I always gave them the benefit of the doubt in terms of the spectacular commodification and repackaging of underground/oppositional/counter-cultural artifacts, but now I am starting to think - let a thousand VOD rips bloom!īlank Frank - I completely agree with all your points - the only thing that irks me is the fact that Herr VOD feels that blogs like this 'really sucks bad' when it happens that something posted here is also released on VOD.

To be honest, I am astonished by Herr Maier having a go at this blog - and what is funny is as soon as my house sells, I was planning on getting some decks again and start buying vinyl and one of the first things I planned to do was get a VOD subscription - that is definitely not happening now! That's one less potential subscriber!.ĭon't get me wrong, the VOD releases are beautiful and the label has both introduced me to many artists I never knew about and also reintroduced me to many my middle aged addled memory circuits had accidentally deleted all reference to. Of course it ignores the fact that one of the main reasons VOD has a client base to buy their expensive products in the first place is exactly because of music blogs like DIEORDIY and No Longer Forgotten Music that introduced this music to a whole new generation. Whoops, should have read this before erm posting some VOD rip links in another comments section (feel free to delete it as the last thing I would want is to make Herr Maier feel that it 'really sucks bad'!)

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