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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2013 at 11:09
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

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Of course that Bandcamp make a hard cash on their smart way.
Otherwise, the company is gonna be disappeared from the market. But that Idea is a leftist and (or) progressive idea, and that's great.
Bandcamp made that new prog revolution possible. New highway for Progressive Rock - far away from old fashioned records companies bourgeoisie - is open now. That's the essential.
That's not bandcamp, that's the internet in general.
Internet is the ghost from the bottle. And you know that, when that ghost is free, as it is since (effectively) 90s aswell, it have / could take any form. One of its forms is Bandcamp.
Actually, the story about Bandcamp is basicly a sociological story / phenomenon / perspective, so evidently related to approved in the real life and consequently timeless Marxism's strand of [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism ]  Dialectical materialism developed by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
 
 
 
 
 
 
" 1. The determination of the concept out of itself (the thing itself must be concered in its relations and its delvopment)
2. The contradictory nature of the thing (the other of itself), the contradiction forces and tendencies in each phenomenon
3. The union of analysis and synthesis
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2013 at 11:49
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Of course that Bandcamp make a hard cash on their smart way.
Otherwise, the company is gonna be disappeared from the market. But that Idea is a leftist and (or) progressive idea, and that's great.
Bandcamp made that new prog revolution possible. New highway for Progressive Rock - far away from old fashioned records companies bourgeoisie - is open now. That's the essential.
That's not bandcamp, that's the internet in general.
Internet is the ghost from the bottle. And you know that, when that ghost is free, as it is since (effectively) 90s aswell, it have / could take any form. One of its forms is Bandcamp.
Actually, the story about Bandcamp is basicly a sociological story / perspective, so evidently related to approved in the real life and consequently timeless Marxism's strand of [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism ]  Dialectical materialism developed by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
 
 

And that most certainly is a load of old boll@@ks
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2013 at 11:57
LOL You're not wrong there Steve LOL
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2013 at 12:16
Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Of course that Bandcamp make a hard cash on their smart way.
Otherwise, the company is gonna be disappeared from the market. But that Idea is a leftist and (or) progressive idea, and that's great.
Bandcamp made that new prog revolution possible. New highway for Progressive Rock - far away from old fashioned records companies bourgeoisie - is open now. That's the essential.
That's not bandcamp, that's the internet in general.
Internet is the ghost from the bottle. And you know that, when that ghost is free, as it is since (effectively) 90s aswell, it have / could take any form. One of its forms is Bandcamp.
Actually, the story about Bandcamp is basicly a sociological story / perspective, so evidently related to approved in the real life and consequently timeless Marxism's strand of [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism ]  Dialectical materialism developed by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
 
 
 

And that most certainly is a load of old boll@@ks
LOL "old boll@@ks" that the millions of young intelectuals around the globe read Marx' Capital right now ?!
In fact, they know that the capitalism is came to the wall. So, they will find way to the new renaissance, or the world will return in barbarism - an indications for that is, for example, that the millions of people believe that Kardashians are the real people.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2013 at 12:23
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- an indications for that is, for example, that the millions of people believe that Kardashians are the real people.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2013 at 12:32
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LOL You're not wrong there Steve LOL
 
 
One day people will wake up and smell the starbucks.
I growed up in that legendary Marshal Tito's self-management socialism ( where, for example, the communist party was giving all support to the progrock bands to make their music almost 100% free of "market claims" ), and I'v been learned about all these things in school.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2013 at 12:38
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

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- an indications for that is, for example, that the millions of people believe that Kardashians are the real people.
 
