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24th Apr 2015, 4:57 PM
	biffbampow Member since Jan 2013 65 Points	Jock_Girl wrote: biffbampow wrote: Google's DMCA system is a disgrace and is deliberately as long winded and awkward as possible Yet, youtube (owned by google), smacked a friend of mine. He uploaded a 90 minute aircheck of Atlantic 252. Within 2 weeks it was taken down under protest from Sony and Universal! This is garbage. As if a crackly lo-fi longwave radio station aircheck would in any way affect their sales. Yep... that kind of thing has happened to me... it's bizarre how their "filters" pluck out the most obscure "copyright" on the most obscure things yet they happily allow people to post stuff from major labels with no trouble which strongly suggests to me they're in bed with Google. Jock_Girl wrote: And the reissues are over-priced vanity items. Its almost as if they are designed to be NOT played. If they got back to the beauty of a vinyl record, and bins well stocked in stores, it would not suffer the way it is now Wholeheartedly agree. Reissues are nothing more than overpriced vanity items. I'll bet over half the people who buy them NEVER PLAY THEM and just have them on display to show off. I don't GET that sort of attitude. I buy records because I want and intend to PLAY THEM. Even the rarest items... I just take much more care when I play them, but at least I do give them a spin and derive pleasure from that and the music. If I have no intention of ever playing something, I don't buy it - it's a waste of money - records are meant to be played and enjoyed. Magic Marmalade wrote: Let's face it... 90% of John Lennon's solo work is awful. (My opinion... but I thik a lot of people would agree if they could overcome their Beatles loyalties) That's the problem - that old Beatles loyalty. Because they were so wonderful, then the solo albums cannot possibly be awful... funny because Ringo's albums have and continue to get slated and ridiculed, Macca and Harrison's are treated with caution by comparison whereas the great Lennon, it's almost sacrilege to suggest his solo stuff was awful. But as he himself wrote and demanded "Gimme some truth" and the truth is sadly, most of his solo work was crap. I'm willing to bet that if he was still alive, he'd be dismissive of them as well like he was with a lot of Beatles stuff! Magic Marmalade wrote: And you can pick up pretty much mint, and virtually un-played copies of all this very cheap in charity stores (Which is saying something in itself). That's what baffles me about this new set. It's utterly pointless when like you say, you can get the originals in mint condition for much lower prices than this new set will cost. You can be certain it won't be cheap! A total waste of good vinyl and cardboard.