Posted by Hammerer on 04/15/06 14:24

"Angrie, dammit" <noemail@myhouse.nyt> wrote in message
news:Vqu%f.3637$Es3.720@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net
>
> For several months, I've been sporadically looking for mp3 versions
> of music that I already own on both LP and cassette, (thank you very
> much RIAA), so I can load it into my Walkman.
>
Wouldn't it be easier to rig-up some kind of portable analogue-playing
system? Easy as pie. Three shopping trolleys; one for your record player,
one for a portable generator, and the other for speakers, LP's, generator
fuel, etc. Tie them side-by-side and push them along the street, or maybe
even one-behind-the-other and pull them like a train. A compact, eye (and
ear!!!)-catching setup that would be the envy of your neighbours, and would
be one in the eye for the RIAA. And the likes of Buy.com.
>
> Couldn't find it, so I saw that Buy.com had the download available
> for 9.99. (OK - so I was gonna share it too. That's what I do.)
> I almost caved, but their user agrement is scary. I'm not up on all the
> technical stuff, but damn - all I wanted was 9 -10 songs, and I had to
> agree to download all kinds of codecs and DRMs - whatever those are...
>
They're the digital equivalent of my 'shopping trolley' idea . . . .
unwieldy, impractical, bothersome, irritating, really REALLY daft, and
injurious to your system.
>
> It was far too long for me to even dwell on. I thought "This can't be
good!"
> and I ran weeping into this den of sympathy. <Insert Hammering here>
>
Nah. You're doing too fine a job yourself.
>
> Needless to say, there shall be no "Mad Love" Linda Ronstadt on my
> CD player, unless I find it cheap at a damn yard sale or something.
>
Urban crime . . . . eh, Angrie? It's a fucking nightmare. When a woman can't
listen to her favourite, easy-listening, corporate, countrified,
middle-of-the-road, musical "product" on her CD player because it's been
stolen by some anti-social reprobate who sells his/her ill-gotten gains at
some damn yard sale, or something, well, it just grinds my gonads, it really
does. Hope it still works when you buy it back. Good luck.
>
> Sucks. She did a cover of Elvis Costello's "Party Girl" that I really
like.
>
You know her? Great. I know a few "party girl's" myself, though I don't
think any of them have ever belonged to Elvis Costello.

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