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This has got the potential to be a total fuck up. :rolleyes:

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I, too, am confused about the newsletter. I definitely didn't receive anything mentioning Bungalow with Stairs, but did get one this morning that mentioned the Beatport contest and tour dates (LA strangely omitted).

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48 hours on and my eyeballs are hurting!

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I know what you mean. I think I am wearing out my F5 refresh button reloading the Underworldlive.com shop/music page. I did a bit of a search about Ebay sales of the Tokyo 2005 triple live album, and original CDs of that went for over $350 in 2006, so the touts might be out on this one.

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I read it as its coming soon and they'll give some notice.

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Urgh...so apparently there're two different UW newsletter/mailing lists, and I'm not receiving anything from either one? :D

Anyone know how you sign up for these?

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i'm recieving OM's newsletter. nothing directly from uwlive tho.

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The dispatch was sent by http://www.reverbnation.com
At some moment they promoted their account there.

The newsletter
http://www.reverbnation.com/c/fr5/ar...sc=161ed45d794

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At this point, with the fear of missing out on a constant refresh of the uw home page, being at work, or unable to order, I'd settle for a digital download. Seems like it would make sense to appease the masses here.

Hopefully some will make it out on the tour and be sold at the merch table too.

But I'm also surprised nothing has appeared in the nefarious online realms of music exchanging with this release. Even with the obscure ones like the Tokyo 3 disc set, they found there way out and about for those who didn't get their hands on one.

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Yes, digital would be absolutely fine. Yet again, here goes Underworld making it an inexcusable pain in the ass to simply exchange my money for the music they make. :mad:

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http://www.underworldlive.com/shop/musicproduct.asp: F5, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick .......... F5, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick .......... F5, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick ..........

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This is definitely the kind of thing that needs to be posted to the forums before hand to let us have a chance at getting a copy. I would hope the UW Shop would only allow 1 per person as well to stop Ebay bastards from gobbling up the stock and making a profit off UW.

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So???????
What happened????

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dont you know what 'soon' means in underworld updates?!

"give us a few months, maybe even a year! you know what, let's not even talk about it anymore it's not happening. what?"

i dont see them not actually doing this but you get the drift. 'soon' means anything

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Probably nothing until they get back from the U.S. To be fair to the band they have a small number of people who run their stuff, so are not as efficient as a band on a big label, but they are lovely people to deal with. I would much rather things be a little haphazard, but know the team dealing with things care. Still hitting F5 a lot on the Underworld shop though.

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I totally support this approach. For exclusively altruistic reasons, obviously. That eBay thing etc. pp.

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I would want a copy as well please... I actually spent $50 dollars for it when tokyorai got copies for the dirts but it got lost in the mail:(

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wonder if the lack of updates might be because uwlive crew is on tour right now? i also want the cd, really wanted to ask tokyorai for a copy, but i was jobless at that time. now that i can finally purchase something from the store (a shirt and that cd) none are avaliable.

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underworldlive.com shop: We are currently updating the shop with our Christmas range We will reopen 6pm (GMT) Friday 19th November We can live in hope.

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Or maybe they won't open then. 6.10 (GMT) Friday 19th November

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it'll be no fun without a little suspense building...

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dang, I need to go out, save me some of the good stuff

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Got it, it is down as the Karl Hyde exhibition catalogue etc. They must have meant 6.54pm GMT.

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30 freaking pounds? Plus 10 pounds shipping to the USA? And no option to just buy the CD?
I've been waiting months for this. Was I just totally naive to expect that it would be possible to get the music to me for around $20?

Sorry if I'm being unreasonable. I'm just bummed at the moment.

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You and me both. :( I cannot justify $65+ for a CD, no matter who it is. Sorry. I dearly love this band and just want to be able to hear their music.

Even the Tokyo 3CD set was cheaper.

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I'm the same as you guys, I got up to the point of paying for the thing in paypal and realized I really can't justify $65-odd dollars for a single CD anymore in my life. :( Those times are well behind me now.

All I'd love is a digital version since the first thing I'd be doing with the cd is ripping it to mp3 and then putting it a box, never to see the light of day until I next move house. It makes no sense to me that they underutilize their shop for digital purchases.

