The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126218   Message #2802870
Posted By: GUEST,matt milton
04-Jan-10 - 07:35 AM
Thread Name: Free Rare Old Folk Album Downloads
Subject: RE: Free Rare Old Folk Album Downloads
"Tony Rose, On banks of green willow
Nic Jones, The Noah's Ark Trap
Capstick, Burland and Gaughan, Songs of Ewan MacColl

Any suggestions where I can buy these?

The idea that all this stuff is legitimately available is just not true - lots and lots of albums are gone and aren't likely to come back, and scrupulous uploaders like the guy at GJIKMT are doing us all a favour."


The important thing for me is whether or not you've given any of the surviving musicians you mention above any money or not. Or posted a link with a contact email address on the website you used to acquire them, with the suggestion of doing that. (Or even just sent them an email to tell them how much you enjoyed their album - there are other ways of 'paying' people besides giving them cash.)

It sometimes feels on those sites as if some of the users prefer their folkies dead, because it further abstracts the product from having any connection to a producer of it who works and eats and sleeps and does all the things that require money.