Oink Invites

Well, can't we start...
I'm interested in the Virtual instruments section and the ebooks. And some very rare apps (i know you have a app section, i know)

Pretty please?
Thanks

to jergincito:
yes that's estonian, as well as Stockholm is capital of Finland, sure.

ummm. still waiting to find out how to actually log on... nothing received to date?? starting to wonder if this is kosher?

if its apps and Virtual Instruments you need have you tried magesy.com or audionews.ru?

"kosher"

Has anyone got a spare invite they can bung my way? Thanks.

i got you, pash.

jinja = as a result of your promoting rival music services, your membership has been revoked and a permanent ban has been placed on your IP address.

jeek = Do not mess with jergincito. He has an impeccible file ratio and is in very high standing in the Oink community. DENIED.

Erty = PENDING. Please provide proof that you are at least 18 years old as some files shared on Oink may be innapropriate for minors.

Fruitfly = DENIED for having a bah humbug attitude (no room for your kind in our community).

tobb3 = your new user name is tttt000ooonbbbbb333

ok. admin it would be nice to get a more somewhat serious answer :p and if my username is an issue just pick one, for me it really doesn't matter

regards T

i did pick one for you.

hehe ok, just thought it was abit too long.. :p so when do u know that i'm "accepted"

If this is the kind of endless boring administrative help you will need if you become a member there is little chance of you being Approved.

If I may ask, is it possible that the webmail containing the login directions got lost...?
It has been one week, or 5 business days, since my approval. I’m in no hurry, but it would be nice to start contributing!

BR,
Karl.

Hmmmmmm.... interesting.

Does anyone else have access to your e-mail box?

Our records show that you'be been an active member for the last 36 hours.

Are you maybe just lying to try and score another invite?

The status of mine please?
Thanks,
Justin C.

Hmm, would it be possible to send another email? Maybe it got caught in some spamfilter?

Active member? As in my username has logged in?! That can't be, I haven't received anything...

Strange...

certainly not admin, I'm sorry if I sounded a bit sturdy..

And no, nobody else has access to my inbox, I change passwords frequently.
And no, I'm not fishing for more invites, one is enough for me.

If somebody else has used the invite that was intended for me, or is using the selected username I would very much like to know more about the situation! :(

How interesting, i thought i was helping with different suggestions. I wasn't aware that they were in direct 'competition' with Oink? Audionews is application specific while Magesy are purely Electronic (and dodgy electronic at that) . Though if they are the same then well i'll stick with them so i don't have to jump through hoops for a non existant email by some pimply 16 yr old with a power complex. Cheery Pie...

jinja you have no idea how old I am.

Enjoy your Banned Pie.

nalth:

hmmmm... what does this look like:

Oink!>Admin_Tools>

User_IP_Search>Banned_User_Database_>Pending_Applications>RIAA_Report_Log>User_Info

User_Info>Recent_History

User_nalth:

--Hinder-Lips_Of_An_Angel.mp3 - 192 kps - FROM: User_Confounded @ 14:22 18-03-2007 DOWNLOAD COMPLETE
--Fergie-Fergalicious.mp3 - 192 kps - FROM: User_Confounded @ 14:29 18-03-2007 DOWNLOAD COMPLETE
--Baby Boy Da Prince-The_Way_I_Live - 192 kps - FROM: User_Lingbert @ 14:45 18-03-2007 DOWNLOAD COMPLETE
--Nelly Furtado-Say_It_Right - 192 kps - FROM: User_Pahmina@ 14:45 18-03-2007 DOWNLOAD COMPLETE
--Fall_Out_Boy-This_Ain't_A_Scene,_It's_An_Arms_Race.mp3-FROM: User_LilGothCurtls6969@ 14:45 18-03-2007 DOWNLOAD

???????

If this is not you, please inform us by using the Admin Request Function on your User Tools Page ASAP!

I don't know what that is, and no, it's not me.
I'm not sure what you want me to do, I don't see a "User Tools Page" anywhere.

Ok, let me run an IP_Search on where the files are being DL'd to. This may take some time.

Hmmm. This is very suspicious. The downloads are coming from the same IP address as your message board posts.

