At 08:55 PM 6/15/2003 -0700, you wrote:
and you did - there's a free track on that Japanese website, and two of the other tracks have been readily available.... that should be enough to whet your appetite (or discourage you altogether). as someone who did pay the $37 to have it shipped from Japan, i'll be damned if i'm going to facilitate or encourage someone downloading an album which is readily available for purchase. yes, its expensive, but if you want the luxury of listening to it before its domestically available, you pay the price or suck it up and wait.
If the means are there to preview the album in gloriously clear 192/44 MP3, please explain the sense in buying it without properly listening to it first. I certainly wouldn't have spent AU$56 importing the album on the strength of Dilmun, Gee Strings, that obnoxious but admittedly catchy first track, and even the beloved Land of Green Ginger. I downloaded it to see if it's worth buying, and i really wanted to justify spending that much money on it; now that i've heard B&T it's highly unlikely i'll bother to import it even if i'm promised a sterling blowjob from whichever FedEx employee delivers it. I'm sorry but even if the Orb release an album there's no moral onus on us to buy it without having a listen to it first. If you yourself want to spend $37 even though you could have heard the album first on peer to peer and made a far more informed decision on what you'd rather spend your money on, that's been your decision: don't assume everyone else is going to take that same tack on historical ceremony. Not to mention i could write a far better song than Dilmun in my sleep. ta, Kurrel