Music: August 2003 Archives
Throught the wonderful Internet Archive Wayback Machine, I was able to visit my old site again. My biggest proud of that site was the big list of all the CD's I own. So here it is, the list of March 12, 2001!
I just found a small list on my desk, and remembered that I wrote it last Friday --- or better: Saturday morning --- to publish it later on this site. The aim was to make it clear that I had a great night, visiting my favourite club Pentagrama again. These are the titles and artists of some songs they played, and people who know me and these songs can imaging that I was enjoying a lot.
- London calling -- Clash
- Personal Jesus -- Depeche Mode
- Black Betty -- Ram Jam
- Tunnel of love -- Dire Straits
- Should I stay or should I go -- Clash
- Entre dos tierras -- Héroes del Silencio
I have been thinking about making this list into a small contest, but I have no idea what to give to the person who knows all corresponding artists. Maybe I can come up with something later, so go ahead and tell me who you think the performers are.
[Update 2003.08.28]: Coen van Kuijk sent me a list which contained only one mistake. After a small hint he was able to give me all the names of the artists. Somebody wants to try to solve it in a single try????
[Update 2003.09.03]: Since I haven't received any other messages, I decided to fill in the artists and close the competition.
First a question for the music industry: "What the heck are you doing?"
Yesterday MJ gave me a present; the CD Fleshwounds from Skin. Of course I was really happy with it, but I immediately noticed a big label on both sides with the words COPY CONTROLLED. In the specifications I read that this CD would work in any CD-player, the latest Macs and PCs with minimal Pentium II, 233 MHz and 64MB RAM. I am perfectly happy with my Cyrix P133+ with 48MB RAM, and until now I was able to play any CD I liked. Of course I tried to play the CD, but my computer could not find the CD. :-(
I really like buying CD's; I prefer to buy one to using a copied CD. Because for me the CD is more than just the disk with the bits and bytes. I like to look at the artwork in the booklet, and no inkjet printed paper gives me the same feeling as the original CD. And because I usually buy older CD's, I never feel that I pay a lot --- of course I wouldn't complain if they became cheaper. So I buy the original CD's because of the better quality of the total product.
But now the record companies are throwing in their own windows, because they decrease the quality of their product. And why would I want to pay a lot for something that is broken? I don't have any problem yet, since there are so many old CD's out there that I still want to buy. But I can assure that I am never ever going to buy a copy protected CD anymore. Not because I want to copy it --- which I feel is my right --- but because it is essentially a broken product.
You can read more about copy-protected CD's at Kuro5hin or if you truely want to know everything you can go to the UK campain for Digital Rights.