Are you positive no one else has access to your computer? Any roomates or family members perhaps?

Wait a minute... I think I know what’s going on here.

the real nalth is successfully downloading files using his new Oink membership while his roommate is continuing to post messages here, posing as nalth, trying to score an invite for him/herself!

I am pretty sure that is what is happening but I will have our Scandinavian branch confirm in the morning.

In the meantime....

ATTENTION ALL OINK ADMINS:

PLEASE STOP ALL MESSAGE BOARD OR E-MAIL COMMUNICATION WITH User_nalth IMMEDIATLEY. IT APPEARS AS THOUGH HIS ACCOUNT HAS ALREADY BEEN HACKED. DO NOT COMMUNICATE WITH User_nalth UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

a) requested username
stiky (If not possible, Maphix - please
b) first name (no surnames)
Kiefer
c) age
18
d) gender
Male
e) geographic location
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you in the past week

Saliva - Blood Stained Love Story
Rise Against - Suffer & The Witness
Nelly Furtado - Loose

(Currently upgraded all my 128 songs to 192 after after 2 yrs of not knowing how to do it =] )

2) What is rockism? (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum)
It's a loaded word, partly because it means a bunch of different things in practice—it's yay close to "racism" the way it's sometimes used. For various people, it's a term of praise for avoiding artifice or a description of unadventurous musical tastes or a word for just liking rock a whole lot. But it's also a potentially useful concept for thinking about the way people write about popular music, and the way people experience it. The trick is to figure out exactly what it means.

3) Post a link to your favorite picture of Cat Power
http://www.statesidepresents.com/images/photos/cat-power-pic.jpg

4) Which artist is better, Sufjan Stevens or Deerhoof? Why? (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum)
Sufjan Stevens (born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Detroit, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the folk revival in indie pop, but his influences are very broad, including electronica, the jazz of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

With all that being said...i just really think he is better and overall more talented.

5) How many invites do you require?
Just 1 actually. :)

For extra info: I currently reside at demonoid and i carry a well earned 3.10 ratio there, you can search me at "stiky" on demonoid to confirm that =] - Don't know if this will help at all, but just to show i do seed. :)

[Repost] - Sorry, i forgot the 8 sentence minimum on the Rockism Subject.

a) requested username
stiky (If not possible, Maphix - please
b) first name (no surnames)
Kiefer
c) age
18
d) gender
Male
e) geographic location
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you in the past week

Saliva - Blood Stained Love Story
Rise Against - Suffer & The Witness
Nelly Furtado - Loose

(Currently upgraded all my 128 songs to 192 after after 2 yrs of not knowing how to do it =] )

2) What is rockism? (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum)
It's a loaded word, partly because it means a bunch of different things in practice—it's yay close to "racism" the way it's sometimes used. For various people, it's a term of praise for avoiding artifice or a description of unadventurous musical tastes or a word for just liking rock a whole lot. But it's also a potentially useful concept for thinking about the way people write about popular music, and the way people experience it. The trick is to figure out exactly what it means.

Still, there hasn't beena clear definition of rockism, and I'd like to propose one—a very narrow one, to keep its meaning from bleeding too far out. Rockism, let's say, is treating rock as normative. In the rockist view, rock is the standard state of popular music: the kind to which everything else is compared, explicitly or implicitly. So, for instance, it's a rockist opinion that pre-stereo-era blues and country are interesting less in their own right than because they anticipated rock, or that Run-D.M.C. and Alison Krauss are notable because their virtues are also the virtues of rock, or that Ciara's Goodies isn't interesting because it fails to act like rock.

Now, the interesting thing about that formulation of "rockism" is that it's not intrinsically rockist to love rock, or to write about it; you can also mostly care about R&B or norteño or bubblegum pop but discuss them in a rockist way. It's hard to get around rockism, though, because it's built into the way people talk informally about whatever kinds of popular music interest them.

