What albums are you listening to this week? And like, why?

Will be spinning this lot cos they're really good...song samples included.


Birds & Batteries - I'll Never Sleep Again
[Mythology: The Great Director]


Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts
[Crippled Croon]

I hadn't downloaded it (Saadiq)... but I am now!

Also, thanks for The Aliens link Ziggy, I managed to get hold of it yesterday so I'm going to give it a spin. The first song is great, I've listened to that one on their myspace many a time in the past few weeks!

Thread needs more links from other people btw....

I don't know what any of those are. But I'm downloading them. Good man Eagle.

M.I.A. - Kala

This album is addictive.

Maybe I am being a little overly cautious, but should we be sharing albums on our public message board? I don't want to see posters removed or this group shut down for piracy. Maybe, just maybe, we should make our boards private?

themcrob said:
Maybe I am being a little overly cautious, but should we be sharing albums on our public message board? I don't want to see posters removed or this group shut down for piracy. Maybe, just maybe, we should make our boards private?

Very good point. Will look into this.

We should privatize the boards anyway—our lofty elitist sayings are not worthy of the eyes of the hoi polloi.

I've yet to download or upload anything for that very reason. Good point about loosing the transparency, though. If there is a way to select what threads get made private, I think it's a no-brainer. Let's do it. If the threads can't be separated, I think we need a vote from everyone...

One person's opinion.

When I joined, I was surprised that voting was open. Whoever the reigning dignitary was at that time patiently explained that being openly elitist was part of the cache (imagine an accent grave over that last e). Also, yes, it is much harder to find a group that is private--witness the fine group BEREP (several of us present & past TMEs are alos in "This Group Only Exists To Have The Best Eclectic Radio Ever - Period" but because the group is private (we wanted to keep voting a private affair because we go into fairly deep analysis of the charts using mathematical models), activity is very low in terms of applicants and interest. For a long time, responses to threads did not show up on Reply Tracker. Many members complained that this suppressed their interest in the group. I vote to keep the conversations and threads open.

Because, the posting of DL's on forums public OR private is something that the Mods have swung large hammers upon, in fact, we ran afoul of that once before here. Very much frowned upon, and likely escaping their attention right now b/c the new version of Last gives them enough to worry about.

Ways around that are simple, and require nothing more than a gmail account + password. I recommend that as the DL solution. Posting links here will get the Hammer of Thor on our heads.

N3croyeti said:
Wow, bit of scaremongering here :) I always hide 'em discreetly in an image when I post, uploading an album right this moment in fact.

And posting gmail accounts isn't entirely necessary. The leader of a mixtape sharing group was officially told my an admin/mod that they could be sent by PM [as opposed to snail mail] since what happens in private messages stays private.

I'm not trying to scaremonger, n3cro. You're on my user's list on slsk for example. But I have been threatened with banishment in the past for participating in a forum that posted links. I hadn't posted any, but we were all guilty by association, and it was a private thread. I'm just saying that a privat thread doesn't solve the problem.

The pm solution is another way--the only problem is that it is largely one-to-one instead of one-to-many, but then so is the gmail solution.

So, n3cro's solution would work like this, if I understand. Whoever has the share, post the img file as usual, and then those who are interested can pm the poster and get the share link in return, am I correct? Works for me.

N3croyeti said:
beelzbubba said:
The pm solution is another way--the only problem is that it is largely one-to-one instead of one-to-many, but then so is the gmail solution.
Oh, I never thought of that

So, n3cro's solution would work like this, if I understand. Whoever has the share, post the img file as usual, and then those who are interested can pm the poster and get the share link in return, am I correct? Works for me.
Actually, I was talking about [ url = link.com][ img]IMAGELINK.jpg[ /img][/ url] so you get a clicky image like:


(otomo yoshihide's new jazz enemble - dreams)

But what you said also sounds okay.

I think looking for the download yourself would be much more expedient than going to the trouble of pm-ing for it. Plus, just cos the link seems hidden behind the image doesn't mean the mods can't read the BBCode that put it there. Not that I absolutely know what I'm talking about.