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WeepingElf 
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 Posted: March 09 2015 at 10:27 |
 darkshade wrote:
Do book fans have similar discussions? Do they go around saying why don't authors just release chapters at a time, sometimes out of order?
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Touché!
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Stool Man
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Posted: March 09 2015 at 11:09 |
WeepingElf wrote:
darkshade wrote:
Do book fans have similar discussions? Do they go around saying why don't authors just release chapters at a time, sometimes out of order?
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Touché!
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A lot of famous books were originally published as serials before they appeared in book form - including The Count Of Monte Cristo (in 139 instalments), and Anna Karenina (serialised over four years)
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tamijo
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Posted: March 10 2015 at 05:52 |
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I prefer to be with a person who play's KC on a cheap getto blaset, to a person who plays some Yes wanna be Neo prog on his 10.000 $ vinyl stereo hf set.
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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CPicard
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Posted: March 11 2015 at 05:23 |
Friday13th wrote:
Nah, we're talking prog, damn it. We need to get bigger not smaller. Forget double albums, we need 100 CD box sets of a band's full discography...all released at the same time. Talk about a killer debut album!  |
Let's not get carried away. Let's start with a 4-CD debut album: the initial songs, their remixes, bonus tracks (including a dozen of cover versions of King Crimson, Yes, ELP and the original "Macross" theme) and a live CD. The 100 CD box set should be left to the old bands providing their whole '74 tour, just like Yes.
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Gerinski
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Posted: March 11 2015 at 14:11 |
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It's true that many if not most people today are happy listening to music on their phone or iPad with earphones or from their PC with some relatively cheap speakers setup, but there has always been and there will always be a market for the whole range, from these to audiophiles. And let's not get carried away, many of these current affordable sound systems sound better than what most people had in the 1970's, yes people were playing vinyls but very often on those turntables which had the speakers built-in in their cover lid and stuff like that. It was only a few wealthy people who had good Hi-Fi systems.
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Dean
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Posted: March 11 2015 at 14:50 |
 that's not quite how I remember the 1970s, but whatevs.
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: March 11 2015 at 14:58 |
Dean was one of those few wealthy people... 
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Dean
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Posted: March 11 2015 at 14:59 |
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Gerinski
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Posted: March 11 2015 at 15:04 |
Dean wrote:
that's not quite how I remember the 1970s, but whatevs. |
Well of course I lived in Spain which was a rather poor and delayed country at the time (compared to most of the 'more northern Europe' that is). Me and most of my friends had a suitcase-style turntable, the ones you could take to any party, I bet that if I listened to that now I would say that it sounded terrible.
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Gerinski
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Posted: March 11 2015 at 15:13 |
Having said that, a Hi-Fi system was one my first priorities when I started to be able to save some money, I think it was around 1982 (I was 16 at the time) that I made what at the time was a huge investment for me, a Thomson Hi-Fi system which costed me around 1000 euros of the time, that was a lot of money in Spain at the time. Turntable, radio tuner, single cassette deck (which I soon replaced by a double one in order to be able to dub tapes), a 100 W amp and 3-way speakers. All my friends would come listen to music to my place as no-one had anything similar at the time. Actually I still have the amp and it still sounds really good 
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When will the album format in prog go away?