HW: California Brainstorm

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 27 Apr 2009, at 09:40, Steve Swann wrote:
> Actually I had never realized how many of the shows I've seen being  
> torrented are actually ripped CDs from somewhere in that grey area  
> between indie release and outright bootleg...  I'm trying to decide  
> how to approach this issue - like download them to sample them and  
> buy the best ones on disc?
> (First though, I need to fill out my collection of legit releases  
> with all these Atomhenge discs.)



And I think this only helps prove my point: that HW or Atomhenge or  
whoever should be nicely remastering piles of archival live  
recordings and selling them (at least the more decent ones) as FLAC  
downloads a la LivePhish.com, etc.  This sort of thing makes money  
for the bands that do it, if only because the overhead is  
ridiculously low.

I suppose it would be a pain to work out how to divvy up the  
resulting cash, but then only because the principals involved are all  
so difficult to deal with ... ;)  Anyway, perhaps someone could bash  
them all on the head and get agreement that receiving some money is  
better than receiving no money, however much the some money might be. :)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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