 
LOL but not Cardassians, Kardashians..as same as the millions also think that the real people are "world leaders" too, and similiar freaks from big media made in the laboratories of neoliberal capitalism - which is actually over and it is in free fall now.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2013 at 13:00
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

LOL You're not wrong there Steve LOL
 
 
One day people will wake up and smell the starbucks.
I growed up in that legendary Marshal Tito's self-management socialism ( where, for example, the communist party was giving all support to the progrock bands to make their music almost 100% free of "market claims" ), and I'v been learned about all these things in school.
Then you should be able to recognise how wrong you are. There is nothing remotely lefty/socialist about the internet or anything on it, and that includes Bandcamp. It is not an egalitarian and nor is an Untopian idyll, once commerce gets involved all idealism evaporates, the popular artists get more popular at the expense of the lesser know and also-rans, this is as inevitable as the sun rising every morning and setting every evening. Even in the brief history of the Internet we can predict this will happen because there isn't a single enterprise or endeavour that has been launched onto the world wide web that hasn't followed this path. Because the internet (and all that is in it) is a global phenomenon it means that single powerful "clusters" rapidly dominate, so control of that cluster reduces to the few rather than the many. Bandcamp is a prime example of that, there is only one prefered music hosting site - ReverbNation and SoundCloud have lost the race, (see here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91557 ), Napster, mp3.com and all the other "one-clicks" are no where to be seen - that is not the result of communism or socialism or left-wing ideology, that is survival of the fitest, that is "only one can survive".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 13 2013 at 13:12
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

LOL You're not wrong there Steve LOL
 
 
One day people will wake up and smell the starbucks.
I growed up in that legendary Marshal Tito's self-management socialism ( where, for example, the communist party was giving all support to the progrock bands to make their music almost 100% free of "market claims" ), and I'v been learned about all these things in school.
Then you should be able to recognise how wrong you are. There is nothing remotely lefty/socialist about the internet or anything on it, and that includes Bandcamp. It is not an egalitarian and nor is an Untopian idyll, once commerce gets involved all idealism evaporates, the popular artists get more popular at the expense of the lesser know and also-rans, this is as inevitable as the sun rising every morning and setting every evening. Even in the brief history of the Internet we can predict this will happen because there isn't a single enterprise or endeavour that has been launched onto the world wide web that hasn't followed this path. Because the internet (and all that is in it) is a global phenomenon it means that single powerful "clusters" rapidly dominate, so control of that cluster reduces to the few rather than the many. Bandcamp is a prime example of that, there is only one prefered music hosting site - ReverbNation and SoundCloud have lost the race, (see here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91557 ), Napster, mp3.com and all the other "one-clicks" are no where to be seen - that is not the result of communism or socialism or left-wing ideology, that is survival of the fitest, that is "only one can survive".
Actually, that is related to dialectical materialism. A contradictions in music industry itself made it.
 
EDIT: Don't make a wrong connection between "Untopian idyll" and Marxism' strand of Dialectical materialism. There's not any idealism in Dialectial meterialism because the theory is based on cycling of the historical necessity.
Of course, a lot of idealism you can find in a communist's point of view, but you can not find a drop of that in Dialectic materialism where a human being is regarding as an economic unit as well. And that's why the theory is great  - and approved.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2013 at 11:27
Band Camp (bandcamp) {band camp}
 
I dunno, I recently signed up to download Knifeworld's latest and I voluntarily paid them for the FLAC, although you can download it for free, in order to support them for the upcoming album. Big smile


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2013 at 11:36
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

LOL You're not wrong there Steve LOL
 
 
One day people will wake up and smell the starbucks.
I growed up in that legendary Marshal Tito's self-management socialism ( where, for example, the communist party was giving all support to the progrock bands to make their music almost 100% free of "market claims" ), and I'v been learned about all these things in school.
Then you should be able to recognise how wrong you are. There is nothing remotely lefty/socialist about the internet or anything on it, and that includes Bandcamp. It is not an egalitarian and nor is an Untopian idyll, once commerce gets involved all idealism evaporates, the popular artists get more popular at the expense of the lesser know and also-rans, this is as inevitable as the sun rising every morning and setting every evening. Even in the brief history of the Internet we can predict this will happen because there isn't a single enterprise or endeavour that has been launched onto the world wide web that hasn't followed this path. Because the internet (and all that is in it) is a global phenomenon it means that single powerful "clusters" rapidly dominate, so control of that cluster reduces to the few rather than the many. Bandcamp is a prime example of that, there is only one prefered music hosting site - ReverbNation and SoundCloud have lost the race, (see here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91557 ), Napster, mp3.com and all the other "one-clicks" are no where to be seen - that is not the result of communism or socialism or left-wing ideology, that is survival of the fitest, that is "only one can survive".
Actually, that is related to dialectical materialism. A contradictions in music industry itself made it.
 
