Holiday down time

Yeah, I'm in Atlanta, land of good BBQ, reasonable climates and unreasonable politics. I've been here almost a week and weather permitting, I'll be back in a couple of days. I'll upload some more stuff soon after that. I got a request for William Martyr 17, so that will likely top the list.

In the meantime, I came across this article that ties in with my earlier near-rant about analog. I'm not a total analog loyalist. Do I prefer it? Yes, but crappy analog and great digital recordings exist. This article was interesting in that it more or less reinforces all the things that Steve Albini used to rail about what with digital's main pitfall being that it is is so fragile. The earliest digital recording have begun degrading, but unlike analog tapes (that can be "baked") when 1's tun to 0's... well, the music is unrecoverable. I touched on some of digital's shortfalls in an earlier post.

The article is here: File Not Found

The irony of posting it on an MP3 blog isn't lost on me. Seeing as these MP3s are of crappy quality, the only way to truly keep the music safe and have it for yourself is to take the files and cut your own vinyl records from them. Despite the $14k price tag, you can't afford not to.

Up and running

I set this thing up years ago and look to finally be getting around to doing something worthwhile(?) with it.

Anyhow, a bit of backstory: I've been playing and listening to music for the better part of 2 decades and have amassed a fairly sizeable collection of music at this point. Sizeable to the point where I have too many LPs and 7"s lying around, some of which are tricky if not impossible to find anymore. I'll probably start getting rid of some of them at some point, but in the meantime I'm looking to digitize them before I get rid of the vinyl itself. The bulk of it is from the 90's and comes from the harsher end of things; think hardcore before it polarized into "___"-core or youth crew throwback and (scr)emo before such a term conjured up images of myspace.

Some of it aged well. Some of it (fuck... a lot of it) didn't. Some people might be interested in some of this stuff for historical purposes, some might find it good for a laugh, some might have wondered what was going on in heavier, non-metal music at that time.

As someone who played music and put out records: I'm trying to put up stuff that's for the most part unavailable. If you're a copyright holder or an artist that doesn't want your stuff here, let me know.