"CDs are nothing more than advertisements for bands. Bands should make thier money working (i.e. touring, concerts, etc), and not sitting down at one recording session and cranking out 10 bajillion CDs."
You've obviously never written a song in your life. There are many months of work that go into making an album before you see a cent.
AFAIK, Harry Fox only gets involved if you're releasing a recording of a song that was written by someone else (ie, a cover). If a label is distributing a song written and recorded by one of its artists, then all the money should be going to the label and the artist.
"But I have always wondered why killing on TV and in movies and stuff is all OK - but sex is BAD BAD BAD FILTHY DIRTY BAD."
It's just an American thing. It's exactly the opposite in most of Europe.
Besides the nice packaging, universal portability, and feeling of having a tangible product, there's the all-important issue of sound quality. I'm sorry, but 192kbps MP3s are just unacceptable if you really want to appreciate Dark Side of the Moon.
There's also something about the cohesiveness of an entire album as opposed to individual songs. Again, Pink Floyd is the most obvious example, but you can find many "concept albums" by many artists that have to be listened to in full, in order to fully appreciate the music.
>>But I still kind of think even less are going to do it, because it is illegal. =]
Again, if we look at the Netherlands, teenage cannabis use is much lower than in the US. You will probably find a similar correlation with less alcohol abuse among teenagers in much of western Europe. If it's normal and accepted, it's boring.
It's impossible to really appreciate physics without some basic calculus, and if you're not willing to delve into the math side of physics at all, you'll never understand it. A good textbook if you want a serious introduction to physics is "Physics" by Giancoli.
These automatic translators are notoriously bad. I shudder to think what would happen in the translation of precise lock-picking instructions, espsecially the confusion of 'an', 'auf', 'in', 'um', etc, because they have meanings beyond the literal translation into their English counterparts.
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"CDs are nothing more than advertisements for bands. Bands should make thier money working (i.e. touring, concerts, etc), and not sitting down at one recording session and cranking out 10 bajillion CDs." You've obviously never written a song in your life. There are many months of work that go into making an album before you see a cent.
AFAIK, Harry Fox only gets involved if you're releasing a recording of a song that was written by someone else (ie, a cover). If a label is distributing a song written and recorded by one of its artists, then all the money should be going to the label and the artist.
"But I have always wondered why killing on TV and in movies and stuff is all OK - but sex is BAD BAD BAD FILTHY DIRTY BAD." It's just an American thing. It's exactly the opposite in most of Europe.
Besides the nice packaging, universal portability, and feeling of having a tangible product, there's the all-important issue of sound quality. I'm sorry, but 192kbps MP3s are just unacceptable if you really want to appreciate Dark Side of the Moon. There's also something about the cohesiveness of an entire album as opposed to individual songs. Again, Pink Floyd is the most obvious example, but you can find many "concept albums" by many artists that have to be listened to in full, in order to fully appreciate the music.
of course :) It was, after all, Germans monks who invented beer.
Or perhaps double plus ungooder?
>>But I still kind of think even less are going to do it, because it is illegal. =] Again, if we look at the Netherlands, teenage cannabis use is much lower than in the US. You will probably find a similar correlation with less alcohol abuse among teenagers in much of western Europe. If it's normal and accepted, it's boring.
It's impossible to really appreciate physics without some basic calculus, and if you're not willing to delve into the math side of physics at all, you'll never understand it.
A good textbook if you want a serious introduction to physics is "Physics" by Giancoli.
These automatic translators are notoriously bad. I shudder to think what would happen in the translation of precise lock-picking instructions, espsecially the confusion of 'an', 'auf', 'in', 'um', etc, because they have meanings beyond the literal translation into their English counterparts.
Gee, it would be nice if those lockpicking links weren't all in Dutch or German.