EDIT: Don't make a wrong connection between "Untopian idyll" and Marxism' strand of Dialectical materialism. There's not any idealism in Dialectial meterialism because the theory is based on cycling of the historical necessity.
Of course, a lot of idealism you can find in a communist's point of view, but you can not find a drop of that in Dialectic materialism where a human being is regarding as an economic unit as well. And that's why the theory is great  - and approved.


There's this great Danish book called Erasmus Montanus by Ludvig Holberg you'd probably dig big time. It's about a young man who goes to college and manages to get everything wrong. One of the things he does when he returns to his homestead is to prove that his mother is a stone. " A stone cannot fly. Mother cannot fly. Ergo Mother is a stone."


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2013 at 13:59
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

LOL You're not wrong there Steve LOL
 
 
One day people will wake up and smell the starbucks.
I growed up in that legendary Marshal Tito's self-management socialism ( where, for example, the communist party was giving all support to the progrock bands to make their music almost 100% free of "market claims" ), and I'v been learned about all these things in school.
Then you should be able to recognise how wrong you are. There is nothing remotely lefty/socialist about the internet or anything on it, and that includes Bandcamp. It is not an egalitarian and nor is an Untopian idyll, once commerce gets involved all idealism evaporates, the popular artists get more popular at the expense of the lesser know and also-rans, this is as inevitable as the sun rising every morning and setting every evening. Even in the brief history of the Internet we can predict this will happen because there isn't a single enterprise or endeavour that has been launched onto the world wide web that hasn't followed this path. Because the internet (and all that is in it) is a global phenomenon it means that single powerful "clusters" rapidly dominate, so control of that cluster reduces to the few rather than the many. Bandcamp is a prime example of that, there is only one prefered music hosting site - ReverbNation and SoundCloud have lost the race, (see here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91557 ), Napster, mp3.com and all the other "one-clicks" are no where to be seen - that is not the result of communism or socialism or left-wing ideology, that is survival of the fitest, that is "only one can survive".
Actually, that is related to dialectical materialism. A contradictions in music industry itself made it.
 
EDIT: Don't make a wrong connection between "Untopian idyll" and Marxism' strand of Dialectical materialism. There's not any idealism in Dialectial meterialism because the theory is based on cycling of the historical necessity.
Of course, a lot of idealism you can find in a communist's point of view, but you can not find a drop of that in Dialectic materialism where a human being is regarding as an economic unit as well. And that's why the theory is great  - and approved.


There's this great Danish book called Erasmus Montanus by Ludvig Holberg you'd probably dig big time. It's about a young man who goes to college and manages to get everything wrong. One of the things he does when he returns to his homestead is to prove that his mother is a stone. " A stone cannot fly. Mother cannot fly. Ergo Mother is a stone."
LOL yea he's out of order.
Well, If you like the books in that style, I recommend you this novel from 19th century.
 
 
Really great 'decandent' novel from 19th century, quite opposite of Marx' Capital and Dialectic Materialism.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2013 at 06:10
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

LOL You're not wrong there Steve LOL
 
 
One day people will wake up and smell the starbucks.
I growed up in that legendary Marshal Tito's self-management socialism ( where, for example, the communist party was giving all support to the progrock bands to make their music almost 100% free of "market claims" ), and I'v been learned about all these things in school.
Then you should be able to recognise how wrong you are. There is nothing remotely lefty/socialist about the internet or anything on it, and that includes Bandcamp. It is not an egalitarian and nor is an Untopian idyll, once commerce gets involved all idealism evaporates, the popular artists get more popular at the expense of the lesser know and also-rans, this is as inevitable as the sun rising every morning and setting every evening. Even in the brief history of the Internet we can predict this will happen because there isn't a single enterprise or endeavour that has been launched onto the world wide web that hasn't followed this path. Because the internet (and all that is in it) is a global phenomenon it means that single powerful "clusters" rapidly dominate, so control of that cluster reduces to the few rather than the many. Bandcamp is a prime example of that, there is only one prefered music hosting site - ReverbNation and SoundCloud have lost the race, (see here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=91557 ), Napster, mp3.com and all the other "one-clicks" are no where to be seen - that is not the result of communism or socialism or left-wing ideology, that is survival of the fitest, that is "only one can survive".
Actually, that is related to dialectical materialism. A contradictions in music industry itself made it.
Actually, it isn't. While incremental changes may or may not be the result of contradictions or opposites, they are more likely to be the result of "trial and error" - something was tried (mp3.com and Napster and to some extent, MySpace) - it did not work so something else was tried (one-clicks such as Mediafire and MegaUpload) - it did not work, so something else was tried (SoundCloud, ReverbNation, Bandcamp). None of these were a reaction to the music industry as such, they were all enterprises attempting to corner a market share that the music industry is unable to service. (Not unwilling but unable). 
 
