Craig,
Didn't get an email at all or didn't get an email with a Amazon code? I noticed that the email received for my wife's zero-balance AmieStreet account had no code while the one I got for my account (with a non-zero balance) did have a code. The emails were almost copies of each other but my email had a whole extra blurb in it that contained the Amazon code amongst some other Amazon-related words and stuff. That being said, I really don't have a use for the Amazon code that I did get... just not motivated to go find something over on Amazon. You can have it if you'd like.
It's strange that you got no email at all. My friend who signed up a few days before the announcement got the email. Maybe it's in a spam folder? I'm sure you could write CS and they'd send you the code, if that matters.
Amie is down again for Maintenance this morning, so I guess I'll finish cashing out (about $10), and spend it ASAP, in case there are further last minute rushes. Remember to back up before they go RIP - did the usual DVD backup this morning and it was almost full - and that's just the last week.
Hey... anyone that might've got the album "New Worlds" by Charlotte Hatherley (froggy... I'm pretty sure you're on that list). Can you check the last track (Wrong Notes) and see if your copy just abruptly ends? My copy is 3:25 in length and sounds like the tape just ran out while they were recording.
Thanks in advance... when AmieSt comes back up I'll redownload that track to see if that fixes my issue.
ETA: I re-downloaded this song and it is exactly the same as what I already had... wonder what chances are that they could get it fixed before they pull the plug.
So Amie's back, and this is weird; yesterday I cashed out my remaining rec's, perfectly zero'd out my account, and downloaded everything I bought, and today rec's are back and credit is back to yesterdays level.
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....today rec's are back and credit is back to yesterdays level.
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Sounds like AmieStreet accidentally took a page out of the Guvera playbook.
ETA: My activity on AmieStreet yesterday was limited to only downloading stuff I had bought. While doing so I was reminded that I had an 'Free' album in my cart that I still wanted to get. I 'purchased' it and downloaded it. I just checked my cart and account history and it's like I never purchased it. Something tells me they might be going down for maintenance again before too long.
Yeah, looks to me like they've reverted to a back-up from the 14th, or early on the 15th. I got 3 Recs back, no credit, and the last 7 albums that I bought and (luckily) downloaded before the "maintenance" are not listed in my History or Downloads.
Word to the wise; don't delay those downloads after purchase in case this happens again. Congrats to those who got some money back.;)
correction: I did get 46 cents back. Forgot that I had cashed exactly enough Recs to purchase something, leaving me with 0.
Hoosfoos and Luddite: hope you found some stuff you like...I know I did; It was fun while it lasted.
these are probably still free, don't know for sure....not sure about the links either.(blocked at work)
Purple Mustard-the new mary jane-power pop with six string promise and a hint of Harri-Lennon psych Spiv U.K.- Hitchcock pop Ovadya-driftless-like Joni Mitchell expanding in every direction-all over everything; nice guitar work and dramatic arrangements Bohemian Knuckleboogie dont know nor care much about modern rap music; however, I loved the first Last Poets album; this reminds me of their stuff, only several miles further south and several beats funkier. Daybreaker-see the world from here folk psych Spooky Pie-had a piece lately- fuzzy garage pop Munkey Juice- prog punk with moments where they sound like a pissed off Hot Tuna circa Americas Choice Jonathan Mclean- wobbly pop with drift and angles Doug Simmons-guitar rock with a 60s pop and several visits to the garage. Old Growth-under the sun roots rock with ragged Young dreams
I'll join selfrisinmojo in recommending Daybreaker. These guys have a little jam band sound to the, as if Davy Jones sang with Tea Leaf Green. No real long jams, but that same bouncy feel that Donna the Buffalo and Tea Leaf Green have, maybe a less-stoned Phish.
Keep the recs coming. I've grabbed a lot of cool freebies thanks to you, SRM - especially Tenki and Spiv U.K. (you weren't kidding with the Robyn H. comparison).
Has anybody had any luck redeeming those codes at Amazon?
It keeps telling me there's a problem....
I don't mean the codes posted in this thread. I mean, other codes that haven' yet been used. A kind soul from back in the day of eMu crack cards gave me one, since the Amazon codes are USA-only.
Thanks to the Amie crash, I was able to get some free Tenki today. I couldn't get it yesterday due to the Cannot Process Order errors and it jumped up buku bucks from SRM's recs.
