downloaded any good albums recently?

wow carles lives

downloaded the album '26 mixes for cash' recently

wha even is an album

just a collection of tracks by a band or an artist

who would even want to have an album

albums are for pictures now

not true

currently downloading a flac of the schoenberg piano concerto that has been excised from the album

just the four tracks with all of the rest gone

In this day and age, we are more likely to buy or download songs from iTunes or Amazon or any other site for our phones or tablets or laptops. It makes me wonder if CDs will become obsolete.

My questions are simple: do you still buy CDs? And will they become obsolete? How do you get your music?

I haven't bought a CD in nearly 6 years. I use the Pandora app or I listen to my mp3 player, where I transferred songs from the CD to it or download songs.

CDs are beautiful objects, imo, i don't get the argument that they're aesthetically ugly.
I buy CDs for my car but I should really get around to getting a new head unit with usb/audio ins.

I burned all the aphex twin anal ord eps onto 5 CD-Rs for the car. burned any good box sets recently?

One thing about CDs is, sometimes the jewel cases that contain them crack or become otherwise damaged. Soft cover CD cases of various kinds also suffer from wear and tear. The CDs themselves can be easily scratched if improperly cared for. Digital files may also suffer from degradation. File formats may become obsolete. The files themselves may become unreadable due to "bit rot". A whole store of files may vanish in an instant due to hardware failure. Today's digital content is often stored in "the cloud," a name collectively given to various online content management systems operated by tech firms and other organizations. Loss of control over and responsibility for the "object" or "album" is seen by many as a small price to pay for the convenience of accessing music through these services, or indeed, as an overall benefit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

Nothing assuages the western exploiter or the western subject consenting to exploitation quite like orientalist philosophy.

*drum solo*

lol

downloading leaked albums

For a while I was planning on waiting for the NPR stream to be up before listening to the album, but then it got delayed and the FLAC leaked, so I said "Aw, screw it.

I thought I had downloaded an album in its entirety but it's missing one track & I can't find that track anywhere online & I'm mildly annoyed about this

that is the worst, unregd

just downloaded the eac flac of syro having already downloaded the web flac of syro
having that said
it was done under the misapprehension that it contained the japanese bonus track
hmmn

the many phases of nakhchivan

plural of phasis, ffs

which version(s), if any, of syro have you downloaded?

the precover one! *autoFP*

oh is it out?

I was pissed off at having a 320 of soused that cuts off the final track 3 minutes early

but then I listened to it (and some other stuff) on Poundland earphones and it was the funniest thing ever

obv ur thoughts on my & other ilxor-authored trax desperately invited

trying to remember how i would have downloaded the previous album by aphex twin in 2001
probably via file transfer protocol
seem to remember having downloaded the 192 cbr scene release of that album
possibly have it on a cdr/dvdr or one of the dead laptop hard drives sitting on my desk
could be useful to find it in order for inclusion of my forthcoming 'art in the age of digital iteration: albums that will have been downloaded' installation

it sounds simultaneously exactly as I expected and somewhat as I expected xp

your track was nice

One thing I have been enjoying recently is playing variable bitrate mp3s on foobar2000 and watching the bitrate display cycling through all the changing bitrates

downloaded any good albums recently, wins?

honestly I mostly stream

last album I downloaded:

Henry Flynt - Graduation And Other New Country And Blues Music [2001/CD/MP3/V0(VBR)]

m ob'd

kewl bitrates itt

Despite the furious reaction in some quarters, the union between Apple and U2 is set to strengthen. The partners are now embarking on a “secret project” to create a new digital music format which will compensate musicians for their efforts, and aims to revive the dying art of listening to a complete album.

http://i.imgur.com/gFwZt3A.jpg?1

read any good quietus articles recently?

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lord

do u download a 10 cd collection of luc ferrari ina grm flacs y/n

so many tracks by the artist luc ferrari

y

I love music. I enjoy buying music and supporting the people responsible. My appetite for new music is greater than my financial situation can handle. I have cut my college habits of downloadery and found solace through podcasting.