It is a myth that all these "solutions" grew out of the malaise of the music industry. The music industry was only interested in Napster when it was pirating their product without permission, they could not give a flying fart about Napster selling music made by some kid in his bedroom with Cubase. It didn't then and it doesn't now.
 
All these attempted solutions are Vanity Publishing. The music industry cannot make money out of low-volume artists, it is simply the wrong industry for that kind of product, (or the wrong product for that industry), in much the same way that Sears or JC Penny cannot sell the handmade craft products sold at Craft Fayres, niche Boutiques and Market Stalls - this isn't a issue of scale or volume, but of the lack of sufficient potential customers for it to be economically viable - you can only sell a limited number of hand-knitted toilet roll covers, and you can only sell a limited number of ambient psychedelic experimental drone electronica albums (I know, I've tried). This is not a failing of the music industry, but a failing of artists expectation and customers perception.

There is a naivety of expectation that Bandcamp product is equal to (for want of a better description) Top 40 product, and this is at best a misconception, at worse it is disingenuous. Bandcamp is not even a rival for iTunes or Amazon at the present, though I expect that will change as more signed artists begin using it, but then so will the nature of Bandcamp - these distribution enterprises will converge at the expense of the small independent artists (and their followers) that currently champion Bandcamp.
 
Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-Bandcamp, under different circumstances I may even use it, (I have tried SoundCloud but after 13 years I grow tired of repeatedly uploading my albums to the ever-shifting sand as each venture briefly flourishes and rapidly vanishes from the internet), but I do not see it as the great music revolution.
 
Bandcamp (and their ilk) are not leftist or communist, Amanda Palmer and Pelican are not using Bandcamp for the greater good, they are not aiding any of the other artists who use Bandcamp, their sales are not funding the whole "community". There isn't even an indirect knock-on effect resulting from their use of Bandcamp. They use it to sell their products to their audience and in the process making money for themselves and the owners of Bandcamp. This is not socialism. Nor is it leftist or socialist or communist when smaller independent record labels and otherwise signed artists use Bandcamp for distribution, that is merely using it to deliver product without playing games with Pinnacle or Plastic Head (PHD) ... (or Copro or Cleopatra or Dress2Kill for the lesser known artists) ... and here I do recognise that this particular tactic is in someway connected to dialectical materialism - dealing with Disties is the least enjoyable part of the music industry and one seldom discussed.
 
The irony is that the way in which the music industry operates is far more socialist than it appears. The labels pay 100 artists to make records, a small percentage (say 5%) of those make money, the remaining 95% make a loss. The gains from the few pay for the losses of the many. The problem there is the artist that sells a million albums and grosses $10million (and netts a percentage of that) does not see that the "missing" $millions was used to fund the other 95 artists who did not sell a million albums - and they see this as "unfair" - grrr! evil fat-cats! Bandcamp redresses that perceived imbalance, now the artists makes $9million, Bandcamp's owners make $1million and all the other artists get nothing.This is not socialism.
 
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

EDIT: Don't make a wrong connection between "Untopian idyll" and Marxism' strand of Dialectical materialism. There's not any idealism in Dialectial meterialism because the theory is based on cycling of the historical necessity.
I didn't. Presumed idealistic Cause and perceived ideological Result are unrelated - it is a connection you made, not me.
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Of course, a lot of idealism you can find in a communist's point of view, but you can not find a drop of that in Dialectic materialism where a human being is regarding as an economic unit as well. And that's why the theory is great  - and approved.
Then it is irrelevant. (and off topic).


