Notes
Published by AdminLad on Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Notes about stuff…
Charts
You might be wondering about the state of the charts. As you may have guessed they are water damaged. I’ve had them since the day they were released and for most of that time they were kept in a folder, in a box, in a cupboard, in a non-leaky building. I stupidly got involved with a woman who almost ruined my life on multiple levels. One of those levels was forcing me to leave a lot of valuable—to me, at least—items in a garage that had a roof with more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese. As a result, the charts got wet, and then dried before I even knew they’d got wet. A lot of them are destroyed but there are a handful that I was able to save, and these are the ones I’m eventually scanning and posting.
For those that looked, you may have noticed that at the bottom of the 5AD charts it lists the stores that help to compile the chart. Most were fairly generic stores but they also used Andromeda Records, Seeing Ears, and The Muses, which were 3 of the very best record stores in South Australia. They also used Carrig Records in Northpark Shopping Centre in Prospect, which became my main record store when I moved away from Elizabeth. Some fond memories of that time not the least because of the dreamy, Petra 😍 😍 😄
Bandcamp
According to my purchase history, I first discovered Bandcamp way back in 2011 and it remains the only place where I will buy digital music. Fuck Apple, and all the rest because they’re as bad as record labels when it comes to paying the artist. I haven’t bought vinyl in at least 30 years, even though I now acknowledge that the analogue sound quality is superior to digital but I do still buy CDs—sometimes from Sanity but mostly from eBay, and occasionally from a discount store such as Cheap As Chips. I’d like to buy CDs from Bandcamp but unfortunately, the nature of that service means the postage is prohibitively high—3 or 4 times the price of the CD in some cases—so the artist doesn’t really make that much more money from them than the digital version of the release. Plus, since I upgraded the car stereo to play FLAC files from a USB stick, and I have a DAP with a 512GB card in it, I have digitised all my CDs and listen to them through those devices, so it’s just easier and quicker to pay and download the digital FLAC files from Bandcamp.