RTP-area local music and culture

[Bryk <chscene AT bryk.com>]

tim,

i've only put one of my records on Zunior (and a Christmas record at  
that) mostly because I haven't had a new album in a while and I wanted  
to put the whole back catalogue up at once. Dave always pays his  
royalties like clockwork, which is really saying something considering  
he's been on the artist side of things. i doubt if it's a big money- 
maker for Dave (Ullrich, also of the truly great Halifax/Kingston  
indie pop duo The Inbreds -- some of you might know their two or three  
records on Atlantic's faux-indie "TAG") but it definitely makes a  
fantastic one-stop shop for great Canadian music.

i've bought a couple of albums on Zunior, mostly by scene buddies back  
in canada. they have a boxing day (canadian for "the day after  
christmas") sale where everything is half off, and i'm kicking myself  
for having slept through it this year. Zunior's sale is in homage to  
the truly INSANE boxing day sales held by Sam The Record Man and HMV  
on Yonge St. in Toronto. when i was a teenager, we would line up with  
hundreds of other people in freezing cold weather, to get in a store  
that was basically wall-to-wall people, and the deals were frequently  
up to 50% off, or buy three get one free (when you have eight $32  
imports in your hand that really adds up...)

Sam The Record Man closed last year, and HMV's business is at least  
50% DVDs and "lifestyle" shit. Sam's was pure music history, the  
equivalent of Tower Sunset closing. When Sam's closed, they auctioned  
off the fixtures and planks of walls signed by the artists. If I'd  
been up there, I probably would have bid on that piece with the  
signature of Burton Cummings beside Jon King's:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackrun/2300208935/

db



On Feb 29, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Tim Flaherty wrote:

> Bryk,
>
> Didn't you release something on my friend Dave's zunior.com?  I was
> wondering how that was? Also have you (or anyone else here) downloaded
> anything from zunior? How about e-music?
>
> tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:ch-scene-
> > bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bryk
> > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:51 PM
> > To: RTP-area local music and culture
> > Subject: Re: Did Ruckus Kill Schoolkids?
> >
> > On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:00 PM, chapelhillguitarist AT hotmail.com wrote:
> > > Why do people bother with iTunes at all?  (Different subject I know
> > > but related).  My ears cringe everytime I listen to a friend's music
> > > dowloaded from iTunes.
> > >
> > > Until iTunes offers uncompressed, full resolution 44k or 48k WAV or
> > > equivalent, discerning adult music lovers won't touch it.
> >
> >
> > To reiterate what Jim said, what you put on the iPod is your choice.
> > no one is FORCING you to buy from the iTunes Music Store (which is  
> > now
> > just the "iTunes Store" as they no-doubt migrate away from the music
> > that made them to focus on Movie Rentals and TV Show sales...) just  
> > as
> > no one is FORCING you to buy Apple's hardware.
> >
> > I _really_ bit the bullet/drank the koolaid/fought the seether and
> > chose to encode everything with Apple Lossless, which occupies half
> > the space while sounding every bit as good/bad as Red Book CDs (to me
> > at least) when played back on my iPod Classic or the 3 Macs of  
> > varying
> > vintage strewn around the house.  it seems stupid to me to encode MP3
> > or any other lossy format, hard drive size being applicable to  
> > moore's
> > law and all... when we have 100TB desktop drives and 100GB flash
> > drives in another year or two. the only reason I don't just encode
> > from CD straight-to-AIFF is because AIFF files don't retain all those
> > meta tags (and why the hell not?)
> >
> > while i certainly miss carrying hundreds of vinyl records with me
> > while i walk the dog, I'm one of these freaks that actually likes
> > having 80 gigs of CD-quality music, movies and tv shows that can be
> > directly injected into my car stereo or TV set (at least until the
> > Swedish government eventually caves in and shuts down the piratbyrån)
> >
> > i've bought about ten albums off of ITMS, and all of those were by
> > either by friends who didn't want to/couldn't afford to press CDs, or
> > cult records that were so ridiculously out of print I didn't care
> > about possessing a 5-inch aluminum disc of them.
> >
> > all I can say is, despite all their socio-cultural marketing and
> > greenwashing, Apple is still a big evil manufacturing corporation  
> > like
> > any other. but in my experience, their products tend to work better
> > for my purposes than anything else. it's the people like ch-guitarist
> > who hate Apple... they REALLY hate Apple. it's almost irrational.
> >
> > oh yeah, back to the topic... anyone know anyone who has some Ruckus
> > stats?
> >
> > I'm probably breaking my TOS on this, but one Ruckus stream of Bull
> > City's "Ford Ranger All-American" netted Urban Myth exactly...
> > $0.00900 (our digital distributor takes their cut from that.) which
> > basically means I'll be buying dinner for Mr. Brantley next time we  
> > go
> > out :-"
> >
> > in the old days, that might have been a 99¢ single sale.  Modern life
> > is rubbish.
> >
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