a sign of the times....

oh, yes, could someone get down there and pick me up a cheap copy of 1200 Techniques' album. what do you mean they're already cheap as chips at the local 2nd hand store? well what else is on rubber then?

Even and the Casanovas will sell even less records now!?

as someone's who's external hard-drive recently crashed, losing about 750gb of music in one fell swoop sucks.

fortunately, i have my absolute fave stuff all on cd, so i can always re-encode the majority of it.

with this sort of model, that won't ever be possible.

dont you just re-download it?

Even and the Casanovas will sell even less records now!?

casanovas sold about 16,000 copies of their second album. that's enough isn't it?

that fucking sucks whatwhat, but i gotta say... anyone sensible would back up their system.

don't you just re-download it?

i would presume that would mean paying for it again - doubt you can d/l stuff multiple times if you've only purchased it the once and, say, 6 years has gone by.

(lots of the stuff i lost was bootlegs and the like that i will be able to find again; although i doubt all of it.)

doubt you can d/l stuff multiple times if you've only purchased it the once and, say, 6 years has gone by

Depends on the site. eMusic allows multiple downloads if you lose your copy, and I think iTunes does as well (although my recollection is you had to contact them to get them to enable it for your account)

Bold? yeah, kinda.
Brave? Absolutely!

They could have re-signed with an indie AND launched their digital initiative.
Will be interesting to see how things unfold.

yep who else will be next to follow suit

...Just bought another copy of ''In Stereo''. This was a great reminder!

Sooooo . . . just deal with independants!? JB seem to be scaling down their music departments gradually anyway. Once the shining torch of each store, now the 'down the back' obligatory section. They make more money out of computers/hi-fi/accessories! They too are suffering with downloads on the constant rise.

Were they just using the wrong distributor? Poor releases?

Artists:
The Scientists Of Modern Music
Hot Little Hands
Ice Cream Hands
The Casanovas
Record Producer
The Exploders
Gareth Skinner
Even
N'Fa
Underground Lovers
GB3
She's The Driver
T-Rek
Cordrazine

Looks a bit stagnant to me.

as someone's who's external hard-drive recently crashed, losing about 750gb of music in one fell swoop sucks.

or, er... you could just back it up.

also. 750Gb? that's like...7000+ hours of music or something. (or was it all FLACed?)

So will only digital copies be available for airplay? What will they supply the stations with?

The bands will come down and play live in the studio each time they want to be heard on air.

or, er... you could just back it up. also. 750Gb? that's like...7000+ hours of music or something. (or was it all FLACed

back up the back up? that just seems silly... although in retrospect i wish i'd backed up a lot of the downloaded stuff. but that'd defeat the purpose of having it in one easy-to-look-after tb box. of course, it's easy to break if you let an 8 month old at it...

a lot of it was wav files, or 320kbps cd transferred mp3s. the idea of re-encoding my collection does not thrill me.

anyone who thinks that roster is viable digitally is having a laugh.
i wonder if the acts are able to manufacture their own physical product to sell at shows?

back up the back up?

Err, a backup is a second copy, not an external disk with the sole copy of your data.

rigid said 1 hour ago:

Even and the Casanovas will sell even less records now!?

casanovas sold about 16,000 copies of their second album. that's enough isn't it?

fuck that is MASSIVE sales!!!

rightfully fucking so in my opinion - great fkn band

also - nice little owning there rigid - nice

Fair call, I don't know how much is ''enough'' anyway.

16,000 copies

That’s pretty impressive, especially for an Australian band.

It is. I still think they aren't that well known, but I guess they did support Motorhead and Motley Crue, probably won them some fans

I question that figure.
Were they popular overseas?

I question that figure.
Were they popular overseas?

Not that I know. Most people have heard the name but have not had a listen. I really like them!

16,000 copies

That’s pretty impressive, especially for an Australian band.

not to take anything away from the casanovas, but fuck, we set the bar low here. just sayin'.

0.08% of the countries population own that record!

not to take anything away from the casanovas, but fuck, we set the bar low here. just sayin'.

dude, a gold record here is 35,000 SHIPPED. not sold. there just aren't that many people who buy music (and even fewer these days).

i remember something about japanese sales in one month surpassing total australian sales, or something like that. that album did well in japan anyway.

I don't know how much is ''enough'' anyway

If the lights they fell, do you think you could tell?

that album did well in japan anyway.

ok. fair enough

the idea of re-encoding my collection does not thrill me.

i think i'd like to do it. imagine hearing another chat's complete cd collection. could be very entertaining and educational. i'd do it for a free lunch for every day that it takes.

I told you I don't know that song, Random.

i wonder if the acts are able to manufacture their own physical product to sell at shows?

Surely.

my old label - grab some humbug while you still can, people. LOL.

35,000 for Gold? fuck we are small potatoes.

i wonder if any Australian band out there is actually smart enough to re-record their vocals in phonetic Spanish or Japanese and tap into new markets with a bit of savvy marketing and essentially the same product. be easier than trying to crack the other fashion-addled anglophone markets.

does anyone know of anyone who's done it?

35,000 for Gold? fuck we are small potatoes.

Not really. It's proportionately higher than the UK and other markets.

does anyone know of anyone who's done it?

I did French and Japanese language versions with a UK band and it doesn't really work. The Japanese thought it was an inferior, novelty version of the original (which it was), and the French thought it was a patronising and idiotic attempt to get round France's tough French Language Content Quotas (which it was). It doesn't really work.

There was a release from this label back in 1999 by Weston, a pop punk band from the US called ''Return From Mono'', though it couldn't be found freaking anywhere. I always wanted it. Never did get it.

That is all.

rubber got off to a great start with two incredible prisonshake comps and a boys form nowhere 12''. that was all the label ever did that interested me, personally.

does anyone know of anyone who's done it?

the beatles.

this sucks. i don't buy digital, i like physical music.

oh well, will there be records on sale too? my vinyl has been destroyed and i need another copy of 'less is more' without rat teeth marks.

no one seems to have read the press release properly - there WILL BE physical CDs in the future, but these will be sold in ltd editions, and direct from the Rubber website. ie: you won't be able to buy the CDs in shops.

Additionally, you will be able to buy downloads from the Rubber site, cheaper than from iTunes.

And there will also be the capability to sell bundles of music + merch in ltd quantities, etc.

that fucking sucks whatwhat, but i gotta say... anyone sensible would back up their system.

that sounds like cop talk. Are you a cop?

the beatles.

They're Australian?

It's too bad because I think CDs are the only way to remember that before mp3, there was a shop!

Im sure people had the same argument when they phased out the edison roll.
But maybe they bitched with smoke signals instead of on M+N.

as someone's who's external hard-drive recently crashed, losing about 750gb of music in one fell swoop sucks.
As someone who had their entire CD collection stolen in a B&E, losing hundreds and hundreds of discs also sucks.

back up the back up? that just seems silly...
Copying your entire collection for about $150 and storing that at someone else's house would ensure your collection would be safe. That doesn't really seem very silly to me, and is a solution to both collection theft, hardware failure and an 8 month old.