{"id":25,"date":"2005-01-04T19:20:18","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T00:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=25"},"modified":"2005-01-04T19:25:43","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T00:25:43","slug":"end-of-the-world-party-pooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2005\/01\/04\/end-of-the-world-party-pooper\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the World Party Pooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought the new Medeski Martin and Wood<\/a> CD today, titled End of the World Party (just in case)<\/a>. I’ve heard some of the sample tracks on the web-site, and it rocks pretty hard. Very rich palette of keyboard sounds here, lots of “voice chorus” Mellotron<\/a>, bass-heavy analog synthesizer sounds, and of course the usual Hammond and piano.<\/p>\n

Rocking good tunes, I was looking forward to hearing them fully. But now I’m bitter, and shaking my fist at the world. Why? Because I can’t play the stupid thing. It’s copy-protected. My laptop would not even recognize that a disc was present.<\/p>\n

It plays ok in my truck’s CD player, but that doesn’t cut it for me. I want to play it on my laptop, rip it into MP3s, and add it to my large collection of MP3s (every last one of them legally ripped from CDs I legally purchased, by the way.) But I can’t. The disc is useless to me. Back to the store it goes.<\/p>\n

To their shame, HMV refused to take the disc back. They say it’s not defective. In a sense, they are right. In another sense, they are wrong. The disc was designed<\/em> to be defective.<\/p>\n

But it was not a complete waste. They did let me exchange it for another disc. I was in a hurry, so I couldn’t take a lot of time. I picked up The Best of Triumph the Insult-comic Dog DVD. Everybody on the Internet remembers Triumph from his hilarious riffing on a group of unsuspecting Star Wars geeks<\/a>. I don’t have enough comedy in my DVD collection anyway.<\/p>\n

Instead of paying solid cash for this defective piece of shit, I’ll just have to go find the tracks on BitTorrent or something. I tried to buy it legally, but I was unable to. So, great work there, guys. Are you happy now?<\/p>\n

I’m sure somebody has been able to rip the album, or at the very least, redigitized it (with imperceptible loss of quality) from the analog output of a CD player. The analog hole<\/a> has not been plugged yet. And never will be, I’ll wager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought the new Medeski Martin and Wood CD today, titled End of the World Party (just in case). I’ve heard some of the sample tracks on the web-site, and it rocks pretty hard. Very rich palette of keyboard sounds here, lots of “voice chorus” Mellotron, bass-heavy analog synthesizer sounds, and of course the usual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}