3) Post a link to your favorite picture of Cat Power
http://www.statesidepresents.com/images/photos/cat-power-pic.jpg

4) Which artist is better, Sufjan Stevens or Deerhoof? Why? (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum)
Sufjan Stevens (born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Detroit, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the folk revival in indie pop, but his influences are very broad, including electronica, the jazz of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

With all that being said...i just really think he is better and overall more talented.

5) How many invites do you require?
Just 1 actually. :)

For extra info: I currently reside at demonoid and i carry a well earned 3.10 ratio there, you can search me at "stiky" on demonoid to confirm that =] - Don't know if this will help at all, but just to show i do seed. :)

Do not know why — keeps popping up.....

lol yeah that's really weird?

What about me?

"The downloads are coming from the same IP address as your message board posts."
Hah, why even bother posting something like that when you know it's not true.

Well, it was fun while it lasted, sorry to see that this is not the real deal.

meh.

as little precious indie meta art-ish pranks go, i've seen better than this fake indie music sharing thing -- and also worse.

Thanx for that, Grady. Wow, loads of stuff here, I'd better start seeding first, though!
Thanks again.

--Hinder-Lips_Of_An_Angel.mp3 - 192 kps - FROM: User_Confounded @ 14:22 18-03-2007 DOWNLOAD COMPLETE
--Fergie-Fergalicious.mp3 - 192 kps - FROM: User_Confounded @ 14:29 18-03-2007 DOWNLOAD COMPLETE

I would like to deny all charges against me.

User_LilGothCurtls6969

xd

a) sportman3333333
b) akash
c) 20
d) M
e) CT, USA


1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you in the past week

Daniel Powter
The Fray
In the End



2) What is rockism? (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum)

Rockism is when you are valuiing rock music at its best. It is the way you are looking at the music.It is between the listner and the writer. The idea of rockism slowly started around the 70s in England.Rockism sort of relates to racism in a way. When you have a rockism mind, you will always have your ideason what is good and what is bad. Rockism should be avoided, just like racism should be avoided. It is betterto be open-minded and try different things out. It like trying out new stuff, you will see what it is like. Ifyou just see one stuff, you might be missing out on other stuff you like better


3) Post a link to your favorite picture of Cat Power

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/02/15/pt_CATPOWER_ent-lead__200x346.jpg

4) Which artist is better, Sufjan Stevens or Deerhoof? Why? (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum)

Surjan Stevens because of his lyrics that relate to the family and culture, etc. He a great
range of what he plays and that is what I like. I have heard a few of his lyrics and I
enjoyed them. The 50 state idea, i think it a great idea. The deerhoof's music is not suited for me.His music is everyone that can enjoy and that why I like him better over deerhoofs. He just
manages to get everything done. Waiting for the CT ablum :D.

5) How many invites do you require?

One please


Thank You

Am I still able to post an application here?

Please do!

a) Pappa Shango
b) Anthony Michael Samson
c) 15
d) male
e) Montana, US

1)The Pouges – If I shoul fall From Grace With God
Primal Scream – XTRMN8TR
DMB - Greatest Hits

2) rockism is the idea of making music through the musician their own creative freedom, rather than through pre-packaged music created by labels or merely for the pop of it. basically, music made for the music, and not to make a quick buck. there is argument that no music is purely made without any commercial thought processes behind it, and that all music has some form of produced aspect to it. but basically the term is for bands that don't go with synthesizers and pro tools to hype up their music, rather they perform on the instruments themselves as well as the lyrics, the band being a huge part of the creation of the music. the term is more for rock or metal bands, which is where the actual term came from. I believe the term also began to be in use in britain, where people began preferring this over pop music. think of rock bands in the 80s, and you'd get a good idea of what this whole movement is. pop music is the opposite of this.

3) http://myspace-541.vo.llnwd.net/00375/14/51/375041541_l.jpg

4) Hmm, I like both. Deerhoof has this continual beat that makes you want to nod along to it. It actually reminds me of an art exhibit I attented a couple of years ago called "Cloud City" by FriendsWithYou, where they had this background music to set an installatio they considered a playgound. I am a sucker for the guitar though, and Sufjan Stevens is a lot like the music I listen to. It's much mellower, and his voice compliments the music beautifully. Ultimately, I would probably go with Sufjan Stevens on a day where I'm being told I can only pick from these two artists. Then again, I could definitely find myself listening to Deerhoof on days where I need to vacuum the house. I'm not sure... I guess I can't decide really. They both have their themes and sounds that make them the artists they are. I can really get into the fact that they both have their own sound, and it doesn't quite remind me of other artists today- unless we're going to mix bands together to get their sound.

