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

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?