Can't wait for album and film! (sod your new-fangled illegal downloadery).

what's the podcasting scene in MA like?

the podcasting scene is super vibrant right now

no, I haven't downloaded any good albums lately :(((

haha that's a terrible lyric. i actually love MCPB tho. the price paul produced 'it's very stimulating' ep is all-time for me. if you can get over the immaturity of the lyrical themes (i'm immature so it's not an issue for me) his rhymes are pretty insane

I don't walk, I get carried
By a motorcade of voter-age women on rollerblades
In cute sleeveless shirts exposing their shoulder blades

or

My iconoclastic rap schtick, gets my jimmy waxed like Chapstick
I think LL Cool J and Canibus are BOTH fantastic
So-called experts can't see how the text works
So they comb through the textures of italicized excerpts

Last time I saw them play it, they didn't play any kind of extended ending or anything like that. It felt a bit weird!

some albums switch gears at the beginning of the 2nd side in an interesting way, "On Some Faraway Beach" on Warm Jets for example

CDs don't have that required change dynamic and maybe they get frontloaded more than LP based collections did

Last time I saw them play it, they didn't play any kind of extended ending or anything like that. It felt a bit weird!

― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Monday, 11 May 2015 21:27 (5 days ago)

hehehehe

http://i57.tinypic.com/28mi6ag.jpg

the covers of the last lot of albums i have downloaded are quite coincidentally entirely monochrome (gabor lazar & mark fell, byetone, sd laika, alva noto, voigt) although perhaps not so surprising giving the regnant aesthetics of that sort of music

I downloaded all three of those Xerrox albums last week. I'm mildly impressed that he planned out the artwork for his 5-album series more than a decade before the final volume is likely to come out (although it's still possible that he'll throw us a curveball and spell out XERRISCAPE or someshit)

I also downloaded a bunch of messy Scandinavian psych/electronic/freefolk albums (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Tsembla) with appropriately garish tie-dyed color schemes. salvia is the most embarrassing muse.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/Screenshot%202015-05-25%2023.33.57.png

http://chipwiki.ru/images/thumb/2/2a/Rainbowdragoneyes_-_Pieces_Ov_Eight_Bit_The_Chiptune_Pirate_Metal_EP_back.jpg/300px-Rainbowdragoneyes_-_Pieces_Ov_Eight_Bit_The_Chiptune_Pirate_Metal_EP_back.jpg

was it dope?

it was far doper than i had anticipated

i downloaded this from a blog:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SCl1WKDWJj8/U-O90qFd80I/AAAAAAAAASc/wYpiLIA8OxU/s1600/cover600.jpg
it is spectacular

just about to download the album 'exile on main street' by the rolling stones

for me,

to visit the sins of the sons upon the fathers, the titles of the tracks on this album look like kasabian titles

loved their avians did the stones

this album only has 2 tracks, but the uploader managed to get the track titles mixed up. amazing.

(the album is Cecil Taylor's Dark to Themselves. 'Streams' is mistagged as 'Chorus of Seed' and 'Chorus of Seed' is mistagged as 'Streams'. I'm pretty sure it's a vinyl rip)

that happened once downloading this album

http://www.discogs.com/AFX-Hangable-Auto-Bulb-EP2/release/137

bulb = idiot in liverpool slang

I've downloaded so many albums on slsk where track 1 is mistagged with track 6's title, track 3 is mistagged with track 1's title, and track 6 is tagged with track 3's title, etc. is this a Gracenote error, or did someone attempt to tag their music manually (and get it completely wrong)? not to be racist but Spanish/Portuguese-speaking slsk users seem to be the worst offenders w/r/t inaccurate metadata, and I tend to avoid anyone whose music folder is called 'Música'.

I've never heard that Aphex EP

downloading a bunch of Coil bootlegs and obscurities on this important american holiday

were they dope

the last album by the band kevinn drumm is actually smaller when encoded by flac when compared to 320 mp3 - go figure!

― milord z (nakhchivan), Saturday, 8 November 2014 22:50 (10 months ago)

the new logan sama album is ~70 mins and over 500mb in flac which must be at the other extreme of compression ratios

Something still remains one of my most loved, and most played albums to be released so far this decade and now I'm suddenly finding myself in the position where I'm already beginning to feel like it's the end of the line for me and this band.

Deceptionista combines the relentless unknowability of the real-time internet with ADR's distinct compositional approach, seeking to accelerate detailed, high-definition visions of public intimacies into a form of 21st century psychedelia; which embraces the cognitive derangement of the senses that defines the habits of today's internet browsing constituency.

really like this one http://www.discogs.com/ADR-Solitary-Pursuits/release/3133121

Far too many people are cynical and exhibit kneejerk, jaded opinions about the current state of music and believe that the music of their youth is the best music there could be. And I think that is indeed utter bullshit.

On the other hand, this attitude is understandable (if unfortunate). I think passion for new music is generally, for most people, concentrated in their early years, maybe up to 20-22 years old. I think my friend and I (he’s in his late 40s and I’m in my mid 50s) are in the minority. We actively seek out and listen to new music in many genres. Using the internet it’s not really that hard to find great new stuff. But I don’t think most people are passionate enough about expanding what they listen to. I think for most adults, music is functional, background, mood-setting stuff. You go with what you know.

