The RIAA Armageddon has begun

just saying that come the armageddon, our lives are gonna be like this movie so let's be cool w/ each other
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hey that movie is pg-13 I don't know if im allowed to see it, can u just give a (clean) synopsis?

lou ferrigno plays the dude from cracker

whoa easy with the c-word

dude it is so insulting to kids to use the word "children" in a derogatory way
think of the children

not all children are stupid

hey some dude & frogbs I flagged both of you for being grown men actually calling each other "bitch" like a couple of stupid fucking children

― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:15 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

honest apology, man -- "he started it" is no excuse but i was just holding up a mirror for an easy zing, i honestly pretty much never throw around that word as an insult

speaking of armageddon, virus is public domain and in full on youtube so sleep easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vBAwc23sD8

i don't know about threads though...couldn't resist watching that on youtube last week...

now people tailor music for phones and computers. lots of highs and not a lot of lows.

I don't know how much engineers actually do this. Maybe they do! In any case, don't agree that there aren't a lot of lows now. How much low end is there on "Climax" by Usher?

Sometimes I think "smiley face e.q." might be more of a problem? Lots of highs and lows and not much middle.

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/google-to-shut-down-youtube-ripping-sites/66492/

apology accepted & appreciated some dude I apologize for goin in too hard

Meanwhile...

Japan has amended its anti-piracy laws to include penalties of up to two years in prison or a fine of up to 2 million yen (approx £16,000) for illegal downloaders.

smiley face e.q.!

side-face noise rating curve

aero, FP means never having to say you're sorry

ultimately I find it a little irritating that people get racism boners in threads that have fuck all to do with race but ymmv

i only mentioned race in relation to you, because that is what people associate you with on this board now. entirely because of your actions.

if there's a particular comment you have a problem with maybe call it out in the relevant thread, all this bullshit "lets earn brownie points for pointing out bad semantics in a frogs post, otherwise just call him a racist" can't be irritating to just the guy who's constantly under fire

oh i have no problem w/ irritating or ostracizing you, i thought that was obvious.

some dude is awarded 10,000 brownie points for that post^^^

frogbs repels intelligence like a duck repels water and if you call him on it you just get to watch him repel intelligence for 100 more posts. best to ignore imo.

lol you have literally not put together a remotely coherant reponse to any of the points i've brought up here, glass houses man

lol you have literally not put together a remotely coherant reponse to any of the points i've brought up here, glass houses man

c'mon dude

like we literally have hundreds of posts here tearing down bad RIAA logic and now we're calling out posters who try to tear down that exact same logic, albeit in the context of "one of our own", how can you wish for intelligent discussion when the average response I get is "you said it's literally free, DO YOU THINK HARD DRIVES ARE FREE? do MB's just come out of thin air?"

like we literally have hundreds of posts here tearing down bad RIAA logic and now we're calling out posters who try to tear down that exact same logic, albeit in the context of "one of our own", how can you wish for intelligent discussion when the average response I get is "you said it's literally free, DO YOU THINK HARD DRIVES ARE FREE? do MB's just come out of thin air?"

http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/2/99%20Oh,%20Russia.%20You%20crazy..jpg

and now we've divolved into pointing out spelling mistakes, bravo Mr. Q

"divolved"

divolution

jesus again with the mispelled words I get it you guys

frogbs when you entered this thread it was like a toddler in a superman costume coming downstairs to bug the adults. i don't say that with malice it's just... exactly what it was like.

sorry if my posting isn't acceptible to you guys, I just don't understand why you are so commited to this

and by adults i mean other people besides me, i'm not including myself in the "adult" party.

lol at him just spelling things wrong on purpose now

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sorry if my posting isn't acceptible to you guys, I just don't understand why you are so commited to this

it's just a drag to have an interesting conversation steered awry by a ton of thick b.s. xp

i think people ITT are a little too "poor diy musician of 2012, how doomed are they" tbh. 10 years ago you might spend a chunk of your own money pressing up CDs that you keep in the trunk of your car, unloading them little by little at merch tables and local shops, spending money on postage to send out promo copies, trying to get a bite. now you upload stuff, send out a few e-mails, and sometimes shit doesn't happen but a lot of times it really does, quickly and cheaply. there's something to be said for that.

Matt, I know your either not willing to understand a simple fucking argument or proud of your ignorence, but if you can't understand why comparring physical goods to digital ones is terrible judgement, then your opinion is hardly relevent

hi

now you upload stuff, send out a few e-mails, and sometimes shit doesn't happen but a lot of times it really does, quickly and cheaply. there's something to be said for that.

yeah, totally.

also lol @ this discussion being interesting before I came in, it was literaly 100 posts of "man FUCK that guy for calling out his intern" and "FUCK that guy for calling out the other guy", and "FUCK all you guys because I recorded an album and I didnt make a lot of money"

^ interesting point

there were literally three posts before frogbs came in and that's exactly what they said

Gunning for fifbsy-one I see

now you upload stuff, send out a few e-mails, and sometimes shit doesn't happen but a lot of times it really does, quickly and cheaply. there's something to be said for that.

yeah, totally.

Yeah, totally, which is why I still get a shit-ton of press releases from publicists hired by bands. I'll give you saving moneys on promos, though.

Hey, I have no idea, but are publicists making less money these days? Charging less money?

i think people ITT are a little too "poor diy musician of 2012, how doomed are they" tbh.

Yes.

Now we get to see stuff like this on Kickstarter:

Even the greatest works of art need help reaching people and can use a serious promotional effort. Our goal here is to raise $6,000, which would enable us to hire a publicist (who will get the recording on the desk of music editors, in the media, on prominent blogs, etc.) and start an east coast tour in support of the album. Although $6,000 is only a portion of what it will take to release and promote this new CD, we want to meet the strict 100% funding goals of Kick Starter (as you may already know, if we don't reach our goal, all of the money raised is returned and the project won't be funded).

Elikeh is a Washington, DC Afropop band with members from West Africa and the US. The style is a combination of 70's Afro-funk, with some Togolese rhythms, rock, reggae, Afro-beats.

Publicists aren't charging any less, lawyers aren't charging any less-- happily the digital age means that you get more for your money in hiring a publicist. Looking at a publicist's response sheet is like, "whoa, you do a lot of work, huh" xp

oh the publicist e-mail/blogosphere aspect of putting out a record today can definitely be pretty shitty in its own way. i'm just saying that in many ways things are BETTER now for broke musicians than they used to be, in terms of how much they have to spend just for any chance of getting heard, etc.

the plight of the publicist in the late-capitalist digital era

curmudgeon that sounds like something cool & worth supporting that would have had to hope Shanachie or RealWorld granted it favor - is that your point? to me the nice thing about kickstarter is the occasional cool-thing-nobody-would-have-supported can reach an audience of only people who're already interested