From Brian Sent Mon, Apr 6th 1998, 02:30
OK, first off - pardon my naivete, rambling, and possible off-topicness, but I've been thinking about my trying to find V/Vm, Skam, and MASK MP3s. I'm not a trainspotter (like *most* of y'all here), so I don't have tons of oddities and rarities to trade. I'm interested in a few artists/labels, but don't have the time or resources to track down all the hard-to-find stuff. I hopped onto the Skam, V/Vm, etc. bandwagon after all of the copies are gone. I don't want to (and can't) pay upwards of $200 for a piece of music, but I'd gladly pay the regular price for any of the old Skams, V/Vms, and MASKs if they were reissued or extra copies were found (OK, *highly* unlikely, but you get my point - I'd gladly *buy* them even if I had MP3s of them). I don't have the time (or resources) to make any MP3s (and most everybody has the tracks that I've got anyway), I don't have a CD-R burner, but I will have a MiniDisc player soon, so I can trade MDs (but this is a format that not many people have). So to kinda sum up what I'm rambling about - how can a person with not much to barter with start trading with other people? I can pay money (but that's not really the spirit of the thing and I understand all the ramifications of that, so no lengthy diatribes about *that*, please), I can send blank tapes, CD-Rs, MiniDiscs, etc., I might eventually be able to trade some MP3s when I get some more time, etc. (but like I said, I don't have that much rare stuff, so everybody's prob'ly already got the stuff I've got anyway) ... What I'm saying, I guess, is that the traditional trading for blanks ('cos everybody could always use more blank tapes when tape trading was the norm) is not the currency used anymore as entry-level trading - what *can* be used as the currency for an entry level trader in the age of MP3s? I did go back thru the archives (back to 9701) and didn't find a lot of helpful info, but I'm gonna have to check out this Hotline idm server thing in more detail (if it's still up/running/available). Apologies for rambling, etc. cya brian -------------------------------------------------------- "The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinguish excellence from success." - David Hare