Exploring new music takes an investment of time and energy. When you’re young, you have a lot of both. Later on, we have jobs and responsibilities and lots of other distractions from what once was super important—the latest cool music! And there’s the fossilization factor. Getting older can easily be simultaneous with getting set in your ways, no longer interested in new things to get excited about. Again, I can understand that.

But some of us can’t stop the urge to expand and explore and find new gems and classics, and bands that will blow us away all over again. Are we permanent adolescents? I don’t know, but I do know that the “problem” isn’t that there isn’t enough good new music, it’s that there is totally too much!! There is literally not even a small fraction of enough time available to listen to all the new/recent music worthy of attention. That’s the gist of my beef! ;)

PS – I love the Beatles and a lot of that old boomer stuff from my childhood and teen years. I’m a boomer. But can’t I have that AND everything else? This isn’t an either/or situation! I would mourn for Paul McCartney!

the gist of my beef! ;)

something almost j4gg3r14n about the phrase and the insouciant little emoticon ;)

Anticipating new action flick RANCHA CUCARACHA (2015, Ian Watkins) feat. Costner/McAdams/Del Toro/Hitler (UPDATE 06.14 Hitler Dropped Out)
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agreed

Tracklist
Luckily I Was Allowed To Get Dressed When I Left The House. 	1:04
I Am Made To Greet Each Guest With A Limp-Wristed Handshake 	1:49
Only Carla 	5:03
She Is Pretty Strange, The Way She Dresses, That Punky Hair. God Knows What She Gets Up To. 	0:13
Jack The Dammed 	2:25
Since I Am On A Strict 500 Calorie A Day Diet With Extensive Exercise And No Alcohol, I Have The Shape Of A Petite Little Woman, And My Wife Has Paid For Breast Implants And Facial Surgery To Make Me More Acceptable. 	3:45
Duck Shall Not Have The Audacity To Request Release Himself. Duck Shall Not Gripe Or Complain About The Duration Of His Confinement, The Length Of Which Will Be Solely Determined By Mistress. 	1:01
He Might Be Able To Earn A Meal Of Slop If He Does Dangerous Work (For Instance: Crash Test Dummy). Thunderskins 	0:51
To Compensate, While The Average Lifespan Of A Male Will Be About 70 Years, Medical Advancements Will Make The Average Lifespan Of A Woman To Be About 750 Years. 	1:02
When Thanksgiving Approaches, I'm Usually In My Third Week Without Release. 	2:27
My Breasts Were Pierced, So Red Ball Ornaments Were Placed Through Each Nipple. Additionally, Each Ear Was Pierced, So A Red Ball Ornament Was Placed In Each Earring Hole. My Nipples Were Protruding Through A Hole For Each In The Silk Red Top Of The Ensemble. It Had Red And Green Fur Around It, And I Was Tied From Head To Toe With Beautiful Tinsel Garland. Bows Were Placed All Over My Body, And A Giant Bow Was Placed In My Femininely Prepared Hair. Of Course, I Had Bright Christmas-Type Make-Up On And The Bright Red Ball Gag Ornament In My Mouth. And Don’t Forget The Jingle Bells, Which Were Sewed All Over My Outfit. This Was A Sort Of Security System To Keep Me Still And In Position. Don’t Forget The Lights Either, Which Were Very, Very Hot Against My Skin – She Used Outdoor Lights, Which Were Sheer Torture. 	8:36
Thunderskins London Dungeon X 5 	1:11
The Grad Student Turned Her Eyes Toward The Closet Where She Had Made Him Hide. Thunderskins 	5:33
Drugs. Alan, I Don't Believe It But Somebody Saw Her Shooting Up In The Restroom. 	1:07
Only Tease 	5:02
Tennis Has Always Been My Life Since I Was A Small Boy In Mexico City. My Father Was The Head Gardener At An Estate Owned By A Very Important Man And He Used To Take Me With Him So I Could Hit The Balls On The Court. 	0:21
Wild Spectrum 	3:09
Credits 	2:56
Versions (3)
	Title (Format) 	Label 	Cat# 	Country 	Year 	
	On A Business Trip To London ‎(18xFile, FLAC, Album) 	Blackest Ever Black 	BLACKESTDL008 	UK 	2015 	
	On A Business Trip To London ‎(LP, Album) 	Blackest Ever Black 	BLACKESTLP 008 	UK 	2015 	
	On A Business Trip To London ‎(CD, Album) 	Blackest Ever Black 	BLACKEST008CD 	UK 	2015 	

lol