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I must say that I am really pleased with the set as I wanted the exhibition catalogue too, but it would be nice of they could post the CD as a download at a more reasonable price in the shop too. Maybe it will happen next year, or even before Christmas. I am sure those who bought the package would be happy to have that, and not begrudge the music being more widely available to burn for yourself.............................By the way, returns don't work on my posts, is there some way to get a line return.

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I'm in a similar state of trepidation regarding this purchase as I really want that CD and the catalog would be nice too. But I too got to the purchase page before not going through with it. It also doesn't help that I'm on an unsecure wifi at an airport.

Maybe I'll change my mind by the time I get home later this evening.

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Don't get me wrong, I think its fantastic that they're offering the catalog up to people who are interested. Its just frustrating that its an all or nothing offering.

And while I certainly wouldn't turn down the opportunity to buy just files of the album, I was willing (and actually wanting) to pay a premium for a physical CD.

But when it cost me less than $60 to get the whole "Barking" box (including shipping), it seems nonsensical to have to choose to pay $65 or not have the opportunity to even hear "Bungalow".

Oh well...

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Not only do they under-utilize their own shop, but iTunes, Amazon, and any other digital music seller out there.
Underworld has a vast catalog of music. People would buy this music digitally if it was available. Why isn't it?
I am legitimately curious why R&K or any working band today would choose not to exploit the most widely-used delivery systems to their full extent.

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Good point and if you ordered the Barking Box there was also the possibility of getting an art print with your purchase signed by the guys.

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Ordered! I really don't understand the negativity here - ok, it's £30 for an uber-limited exhibition book & CD, were all you complainers expecting something for free?

From what I remember, the CD cost around $30 at the exhibition itself, so getting a free book for not much more is great. I get the sentiment that this could be a digital download also, but that really isn't the point - this was a custom soundtrack for people that went to the exhibition in Japan.

UW said they would ship back the leftover CD's and put them in the online shop - which they've now done. There was never any hint that this would be made available digitally - and why would there? It was only ever intended for the exhibition! There seems to be this idea of having a right to every note ever recorded by R&K, which completely misses the intention behind this music.

Here's a suggestion - You could have gone to the exhibition in Japan. Too cheap for that? Well, today is your lucky day as you get to purchase the book & CD bundle. Too cheap for that? How about shutting the fuck up, then. You don't have a right to demand this in whatever format suits you.

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No, but we do have the right to ask questions, wonder aloud, make requests, and vent our pleasure and displeasure (preferably without insult:rolleyes:).
If we hadn't been on here asking for ALAF and YDS for years and years the Barking Limited edition may not have happened.
We are fans, vocal and honest.

Kinda the whole point of a forum, no?

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No, I was _hoping_ for something in the neighborhood of $20 plus shipping.

How is $15 extra dollars (not to mention the $15 for shipping) not much more?
Not to mention, as I'd said above, if it was $30 to get just the CD, I'd at least be in the ballpark of what I'd hoped/expected.

Is that hostility really entirely necessary? First, I don't see anyone demanding anything, just expressing their discontent. Second, some folks (like myself personally) were wanting the physical release and expecting to have to pay a bit of a premium, just not this much. So why go to the trouble of vocally berating people who are ostensibly also fans like you?

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FWIW, the exhibition catalog is pretty nice. They're also individually numbered. Mine is 57/1000.

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i think we have a right to think $65 for a CD is pretty bad. i dont care what kind of fan you're supposed to be, options are what's professional here. having the option to either pirate or deal isn't completely reasonable. digital versions please or i'll wait for it to appear on what. goatsucker i dont give a shit what you think i have a right to do, this is still how it's gonna play out.

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Well, like a lot of people at the moment, I don't actually have much spare money lying around, so this will either have to go into "probably wonderful music I won't get the chance to hear" or "music I'll end up downloading a pirate copy of". Neither a favourable option, but there we go.

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I paid up, but .... Ouch!

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WHY I CAN'T PAY????? D:!

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Ok, so I think I probably lashed out a bit in the previous post - I know we're all happy fans really.. Just got a bit riled from what seemed like ages of reading 'when it going to be available' posts to reading 'ah, it's available, but too damned expensive, I want more..'. Sorry...

For the record, I don't think $65 is generally reasonable to pay for a single CD, but equally, this is something that as far as I can tell was never meant to go further than the exhibition, so to some people that exclusiveness increases it's value.