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[cleolinda]

Well, y'all got your revenge on me for that post last night, because my inbox is weeping as we speak. I would have waited until daylight to post it, but I figured that it's always night somewhere, so someone reading it was going to be screwed no matter when I posted. And I read every single comment, and have been freaked out all day.

Wheeee, Lost reruns tonight! And after that... "Quest for the Ring"? And it's more than a month until the ROTK EE comes out. What a strange thing to just randomly be on the WB tonight.

Hmmm. Am hungry. Want fast food. This is fortunate, as Sister Girl and I are on our own tonight in terms of foraging.

Have five-page paper to write on the way Milton identifies Eve with plants in Paradise Lost--something more specific than that, really, but I won't know what until I start the research. (Forced research. Yarrrrr.)

By the way--I just realized that I am a complete idiot. Why have I been wasting my time downloading crap I already own on CD when I could just rip the stinking thing to my computer? (Because my old computer can't do that, and it didn't occur to me to try with the new one, that's why.) It's super-easy, not illegal (that I know of--less illegal, at the very least), and took all of three seconds. And I'm not even talking about entire CDs here. Look: Sometimes I want to listen to the Kim Wilde remake of "Keep Me Hangin' On," and I really do not want to fish out the entire greatest hits collection, which has almost nothing else I really want to listen to on it, except maybe "Kids in America," and... not so much, really. Also: It is my personal shame that I own three Belinda Carlisle albums--not just on tape, but on tape and CD. If I want to put my twenty favorite songs on my computer for easy mixing, I should be able to do that. If you need me, I will be digging up my Taylor Dayne CD. Please leave me alone with my shame.

Comments

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we were kind of figuring you'd regret that. I mean, I got the thread in the middle of the morning, so it was less creepy, but I WAS on my own in a coupla-hundred-years-old creaky squeaky building where someone was allegedly killed over the past however-long.

*looks around* First comment?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yes, but now I have a list of everyone's nightmares and phobias for my own nefarious ends... I mean, uh...

[maeritrae.livejournal.com]

Well, I should be safe enough, unless you're any good at summoning things, because I'm largely over the toilets thing.

[kassandra05.livejournal.com]

I knew it!

[jennnk.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, ripping from cd to computer isn't illegal, so long as you don't share them freely with people you don't know. it's something like the backup copy loophole or something.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I figured--due to my own laziness, I'm typing this on the old computer, which is hooked up to the internet, but the new computer with all the files and the music doesn't have a connection yet. So it's pretty much a good-faith "what's ripped here, stays here" effort.

[shoukinkasegi.livejournal.com]

This is where you begin to realise what huge huge HDDs are for. Storage. Of cds. The thousand cds you own. Now on your computer. Playlists that go on for weeks without a single track being played twice. Now, padawan, you begin to ROCK.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

*lighter flick*

\m/

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

It's super-easy, not illegal (that I know of--less illegal, at the very least)

You are allowed to make as many "back-up" copies of the physical CD/tapes/vinyl records you own as you like, as long as they are not distributed to others. Technically. By ripping the songs to your computer, you are ensuring that you can replace the item you legally purchased in case of damage or loss.

It's a loophole, definitely, but we already pay a penalty tax on blank tapes to account for illegal duplication. I left the music business a while ago, so I don't know if the tax has been expanded to cover blank CDs as well.

Basically, when you buy a record, you are buying the rights to listen to that specific physical medium of expressing the original master. You don't have any rights to the material itself.

I love copyright law. It makes splitting hairs look like throwing an axe at a bullseye the size of Times Square.

[cabell.livejournal.com]

Given how much blank CDs cost, I'm guessing that there's a surcharge on there. Although I've also seen blank CDs marketed especially for music, and they were even more expensive than the usual ones--of course, colored CDs are more expensive than just plain silver ones, and I suspect they're more likely to be used for music CDs... Damn, who knows.

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

*worships at the altar of Taylor Dayne...

[keever.livejournal.com]

My guess is that Quest of the Ring being on tonight has everything to do with the fact that the WB is airing Fellowship tomorrow as part of their November sweeps extravaganza.

Thanks for the heads up on that, though. I don't think I'd ever seen that special.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhhh. I totally didn't notice the FOTR thing. Which version are they running--theatrical or EE?

[keever.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, but it's likely the theatrical, since the promos haven't mentioned anything about material previously unseen on TV, and I'd bet they would. They are showing it over two nights, though, so who knows.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

the promos haven't mentioned anything about material previously unseen on TV

That may be because Starz has already shown both the EEs already--the FOTR EE right when TTT came out, and the TTT EE when ROTK came out. Big deal for them, they ran it nonstop for like a week. Of course, that's cable rather than network TV.