5) just one.

i really hope I can find out if I'm in soon!

wait, can I change number three?

http://trouble.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives/cat%20power%20by%20shawn%20mortenson.jpg

ok seriosuly, this one is my answer for number three lol sorry for changin my mind.

http://www.nuyorker.com/fotos/cat%20power.jpg

sportman3333333 = please provide album titles
Anthony Michael Samson = APPROVED. Username and Password being confirmed now and will be sent shortly.

Pash-

You're welcome! I'm going to DL that Arcade Fire/ Rapture/Strokes collab from you tonight!!!!!!!!!!

No Problem

Back in Black, (192KBPS)
Metallica
pink floyd the wall

All 192KBPS

hmmmm.

I'm still a little perplexed. Which Back in Black album and which Metallica album?

Sorry for the trouble and thank you for the reply

AC-DC - Back In Black (Atlantic ‘80)
Metallica - Ride The Lightning

hmmmm, did i miss anything else? ~Akash

Ok now it makes sense but please, in the future, proofread!

Okay No Problem

I will wait now :D

OK coolz.

;-)

a) dgiraffe
b) david
c) 20
d) male
e) valencia, los angeles, california

1) Killers - Sams Town / Zero 7 - the garden / The Knife - Silent Shout
2) Rockism, is the belief that only the "sincere" artists are deserved credit. The lines are drawn between "real artists" who express themselves only as a means for self-release or self expression and those who are in it to "make a buck". It generalizes most of the 60s and 70s as the "lost golden years" and discredits much of the 'post-discovery' music. While I agree that music will never be the same/as good as it was back in the day (IMOP the overexploitation of sexiness in the pop world, and dismissal of it in the modern rock world) i do not agree with the belief that everything made to make a dollar isnt "good". When a blatantly commercial album such as "futuresex/lovesounds" comes out, in rockism it is grounds for dismissal as a legitimate piece of art, however, expressing ones need to dance or "bring sexy back" is just as a legitimate form of self release as many critically solid albums. Furthermore, it can mean something special to someone, even if that someone is unknowingly part of consumerist machine that recycles money and the same albums constantly. Rockism also disregards the new musics of the last twenty years (hip hop, trance, techno, post-rock) and many of these musics serve an important cultural purpose for different american societies. What this argument against new musics ends in is a strong importance of genuine artistry mostly focused on white male songwriters. I believe this is racist, basically saying that white people are allowed to "get it on, bang a gong" with critical recognition while those in the corners trying to escape their troubles "by partying/drinking bacardi like its their birthday" are stupid. All music serves a genuine purpose sociologically, whether for escapism, protest, or tradition. In conclusion, id definitely rather spend my money trying to support bands like lightning bolt than buy the new chingy single, but i dont feel the need to look down on people who do.
3) [image]http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/images/news/images/cat_power.jpg{/image]
she kind of has a linda ronstadt-silk purse thing going on in this one.
4) deerhoof. I may be a little biast as a former san franciscan. deerhoofs music is exciting and loud and experimental and new, like freejazz. It makes me really happy when a band can be a geographic reference point, (the san francisco noise sound) and also rise above being much better than that. Nobody has really got it quite as down in that respect of music as much as them, especially because they are loud and noisy. For me, any thing that blazes along the path that sonic youth blazed "pop music+dissonance+guitars=great" is super awesome music. Sufjan, and i think this this is just me, scares me. I know hes got this sort of cute thing going on, and everyones all gaga over it, but i think there is some alterior motive. 50 albums about every state, sufjan? thats too ambitious. So much that i get the feeling that he is going to try to take over the world, overthrow the government and start world war 3. That may sound a little crazy, and nobody believes me, but you will all see, hes a very ambitious young man.
5) Just one please!