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@Dean, I think that you confuse socialism with communism what is an ideal, and that society was not implemented anywhere. Something that looks like communism is the kibbutz but it's not communism. But, back to the topic. Bandcamp managed to beat the others like Myspace, Reverbnation, Soundcloud, etc., because of its ingenious design. When you go to Bandcamp pages, you may choose an album based on a cover as many of us used to do in the ancient time. For a fan, that's the most exciting and the most fun way to discover a new band or an artist.
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@Dean, I think that you confuse socialism with communism what is an ideal, and that society was not implemented anywhere. Something that looks like communism is the kibbutz but it's not communism. But, back to the topic. Bandcamp managed to beat the others like Myspace, Reverbnation, Soundcloud, etc., because of its ingenious design. When you go to Bandcamp pages, you may choose an album based on a cover as many of us used to do in the ancient time. For a fan, that's the most exciting and the most fun way to discover a new band or an artist.
As amusing as it is that you presume to know what I confuse, I do no such thing. I am fully aware of the differences between ideology and reality, Bandcamp is none of those socio-political ideologies nor is it any socio-economic realities. Bandcamp is a self-signing record label without the finacial support for the artist and it is a distribution network without a distribution infrastructure. The ingenuity of Bandcamp is not the design because we've seen that all before, the ingenuity is getting people to promote it for free ... not promoting the bands, artists, albums and tracks themselves, but idea of Bandcamp itself ... selling the hope of the dream but not the reality.
 
Picking an album by its cover alone is stupid, picking an album just by reading the artists self-promoting hype is also stupid - the advantage of Bandcamp is streaming, (assuming you have hours in a day to listen to 10,000s of tracks), not the pretty pictures and the vague genre tagging.
 
With old skool record labels the odds are 100:1 of an artist selling big - what that means is there is a 1% chance of randomly finding a great album on that label. With Bandcamp those odds decrease by factors of thousands - you will find stuff you like, you may even still like it next week, if you remember it. But you will not find that one magnificent life-changing masterpiece album that you dream of finding by chance alone, the odds are stacked against you and against the artist. Because I don't care for the 2-star and 3-star albums, I've enough of those to last me a lifetime (having bought too many of them because of the pretty picture on the cover), I want magnificence.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2013 at 07:07
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

@Dean, I think that you confuse socialism with communism what is an ideal, and that society was not implemented anywhere. Something that looks like communism is the kibbutz but it's not communism. But, back to the topic. Bandcamp managed to beat the others like Myspace, Reverbnation, Soundcloud, etc., because of its ingenious design. When you go to Bandcamp pages, you may choose an album based on a cover as many of us used to do in the ancient time. For a fan, that's the most exciting and the most fun way to discover a new band or an artist.
As amusing as it is that you presume to know what I confuse, I do no such thing. I am fully aware of the differences between ideology and reality, Bandcamp is none of those socio-political ideologies nor is it any socio-economic realities. Bandcamp is a self-signing record label without the finacial support for the artist and it is a distribution network without a distribution infrastructure. The ingenuity of Bandcamp is not the design because we've seen that all before, the ingenuity is getting people to promote it for free ... not promoting the bands, artists, albums and tracks themselves, but idea of Bandcamp itself ... selling the hope of the dream but not the reality.
 
Picking an album by its cover alone is stupid, picking an album just by reading the artists self-promoting hype is also stupid - the advantage of Bandcamp is streaming, (assuming you have hours in a day to listen to 10,000s of tracks), not the pretty pictures and the vague genre tagging.
 
