by Danielpib » Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:49 am
I was burglarized while I was out of town, and I worried about my vinyl, since I haven't gotten it all digitized. The burglars had very poor taste in music, because they did not steal my music, but I just spent a while digitizing "Don't Be Concerned" and "Photographs of Feelings" from my 40-odd year old vinyl, and it took a certain amount of audio magic to get rid of the rice crispies (snap, crackle, pop). I have several different pieces of audio correcting software, and it's fun to play with the songs to see which software can be manipulated to get the best sound. A side effect is getting to listen to the same songs several times, which I understand the artists themselves would probably never understand. (How could someone listen to the same song time and again when there's so much music in the world? Don't ask me, but I do sometimes: music is addictive.) Just as I finished, I thought, oh Lord, they've probably been on cd all this time and I've wasted a couple of hours (fun, though), so I looked on my friend Amazon. The first cd compilation I found was at
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Collecti ... 542&sr=1-4 on the "Black Tulips" label. I love to peruse Amazon comments, so I looked, and the first comment stated, "Bob Lind's own web site reported this is an unauthorized CD bootleg." Naturally, I looked for the website and found it here. I could not find any reports here, but perhaps your search is not functioning right. I could not find "unauthorized" or "bootleg." From that reviewer's comments, it sounds like a bootleg, though, and I am hoping to find some kind of "official" comment somewhere. I firmly believe that artists deserve to be paid for their work, and I cannot help but wonder why you don't contact Amazon, since they do not knowingly permit such merchandise. It must be unnerving though to realize that there are people who love Bob Lind music enough to want to buy it still, yet, being mindless, they do so in a manner that does not benefit the artist--even though there is a real cd compilation listed, which is linked to from this website, and which I presume gives Mr. Lind fifty cents or a dollar per cd sold,
I was burglarized while I was out of town, and I worried about my vinyl, since I haven't gotten it all digitized. The burglars had very poor taste in music, because they did not steal my music, but I just spent a while digitizing "Don't Be Concerned" and "Photographs of Feelings" from my 40-odd year old vinyl, and it took a certain amount of audio magic to get rid of the rice crispies (snap, crackle, pop). I have several different pieces of audio correcting software, and it's fun to play with the songs to see which software can be manipulated to get the best sound. A side effect is getting to listen to the same songs several times, which I understand the artists themselves would probably never understand. (How could someone listen to the same song time and again when there's so much music in the world? Don't ask me, but I do sometimes: music is addictive.) Just as I finished, I thought, oh Lord, they've probably been on cd all this time and I've wasted a couple of hours (fun, though), so I looked on my friend Amazon. The first cd compilation I found was at [url]http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Collection-Bob-Lind/dp/B000FUTUGU/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1316250542&sr=1-4[/url] on the "Black Tulips" label. I love to peruse Amazon comments, so I looked, and the first comment stated, "Bob Lind's own web site reported this is an unauthorized CD bootleg." Naturally, I looked for the website and found it here. I could not find any reports here, but perhaps your search is not functioning right. I could not find "unauthorized" or "bootleg." From that reviewer's comments, it sounds like a bootleg, though, and I am hoping to find some kind of "official" comment somewhere. I firmly believe that artists deserve to be paid for their work, and I cannot help but wonder why you don't contact Amazon, since they do not knowingly permit such merchandise. It must be unnerving though to realize that there are people who love Bob Lind music enough to want to buy it still, yet, being mindless, they do so in a manner that does not benefit the artist--even though there is a real cd compilation listed, which is linked to from this website, and which I presume gives Mr. Lind fifty cents or a dollar per cd sold,