HW: WOTEOT

[Andrew Apold]

> > 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.

If nothing else, I've lost six hawk cds (and a number of others too) due to
a theft of my car a couple  years ago, but I had ripped mp3s of them (and
several albums by other bands that were also stolen) on my work computer.
So thanks to that I can still listen to them.  .  Incidentally because I
keep
most of them in vinyl cd carriers (makes for easier theft, I suppose) I
still have
 the jewel cases with the backs (the inserts were in the carrier) as I keep
those
in a cabinet at home.

I keep wondering if the thief might have left them if he'd seen it was
hawkwind.... I
have this image of him getting somewhere and trying to figure out what he
has... who
knows, there may be a hawk cult started somewhere in the ghetto....