How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

[tim elliott]

And of course, the band could always make their own cd-rs of their concerts
and sell them on the website (as many bands do) and
therefore make money for themselves - not a record company - and
keep the fans happy. I enjoy finding legal music on band websites that
aren't available in music stores, and think that this could be lucrative for
the band also.
tim
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On 5/24/06, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Carl Edlund Anderson writes:
>
> > You know, I always used to make my own CD covers for live downloads back
> > when I kept things in jewel cases. (Discs live in binders now, alas!)
> > Heck when I collected Grateful Dead casettes as a teenager (before I
> > even owned a CD or computer) I made my own decorated cassette inserts by
> > hand!  Of course I never sold the recordings.  It goes without saying.
> > That would have violated to spirit of what was going on.  In any case, I
> > think it's *quite* an leap to assume that fans here are making CD case
> > inserts because they want to sell things illegally!
>
> Hell no. I made the first post requesting CD covers because I like to
> store them in a way that I can find what I'm looking for. I very much
> expect that nobody in the band would be foolish enough to suppose that
> there's any intent here to sell on any CD's recorded from the webcast.
>
> > It's clear that fans and the band do not always see eye-to-eye on these
> > kinds of issues.  But I don't think _anyone_ here on BOC-L wants to do
> > anything to damage the band.  (And even if they did, I don't think they
> > would publically *announce* it!)  I think if fans aren't assumed to be
> > The Enemy, things tend to work out very well indeed.  Everyone here
> > wants Hawkwind to do well and make great music, after all.
>
> They could use new fans as well as ourselves. I wonder if those fans
> scour record shops or perhaps scour the interweb for music?
>
> > Hawkwind is perfectly entitled to provide a free version of their music
> > to fans and then complain when the fans want to actually listen to it.
> > It seems contradictory and counterproductive to me, but Hawkwind are
> > entitled to do things that seem contradictory and counterproductive.
> > I'm entitled to think they're making a mistake -- but they're entitled
> > to make it.  Freedom is a wonderful thing.
>
> As is Freedom of Trade. A band needs money to keep operating. Now I
> happen to like collecting shiny beermats that can make Hawkwind sounds
> and have bought all of them that I've ever heard of .
>
> On the other hand, a lot of people with money don't ever use those but
> just download to those Ipod thingies. Expanding the market to those
> folks could be a Good Thing.
>
> FoFP
>