HW: WOTEOT

[Ben Fagin]

Steve,

When you smash your cdrs make sure you wear protective goggles [seriously]. As
you knpw the cds break into very small shards like glass. I found this out
when I smashed a Bros cd in 1991!

Cheers

Ben

On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 03:02, you wrote:
> I totally sympathise with these sentiments, and simultaneously feel that it
> is totally the wrong way to go about things.  There is huge demand for
> WOTEOT to be made available on CD again - along with Quark, ASAM, PXR5,
> Hawklords and whatever else is missing from the pantheon.  That isn't going
> to happen if people do things that are (technically) piractical and
> illegal, however understandable that is.  I'd also chip in with the
> observation that copying official albums is not the same as audience taping
> of live gigs.  I've slightly more sympathy with the latter, but am quite
> ready to accept the band's ban on that.
>
> *Of course*, any Hawkwind fan who's committed enough to belong to this list
> is not going to be satisfied with MP3 copies, or a tape.  They want the
> real album, on an official release.  I know that.  You know that.  But the
> accountants who run major record companies (i.e. the only people who could
> ensure these works get re-released) don't know that.  They are bean
> counters who will regard this kind of copying as loss of sales.  And let's
> face it, Hawkwind's back catalogue has to be their main commercial asset,
> more so than future albums.
>
> (As a case in point, I have an audience-taping CDR of the 18/08/01
> Canterbury Sound Festival gig.  When I get my hands on the official
> release, I'll break the CDR into a thousand pieces, place the wreckage on
> the scanner and post an image of it on my website for all to see.)
>
> So, while I don't think this is an immoral action, I don't think it's The
> Right Thing To Do, either.
>
> I hope that wasn't shouty!  And forty quid for a Dojo version of the album
> seems like a reasonably good price to have attained...
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:15:28 -0000, Richard Lockwood
>
> <rich at BEERPOWEREDNOISEFRENZY.CO.UK> wrote:
> >Hi guys,
> >
> >I know a few of you expressed interest in my mate's copy of Warrior.  Just
> >to let you know he's sold it for forty quid on Amazon.
> >
> >He's asked me to say thanks for the interest and all that - and if there's
> >anyone who wanted it just for its musical qualities, he's ripped it out to
> >MP3.  So, as WOTEOT is deleted, anyone who wants it contact me, and I'll
> >put you in touch with Sean.
>
> <snip>
>
> >If an album is deleted (as WOTEOT is), and you want to hear it, and your
> >mate owns a copy, is it immoral for him to tape (or CD) it and give you a
> >copy knowing full well that you're going to keep it?
>
> <snip>
>
> >So, now he's sold it, is forty quid for the Dojo version a good price (for
> >him!)?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Rich.