Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/06/87)
Really-From: William LeFebvre <phil@rice.edu> Well, not the *whole* story...... Many days after ranting and raving about the incredibly inflated price of the CD The Whole Story, I went out to one of the larger local chain record stores and found <ta, ta!> The Whole Story on CD at a lower price, about $15. I still don't consider such prices reasonable, but they do seem to be the norm. Anyway, not being able to resist Kate's eyes on the cover of the CD, I bought it. Now I am quite sure why the other one was >20 and this one was only 15. The expensive one must have been an import. The one I purchased is made by EMI America and was undoubtedly made in the good ole' USofA. And what does the recording quality sound like? In a word, lousy. My receiver/amplifier displays volume as db reduction, i.e.: 30db is loud and 60db is soft. Almost every other CD I own, and certainly all the rock/jazz CDs, is played at 50db. This produces the most comfortable listening volume. But, sad to say, The Whole Story is, on the Whole, recorded much softer than any other disk. I find myself turning it up to as much as 40db just to hear some of the tracks. And what's worse is that not all the tracks are recorded at the same volume. Some are louder than others. The softer ones sound muddy and murky. Basically, the production quality of this disk isn't worthy of the artist it attempts to reproduce. I am very disappointed and in a quandary about what to do next. I don't really want to shell out the bucks for an import copy, and if I did what would I do with this lousy domestic one? FLAME:=true; I'm really getting tired of the domestic record companies and the federal government conspiring to decrease the quality of our recorded music while making it more expensive and generally harder to acquire GOOD quality recordings. If there were some decent disc and record makers in this country, the situation would be a little different. But import taxes continue to climb, import quotas continue to decrease, and the quality of domestic recordings continues to drop. Sounds like a secert plan to get more tax money out of us serious listeners. FLAME:=false; WEIRD_IDEA:=true; Consider this: since any given American record company holds an EXCLUSIVE license to market a specific album/song by a specific artist, then that company, as far as I'm concerned, holds a MONOPOLY on that specific instantiation of music. I think the ARTIST should hold exclusive license to his/her music and let as many record companies produce and market the music as he/she wants. That would be true competition! WEIRD_IDEA:=false; SIGNATURE:=true; William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu> SIGNATURE:=false;
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/06/87)
Really-From: Dave Hsu <hsu@eneevax.umd.edu> >Really-From: William LeFebvre <phil@rice.edu> > >Well, not the *whole* story...... > >Many days after ranting and raving about the incredibly inflated price >of the CD The Whole Story, I went out to one of the larger local chain >record stores and found <ta, ta!> The Whole Story on CD at a lower >price, about $15. I still don't consider such prices reasonable, but >they do seem to be the norm. Anyway, not being able to resist Kate's >eyes on the cover of the CD, I bought it. >... > > William LeFebvre > Department of Computer Science > Rice University > <phil@Rice.edu> >SIGNATURE:=false; Fortunately (for you D.C. KT CD people) The Wiz warehouse store in Beltsville has the EMI/America CD of "The Whole Story" for $12.99, $11.99 on sale weekends. -dave No, I have nothing to do with the Wiz 'cept as a customer. -- David "bd" Hsu hsu@eneevax.umd.edu <or> seismo!mimsy!eneevax!hsu EE Computer Facility, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park, MD 20742 "Home is where you wear your hat"
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/10/87)
Really-From: William LeFebvre <phil@rice.edu> >Really-From: Dave Hsu <hsu@eneevax.umd.edu> > Fortunately (for you D.C. KT CD people) The Wiz warehouse store in > Beltsville has the EMI/America CD of "The Whole Story" for $12.99, > $11.99 on sale weekends. I maintain that the EMI-America CD of "The Whole Story" isn't worth $12.99 or $11.99 or even $9.99. It might be worth as much as $4.99. It's probably worth the cost of the materials. My CD copy of Santana's Abraxas (can you say "Hiss City, Arizona"?) is better than this disk, qualitywize. Oh well, I think I'll live with it. I'm not about to spend $20 on a "best of" collection, even if it is Kate Bush. And now that "The Dreaming" is out and rumor has "Never for Ever" practically on the shelves, then the only unique things you get with "The Whole Story" is "Experiment IV" and the alternative vocal to "Wuthering Heights". So I'll probably live with this bad copy, at least for awhile. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>