Our Own Anthology

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Originally Posted by negative1

not to many choices out there that will make
everyone happy yet..

i wonder, matt, how you feel about the rise of
digital only tracks, and how this impacts collecting?

(or maybe that topics been done to death in some
other thread..)

later
-1

well we've not discussed not this specific element, we've not discussed the collecting aspect as such, but as a collector per se, i'm not into collecting 'digital' music as a format, beacuse for some reason to me it doesn't seem real... i know it exists, and if its the only format to get the current UW tracks, i will buy it (and have), but i am more interesed in getting something hard copy, whether it be the cheaply manufactured CD-r promo's or the much better value 12"

i paid a heavy sum for a 2 track promo of JAL to Tokyo, which was extremely limited (to 25 copies), which, in reality, must have cost about £0.10p to make, and the guy selling it didn't pay for it either, so if this is the way collecting's going to be because of digital music its going to become harder and 'unfair' and i'm not going to like it...

i'm still holding out for the commercial releases of the latest UW music via record and cd, which have been mooted, but as digital takes off, even more so this year, labels and artists won't need to send out promo's or even release stuff in 'hard form' any more...this is kinda a long topic for another thread really...

i find it a bit rough when they do release 'download only' tunes, such as the Pete Heller remixes of Jetstream, and then find out that they are to be either released commercially outside of the country hosting the download site, or as incentive tracks on promo's given to dj's....the whole point of excluisve downloads should be that thats the only place you are going to get it...how hard is it for a dj to copy it to a cdr and play it from that...???

mmm...i'll be back later to finish this post off