With old skool record labels the odds are 100:1 of an artist selling big - what that means is there is a 1% chance of randomly finding a great album on that label. With Bandcamp those odds decrease by factors of thousands - you will find stuff you like, you may even still like it next week, if you remember it. But you will not find that one magnificent life-changing masterpiece album that you dream of finding by chance alone, the odds are stacked against you and against the artist.Because I don't care for the 2-star and 3-star albums I've enough of those to last me a lifetime (having bought too many of them because of the pretty picture on the cover), I want magnificence.
1) I didn't mentioned Bandcamp in the contest of socialism. I mentioned Dialectic materialism, for some other reason, but not SOCIALISM. I said at previous page that Bandcamp is based on an idea which is leftist idea and (or) progressive idea in its essence. I know that when it says *left-wing* that straight associate with socialism, but it's not. Actually, *left* indicates a progressivity in every field of human endevor; the term comes from the French Bourgois when the rich citizens who were fight against the aristocracy (what was very progressive at the time) have been called "left-wingers" just to be discerned from the rich citizens who supported aristocracy and have been called "right-wingers" for the same reason.
2) Nope. it's not stupid to pick album by album cover. When you in a records store with a lot of new albums, (as it is also in an internet record shop called Bandcamp) and picked an album on that "stupid" way, it involves an adventure; would an adventure like that be stupid thing for a proghead who's looking for a new album while watching all these beautiful covers? a conservative person's answer will be "yes, it's very stupid". Quite obviously, because conservatism and progressivity is two different worlds. About "un-reality" what Bancamp sell.. Well, with the "bandcamp bands" & "bedroom magicians" you can talk here in the forum, what wasn't / isn't that obvious thing with a number of the artist who are signed for old fashioned record labels who, in so many cases, don't allow the artist even to upload one full song at Youtube - maybe teaser only - because that kind of the labels are working as the exclusive boutiques of high fashion clothing. No problem (who cares?), but they don't sell very expensive clothes, they sell CDs and LPs, so I don't think they will survive on the market; also, not so many people will hear music of their new artists but ok it's their choice. On other side are open-minded and modern record labels who have their presence at Bandcamp (who promote bands and albums hence there), who allow music of their bands at Youtube, etc, and I salute that
3) That streaming is also part of the Bandcamp's ingenious design. In my previous post I pointed out the graphical part of it, because when you came at Bandcamp pages you can not hear the music first but you see the covers.
4) Quantity makes quality. In late 60's and during whole 70s a huge lists of prog (and prog related) albums were relesed, just few are passed the test of time; it means that less albums was released, consenquently the less 70s albums will be  attracitve for the kids in 2010s.
5) I don't know how you rate the albums because I don't know you criteria, but I heard some of 3 star albums who are better than some of 5 stars rated albums.
 
 
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2013 at 08:28
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

1) I didn't mentioned Bandcamp in the contest of socialism. I mentioned Dialectic, for some other reason, but not SOCIALISM. I said at previous page that Bandcamp is based on, basicly, an idea which is leftist idea and (or) progressive idea. I know that when it says *left-wing* that straight associate with socialism, but it's not. Actually, *left* indicates a progressivity in every field of human endevor; the term comes from the Frech Bourgois when the rich citizens who were fight against the aristocracy (what was very progressive at the time) called "left-wing" just to be devided from the rich citizens who supported aristocracy and have been called "right-wingers".
The modern concept of left-wing is associated with socialism and that is how people will interpret any comment you make regarding Bandcamp being "leftist". If you meant something different (eg class or social based, which I also dispute btw) then you should have corrected that earlier.

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2) Nope. it's not stupid to pick album by album cover. When you in a records store with a lot of new albums, (as it is in an internet record  shop called Bandcamp too) and picked an album like that, it involves an adventure; would an adventure like that woud be stupid thing for a proghead who looking for a new album that wasching all these beautiful covers ? a conservative person's answer will be 'yes, it's stupid". Quite obvuously, because conservatism and progressivity is two different worlds.
Experience says otherwise. A pretty picture is not an indication of the music within. Dreadful albums can have great covers and great albums can have dreadful covers, that's a reality. When you chose albums by some stereotype generic cover you tend to get stereotypical generic music. 

Roger Dean covers tend to look the same because that is his style of art, that is not a reflection of the diversity of albums or artists they are used on: Motown Chartbusters Volume Six and Snafu's eponymous album sound nothing like each other or Close To The Edge. A Yes fan picking Snafu because of the Roger Dean artwork would result in disappointment.

