― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Sunday, 18 December 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link
This was my download strategy:
1. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (all tracks)I've heard and liked the singles, I've skimmed through the rest at a listening station in some record store. I think it's a really good album, but before buying it I've wanted to spend some time listening to it straight through to be sure I separate my own impressions from the hype that surrounded it. [Conclusion: I'll buy the CD as soon as I can find it used.]
2. [remembering the notion, expressed in this thread, that it's good to download LONG tracks]Eliane Radigue, Trilogie de la mort -- three hour-long tracks, beautiful drone-y electronic sounds, the smartest decision I made in this whole process
3. [spontaneously deciding to hunt down some individual tracks where I'm not interested in buying the whole album]Annie - several tracks off AnniemalLadytron - several tracks off 604 and Light & MagicArmand Van Helden - "U Don't Know Me" and "Flowerz"
4. [spontaneously deciding it's about time I finally checked out Derek Bailey]Derek Bailey - Improvisations (all tracks)
5. [remembering I've been curious about Robert Rich but put off by all the New Age hoo-haw]Robert Rich - Below Zero (all tracks)still haven't listened to it
6. [remembering that ever since the recent Imogen Heap thread, I've been trying to find Todd Rundgren's "Pretending to Care," off the mid-80s album _A Capella_]They don't have it, but they have a cover of it by a band called The Unherd.
That's 50 tracks, and I've unsubscribed. Part of the challenge is that I'm just not a music downloader, so anything I *really* want, I want on CD. The eMusic process was all about remembering things I *sort of* want.
― National Roffle Association (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 19 December 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
rhaps usually covers my nostalgic needs... you know, when some friend goes, "dude krokus!" i can actually give krokus a listen and leave it at that without spending much more than a few cents i suppose. etc etc. old hip hop records i never bought but have radio taped mixes of, etc etc.
one by one, emusic has steadily brought lot's and lot's of "want list" labels onboard. i never thought i'd see tzadik come, but here they are. or dischord. touch and go! shit, those dudes charge out the wazoo for their records at the store, but here they are! emusic has really become kind of a paradise for back catalog siftings. i keep hoping drag city will come, but they seem pretty stiff on such things. (do they do itunes even? i'm too lazy to fire up itunes right now.)
as far as i'm concerned, services like emusic are saints for kicking DRM to the curb and letting us be honest fans. (for now anyway. legislation always pending in one form or another.)
m.
― msp (mspa), Monday, 19 December 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Certainly far from having everything I want, but I've already downloaded tons of stuff I've been fiending for for a while.
Also great to have for making my wedding mixes.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
It sucks for a lot of comedy albums though since they have lots of short tracks. Your monthly 40 song quota can be filled with 2 albums.
― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I really want to write for these guys. There are so many bitchin' compilations that are unsung on their site.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― cnwb (cnwb), Thursday, 25 May 2006 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― cnwb (cnwb), Thursday, 25 May 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Having said that there are still lots of interesting things to download and at £8 or so for 65 tracks a month, it's well worth it.
― mms (mms), Thursday, 25 May 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 25 May 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― mms (mms), Thursday, 25 May 2006 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
This is the most frustrating thing about the site. You can now buy additional slightly-more-expensive 'booster packs' when your 90 downloads have been used up, but you're only allowed 5 or so of these per month. I'd spend twice as much on emusic than I do already if only they allowed me to!
― slb, Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Thursday, 25 May 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/emusic.ars
The Ryko catalog is still up, even though Warners is buying in to their distro channels, so maybe more majors will test the waters a eMusic.
― bendy (bendy), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
If I'm remembering correctly, eMusic used to have some Impulse jazz (Alice Coltrane was Impulse? They used to have her.) but lost it right before they switched over to their current pricing plan.
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Friday, 26 May 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
i do wish they'd spell my last album right, rather than making "fahrenheit 69" into "fahrenh eit 69"
hopefully they'll get the new one right.
question - if you guys like the free emusic track, do you download the rest of the album?
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, although I don't like the non-rollover, it is part of what makes them a bit Quirky rather than Totally Streamlined, which I kinda like. The per-track rather than per-time cost is another example. (Though it means my quizgeek desire for The National Anthems of the World will go unfulfilled on that particular site.)
-- Forksclovetofu
Ooh such as? Account replenishes in five days...
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 14 July 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
("You've got your dick on backwards"????)
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 14 July 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
The holes and treasures in their collection reproduce the act of searching through a giagatic used record store better than anything else online. When I lived in Pittsburgh, I lived accross the street from Jerry's Records. My eMusic subscription feels like wandering over there- I don't know what I'm going to pick up, but I'm probably going to learn about something I never heard of before.
― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 15 July 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 15 July 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 15 July 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 15 July 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 16 July 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 16 July 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
FYI "You've got your dick on backwards" is a parody of the Sonics "you've got your head on backwards." which kinda paved the way for our upcoming "blowfly's punk rock party" (due in september) though when we cut "...backwards" we never imagined doing a whole record like that.
as far as hip hop on emusic -- all the rhymesayers stuff is on there, as is most of the def jux stuff and the coup via epitaph. obviously, there aren't many major label artists on emusic - so the hip hop is kinda sparse.
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― bendy (bendy), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
i dled about 100 mp3s over the past two months - the majority were 192, though a few were VBR that averaged around that. i think some of the indian soundtrack stuff was 160.
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.emusic.com/help/technical.html#q11
It's unlikely you will hear any difference from the cd version.
― todd (todd), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
hmm, I've been disappointed by recent Tzadik albums I've tried. Anything written by or featuring Zorn in the last 15 years seems to be an aimless mess.
I like these from after 2000:
Kayo Dot, Choirs of the Eye, 2003Wadada Leo Smith, Lake Biwa, 2004the Scott Johnson reissue, John SomebodyAyelet Rose Gottlieb, Mayim Rabim, 2006
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
I don't have any interest in the no-wave improvisational klezmer punk side of the label, but I have dipped into their New Music offerings. IIRC, I liked:
Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters, Sound Characters vol. 2Alvin Curran - Animal Behavior, Theme Park, Lost Marbles, Shofar RagsArnold Dreyblatt - Animal Magnetism, Who's Who In Central & East Europe 1933Annie Gosfield - Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires, Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites, Almost Truths And Open DeceptionsLukas Ligeti - Mystery System, Afrikan MachineryLois Vierk - River Beneath the RiverThe Cracow Klezmer Band - Balan: Book of Angels Vol.5, Remembrance
The latter group could be described as Penderecki does klezmer, and may get me into the genre yet.
― tactical piñata (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 04:50 (six years ago) link
last month I got every single Haydn Symphony from here for like $6.99 ...
― sansa riff (sarahell), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 06:24 (six years ago) link
The Morton Feldman Patterns in a Chromatic Field on tzadik is fantastic.
Also, emusic has reverted to certain albums which are one long track being priced super cheap. I just got two Feldman chamber music albums on Bridge Records for like a buck each.
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 11:39 (six years ago) link
Now chasing the cryptocurrency craze.
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 6 April 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link