Bargain bin?
Sorry, couldn't resist...
That would offend me if I could quit laughing long enough!

K

P.S. Stillrockin, you guys have a good funk going. Musically, I dig your sound.
Thanks kabeyun. We aren't trying to be 3rd day or other popular CC groups . . Just doing our thing, and having a ball actually. This is probably the first band I have even been involved in, where no one actually has stars in their eyes. Everyone is pretty content just to play regionally. Wives aren't jealous when we do. In fact, this is the first band I have ever been in, where its actually fun even when we aren't on a stage somewhere!

just to further muddy the waters can i point out that in most countries it is actually illegal to copy your own music either cross format or even duplication eg ripping to mp3 from cd, taping your own vinyl (anyone still got theirs) making a cd for the car etc.

http://www.digitalproducer.com/2001/...9_24/cdlaw.htm

:steps back.

now what d'you think about that??
I can't buy this one! I have albums that I have made all kinds of copies of some kind over time. Many of my albums have only been played once! That was to make a Cassette tape of them so that I could preserve them. One of these days, I will get around to recording them digitally. They are mine! I bought them. I should be able to do with them what I want. If that is to burn them to CD or make more Cassette tapes, I should be able to . As long as I am not making them and selling/giving them to you, I should be able to do with it what I want. But I admit, I have used kabeyun's philosophy on P2P networks. I have a huge PF collection on vinyl. I have listened to it all, and like most of it, but PF just does something for me! If I saw a PF song or an album on the P2P network, I didn't think twice about downloading it . . After all, I had the original The same way with about anything from JOe Satriani, Steve Via, Eric Johnson . . . . I had purchased almost anything any of them ever did! Why should I have to buy it in 4 different formats to enjoy it?? I am sorry, but I just don't feel like I am violating any kind of anything when I already own it on CD or Vinyl.
The real exciting thing that is going on here is that artists will be less and less reliant on a record label for purposes of recording. That's really where the labels get the artists by the balls. Recording has gotten less expensive and the level of quality available to your average musician can rival that of a major label recording. This is just going to get better in the future. Its an interesting dialogue. Whether it happens or not remains to be seen, but there is great potential for a major powershift. Its exciting.
I once read an article called "back to the future" it was talking about music and how once upon a time, all you had was "live music". That was the only way you could appreciate music. But technology came along to change that. This technology was expensive so the musicians had to sign contracts and make promises so that people would spend money and market them. But now the technology is growing in so many ways. You have software to allow you do amazing things in your own bedroom, and you have the internet to market you. Many independent bands are actually "making it" without the constraints that come from a Sony or an RCA, or Epic Record deal.