[keever.livejournal.com]

Aaah. See what I get for not being a cool premium channel subscriber?

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

EE, FOTR, TTT, ROTK, WTF? You gonna land on Titan or something? (The last three I can guess must be Lord of the Rings titles, but EE? Not electrical engineering, I'm guessing.)

We had a guy from JPL come to lecture on campus last week, and he sounded just like that.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

EE = "Extended Edition," the versions they sell on DVD with like an extra hour of footage and the Sideshow Weta statuettes and all that. When you're into Lord of the Rings: If There Are Titles Longer Than This, I Don't Want to Know About It (Theatrical Edition), you get used to using abbreviations real quick.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I knew it had to be something like that, but the back of my head insisted on "electrical engineering." The front was all like "No way, dude, must be the 'extra entertaining' version, you need Smackfarthing," but then the back said "There is only P=I^2*R, and those too weak to seek it," which pretty well put an end to the conversation.

YES

[ghost-huntress.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, Lost! I just wish they would show the very first episodes...the ones I missed.

[vladimirsever.livejournal.com]

Well, Boo has just ripped all her favorite Danzig and Queensryche and Megadeath and Pantera albums onto my our HD.

I happen to feel your pain.

[cinnamontwist.livejournal.com]

Kim Wilde, Belinda Carlisle, Taylor Dane....you have a most admirable music collection. ;)

And you are so lucky to be getting Lost reruns. Here in Australia we're resorting to more underhanded ways to getting our Lost fix.

so, uh...

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

*looks around furtively*

Which Taylor Dayne album is it?

Re: so, uh...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm still looking for it, so it's not in front of me, but it's a greatest hits CD. Had to be something with both "Tell It To My Heart" and "Heart of Stone" on it.

[cabell.livejournal.com]

I have one Belinda Carlisle album and the greatest hits of Kim Wilde--you say "You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a remake? Who did the original?

I also based an entire mix around "Summer Rain," and was BEYOND despondent when I discovered that the karaoke joint I frequent doesn't have it! They have "Heaven is a Place on Earth"! What gives?!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

But "Summer Rain" is awesome! Losers.

I have the original around here somewhere--I think it may have been the Supremes. The rhythm and phrasing are a little different--it's worth a listen.

[priestessoya.livejournal.com]

ya know, i was stumbling about on your livejournal and got to thinking, I realize you are doing 5 or more movies in 15 minutes at the moment, however, I think doing Gone With the Wind would be hilariously funny

[edda.livejournal.com]

Please leave me alone with my shame.

Tell it to my heart, baby.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Also? I love "Vibeology" even asI cringe at myself for loving it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Let us not speak of Paula Abdul. Unless you have mp3s you'd like to share.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

*slips you Vibeology and CrazyCool mp3s under the table*

Oh, the shame, the shame....

[fba.livejournal.com]

What do you think people used their iPods for before they launched the iTMS? Ripping your CDs is just like taping stuff for your walkman or car.......

I've been recording my old tapes and records to the computer - is great to be able to listen to stuff I haven't heard in years!

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Bah. How can you be freaked out when you're so universally loved and whatnot? ;) When you get that freaked-out feelin', just say to yourself, "Nothing can happen to me, 'cause the readers of m15m and 'Occupation: Girl' will rise up in a body and kick hellacious ass on my behalf. Freak-out stuff should tremble in fear." :)

Or words to that effect. Yadda-yadda. Whee!

Mmmmm, customized MP3 playlist.

Yarha, To Sleep, Perchance to Dream - Aye, There's the Rug

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

no shame Cleo. if you want to listen to 80's pop queens, go for it. ::digs out Debbie Gibson's greatest hits:: see, i have my shame too. ::giggle::

~~xoxo~~

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

"Only in My Dreams" OMG!

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

ohhhhh yeah! I was actually listening to "Out Of The Blue" when I read your orig. post. LOL.

[neonhummingbird.livejournal.com]

I just spent a weekend being mocked for my love of 80s power ballads. You're not alone in your humiliation. (One of the mockers then proceeded to buy a Nelson's Greatest Hits CD. The mocking from that sector was cut off fairly abruptly.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. (Now I have this urge to listen to that one big song of theirs, even though I don't remember what it was called or what it sounds like. But God, they were funny. It's like what would happen if Legolas decided to start a band or something.)