Well, that's pretty tempting - CDs same price as mp3. This a new reissue from Bloodshot. I'll be seeing the Bottle Rockets opening for, then playing with Marshall Crenshaw next month.
100 tracks, 9:25:51, $3.99. I can't figure out where exactly all the songs come from; unlike other sets like this they don't seem to be just a series of albums in order; it seems all over the map, but if anybody does crack the code let me know. Anyway, it's all good to me.
That's what I thought at first, but listening through and making best guesses based on sound and track length, I think there's Blue Note, Columbia and Prestige tracks mixed in.
Don't see much online about "VCR Records", but their Lastfm page lists 147 albums that are mostly 100 track collections from deceased American artists plus some Italian all-stars and old classical stuff. The Miles Davis one, for instance, apparently includes the whole of Kind of Blue (mixed in with everything else), which is on Columbia.
So presumably European rips from albums whose copyright is no longer current in Europe??? Legal to sell in the US?
ETA, the quality of their cover art (and grammar) maybe communicates something too:
Some are for sale over here on emusic, costing, of course, £42 each. One of the worst anomalies of the per track price system. Not that I am complaining as generally I benefit more and I can always buy these from Amazon at 5.59 if I really want. Amazon here, eg, have 15+ Miles Davis download sets each with 100 tracks, priced between £5.49 and £7.49
I've figured out or at least come up with reasonable guesses for about 1/4 of the tracks now; a wide range of albums from a wide range of times. Hopefully there are some full albums here that I didn't already have. But the more I'm listening, the more I'm enjoying the mixed up nature of it. It's not a bad sequence, although maybe a bad sequence of Monk wouldn't be possible.
How much George Duke 70s fusion on Fender Rhodes and various other electronic keyboards can you handle for 9 bucks? If the answer is "all of it," then you will want to consider this:
Six albums from the legendarily far-out MPS label from 1971 to 1976. George wrote a little about each album here; it spans a time when he was with Cannonball Adderley, then Zappa, then going out on his own.
Choice, the old DLer is still there, though they don't advertise it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd-bm.html?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 I had the same concern, momentarily, after a recent computer upgrade* That Cloud Player app is several notches below useless, or at least it was so last time I looked into it.
*That upgrade was from XP to Win7 on my old reliable music computer, which I put off for a year because it meant wiping the hard drive. But went easier than I dared to dream, with use of the MS Easy Transfer (or whatever it's called) program.
Thanks Doofy! The new cloud play contraption does let you download and export to iTunes at least. Always frustrating though when a company assumes it knows best.
Blue Note Sale at Google Play. A number of Blue Note albums are on sale for $3.99. Good stuff - I already own over 40 of the titles (big BN fan). Worth checking out.
Thx for that pointer, bremble, a good selection. Btw, any Google store purchasers have problems downloading purchased albums? I 'Download Album', and it just sits that at "Downloaded 0 of 8" or whatever. No other sign of problems, but no progress.
Lana Del Rey's new one is on sale for $3.99. I like it a lot; it's light years better than her first one I think, but I likes her first one too, in spite of all the critical abuse it got.
Her first one is also $1.99, along with a bunch of other usual sale suspects.
Tempting, but I already have half those songs, as would any well-rounded music fan who was around for any part of the 70s. Might have to pick up "Come and Get Your Love" somewhere though. They might have to pay me to DL "The Pina Colada Song"...I mean, why not just go for "Afternoon Delight" and be done with it
Anybody with a kid 9ish or up, especially of the boy variety, needs to take said kid to said movie, it is good fun. I have thoughts on the significance of Howard the Duck's appearance at the end, if anyone's interested.
Heh, yeah I could do without the Pina Colada Song, too. My wife likes it, but doesn't like Cherry Bomb for some reason. We decided cheesiness was the second theme of this playlist.
There are 400-500 pages of albums at 4.99 just now. Not sure if it's a quick 'Cyber Monday' thing or what. On the jazz side, lots of Impulse and Verve.
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Well, that's pretty tempting - CDs same price as mp3. This a new reissue from Bloodshot. I'll be seeing the Bottle Rockets opening for, then playing with Marshall Crenshaw next month.
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100 tracks, 9:25:51, $3.99. I can't figure out where exactly all the songs come from; unlike other sets like this they don't seem to be just a series of albums in order; it seems all over the map, but if anybody does crack the code let me know. Anyway, it's all good to me.
So presumably European rips from albums whose copyright is no longer current in Europe??? Legal to sell in the US?
ETA, the quality of their cover art (and grammar) maybe communicates something too:
I have been particularly anticipating the Diego Barber album, which is a collab with Craig Taborn and is Jazz Pick of the Week over at Wondering Sound
Six albums from the legendarily far-out MPS label from 1971 to 1976. George wrote a little about each album here; it spans a time when he was with Cannonball Adderley, then Zappa, then going out on his own.
Annoyed to learn today that you have to download the Amazon Cloud Player app to download MP3s unless you have the old Amazon Downloader installed
*That upgrade was from XP to Win7 on my old reliable music computer, which I put off for a year because it meant wiping the hard drive. But went easier than I dared to dream, with use of the MS Easy Transfer (or whatever it's called) program.
Her first one is also $1.99, along with a bunch of other usual sale suspects.
Great movie btw with some hilarious banter and dance moves.
Anybody with a kid 9ish or up, especially of the boy variety, needs to take said kid to said movie, it is good fun. I have thoughts on the significance of Howard the Duck's appearance at the end, if anyone's interested.