Basilisk - 23 October 2009 05:04 AM

Twisted, offer up your entire catalogue down to the very last vinyl and bizarrely obscure spin-off project and sell it all in FLAC with high-resolution cover art for less than you charge people for the physical media. I’d buy tons.

Amen! I see this very issue in very much the same way.
When I discovered Vibraspheres artist shop on the service known as MusicDock, where I could buy all their releases, singles, albums, even some remix stuff in lossless quality and for a really nice price, guess what I did? I bought _all_ of it at once. I even owned a few of those releases from before on physical media.

If Twisted were to offer up digital downloads with equal or _better_ quality than the physical media, and at a price that counts in the user disadvantage of having to back up stuff locally (the only proper advantage of physical media imo), I would go on a wild shopping spree.

And yes, obscurities, rarities and deleted old stuff is definitely interesting, and selling that for a reasonable price would probably be a nice bonus? Not much investment needed to make that happen?

I will add that I continually buy CDs and Compact Sticks of psytrance and other electronic music, but only when the releases are not available as a lossless quality file elsewhere. I did order the new Shpongle album too, and I’ll continue to buy music.

Like Basilisk, I consider my respectable collection of vinyl and CDs to be very impractical, the covers are awesome in many cases, but the medium is hardly convenient compared to using my Squeezebox or fiddling in Traktor.

Here is to a brave new world in which digital full lossless quality files are also shipped from Twisteds webshop

So long and thanks for all the tunes.
denis

denisb - 24 October 2009 06:57 AM

Here is to a brave new world in which digital full lossless quality files are also shipped from Twisteds webshop

Why not just download them and donate to Twisted (if you really care about paying them)? Saves them bandwidth too.

I know it is rude to feed trolls, but seeing as how this is now okyup’s thread, it seems only proper.
Anyhow, people should stop giving him a hard time.

I have known people like him. It can be hard when you are into your late 30’s and still living in your mom’s basement. You feel like you have wasted much of your life, so you have to lash out at others, putting them down, so you can feel like you are better than someone. Anyone… even if it is a bunch of strangers on the internet.

And after a while, all this anger and prodding begins to arouse. And because he never knows when his mom will walk in the room, he has left traditional internet porn behind and now gets off of irritating others online. You are all (and yes, I too am guilty of this) just giving him wank material.

But it can be frustrating for us when he is walking around insulting music we all love and enjoy. When you get into music… deeply into music… you understand it. It speaks to you. You share a common language. So when a spotty chum guzzler comes along and insults it, we take it personally.

But really it is pointless to insult someone else taste in music. It is just that. Taste.
At least the artists we love on Twisted are still making music and making us happy.
Imagine if you were okyup and you had to spend the rest of your days putting hope into dreams that the Spice Girls will reunite, put out a new album and tour once more. The pain of anticipation he must feel!

But I jest! Okyup did plop up some links of music he thinks is genetically superior or some such drivel. I listened to it and, meh. Bleh. I mean really, most of it was fine. I wouldn’t slag it off, but it did nothing for me. Didn’t speak my language. It seemed bland to me. Like okyups’ moms’ cooking.  Could use more flavor, and probably and heaping spoonful more of love.

One of the things he mentioned that struck me as odd, was okyups notion of Shpongles music wandering around pointlessly. Obviously that is subjective, but really, do you think music is supposed to “get to” a point? (and I am paraphrasing Alan Watts here) Music is about the journey. It is not about getting to the end. Music is all about the act of listening, in the same way that dancing is simply about the journey on the dance floor.
If you feel it wanders aimlessly, you just don’t get it and you are not on the journey.
And that is fine. You don’t get it. We get it. We get that you don’t get it. Get it? Good.

And I’ll leave you all with these wise, old sage words, from the internet archives:
“Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you are still retarded.”

Hm, Simon likes xkcd

If there was offered on the twisted store a high resolution poster of the artwork from Are You Shpongled? and it was ~1 meter by ~1 meter, i would pay an arm and a leg for it… literally

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Shpongling - 24 October 2009 10:01 AM

If there was offered on the twisted store a high resolution poster of the artwork from Are You Shpongled? and it was ~1 meter by ~1 meter, i would pay an arm and a leg for it… literally

Yeah! I am baffled by the fact there are no posters for sale. Honestly… most of the albums I’d buy a poster for. A couple other labels have amazing posters that they sell with the album or release seperately that are just awesome. Shpongle covers would definitely be worth buying as posters.

I got a 1900x1900 version of the cover from the artists website, which i’ve toyed around with by vectorizing it in hopes of creating a poster-printable version

Shpongling - 24 October 2009 10:01 AM

Hm, Simon likes xkcd

Someone else already posted the exact same picture a few pages ago.

Which cover? I’m interested in this, at least for a wallpaper. I don’t own a printer, lol.

Are You Shpongled? I was thinking of having it printed professionally and then mounting it. It’s vectorized so i can blow it up as much as i want without losing detail, though it wont gain any (which is why i’d rather buy one from twisted)

chill out, worm. I’ll be buying the album as well as the DVD. Hopefully others will follow suit. Just do your bit and hope others do

If you guys are going on an internet crusade to make people buy Twisted CDs then I’ll go on a crusade to make them not buy them. I must warn you, I’m an internet genius. I used to be moderator on one of these russian torrent sites and I don’t even know russian. Some people here can confirm it I’m sure. I’m a very influential person.

I love when people follow me from site to site trying to disparage me. Thank you for being my biggest fan, frostbyte.

I can’t be bothered