Because not everyone on this list is a member of the Yahoo list, I
wanted
to share the message below that I just posted to the TV Yahoo list. I
know
this list is not for trading, and my intent is not to clog this list
with
trading discussion. I suggest going to the Yahoo list for that.
Steve
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Based on a couple of folks asking me for the links to the shows I sent
to
Joe, I have been thinking ...
While many of you have some, or even a ton, of Television / Verlaine /
Lloyd shows, there is still some demand out there as folks try to fill
out
their collections. We've come a long way from the days of cassette
tapes
when I started collecting. The Carried Away site has been great for
distributing a huge number of shows via CD-R trees. I've put maybe 25
shows
on DIME and others have done the same. I've shared shows through
Megaupload, etc.
But, a combination of today's technology and old-fashioned snail mail
can
make it possible for everyone to have EVERY show. I've been able to put
FLAC copies of all my shows on a small pocket external hard drive. I
also
have Apple Lossless versions of the shows on the drive, to make it easy
to
import them into iTunes. I've shared this drive with another collector
on
this list who was kind enough to add some shows I did not have (I got
burned
out on Television and stopped collecting for a time). So, at this point
I
think I have all shows currently in circulation. I have DVD's on the
drive
as well, as well as scans of vintage Television show posters and Village
Voice advertisements for shows in the 1970's.
Here is what I am thinking - I could put all the files on two pocket
drives, and then we could create 2 vines - one for North America and the
other for the rest of the world. The way I see it working is that we
could
use the Carried Away site to sign up (Keith, I presume you could set
that
up?). The vines could be set up in such a way to efficiently move the
hard
drives from person to person. Each person receiving the drive would
have
say, one week, to plug the drive into their computer and copy the files
they
wanted, and then box the drive back up and mail it to the next person on
the
vine. Hence, the cost to anyone signing up is simply the postage to the
next recipient. At the end of the vines, the hard drives could be
mailed
back to me.
So, what do folks think? Is there any interest in this? I've always
felt
it important to share the music, and this is the biggest and best method
I
can think of.
Steve
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