Here's some recs of stuff that I've liked from Amie that's still cheap:
Walnutt-posie expression pensive loner dude that gets his hands on various instruments and noise makers then proceeds to wander outside. free Fan Fair-the fan fair record ghost town freak folk-spirit world americana and the attendant strange you would expect from a band forced to haunt their instruments. Free Monster Eiffel Tower-under the wake
somewhere between shoe gazing and avant punk with pretty effective use of fenced in noise. 1.20 Dozemarypool more than likely stare at their footwear; plenty of float and fuzz. 2 albums free RL5 Rudy Lopez Quintet all over the place; 3 albums free-chick and poose some good stuff is nestled within Grass-v rootsy prog with Zappa like delivery and a guitarist that know his way around a chord progression. Free Just Plain Bill 4 free albums from a band not afraid to do some interesting things with their pop rocks Forty Piece Choir-face your free damn fine rootsy weird with great twists. This one is free, there are 3 more under 2 dollars The Westport Sunrise Sessions Americana drift with some desert morning lawn chair ponder. Free Yardsale-electric western crackly purple sage rider dreams on pedal steel wings. Free Tommie Griggz runs the gamut of guitar rock. Nostalgic feel sort of like a backyard Bevis Frond. Lots of music free The Disgruntled Sherpa Project lots of free music; I like this band, good bluesy/folky rock with acoustic/electric, soft/heavy interplay
Bocca excellent bare bones, smoky blue swirl with a propped up dangerous side. 2 albums and 1 ep free Alpha Zentradi drift and pound prog in the Rush vein maybe a little more jacked up. free Magnoliavery good 70s style hard rock with necessary guitar sound in tow; 1.51 Family Junction funky, well played smarty pants prog with some jazz in their fingers and toes. Free Sleepwalk Kid hard angular rock that bends plenty; the mad winged drummer and fuzz bottomed bass player sound like they could back the gods; that is, of course, if the gods decided to put together a rock and roll band. Free Crazy Mary lots of free garage band sounds with psych flourishes Moser Woods piano heavy prog psych instrumentals with a space rock lean. Free Jayl if Tangerine Dream had been hijacked by a group of young 1980s toughs who then tried to turn them into a punked out Pink Floyd with late night MTV dreams. Free
When I started using AmieStreet I was pretty ignorant as to how to best make use of the whole 'rec' situation but figured it out quick enough. That being said, I'm curious as to what people may've rec'd earlier in their AmieStreet careers that wasn't a promo-type item priced at 'free' and which has earned you zero street cred since you rec'd it. In my case my earliest such naive rec's are:
Track: Foglight ( $0.15 ) Album: Blues for Charlie Lucky Artist: Paul K (link to album)
Track: Hot White Sun ( $0.18 ) Album: Hot White Sun Artist: Architects Of Grace (link to album)
I hoping to find some tunage worth downloading in these last couple days of AmieStreet.
Comments
Craig
Didn't get an email at all or didn't get an email with a Amazon code? I noticed that the email received for my wife's zero-balance AmieStreet account had no code while the one I got for my account (with a non-zero balance) did have a code. The emails were almost copies of each other but my email had a whole extra blurb in it that contained the Amazon code amongst some other Amazon-related words and stuff. That being said, I really don't have a use for the Amazon code that I did get... just not motivated to go find something over on Amazon. You can have it if you'd like.
I certainly wouldn't say no if you wanted to send along your unneeded codes, but don't feel any obligation to do so.
Craig
Thanks in advance... when AmieSt comes back up I'll redownload that track to see if that fixes my issue.
ETA: I re-downloaded this song and it is exactly the same as what I already had... wonder what chances are that they could get it fixed before they pull the plug.
I'll have to check on the Charlotte Hatherly album. I do wonder how many bad rips I will come across in the future after Amie is dead and buried....
....today rec's are back and credit is back to yesterdays level.
>>>>
Sounds like AmieStreet accidentally took a page out of the Guvera playbook.
ETA: My activity on AmieStreet yesterday was limited to only downloading stuff I had bought. While doing so I was reminded that I had an 'Free' album in my cart that I still wanted to get. I 'purchased' it and downloaded it. I just checked my cart and account history and it's like I never purchased it. Something tells me they might be going down for maintenance again before too long.
Word to the wise; don't delay those downloads after purchase in case this happens again. Congrats to those who got some money back.;)
correction: I did get 46 cents back. Forgot that I had cashed exactly enough Recs to purchase something, leaving me with 0.
these are probably still free, don't know for sure....not sure about the links either.(blocked at work)
Purple Mustard-the new mary jane-power pop with six string promise and a hint of Harri-Lennon psych
Spiv U.K.- Hitchcock pop
Ovadya-driftless-like Joni Mitchell expanding in every direction-all over everything; nice guitar work and dramatic arrangements
Bohemian Knuckleboogie dont know nor care much about modern rap music; however, I loved the first Last Poets album; this reminds me of their stuff, only several miles further south and several beats funkier.
Daybreaker-see the world from here folk psych
Spooky Pie-had a piece lately- fuzzy garage pop
Munkey Juice- prog punk with moments where they sound like a pissed off Hot Tuna circa Americas Choice
Jonathan Mclean- wobbly pop with drift and angles
Doug Simmons-guitar rock with a 60s pop and several visits to the garage.
