At 09:05 -0700 06/12/02, Steven Catanzaro wrote:
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>The new xlr8r magazine has this;
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>"Davis arrives for an interview at, where else? a record store. He
>hands the clerk several copies of the brand-new 12-inch,
>"Monosylabik," off his forthcoming album, "The Private Press." After
>telling the employee to save a copy for himself, Davis asks him not
>to sell all the records to one person, in order to avoid the eBay
>shenanigans that started the cottage industry of bootlegs of
>Brainfreese, the much-vaunted all-45's mix CD he performed and
>released along with Cut Chemeist. Even now, with his new major label
>home, MCA, inserting a copy-tracing code into the promo CD's of the
>album, he still must fret about piracy."
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>Am I missing something? What's next, an anti Audiogalaxy campaign?
>At least the guys in Metallica played their own notes... for a "dj"
>to complain about piracy...
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Reading other interviews it's more Shadow's concern that people are
paying much more for something from him than necessary. He and Cut
Chemist just released Brainfreeze on a whim, and after seeing the
ridiculous prices on eBay, they sought to get more copies out--it was
initially just something for the fans at their concerts. They want
people to hear their music, and not to horde it so that people won't
be able to hear.
As for MCA, it just the latest spasms from the modern 'buggy-whip'
producers of the world (e.g. the buggy whip producers were one
argument against the Detroit auto producer, though considering global
climate change and what even Silicon Valley looks like on a hot
summer day, maybe we should have heeded them.)
As for "The Private Press" I really like it. It has that
other-worldly feel that was present in "Entroducing...", but, it is
different. Much better than the "N.E.R.Ds" album I picked up. That
was just terrible, not very interesting production from the Neptunes,
and the raps and vocals were punctuated with jingoistic
profanity--just seemed like all the rest of hip-POP that we see
nowadays.
erik g
n.p. lamb - transfattyacid (K&D Sessions)
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