How To Pirate Vinyl Records

I guess you have to do Side A and B separately.

Jeff Mills latest release, The Occurrence, is pressed on a hybrid CD. One side is just a normal CD, the other is a 5″ vinyl pressing which you can play on a turntable. How cool is that?

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/06/10/a-vinyl-and-cd-release-on-one-disc/

I know some of you are thinking you can’t hear the difference. The thing about quality audio is that it’s something of an acquired taste, few people yearn for high-end sound, and even a brief encounter with a great speaker or headphone might not win you over. You don’t miss what you’ve never heard, and I’m reaching for analogies here, but if you never tasted fresh-squeezed orange juice and only drank OJ from a carton, would you automatically appreciate the superior taste of the real thing?

via The $1,350 ‘earbud’: Is it worth it? | The Audiophiliac – CNET News.

Just in case you are wondering, I am not going to buy those earbuds, but I have spent more than average on the ones I am using…

Buying a book or a piece of music should be regarded as a license to enjoy it on any platform.

I very much share this point of view. If you have bought the vinyl record, downloading the mp3 for free is acceptable. The interesting distinction here is between legal and ethical.

NYT ethicist: OK to pirate ebooks once you’ve bought the hardcover

To Have & To Hold – Taster Tape from Jony Lyle on Vimeo.

via hb.hifi

“a few more of the festival dates still in the works, you can be sure these shows won’t be the only ones”

So it could be Reading Festival, although June and August are far apart…

Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax ‘Big Four’ Tour

PS: No, I have not changed my musical taste, but I am still fascinated by this…

Anyway, I wanted to comment on somebody else’s comment on the the same subject, because it very much reflects my thinking.

This fact confirms what we have been writing for years: the future of Music sales is liquid (digital download of studio master files for hi-quality and MP3s for the masses) while physical media lovers will be content enough with high quality pressings on vinyl. While this is a clear trend if one considers software sales, this decision by Linn seems to be the first, strong step towards the abandon of the CD format from the hardware point of view.

via Linn stops CD players production! – [English].

It has been some time now that I have stopped buying CD. Instead I buy (lots of) LP’s for at home and listen to mp3 on the go…

Found at the Analog Appartment

1. The Strokes ‘Is This It’
2. The Libertines ‘Up The Bracket’
3. Primal Scream ‘XTRMNTR’
4. Arctic Monkeys ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘Fever To Tell’
6. PJ Harvey ‘Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea’
7. Arcade Fire ‘Funeral’
8. Interpol ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’
9. The Streets ‘Original Pirate Material’
10. Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’
11. At The Drive In ‘Relationship Of Command’
12. LCD Soundsystem ‘Sound Of Silver’
13. The Shins ‘Wincing The Night Away’
14. Radiohead ‘Kid A’
15. Queens Of The Stone Age ‘Songs For The Deaf’
16. The Streets ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’
17. Sufjan Stevens ‘Illinois’
18. The White Stripes ‘Elephant’
19. The White Stripes ‘White Blood Cells’
20. Blur ‘Think Tank’

Found on Spreeblick