Today was it
I officially quit emusic today. I could be bought back into the fold with a bribe of free 75 downloads, but absent that, I can't say I'm sad. I'm sad emusic isn't what it was when I joined, but I'm not sad to have left what it is now. Meh, there'll always be new opportunities for buying music. And I still haven't made up my mind about joining Limewire.
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Jonah, I do hope that you will keep posting here about your finds, whether mp3 or CD.
Same goes for you, Katrina.
That's just wrong.
However, I'm still having fun posting here at emusers, and I echo mommio's comment that folks stick around.
CBCD is so right - it was a lot of fun, and then it wasn't. It's just not as exciting with the new price structure, and with the stooges having recently taken over the message board.
There are other ways to find good new music on the web - NPR, Archive.org, the Dime, etree, Amazon, other dl services.
Plus I'll have more time to get the rest of my vinyl and tapes ripped.
I will remain a lurker and poster, however, here with my other 'users!
the cut in downloads does give me more time to get back to vinyl ripping; converting "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" by Sensational Alex Harvey Band as i write this.....
that is still my favorite album by them. My wife is after me to record "Snow Goose" for her, so I too will be burning some Camel. Caravan is one of my favorite prog bands, I still remember the first time I heard "For Richard"-pure prog nirvana. Wasn't "Spartacus" the good one from Triumvirat? I loved that album.
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V.'s
My brain hurt like a warehouse
it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
David Bowie - "Live at Santa Monica '72"
And for anyone leaving take note: The Fall's albums on Cog Sinister are out of print and seriously expensive outside of emusic. So get 'em while you can.
[edit]: and it turns out I did leave a message; just had to sort by newest first.
No Hüsker Dü for me - Zen Arcade was album only, and I didn't have 12 nps left.
I got an email offering me 75 free dls if I rejoin at their 11.99 package. I'm really really considering it. It was already a tough decision, but now a new album just popped up that has been absolutely impossible to get by cd or dl anywhere, and that makes the math even tougher to work through. I got a spreadsheet going, and looking at how the next few months would play out between what I could get under the new album-only architecture and the monthly cost (at various plan levels). I've begun working again, only temp, but I might find a way to justify myself a reward for the grunt work I've been pulling at this job. We'll see.
P.S. That album is by Gabriela (one name), and it's called "El Viaje", however emu incorrectly lists it as "Ei Viaje". In any event, she's this Brazilian singer songwriter with a wonderful voice, sings in her native tongue, and she's backed by Bill Frisell's crew, and it's produced by Tucker Martine. I've heard several full songs off the album from the Songlines site, and I've been addicted to it for years. Years! You should give it a listen. I typically hate jazz vocals, but this is one of those magnificent exceptions.
The album you want is available at amazon, but my advice would be take the 99 downloads for $11.99, get the album you want and a whole lot more, and then decide whether you can/want to stay.
That's gotta be added at Amazon at the same time it hit emu. I probably browse Amazon a couple times a month for a handful of hard to find albums, and that was one of them. No way it's been there all that time. Good to know it's there, but yeah, at that price, I'm probably gonna use the emu cred to get it. It'd be one thing if it were the physical cd (which I do really want), but since that's an unlikely scenario, well, dl it'll have to be.
Strangely enough, although I can't post except to change my own previous posts, I was able to DL a free track from
Large Music 4.0
Added: 09/01/09
This is one of the warts that is pure eMu. I still kinda love them, that they forgot they were supposed to cut me off from the free tracks.
Nobody tell them!!!!!
laughing, I know someone will be outraged and try to stop me from stopping them in their non-stop gargantuan gaffes
Nobody tell them!!!!!
Pouting prettily
And they are stupid men. They don't have any women to guide them.
Smacking their baby butts
What's that line from that movie? It's hard to get through a day without a rational spelling....
I usually think of you wearing either red or black.