
You can read Steve Albini's rant which breaks it all down. Be advised thought that this mythical band that Albini writes about would be more successful than 99% of the bands that try to make it.
You were right the first time.
Come on guys, that is one of the biggest details on the story
They did FILM this guy catching an 85' wave off the North Shore of Oahu on IMAX a few years ago. Nature did a episode on the storm that caused these waves.
You should stop pirating shit a try it, then you will understand. We ain't talking Elvis surfing here, where talking about ripp'n up 100 foot waves!
This is about the first time I have seen someone at slashdot who really gets it.
Duh, Richard Thompson is one of the 20 most talented guitar players in the world, who has been around since the 60's. He is in that less than 1%. How much does the the most talented laywer, doctor, programmer, or used car salesman for that matter make? He can get $50 a ticket and sell out a 2500 seat arena, although he couldn't sell out a 20,000 seat arena at $10 a head. What you said is nothing more than a anecdote, there are 20 places like the Bottom of the Hill, which has 2-3 bands playing at $8 a head EVERY DAY for every place such as the Warfield which has 1-2 shows a week, seats 2,500 and charges $30-$50 a head. 2-3 grand free and clear, Tell me who is the greedy one?
I would like to know where you get the statistics that the majority of artists make the majorty of money by touring, because it just isn't true. Very few bands make much money touring, maybe the biggest ones who either, no longer make new records, or have huge arena shows that sell 20,000 $50 tickets make money touring. But these are only the top 1%, the other 99% of the bands out there, you know the ones that if they are very lucky become U2 or some band that you like, bust their ass to drive 6 hours a day to play in a small venue (bottom of the hill here in San Francisco is a good example) which holds about 200 people, charge $8 or less for tickets and then distribute that money to 2 or more bands who have generally 4 or more musicians, and one roadie each. If they are lucky they will sell 50 tee shirts at $8 per, but only a profit of $4 per, which brings us to a total of $1800 split over 10 guys, $180 per, wow tons of cash. But you get to spend an evening in San Francisco.
And they will have to work how long to buy a computer or get a broadband connection?
If it all sucks why are you downloading or listening to anything?
$15 is a drop in the pan considering they are downloading the music on a $1500 computer through a (probably broadband) ISP which has a cost of something like $50 a month. If they are getting free access from college, then it is especially small compared to the cost of education. Last time I checked most CD were purchasable either used ($5-$10) or in on sale ($12), I buy more than 4 discs a week, and I don't remember the last time I paid even $15 for a disc. It's funny that the most affluent of our society bitches the most about the cost of music. If you don't want to pay the piper, then don't listen.
One of the big problems with slashdot creaming over google all the time (such as dismissing alltheweb's crawl size) is that Google pays for banners on slashdot. Do we have a conflict of interest?
Read the Albini Baffler Article, it lists the touring costs, and it is a net RED
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