OFF: TMTYL (now off)(open chat)

[mike coleman]

Was asking Mary about you today Carl.....we had talked about you before but
you came up again....nothing but nice things to say about you and Scott.....
I freak out on you guys being able to just hop around country to country and
do all the things you do
Of course I knew Larry and hadn't realised you had played with him
now that I finally took care of  Jon,  I can listen to the CD he sent me
that is wild about not being able to receive mail.....
regarding the downloads and music stuff...looks like one more evolutionary
barrier to be smashed




On 6/20/08, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
>
> On 20 Jun 2008, at 12:23 , mike coleman wrote:
>
>> I don't download anything nor know how even if this old Dell with windows
>> 98
>> would do it
>>
>
>
> Probably "yes", though might quickly fill up your hard-drive.  Virtually
> all the new music I've acquired in the last 8 months or so has been
> downloaded -- mostly freely available live recordings (of which there are
> _vast_ quantities).  The CD shops where I am are pretty much limited to a
> fairly mainstream selection, and not a very wide mainstream at that.  Mail
> ordering CDs and DVDs to my local address is .... fraught with peril
> (ordering books seems safer, though.)  On the other hand, I have plenty of
> broadband internet on tap!  I can successfully buy downloads from places
> like livedownloads.com but ... except the limited releases available
> purchase at through such outfits, it's bizarre that I could download pirated
> copies of many releases with almost infinite more ease than I could buy
> them!  Labels or musicians or both are seriously missing out by not vending
> CD-quality (or better) digital downloads more widely.  (Yeah, I'm sure the
> average punter is happy with a 128kbps single of the moment, but there
> remains a sizable market of people who want good quality digital audio, and
> the overhead costs required to reach that market are quite minimal by modern
> standards.)
>
> Oh, well!  I can beat this ragged old horse carcass to death forever .....
> ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>