Re: (TV) FLASH LIGHT to be available... digitally?

[Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

Right on.

FWIW, Amazon has never used DRM, and their MP3s are a respectable 256kbps. I buy tracks from there from time to time. For example, they have all of Bowie's 80s singles digitized. Spending $0.99 for a remix of some semi-hit is a pretty fair deal.

They've also got things like the Dream Syndicate's MEDICINE SHOW for $10 (entire album), a much better deal than hunting down a used CD copy for $95.

--Phil




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From: Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>
To: tv@obbard.com
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:04:18 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) FLASH LIGHT to be available... digitally?

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:45:17 -0800 (PST)
Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> the first time. Gary
> Numan, the Police"s Stewart Copeland, Television"s Tom Verlaine, Wall
> of Voodoo, Timbuk 3, Concrete Blonde and many more artists are
> slated to have their I.R.S. recordings released DRM-free.
>      .  .  .
> But the really big news is that the digital world
> will finally, legally, be able to download the dB"s influential first
> two albums, Stands For Decibels and Repurcussion, as well as their
> fourth album Sound of Music.

Great Googly-Moogly....   This is what it's going to take to get me
to buy music digitally.  I have not gone that route before because:
1) Selection was mediocre at best - I know the industry is more focused
   on trying to get people to buy the new Britney drek, but I'm just not
   interested
2) I refuse to buy DRM-protected recordings, first because most of the
   DRM schemes don't work under Linux (I've been Windows-free for years)
   and I don't want to be beholden to the whims of the companies in
   supporting the format (Google "microsoft stops plays-for-sure" for
   a perfect example).

This announcement is going to get me to SPEND MONEY ON MUSIC.  See,
RIAA?  That's all it took - good selection without your paranoid 
schemes that assume I'm a criminal even before I've purchased your
product.

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