£6 (pounds) well spent

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: JennyO
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 09:37 AM

The way of the cat!

Sadly, sometimes it is - fortunately not often. It looks like nutty has had the misfortune to attract the attention of a few who have their own agenda to push.

Never mind the knockers, nutty - it sounds like you have done well with this CD. Just keep on enjoying it!

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: nutty
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 09:37 AM

GMT ... IT SAYS THIS ABOUT THE TRACK...............

'A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED LIVE RECORDING'

I was just quoting what was written.

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: GMT
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 09:30 AM

Nutty

There Ain't No Sweet Man (Who's Worth The Salt Of My Tears), appears on Norma Watersons self titled album. A wonderful collection of songs with the usual suspects as backup players.

Cheers
Gary

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: skipy
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 09:23 AM

The way of the cat!
Skipy

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: Scrump
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 09:16 AM

I had no intention of advertising a site run apparently by greedy warrior women who will rip off artists as soon as look at them.

I can't help wondering, then, why you mentioned them at all :-)

I can't see how Amazon are ripping off the artists unless they are withholding the royalties. Are you suggesting they are doing that?

If you go to your local record shop and pay £10.00 for the same CD that sells for £6.00 on Amazon, you would be deluded if you thought any of the extra £4.00 goes to the artists.

And Captain, I ask since you seemed keen to know - does the CD length meet with your approval?

But, ah, I see it now - a CD can hold up to 80 minutes of music, and this CD only holds 62.5 minutes. Have those b*****ds at Amazon stolen the other 17.5 minutes? :-)

Ye gods, a bloke gives a positive review of a folk CD and gets this!

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: nutty
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 09:01 AM

I'm still not sure what all this hostility is about.

There may be other Definitive Collections.

The ones I'm talking about - the Waterson Carthy ones are issued under license by Topic Records so presumably all copyright issues have been dealt with.

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 06:26 PM

THere may very well be (UK) copyright issues about parallel imports - certainly CD-Wow got it in the neck from the courts again last week or the week before.

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: nutty
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 05:20 PM

Well I looked but I couldn't find Waterson Carthy anywhere or anything cheaper than £6.

I did notice that some folk CD's on offer (Anne Briggs for example) were remastered tracks from vinyl LP's that are no longer generally available.
In such cases they are encouraging people to become familiar with artists who stopped recording many years ago.
The Norma Waterson CD for example has a terrific track of Aint No Man Worth The Salt Of My Tears not previously released.

I really fail to see how the release of such material damages the artists. The Topic Samplers of the past did a similar thing very effectively.

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: Tootler
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 04:46 PM

Regardless of what they are charging, they will still have to pay the artists and composers their royalties and as I understand it, these are pretty much fixed.

So how are they ripping the artists off?

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 04:05 PM

I had no intention of advertising a site run apparently by greedy warrior women who will rip off artists as soon as look at them.

If, however, you are unable to buy direct from artists or from their own sites and HAVE to use rip-off channels, the least you can do is click through from Mudcat (or even better, from fRoots), who will thus benefit slightly from your transaction without it costing you more.

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: Bainbo
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:48 PM

I think the Countess became too used to writing on a site that frowns on advertising :-)

This is the one she means.

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: nutty
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:32 PM

Can you provide a link to that site, please?

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:22 PM

The South American river site flogs these Definitive Collections' for far less than that.
And they practically pay you to take away 'special deals' of buy one and get another for almost zilch.
Very handy for those who don't believe in paying artists a market price for their work.
And wowee, compared to piracy, it's legal.

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: nutty
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:14 PM

My apologies ... the CD length is 62 minutes 30 seconds.

Subject: RE: £6 (pounds) well spent
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:09 PM

I am not implying anything,how many minutes playing time is on the cd.

Subject: RE: £6 well spent
From: nutty
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 02:32 PM

I'm not sure what you are trying to imply Dick. Is it relevant? For me the important thing is the quality of the tracks not the length.

Subject: RE: £6 well spent
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 02:24 PM

would you be kind enough to tell us the length of playing time of each cd.
15 tracks, probably 55 minutes maximium.

Subject: £6 well spent
From: nutty
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 10:13 AM

I don't often spend money on CD's but I was at the Darlington Spring Thing at the weekend and came across some sampler CD'S put out by Waterson/Carthy.

I bought the Norma Waterson Definitive Collection although I intend to follow it with Martin's and Eliza's.

I have just finished listening to it --- what a joy ... 15 superb tracks and all for £6.

I still have my collection of Topic Samplers from the 70's and look forward to more artists producing CD'S for the pockets of the not so well off.