Heartland

I have yet to see any torrents etc of The Sisters' remastered cd's on the net.
Would this be a sign of their diminishing popularity?

Or a sign of a loyal fan base. Those who've heard about the releases by now probably aren't the kind to throw them straight up as torrents and given the geek-filled core following of the Sisters, those who find out later won't be the ones who are capable of doing so.

i downloaded floodland and falaa from a torrent file i found on soulseek. It was a german site, and quite full of people seeding it. Cant recall it now.

Motz wrote:Or a sign of a loyal fan base.

The last NMA and FotN CD went straight on torrent sites (before the release date I think). Don't they also have a loyal, geeky fan base.

The first and third release can be found on Demonoid but release number two is still difficult to find and I haven't seen it anywhere yet.

I'd rather have the real deal, spelling and tyopgrahic mistakes n'all.
I just wouldn't do it, anyway.
Unless you were a very good mate who couldn't afford a cuppa-soup, first.

Don't be tempted folks, it's just plain wrong, I tell ya!

I must confess, I first loaded some Sisters stuff...
Got into them and since bought everything I could get my hands on

So file sharing ain't just bad

Dead_Rock wrote:So file sharing ain't just bad

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I stand by original post even though I am guilty of burning CDs for friends.
I have chosen my friends well, they usually go out and buy product by whatever band I have blawn their kilt up by.

I have FLACed up the re-releases, purely for backup purposes (no, really!) but I wouldn't upload them. It would be biting the hand that feeds IMO. Or at least biting the hand that fed 15 to 25 years ago...

James Blast wrote:I'd rather have the real deal, spelling and tyopgrahic mistakes n'all.
I just wouldn't do it, anyway.
Unless you were a very good mate who couldn't afford a cuppa-soup, first.

Don't be tempted folks, it's just plain wrong, I tell ya!

Seconded! And if it's for "not affordable" reasons: there's plenty of non-official Sisters stuff on the net to download, so there's no need for official stuff to be available.

markfiend wrote:I have FLACed up the re-releases, purely for backup purposes (no, really!) but I wouldn't upload them. It would be biting the hand that feeds IMO. Or at least biting the hand that fed 15 to 25 years ago...

FLAC...sooo much better than MP3, but destined to be the beta-max of audio compression I fear.

Anyhooo....I have no problems with sharing/torrets of live gigs or demos, but not official releases. That's just very, very wrong on so many levels.

Syberberg wrote:FLAC...destined to be the beta-max of audio compression I fear.

Betamax: the format preferred by audiophiles, and still used by video professionals today (well, at least until superseded by digital)

But you knew that, right?

markfiend wrote:

Syberberg wrote:FLAC...destined to be the beta-max of audio compression I fear.

Betamax: the format preferred by audiophiles, and still used by video professionals today (well, at least until superseded by digital)

But you knew that, right?

Yep

i'm liking the FLACC thing but still prefer MD,
surely a contender for the Beta-Max of the audio world?

Yeah, I have a minidisc deck (and a MD walkman) that are pretty much unused these days. MD uses lossy compression by the way.

It's a crying shame too, cos MD was the right product (portable robust digital audio format) but at the wrong time (cheap flash memory was just around the corner).

Like others, I prefer to have the real thing, but have no issues with giving copies to folks. If they like it they'll probably buy at some point, and the band will have gained a fan they wouldn't have had otherwise. If they don't like it, they save their money by not buying something they were at least curious about. Everybody wins.

mh wrote:It's a crying shame too, cos MD was the right product (portable robust digital audio format) but at the wrong time (cheap flash memory was just around the corner).

I think it's still quite a good solution for live recordings and interviews. I just wish my MD walkman had a decent built-in mike. Wires are so inconvenient.