How you got into and what you love about UW (split thread)

[darkvoice]

Originally Posted by potatobroth

totally this. having no idea what their catalog consisted of and digging thru "U" categories hoping to find random singles.

Exactly this! I bought every album or CD which contained something of their unknown catalogue. Internet made it way too easy. I start sounding like my grandfather...

[darmok]

Originally Posted by darkvoice

Exactly this! I bought every album or CD which contained something of their unknown catalogue. Internet made it way too easy. I start sounding like my grandfather...

I loved those digging through the crates at Tower Records. Probably my favorite find from those days was Orbital's Diversions EP which had the Underworld remix of Lush; that was a score on two counts!

But, before you say it's too easy now, getting Barbara in 24bit/96KHz with Twenty Three Blue required a bit of jumping through hoops... good luck getting ahold of the Riverrun WAVs... and I dunno about you but I'm still missing a sizable portion of the Live Here Now recordings on CD. Plenty of challenges left for the collector.

[purlieu]

Originally Posted by darmok

But, before you say it's too easy now, getting Barbara in 24bit/96KHz with Twenty Three Blue required a bit of jumping through hoops... good luck getting ahold of the Riverrun WAVs... and I dunno about you but I'm still missing a sizable portion of the Live Here Now recordings on CD. Plenty of challenges left for the collector.

It's not quite the same though: you can get Barbara with Twenty Three Blue on CD very easily, and most people aren't going to spot the difference with a 24/96 - hell, we're talking about buying CDs in the '90s, which weren't even that quality; the Live Here Now ones are admittedly something that's a challenge for the collector, but it still doesn't come close to stumbling across records you might not even have known existed, and buying them wondering what they sound like.

It's definitely a first world problem of course, but for me, the internet has definitely changed my attitude towards getting music for the worse. The mystery is gone. I like mystery a lot.