Old Growth-under the sun roots rock with ragged Young dreams
The Legendary Pink Dots
- And LPD related:
Edward Ka-Spel
Ka-Spel
Same guy, core member of the LPD's together with:
The Silverman
The Tear Garden
The LPD's + Kevin Key from Skinny Puppy.
Martijn de Kleer
On and off guitarplayer in The LPD's
Robyn or Alfred?
Comes to Us All
See The World
As If By Magic
Currently under $3 is Robert Belfour's Pushin' My Luck, some incredible Delta Jazz--lots of muscular, poppin', moody guitar.
It keeps telling me there's a problem....
I don't mean the codes posted in this thread. I mean, other codes that haven' yet been used. A kind soul from back in the day of eMu crack cards gave me one, since the Amazon codes are USA-only.
Here's some recs of stuff that I've liked from Amie that's still cheap:
Soda and His Million Piece Band (SRM recommended this a long time ago. Great bluesy rock with Tom Waits stylings.)
Judson Claiborne - Time and Temperature (jazzy folk ala Tim Buckley)
Ben Perowsky presents Moodswing Orchestra (jazz noir)
NQ Arbuckle - X O K (alt country)
Jerseyband - Little Bag Of Feet For Shoes (Wouldn't expect it from the cover, but this has some RIO style prog that wouldn't be out of place on the Cuneiform label. Currently 0.15)
Michael Gordon: Big Noise from Nicaragua (On NWCRI)
That's what it said on my first code. No explanation at all.
Fan Fair-the fan fair record ghost town freak folk-spirit world americana and the attendant strange you would expect from a band forced to haunt their instruments. Free
Monster Eiffel Tower-under the wake
somewhere between shoe gazing and avant punk with pretty effective use of fenced in noise. 1.20
Dozemarypool more than likely stare at their footwear; plenty of float and fuzz. 2 albums free
RL5
Rudy Lopez Quintet all over the place; 3 albums free-chick and poose some good stuff is nestled within
Grass-v rootsy prog with Zappa like delivery and a guitarist that know his way around a chord progression. Free
Just Plain Bill 4 free albums from a band not afraid to do some interesting things with their pop rocks
Forty Piece Choir-face your free damn fine rootsy weird with great twists. This one is free, there are 3 more under 2 dollars
The Westport Sunrise Sessions Americana drift with some desert morning lawn chair ponder. Free
Yardsale-electric western crackly purple sage rider dreams on pedal steel wings. Free
Tommie Griggz runs the gamut of guitar rock. Nostalgic feel sort of like a backyard Bevis Frond. Lots of music free
The Disgruntled Sherpa Project lots of free music; I like this band, good bluesy/folky rock with acoustic/electric, soft/heavy interplay
Carl Stone - Woo Lae Oak - $.20
Lubomyr Melnyk - KMH: Piano Music in the Continuous Mode - $1.00
Dean Roberts - Be Mine Tonight - $1.56
Main - Firmament II $.62
Also Loop (Main's parent groop) - A Gilded Eternity - $2.08 - a great shoegaze record.
Aurora Juliana Ariel - Renaissance of Grace , something of a poor-man's Enya, with a heaping does of new age.
Amptek - Mikrokosmos. I like this, very "deep space" ambient, almost soundtrack-like. Mostly free, one track is fifteen cents.
Amptek - Music for Films. Quite a bit less spacey, but still some decent ambient on this one. All Free.
Alpha Zentradi drift and pound prog in the Rush vein maybe a little more jacked up. free
Magnoliavery good 70s style hard rock with necessary guitar sound in tow; 1.51
Family Junction funky, well played smarty pants prog with some jazz in their fingers and toes. Free
Sleepwalk Kid hard angular rock that bends plenty; the mad winged drummer and fuzz bottomed bass player sound like they could back the gods; that is, of course, if the gods decided to put together a rock and roll band. Free
Crazy Mary lots of free garage band sounds with psych flourishes
Moser Woods piano heavy prog psych instrumentals with a space rock lean. Free
Jayl if Tangerine Dream had been hijacked by a group of young 1980s toughs who then tried to turn them into a punked out Pink Floyd with late night MTV dreams. Free
Thom- did you pick up Spiv u:k also? same band, different punctuation, hence the fit for the Alfred comparison along side
the Robyn.
Track: Foglight ( $0.15 ) Album: Blues for Charlie Lucky Artist: Paul K (link to album)
Track: Hot White Sun ( $0.18 ) Album: Hot White Sun Artist: Architects Of Grace (link to album)
I hoping to find some tunage worth downloading in these last couple days of AmieStreet.