Posted by Angrie, dammit on 04/15/06 19:57

Hammerer wrote:
> "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.

Easier? Yes, I'm thinking it might be. Rumor had it that the entire CD
was indeed out there, but I can't get it to show in my search.

>>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.

As i suspected. I already seem to have adequate mp3 software.


>> 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.

If I die tomorrow my life will be complete. sniff!


>> 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,

not countryfied. Mad Love was her foray into pop-punk.

> 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.

No no - I already have my vinyl and cassette versions. I need to find
the CD version so I can upload it. I shall not be tempted into buying
the media in the format that I already have! Unless I get confused, that is.


>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.

Somehow I think a girl with "enough" to access EC isn't truly a party
girl anyway.

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