I do buy music, sometimes, and I understand the benefits but I think the bands benefit more from tee shirt sales and concert ticket than album sales. At least, they do when they've been bought by a corporate label.

What is right -to a degree- for specific niche markets is not a rule for the whole industry:
Metal has a strong merchandising tradition, all styles don't. All styles do not bring huge crowds for a gig.
I suspect people buy tee shirts and concert tickets just because they can't download them (not yet, at least until the nanofax and simstim are available... and think about music DVDs, which are so far the closest we get to a simstim experience, they're replacing CDs... and people download them).
While I agree about the fact that major companies are using CDs and DVDs as a way to sell other products, I don't think using the same thought pattern is healthy. At least for artists, however cynical we might be as consumers.

the last seven cd's I obtained, I bought new. It seems to have turned into a habit, but I wouldn't have bought any of them if I hadn't downloaded an mp3 of the material before purchasing.

Mastodon - Blood Mtn(w/dvd)
Isis - Oceanic
Intronaut - the Challenger
Beenie Man - Undisputed
Orange Goblin - Healing Through Fire
Made out of Babies - The Ruiner
Made Out Of Babies - Trophy

here's a legal one:

Made out of Babies - Swarm

Battle of Mice - The Lamb And The Labrador

Mastodon Vs. Neurosis, pt. 1

And part the second.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
I don't remember, do you play guitar Wanderer?

I do... well, a little anyway. I'm not all that good really.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
the last seven cd's I obtained, I bought new. It seems to have turned into a habit, but I wouldn't have bought any of them if I hadn't downloaded an mp3 of the material before purchasing.

Whenever you make the effort to go to a specific place to buy wine, you can taste a sample of it. Doesn't mean that you can get the whole bottle for free.
All the more so if you consider that a CD is a bottle that would always be full.

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Originally posted by Limulus:

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Originally posted by Wanderer:
PS: i think i need to get me the Meshuggah discography.

Yes you do. No downloading.

Well, i'll see if i can find some of their stuff in the music stores around town, and if i do i might just pick it up. What's their must get album?

Obzen is the only one I have heard in it's entirety.

It's good.

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Originally posted by Wanderer:
Well, i'll see if i can find some of their stuff in the music stores around town, and if i do i might just pick it up. What's their must get album?

I tried to provide Bravus with a quick overview on page 27. ObZen is very good, not my favourite but it displays many sides, while Chaosphere or Nothing clinically explore narrow landscapes. Catch 33 and I are special works, I suggest you listen to them once you're familiar with the band.

Anybody willing to write a review about Death Magnetic here ?
Or do you prefer to rank older records in another thread ?

I haven't actually heard it yet. Heh.

I've only heard a couple of tracks.
They were enough to keep me from listening to the rest.

two word review:
Midlife Crises.

Isis - Grinning Mouths

Intronaut - Nostalgic Echo (live)

Sue hates everything prior to Black, but likes Black and Load. She hated Death Magnetic. So basically, this album could be considered in some ways the followup to ...And Justice, 20 years late. Not as good, and still with some of the lyrical and stylistic weaknesses of their later stuff, but definitely back on the long songs and prog-thrash tip of 'Justice'.

To some extent the same thing applies as with 'Load': better to forget it's a Metallica album, in the sense of forgetting the super high bar they set in the late 80s, and just take it as an album. By any other band, like a new band you were discovering, it'd be a good album. It's just still disappointing from Metallica.

(See also the revived 'Top Tens' thread)

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
two word review:
Midlife Crises.

Had to be posted. I watched the first twenty seconds of "The Day That Never Comes" and turned it off out of sheer embarrassment.

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I watched the first twenty seconds of "The Day That Never Comes" and turned it off out of sheer embarrassment.

The theme of the video clip is unfortunate. The song itself is beautifull though.

New Gojira Album The Way Of All Flesh can be streamed and previewed entirely on MySpace

Well, the whole album minus two songs (due to techincal issues with the new player of MySpace).

First impression: f'ing awesome. They sound a bit more dramatic and theatrical now, which is different, but definatly not a bad thing.