Why no new MP3s?
 

C'mon, guys! I'd like a teaser before the new album comes out!

there are supposed to be 5 acoustic songs somewhere, anyone knows where to get them?

You can get them on Soulseek I believe

Im trying to remember how much earlier was the "unmade bed" single available before nurse came out. Anyone wanna enlighten me ?

I'll upload the Thurston Moore 2005 Acoustic Set with Do you Believe in Rapture, Or, Pink Steam...

Yeah, I remember when Murray Street Came out, you could get the whole Album online a matter of months before you could buy the record.
Someone has to be able to get us this shit.
Come on, Journalists. Put the record in iTunes.

the thurston acoustic songs, in my opinion, suck

It's early days, dear.

They'll probably upload an mp3 a month or so before the release; ala I Love You Golden Blue.

bumped, because it's funny that this is on the very first (last?) page. It seems so relevent.

because mp3s suck.

mp3's DO suck! I'm in total agreement. Nothing like a virtual music collection that can bite the dust any day as technology sees fit. Not to mention a huge loss of warmth and fidelity in the music itself. Compression is the scourge of all sound waves.

I like MP6's

so what happens if your records melt, warp or scratch?

what happens when your tapes tear, get scratched or wear out?

what happens when your CDs get scratched to shit, or break or lost?

ALL musical media have their flaws, for one I like mp3s and have been using them for years long before I even got an ipod.. it is terribly convenient to have all your music in one place, either on a hard drive, or a flash drive, or a smaller pile of data discs, than to have volumes and volumes full of cassettes, vinyl, and CDs...

and in regards to sound quality, it is all lost in the mixdown to 44.1k to begin with and we all cant walk around listening to music on two inch reel to reel..

Oh yeah!

"it is terribly convenient to have all your music in one place"

That's the problem. We're a society bent on convenience.

And my records don't warp, scratch or wear out because I take care of them. I've also never owned even one CD that's been scratched to shit or broken or lost because I take care of them.

Mixdown may dump some of the sound but mp3's STILL sound thin, shrill and empty. Of course if you're ripping at 320kbps it's extremely difficult to hear it. 128 kbps is garbage. Might I add that the pan flutes of Zamfir won't reveal a loss at 128kbps either. The more complex the music the more shitty an mp3 will be!

I just like to be sure I'm hearing it all.

I am not so much bent on convenience as much as access. I enjoy having access to my entire collection more leisurely, while it takes the spontaneity out of choosing what to listen to, before I converted my discs to mp3 I would get stuck on a few albums over and over again, more out of convenience than the mp3 player! It was more convenient to listen to the same pile of discs I had dug out then to dig out a new pile, and this continues. In my living room I have a regular CD player and a pile of discs which I randomly replace with a new pile, and I get stuck on the same shit for ever out there, where as in my bedroom and in my pocket I have everything and listen to a tremendous variety of music across my day..

for my part, I say long live the mp3. I am the analog nut, but as far as I am concerned that is in recording, and truthfully, the horrifying reality of dithering and the mix-down already disillusioned me from audio purity years ago... alas alas

that is a challenge you can keep, I only lug around heavy objects for paychecks, not recreation.






but I am down for this mothrfucker right here:

minidiscs baby!!!

Ah yes, minidiscs...the 8-track of our era...