I was wondering if anyone here was keen to exchange .mp3s (or .wavs or .flacs or whatever for you audiophiles) of out of print music that’s hard to get even via filesharing.
For example, I’ve been listening to a lot of industrial and dark ambient import compilations from the '90s and early '00s and I keep finding out about intriguing things that I can’t locate (The Last Bleak Days from Bleak Records, In The Butcher’s Backyard from Cold Meat Industry, some of the Taste This series from Discordia).
So if anyone else is game maybe post what you’d like and we can see what happens. I do think we should stick to rare and out of print stuff, rather than sharing things that are still commercially available, though…
Well, we did kind of do this at least twice on here. Once, about ten years ago, a poster had an FTP (again, this was ten years ago) full of OOP and some not so legitimate records and people went crazy. His ISP took him down. As grey area as the practice is, I thank him because I never would’ve gotten into Coil if I didn’t - The Remote Viewer was my first exposure to them.
And, of course, there’s a sticky thread here, but it’s out of date and rarely discussed any longer. I am indifferent to the whole thing, really, but even material that is OOP the artists may still have the masters to…planned releases, pay-digital downloads etc.
I owe a lot of my musical tastes to filesharing, with the stipulation that I always make the effort to track down a copy of whatever I get at some point. zick hooked it up with a Steve Roach album a couple years back and though it took me like two years to actually get a copy, I did.
Some stuff, though… Good luck snagging it in the real world. I found the vinyl rips of Sutcliffe Jugend’s “We Spit on Their Graves” on some random blog once, and actually getting a copy of those (bootleg) vinyls would set me back at lease a grand I don’t have.
Wasn’t there some data out there that showed that when Napster was at it’s zenith, record sales were at an all-time high or some such?