OFF: Re: HW: Hawkwind at Strange Daze 98 MPEG audio

[Paul Mather]

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Michael Habiby wrote:

=> Alas yes this is probably true. But what can you do.
=>
=> I have found that the listers are just a small percentage of the Hawkwind
=> fans out there and felt that making the music available to all would be a
=> nice thing to do.

Actually, that wasn't a crack at you, but at those profiteers (and Codex
Komplicators:) who would seek to make money off something they
shouldn't.

I had a quick skeg in the alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 newsgroup hierarchy,
and noticed some folks posting MPEG audio from legit official commercial
Hawkwind releases, which, IMHO, is Not Cool (but call me old fashioned).
(Let's think of the band's retirement fund here, peoples!!!;)

Hey, maybe if I keep scanning those newsgroups, I'll find someone's
posted the new Collector's Series releases, or those Passport-holder-
only releases, and save me the hassle of doing that passport application
nonsense... >;-)

BTW, does anyone know of any great MPEG audio encoding software?  I have
used BladeEnc before, under Unix, but am not entirely happy with it.
Reply directly, as this is going too far off topic.

(Hint: If I find some good software---sound quality wise---more
Hawkwind/BOC bootlegs can appear on my FTP site.)

Cheers,

Paul.

NP: Jethro Tull, _Thick As A Brick_

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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