Re: a not-that-old interview with Mike

["Tara" <tvlycia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i wasnt referring to music actually...i meant in general. i hate change and
yet it's forced far too often.

i think it sucks that people will only buy one song at a time...but then how
many times have i bought and album because i liked one song and it was
literally the only good song on the album? so i guess there's an upside to it
too...

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Timothy
  To: The Lycium
  Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:19 AM
  Subject: Re: a not-that-old interview with Mike

  I don't think my post was about "fearing change"

  I just think it sucks that albums are dying. And by albums I mean long
  format recordings - a cohesive collection of songs by one artist -
  whether it's on vinyl or CD or whatever...

  Anyway, vinyl rules.

  Luddite Timothy

  On Jan 16, 2005, at 2:06 AM, Tara wrote:

  > people always fear change regardless of whether it's good or bad. i
  > know i
  > do.
  >   ----- Original Message -----
  >   From: Jason Haworth
  >   To: lycia@support-cause.lists.darkspire.net
  >   Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:01 AM
  >   Subject: Re: a not-that-old interview with Mike
  >
  >
  >   I guess that's kind of the bite to technology in the current age of
  >   NOW!...as compression gets better things get smaller and quality is
  >   sacraficed for speed. But this is changing. Compression tech is
  > getting
  >   better at keeping the original (CD-Quality Sound) intact and people
  > are
  >   getting more storage space and faster data transfer rates which will
  > allow
  >   for larger data files. I think we are kind of in this piss poor
  > state where
  >   people are declaring a revolution before the masses can fully
  > utilize the
  >   technology. When my Dad gets an iPOD for his Country Western RIPs
  > and decide
  >   to join Kazaa then I will say we are in the midst of a revolution.
  > Until
  >   then its still a novel approach to carrying music (keep in mind I am
  > only
  >   talking about quality of sound, not the dire affects it has on
  > musicians who
  >   need CD sales in order to pay rent). This still doesn't save Vinyl,
  > but I
  >   think DVD-Audio which can carry a great more amount of data than a
  > CD could
  >   be a viable option to keeping as much of an analog sound around.
  > Especially
  >   as higher DVD and newer standards emerge for mastering sound. I
  > don't think
  >   we are going to get away from digital, but I am sure there were
  >   non-believers when the first records showed up on the sceen to
  > replace live
  >   music. In short, yeah MP3 quality sucks, but its getting better.
  >
  >   jWh
  >
  >
  >
  >   ----Original Message Follows----
  >   From: Timothy <revelator@support-cause.lostgospel.org>
  >   Reply-To: The Lycium <lycia@support-cause.lists.darkspire.net>
  >   To: The Lycium <lycia@support-cause.lists.darkspire.net>
  >   Subject: Re: a not-that-old interview with Mike
  >   Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:51:04 -0500
  >
  >
  >> it's OBVIOUS digital music is THE WAY it's going to be. people who
  >> don't
  >> accept this and fight it are shooting themselves in the foot.
  >>
  >
  >   (Taking gun, loading, aiming at foot...)
  >
  >   Well, it's obvious this is what kids want.
  >
  >   I released a double-LP (ANALOG and vinyl!) this year which is VERY
  > expensive
  >   and it is still selling quite well.
  >
  >   I see the whole mp3 "revolution" as a part of the 'gimme gimme gimme
  > gotta
  >   have it all NOW' attitude of much of modern society.
  >
  >   I heard a music reviewer declare that the album is "dead." How sad
  > that
  >   people have such short attention spans they can't listen to an
  > entire album.
  >   He said: "That's the way kids listen to music these days - just find
  > the
  >   songs they like on mp3" ...well, if the "kids" are doing it then it
  > must be
  >   COOL. Youth is to be worshipped. How sad. Screw that noise, I'm
  > happy to be
  >   old.
  >
  >   I think mp3s are great for websites and stuff - to put up samples of
  > songs
  >   and whatnot, but as a music format they stink. "I can fit 10,000
  > songs on my
  >   iPod!" Who cares!?!?!
  >
  >   I, for one, really don't.
  >
  >   If albums are dead then my music is dead and so be it.
  >
  >   I'm not against digital music as a whole. The CD is a very good
  > format and
  >   I'm really looking forward to the new DVD-audio which is supposed to
  > sound
  >   nearly as good as vinyl... but I'll keep releasing albums on CD
  > and/or vinyl
  >   as long as people want them and when they don't want them anymore
  > that's
  >   probably the end.
  >
  >   T