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Reminded of this from an entirely unrelated post

which means I've got this (youtube, music) stuck in my head again.


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@plumpan

So I was looking at the video linked above and it has the following in the upload description:

(c) 1993 by Juice Box. I do not own this. Originally uploaded thanks to unavailability on streaming services, but you can now legally stream and buy the album on Bandcamp, please make sure to do that: aguycalledgerald.bandcamp.com/album/28-gun-bad-boy

And I looked and, yes, he's got a bandcamp and that's just, the album. On the bandcamp. And the bandcamp links to his website and the website back to the bandcamp, so it does seem to in fact be him and not some elaborate scheme. The album was originally released on the aforementioned Juice Box, which was run in part by AGCG. The Discogs Page for the label specifically mentions that he has the rights to the music which is... a bit on the nose, but chances are since he effectively self released that he has the rights to re-release now. That being in contrast to say, another 1993 all time legendary album, Orbital (1993), by Orbital who were probably signed to FFRR at the time and the ownership has thus changed hands many times since.

Not that I have any issue with the original artist selling the music they made 30 years later even if they technically do not have the rights to do so. That's all record label bullshit anyway.

But I find this super interesting because for the most part, old music falls into the same bucket as old games to me: I could go buy a copy but that's just paying someone that owns a copy and not anyone that was responsible with making the thing exist, so who cares? But if I can go pay the Original Artist for an album I already know I enjoy, having been listening to it for years after downloading it for free the better part of a decade ago, that changes things a bit doesn't it? I wish more people were able to do this.

I'm as adamant that everyone who can spend their disposable money first on the creatives whose work they enjoy, as I am adamant that it's a fucking waste to spend money to "legally" own a thing which does not pay the creatives who made it.


As an aside, some albums you tend to have vivid memories of what you were doing when you listened to them. I remember listening to Orbital (1993) with some kinda cheap audiophile stuff I had at the time in high school, and when Lush came on it completely grabbed my attention away from whatever I was doing. I remember listening to the first The Field album, among other things, while working a very mundane job in some of those poor post HS years.

28 Gun Bad Boy I remember listening to, along with the Undertale soundtrack of all things, around the time that I became a furry. Directly before that in fact, before I went to my first con and things finally started to click in my head. I remember working a different, weirder mundane job in weird times, and being floored by this absolutely foreign, dark, weird sound. It's a lovely album but the mix at the beginning is my favorite part for sure.


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