Bungalow with Stairs album - Page 12

grady · #**111** 11-19-2010, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by funkboy3

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...

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.

GoatSucker · #**112** 11-19-2010, 12:25 PM

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.

darktrain · #**113** 11-19-2010, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by GoatSucker

You don't have a right to demand this in whatever format suits you.

No, but we do have the right to ask questions, wonder aloud, make requests, and vent our pleasure and displeasure (preferably without insult

).
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?

funkboy3 · #**114** 11-19-2010, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by GoatSucker

...[w]ere all you complainers expecting something for free?

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

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Originally Posted by GoatSucker

From what I remember, the CD cost around $30 at the exhibition itself, so getting a free book for not much more is great.

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.

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Originally Posted by GoatSucker

How about shutting the fuck up, then. You don't have a right to demand this in whatever format suits you.

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?

TheBang · #**115** 11-19-2010, 01:18 PM

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

dubman · #**116** 11-19-2010, 02:50 PM

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.

purlieu · #**117** 11-19-2010, 03:33 PM

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.

Lx_Nen · #**118** 11-19-2010, 03:35 PM

I paid up, but .... Ouch!

ThingInABook · #**119** 11-19-2010, 03:46 PM

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

GoatSucker · #**120** 11-19-2010, 04:01 PM

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.