So...

The Princess is playing two movies I REALLY want to see right now...

If anyone is interested in joining me in the next week-ish, they are encouraged to say something soon.

The movies are:
I'm Not There about Bob Dylan
and
Persepolis Hint, hint, Jess! (if you haven't had enough of me already, that is)

I wish more people would follow that train of thought. All the music I've downloaded I have subsequently gone out and bought the actual album. It's just unfortunate that people take the try-before-you process a litle too far and don't pay for their appreciation of your work. They just outright take what they want and after saying they didn't enjoy it they don't delete it.

As for torrent I can see that being a problem for people who don't have a torrent application or for real rare stuff. Unfortunately that means most of the music I download has to be found other ways.

I would suppose it IS stealing if you subsequently download from the links you find. Otherwise, no.

As for the torrent, I didn't want to assume we were all torrent capable here. I know some people still are not (though for the life of me I don't know why).

However, sometimes even with torrents you gotta resort to the file upload sites to find the rare stuff.

Also, from a moral standpoint I don't feel too bad pointing you in the direction of these links as I truly believe there is merit in the try-before-you-buy process (not that I'm condoning straight up stealing which I am not). In fact, Champion City Records' newest release uses that very model. You can use paypal to make a donation (for whatever amount you wish to donate) for the album (and if you donate over $12 we'll mail you the physical album). So yes, you can download the album for free if you wish, but we're hoping you'll like it enough that you'll be willing to throw us a few dollars in return.

Isn't finding links to a "file download" site considered "stealing"?

But yes torrents are the way to go if you are into "stealing".

Or you could use this. You know, if you're into stealing.

okay, I just noticed the megashares site is slow...

here's the same files on megaupload:

PART 1 PART 2

Say what, NEITHER of you heard amputechture??! I am surprised to hear this. Maybe I should be finding links for that one instead, haha.

psst, tony:

PART 1 PART 2
(the password for these files is: www.alternative2punk.com)

oh and also:

BONUS TRACKS

I really shouldn't post when I'm sleep deprived. On rereading, I come off as more critical than I'd like. (For example, I know and knew that it was the RC's call on the road conditions, not yours, alison; my apologies for the misunderstanding.)

As for your sound issues, I can't even pretend to know what that's about. There's nothing on the site that sound be coming close to touching your sound card, save for flash, and there's no flash in any recent posts, so the only flash on the site is the weather info, which I don't think produces any sound anyway.

Anyone else have problems with their sound?

In any case, the old version is about one free weekend (whenever that comes) away from the scrap heap, so I'm probably not bug-fixing at this point anyway.

(And how the fuck did we miss a whole album??)

The new one: Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath

Apparently, they even had a full-length out in 2006 called Amputechture.