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crevecoeur wrote:HEy Hench !!
it seems that the first Phil spector link
is the sama that the last one, eugene chadborne..

can you correct that ??

Hi Ray

Thanks for your honesty regards the downloading of "We Spit On Their Graves".

WSOTG is a difficult issue. Especially regarding genuine fans like yourself. People want to hear it, but there are only a handfull of original legitimate copies around. The prices some people have paid for the vinyl bootleg have been surprising to say the least. Against this of course are the matters of artistic and mechanical control.

We do intend to reissue WSOTG in it's complete form in the not too distant future. So clearly downloads may cause a problem at some stage.

However, while I cannot condone the downloading of our music, I fully understand people's need to hear difficult to find releases. All very easy to do in a world where it is obtainable free at the touch of a button.

Due to file sharing program's such as Soulseek, downloads are an inevitable inconvinience for artists. I think it becomes more of a problem when downloads are made available on the internet through forum's, blogs or personal download site's.

If I could put a stop to people downloading Sutcliffe Jugend material tomorrow, I would.

This will never happen.

While not giving you a straight reply, I hope this goes some way to answering your question, which I think is a personal issue at the end of the day. Either you are comfortable doing it, or you are not . . .

Whatever your decision I would ask that you do not share it with anyone else.

regards

Kevin

rayj wrote:...so, if Mr. Tomkins doesn't reply relatively soon, I'm left with no choice but to delete these wonderful files. Which I haven't listened to yet.

Fucking hell.

voerking wrote:

rayj wrote:...so, if Mr. Tomkins doesn't reply relatively soon, I'm left with no choice but to delete these wonderful files. Which I haven't listened to yet.

Fucking hell.

dude. i don't get this at all. it is currently unavailable. if they reissue it you WILL buy it...so why do you feel you shouldn't listen to the downloads? i guess, as a musician, i feel that once music is out in the world, it's no longer mine to control.

rayj wrote:

voerking wrote:

rayj wrote:...so, if Mr. Tomkins doesn't reply relatively soon, I'm left with no choice but to delete these wonderful files. Which I haven't listened to yet.

Fucking hell.

dude. i don't get this at all. it is currently unavailable. if they reissue it you WILL buy it...so why do you feel you shouldn't listen to the downloads? i guess, as a musician, i feel that once music is out in the world, it's no longer mine to control.

I feel the same way. However, I am not Mr. Tomkins. If I ask an artist whose work I genuinely respect about what he thinks concerning the subject, and I get a negative response...well, I feel obligated to comply with the wishes of that artist.

Hopefully, I can just send him some cash.

Glenn W. Turner wrote:What on Earth prompted this email?

rayj wrote:

Glenn W. Turner wrote:What on Earth prompted this email?

Well, I wanted to know what the guy thought about the whole issue. I assumed he wouldn't give a shit, but he does.

I asked before posting the Snailboy/Shorty 'practice' recordings, too.

I like Sutcliffe Jugend and Shorty/U.S. Maple. As a result, I try to respect their material in a way that works for them. It is their production, after all.

Les Joyaux De La Princesse is a cult French oneman band operating in the industrial network. Erik Konofal is the man behind the project. Some of his releases are in the heavy industrial-noise vein, while other contains melancholic and sad musics for organ and piano mixed with historical French speeches. Each of Les Joyaux De La Princesse's record is a sort of small audio document presenting an historical fact, usually located in the France of 1930s' and 1940s'. Most of them are sold out and sought-after collector items due to the small number of copies pressed and the extremely luxurious packages.