The Canadians got Smart!
Jun. 12th, 2003 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearWEA Spain and WEA Germany, up 'til now the only sources for Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003, decided to do the "copy protection" thing, which in essense corrupts the CD in order to prevent cdrom drives from reading it and making copies. This is, of course, an insulting and degrading practice, both in treating the customer like a criminal before they've even bought the product, and in handing out an inferior product (minor scratches like those that come from car cd players can wreck more havoc in playback).
Well, it seems that Warner Music Canada, in their distribution (mind you, there's no U.S. distribution yet, but importing from Canada was cheaper than importing from the EU or UK), decided to NOT corrupt their copies. Meaning it played instantly on cdroms, I was able to make clean cd copies for my car (which has wrecked cds before), and I have it in mp3 format for playing on my portable mp3 player.
There are legitimate Fair Use reasons for making copies, and its nice that SOME record labels (even when technically part of the SAME record label) recognize that.
The liner notes say "Manufactured by Warner Music Canada, Scarborough, Ontario". Seems Ontario's been real nice to me twice this week. :)
Well, it seems that Warner Music Canada, in their distribution (mind you, there's no U.S. distribution yet, but importing from Canada was cheaper than importing from the EU or UK), decided to NOT corrupt their copies. Meaning it played instantly on cdroms, I was able to make clean cd copies for my car (which has wrecked cds before), and I have it in mp3 format for playing on my portable mp3 player.
There are legitimate Fair Use reasons for making copies, and its nice that SOME record labels (even when technically part of the SAME record label) recognize that.
The liner notes say "Manufactured by Warner Music Canada, Scarborough, Ontario". Seems Ontario's been real nice to me twice this week. :)
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quick review
Date: 2003-06-12 10:31 am (UTC)Its quite odd hearing something again based on something that's been so inherently ingrained in my life for so long. In some parts the digital cleanliness and better keyboards and tuning work, in others its lacking something.
I guess it probably would have bothered me more had I not heard so many live versions over the years and watched his views of which sections are more important change over the years. The sound he gets for the opening is almost exactly the same as he got in the Art in Heaven concert in 1999.
I suppose eventually I could get around to mixing the best of the best into a single definitive "this is Joe's fav" version in a few, incorporating stuff from the original and the new (and maybe the mix from boxed or even TB2 or some live versions).