Posts by Mark Thomas
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walk into real groovy, see half a mile of trestle tables
but it's a faff to listen to cds/records (albeit in a cool environment)
i find it so much easier to search/listen to stuff on the web now
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LOL!
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A couple of minutes a day at Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, Fact Magazine and a spin through my fave MP3 blogs keeps me happy.
sweet. they look interesting.
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Arguably the US, by intervening in Iraq in such a f...d up fashion, has poisoned the well for where a reasonable response could be justified.
the whole iraq saga has certainly put me off the idea of invading and occupying countries in order to secure cheap oil. george w bush is so useless sometimes.
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thanks for that dose of cold harsh african reality craig. you really know how to take the fun out of a thread.
any comment on President Mbeki's role in all this? -
scum sucking?
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no need to travel, you got teh interweb
http://www.myspace.com/thenakedandfamous
"serenade" is the standout, the rest are ok
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unprotected formats such as CD
speaking of which, ripping the Naked & Famous cd to my mp3 player was a pain in the butt - are music companies still putting "anti-copy" stuff on cds?
In the end, Nero did the job. but it pissed me off.
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I volunteer the guy who started that Asian crime-fighting group. He seems pretty eager to shoot someone.
...or at least hit someone with a dustbin.
Quote, "I tell you what, we are martial arts people, we know how to defend ourselves - a chair, a dustbin -anything can be a weapon"
hilarious, and tragic.
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<wading into an argument that has been here before many times>
given the nature of the internet and computers, i'm not convinced that DRM will succeed with any form of information, whether it be music / movie / tv / book. there will always be people out there smart enough to remove the DRM and put the data on the internet.
i'm not saying that DRM is necessarily wrong, it's just a lost cause.
in that respect, robbery is right - the only way artists will be paid for their work is because society decides they should be paid for it. whether that's in the form of legal downloads or attending live performances, or whatever, is what we haven't worked out yet. i don't know how it will work out, but i think david byrne was on the right track in redefining what we think about as music:
"In the past, music was something you heard and experienced — it was as much a social event as a purely musical one. Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context..."
"You couldn't take it home, copy it, sell it as a commodity (except as sheet music, but that's not music), or even hear it again. Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone — a memory."anyway, on a more positive note, i'm loving some of the NZ stuff coming out these days. the Naked & Famous are sounding particularly promising!