A thread for hooking people up with stuff that's out of print.

fastnbulbous: there were tracked lovesexy discs that were released to radio stations. they used to be major ebay collector's items; now that you can just burn the disc and track it yourself, somewhat less so.

If anyone out there is getting rid of Further - Sometimes Chimes 2xLP please let me know.

Was directed here from a friend, and I just have to say - Ned Ragget doesn't have his facts straight re. Lotion's "Around." Rasputina did not do the string arrangement. They just played it.

I guess I'll have to track Lovesexy myself, as I have had no luck finding it.

Now than the Captain is gone, I wonder if it will be harder or easier to license more reissues. I can't believe no one at Rhino cares to complete that Decals edition.

I'm looking for these in lossless:

Colour Haze - Co2 (2000)
Colour Haze - Ewidge Blumenkraft (2001)

Guided By Voices - Carry-On: Left Overs & Side Dishes
Tobin Sprout - Wax Nails
Lilys - Send In The Subs
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Free-D

evan check yr. email

Thanks nerve!!

Format is fine by the way!
Not to get greedy, but is it possible that you have the Popstram 7" digitally as well?

Thanks again

well, i have the Fig. 4 reissue, and that includes two excellent tracks from Popstram... i also have Fly Ashtray's Clumps Takes a Ride lp, if you need that. let me know.

Oh it does, how about that.

That would be very awesome of you, thanks! Fly Ashtray, too!

I suspect I would have fun digging through your collection.

Thanks again! So grateful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3HKp_pOwM

Not sure if this the best existing thread to put this on, but Amoeba is now digitizing rare out-of-print vinyl and selling it via their website:

http://www.amoeba.com/music/vinyl-vaults/#page-1

Requisite moral agonizing here:

http://www.cringely.com/2012/12/04/amoeba-musics-vinyl-vaults-is-no-napster-despite-what-musicians-say/

Cool to see a mention of the Amoeba Vinyl Vaults project here. I (cough) have some first-hand knowledge of the venture (cough).

If you can find it on iTunes it probably won’t be on Amoeba’s Vinyl Vaults.

If you can find it on iTunes it really fucking shouldn't be on Amoeba’s Vinyl Vaults.

Huh! Tempted to get the soundtrack to Windwalker.

Music From "In Search Of" !!!!

i dont want to start off the same argument again but "hey if you want to get paid just go ahead and contact us and negotiate the deal, because we cant be bothered to make that effort in the midst of making money on your music" sounds like grade a bullshit to me.

yeah no shit

yeah i don't get it - this is kind of like a rare/oop albums blog but they're charging real money?

Usually bootleggers go to some effort to conceal their identity.

i'm assuming the old stuff (1920s/30s) is public domain? but the newer stuff is ... what? not that i can imagine them making TONS of money off of a lot this, but still...

Anything before 1923 is public domain. The rest is not, as I understand it.

This is weird, I can see both sides of it. Kind of like if Google Book started scanning books and charging for them to read/download the whole thing. . .kind of nice to have that stuff available though. and they are doing the right thing by offering to take down stuff if copyright holders contact them.

Is it a Sublime Frequencies type thing where they are like 'we tried to find these dudes but couldn't'?

uh

http://www.amoeba.com/monk-s-dream-1952-1956-thelonious-monk/albums/839958

pretty sure finding thelonious monks rights holders wouldn't be terribly hard

that could be some weird thing where the label owns the rights or something, and all of the label people are dead. just spitballin

those would be legal in Europe, but not here iirc

hope some of that $15 million dollar investment they made in this is what we in the industry like to call "getting sued money"

yeah, a lot of the jazz stuff looks like it comes from sketcho european reissue labels. i don't know, i don't understand how any of this works.

oh man that's one of those weird italian bootlegs, that's kinda shitty

http://www.amoeba.com/ajax/album_photos.php?id=839958&photo=3

tbf i don't think it's sketcho to have a 50 year copyright rule and release CDs based on that, if you're a European label and you do your transfers with care. 50 yr rule has been an amazing thing for classical, for instance.

but i know what you mean a lot of these labels are total algae eaters

yeah, i've certainly got plenty of sketcho euro label jazz reissues, just because the prices are hard to beat.

some of them have better sound quality than any of the US-legit releases. I am thinking of Mancini's OST for Touch Of Evil.

ubuweb does an awesome service, & treats a lot of copyright law as irrelevant, which is like ... at least ontologically valid, imo. but ubuweb goes nowhere near money: no banner ads, no 'donate' box, no access charge, hosted on donated webspace (which isn't utterly devoid of politics, some coming from publicly funded institutions, &c, but y'know). i can sympathise with running a "let's energise the public domain" kinda operation that makes widely available stuff that's already illicitly or obscurely available, that treats "out of print" as a valid endpoint of commercial rights, & even tries to cover some of the costs involved. but just straight up selling stuff & leapfrogging some of those what-are-they-building-in-there questions feels like too much of a jump.

I appreciate what they are doing.The sound is great. It's a bit weird that there is Leadbelly, Louis Armstrong, Moe Koffmann etc on there.I wouldn't go to this site for them anyway. But if you are into garage music, girl groups, old folk stuff, proto punk or any of those genres that are served by long series of compilation cds, this has been the business model for decades. You think everyone on the Killed by Death, Back From The Grave, Girls With Guitars or the That'll Flat Git It comps got paid? My guess is that even if the copyright holder was tracked down it would be unusual that the actual artists received a penny. Not to mention that the profits would be pretty slim anyway.

this is interesting, not really sure how I feel about it yet

Can someone hook me up with the Kid 606 remix of "Straight Outta Compton"?

do you just need it digitally or do you want the 7"?

an mp3 would be swell

do you have an email you want me to send it to?

Anyone have 15-60-75's "Among The Wandering" on MP3?