Posts by Peter Darlington
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Call me old-fashioned (as some do), but I buy music on those round,, shiny things that come in plastic cases.
If you look on my Web Twitter page you'll see our CD shelves in the background, stacked to the gunnels. All that plastic, started to depress me after a while. I'm happy to buy online rather than CD.
Vinyl on the other hand, I still have some head room there! #waxrules
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Emma Hart,
My book-buying has alarmingly increased since I started using The Book Depository. What I want is always in stock, and cheap, and delivered for free and very promptly.
Yes, damn their eyes!
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Can I ask what problems you have with m4a-files?
Just the DRM. Like MP3s that can be transported without prejudice and played in multiple players.
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This post is very handy as I've been a bit of a music buying nomad since eMusic blew itself up. Partly hence, Russell and my conversation yesterday.
I'll be Mr Square and say that it's mostly iTunes for me.
Yes I use iTunes a bit as sometimes they have identical items from other online services available cheaper for some reason. Not happy with the usability of the site though or the damn M4a files.
One thing that's surprised me is how much YouTube has become the default music service for a lot of people I know, even if there's no video.
Yep, my kids play a lot of tunes straight off YouTube. It's only the keepers that they nick...
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I don't like American sports. I think I'm too Englished.
I do like this blog though, especially the bit where you fall on your arse. You should fall on your arse in blogs more often. :)
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At least things are looking up for Leonard...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/19/leonard-cohen-former-manager-jailed
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Hard News: Did Holopac change everything?, in reply to Jolisa,
Trundling off to re-read my copy of William Gibson's Idoru...
With news like this...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/series/battle-for-the-internet
Gibbo's writing is looking more and more onto it by the day.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Danielle,
Not that he wasn't hot, in a 'I will eat fried eggs off a hooker's ass' kind of way,
Teh awesome.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Scott Chris,
Prog in general is difficult for me because the self-conscious virtuosity kinda makes me want to hurl, and I hate all that 'look at us stopping and starting on a dime with our weird time signatures, aren't we awesome?'
I don't buy that argument. What are they supposed to do - dumb it down? Was, say, Velasquez being pretentious because he wanted to refine his craft and experiment with technique?
Sorry, most of the anti-prog sentiment basically boils down to jealousy imo.
Hey, you're the anti-me!
This must be why the universe works.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to James Butler,
But... that's... I... </me gives up>
Yep. Pretty much have to call trolling at this point...