Comments on: ‘Last days of the dinosaurs’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:33:44 +0000

Best way to accelerate a Mac? Throw it out the window.

Ha ha ha. Very funny.
Won’t be coming back here again.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:32:29 +0000

Isn’t always the portly old gent whose made all his money out of an industry and doesn’t have to worry about his income who complainst the loudest about the industry that got him there? Of course forgetting about all the people who got left behind or didn’t get heard over their voices in the rush for work and recording contracts is necessary for one to morph from record industry stuffed suit into messiah of the digital age.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:50:41 +0000

Very very very well said. And I also agree that the quality of mastering has gone down the drain too. There are so many remasters being sold today with exactly that tag – “remastered” – which would imply to be the best sounding copy ever released. I have compared some to older CD releases of the same title and have found them to sound worse. A good example is the Rush catalogue. The record biz is now again re-releasing new remasters of all the Rush records (actually done right), but think of all the people who bought the so called “remastered” crap that was already out there. When will the record companies ever be held accountable? They should be forced to replace the crap that they put out there at no cost to the consumer.

Steps like these might actually gain them some consumer loyalty.

Ted V.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:44:31 +0000

to my friend above i must disagree.. i don’t “hope” the labels die.. that is, die without purpose..

so long as they’re capable of abandoning their ambitions to corrupt the law in order to control the rest of the economy.. so long as they operate their business according to proper market forces and keep their fingers out of sectors in which they don’t belong.. i have no trouble returning to patronage of these organizations, and have no trouble with their existence.

On the other hand, this article is absolutely true. Not only has long-term support and cultivation of acts gone down the tubes, resulting in mindless homogeneous crap.. but the quality of the mastering has gone downhill even faster.

I have mp3’s of the cowboy bebop soundtrack (which is pretty darn old), and they sould better and richer COMPRESSED than most new cd’s sound in full quality. It’s sad when the nuance disappears.. and is a tragedy when the creativity disappears at the same time.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:15:40 +0000

Will the Label Heads ever get a clue?????? Hope not!!!!!!