Re: (idm) Thoughts.

From Steve
Sent Thu, Jan 15th 1998, 13:19

Jason J. Tar wrote:

> Personally me thinks this "make your own compilation" thing isn't
> going to
> go overly far until it's prices drop.  I kinda went over things, and
> it
> seems like one would be paying $10-20 for a custom made compilation
> with no
> artwork.  bah.  I'd rather pay that much for a nice, well done release
> with
> one or two bunk tracks than for some homegrown thing with no art,
> info, etc.

id certainly pay that sort of money for a cd that i knew for sure was
fullof good tracks though! i mean artwork is great (in fact i just got
through
the paddington breaks 12" on iLL... now thats good artwork) but at the
end of the day its the music that matters to me!

> Although it would serve the nice purpose of giving small poor
> labels/artists an outlet to cheaply release their works after they've
> been
> deleted (and thus end the whole Mask/MP3 debate).

Very much so... or even allow labels to exist 'virtually' whartever that
means!

> Jason.(wishing one of those companies would offer "Spymania Allstars"
> and
> _Death of Cool_ in their burning catalogues.  It'd be nice to have a
> cd
> copy of those vinyl only items!)

Theres a distinct possibility of some sort of spymania 'home-burnt'
project
appearing sometime soon... fingers crossed....

Steve

/k/./F/