Stay the fuck out of my music thread!

[In The spaGhetto]

he's an absolutely amazing bassist - on a par with jaco pastorius imo. but he also makes a lot of twisted jungle stuff.

[DirtDawg]

Allman Brothers Band, "Fillmore East."

[McGiver]

i'm ghey, by Dick Enjarear

[ASpHole]

Sunburned Hand Of The Man -  Gather 'Round  (Sounds like an unholy union of 'Live Evil' era Miles Davis with Can, With  Butthole Surfers embellishments from their 'Hairway To Steven' era)

[DirtDawg]

Interesting description!

Ozric Tentacles, now.

[DirtDawg]

Gimme an "F" ... gimme a "U" ... gimme a "C" ... gimme a "K".

Whazzat spell?

New laws create second-hand woes for CD retailers

By Ed Christman

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Independent merchants selling and buying used CDs across the United States say they are alarmed by stepped-up pawn-broker-related laws recently enacted in Florida and Utah and pending in Rhode Island and Wisconsin.

In Florida, the new legislation requires all stores buying second-hand merchandise for resale to apply for a permit and file security in the form of a $10,000 bond with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. In addition, stores would be required to thumb-print customers selling used CDs, and acquire a copy of state-issued identity documents such as a driver's license. Furthermore, stores could issue only store credit -- not cash -- in exchange for traded CDs, and would be required to hold discs for 30 days before reselling them.

At least one Florida town has enforced the law, resulting in the cited merchant pulling used CDs from its store.
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The law in Utah and the legislation pending in Wisconsin and Rhode Island are also harsher than typical pawn-shop laws, according to John Mitchell, outside counsel for NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers).

Brian Faber, director of operations for the eight-store, Phoenix-based Zia chain, says that while the rules sound onerous and could devalue the used-CD market, "we would comply and the market would ultimately adjust itself."

Faber says about 40 percent of his chain's volume comes from used-CD sales, paying out 80 percent cash and 20 percent store credit. If retailers could only pay out credit, he says, it could negatively affect product flow. The used-CD business' low pricing, he adds, is already being devalued by falling prices of new CDs.

Meanwhile, NARM says it will try to help shape the pending legislation. In Florida, retailers selling previously owned videos and videogames managed to carve out a partial exemption from the law so that they do not need a permit and have to wait only 15 days before reselling the merchandise.

Reuters/Billboard

Lets just go ahead and shut down the CD market, starting with the second hand dealers.

[Calandale]

That's just crazy.

Listening to Yessongs.

[ASpHole]

5ive - Nitinol  (more guitar heavy sludgy drone)

[ASpHole]

Sunn 0))) - Catch 22(Surrender Or Die)

[Calandale]

Yes - 9012LIVE

[Calandale]

CCR - chronicle.

[Calandale]

Tull - Live Bursting Out

[DirtDawg]

Nothing new, but more of the downloads, from a couple of weeks ago. I would not have known what to download in this genre if it weren't for the continuous posting from duncvis.

Thanks, Dunc.


BTW - I think I posted that I had seventy thousand songs on that hard drive (as if I had downloaded seventy thousand songs in one overnight session) but that was a mistake. That is how many songs I have ripped to the computer in TOTAL.) I have about a twelve hundred songs on that disk, roughly four hundred I downloaded that night and just over eight hundred he already had on it (mostly current jazz) which he had downloaded.

I didn't want anyone to think I was THAT full of shit, but I can deal with "retarded and no concentration". I would love to have a connection that would download seventy thousand songs in one night, but I don't.

[McGiver]

water and vinegar- douchebag

[odeon]

"Bad Moon Rising", CCR