Similarly Hipgnosis album covers have a certain interchangeable style: stripped of any album title or band name the covers they produced for The Nice, The Cranberries, Catherine Wheel, Audioslave, Mars Volta, Biffy Clyro and Muse and they could be Pink Floyd covers, yet none of those band's music is anything like Pink Floyd.

for example:

whose cover is this... Pink Floyd or The Nice?

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Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

About "un-reality" what Bancamp sell.. Well, with the "bandcamp bands" & "bedroom magicians"you can talk here in the forum, what wasn't / isn't that obviouswith the number of the artist who are sighed for old fashioned record labels who, in many cases, don't allow the artist even to upload one full song at Youtube - maybe teaser only - because that kind of the labels are working as the exclusive boutiques of high fashion clothing. No problem, but they don't sell very expensive clothes, they sell CDs and LPs, so I don't think they will survive on the market; other thing is open-minded and modern record labels who have their presence at Bandcamp and I salute that
That's nonsensical, and relates to nothing I have said about Bandcamp. Your analogy is flawed, labels are not the haute couture boutiques, they are the off-the-peg chain-stores - they are the volume producers and the volume sellers, Bandcamp is not in that market (at the moment).

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3) That streaming is also part of the Bandcamp's ingenious design. In my previous post I pointed out the graphical part of it, beceuse when you came at Bandcamp pages you can not hear the music first but you see the covers.
Same is true of Amazon and iTunes, your point is moot.
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

 
4) Quantity makes quality. In late 60's and during 70s a huge lists of prog (and prog related) albums were relesed, just few are passed test of time; it means that less albums was released, consenquently the less 70s albums will be  attracitve for the kids in 2010s.
This is made worse by Bandcamp, not better, and the time scale where these Bandcamp albums will fail the test of time is rapidly reduced from 40 years to a matter of days or weeks. Quantity does not make quality: "Never mind the quality... feel the width" is an age-old British idiom.

Three years ago I wrote a whole blog-page on this subject that sadly few people understood: (http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=64725) - that blog was written before the rise in popularity of Bandcamp but everything I wrote there still applies.
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

 
5) I don't know how you rate the albums because I don't know you criteria, but I heard some of 3 star albums who are better than some of 5 stars rated albums.
My rating system is immaterial, as is yours. If you have the skill to find albums that meet your 5-star criteria by surfing Bandcamp then good for you, I do not have that time nor patience to sift through 100,000 looking for those that meet my personal 5-star standards. Cream is not the only thing that rises to the surface.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 17 2013 at 02:27
^ I think that nobody here is crazy that much to think that I mentioned the word *leftist* in this thread in contest of Socialism as the civil order. However, it's perfectly clear that Bandcamp is prepared an ideological soil for New Prog Revolution. The young artists are free to do what they want in Bandcamp. Also, in Bandcamp these talented young musicians are not threated as the prisoners as it is the case in many of those old-fashioned bourgeoisie's physical record labels with the target audience. Furthermore, when young bands' albums at Bandcamp are good enough, if they to play a number of live gigs and alredy have a solid fan base, then if those bands and solo artists for any reason want to deal with a physical record label, not a single old-fashioned bourgeois will be able to dictate the conditions that interfere with their artistic expressions and their artistic freedom, and that is revolutionary in this very moment.
 
 
p.s. Actually I don't like the pic you posted above, and I knew it's a cover of some bullsh*t music. As you know, the red balls who are come out from nowhere doesn't instantly send an artwork in the league of Hipgnosis; in Art, *how* is the most important thing, not *what*.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 17 2013 at 02:39
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

^ I think that nobody here is crazy that much to think that I mentioned the word *leftist* in this thread in contest of Socialism as the civil order. However, it's perfectly clear that Bandcamp is prepared an ideological soil for New Prog Revolution. The young artists are free to do what they want in Bandcamp. Also, in Bandcamp these talented young musicians are not threated as the prisoners as it is the case in many of those old-fashioned bourgeoisie's physical record labels with the target audience. Furthermore, when young bands' albums at Bandcamp are good enough, if they to play a number of live gigs and alredy have a solid fan base, then if those bands and solo artists for any reason want to deal with a physical record label, not a single old-fashioned bourgeois will be able to dictate the conditions that interfere with their artistic expressions and their arististic freedom, and that is revolutionary in this very moment.
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