If you plan to keep the rips, toss/destroy the original CDs. This is ethical and legal.
I understand wanting to find them a home as I dislike throwing out perfectly good physical things.
The existence of electronics copies brings these issues to the fore. Previously, if you were done with a CD you could give it away, sell it, whatever. Now you need to destroy the CD if you are going to keep a ripped copy.
Ya, I figured as much. I’ll keep them for now. Looking at long term storage boxes and creating some kind of order out of the current chaos. Wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t keep adding Amazon cartloads full. Need to get started on selling my LPs. So much music, so little time.
This now looks so quaint and innocent.
Listening to my FLAC rip of this excellent 2-CD set on headphones while enjoying this online discussion of what should be done with CDs after ripping them. I still have the CDs and have no intention of selling/trashing/donating them!
This label is perfectly legal in Europe where created and released. The copyright laws allow these to be collated and sold. In the US they are technically illegal in many cases as the copyright laws are different and protect the owners for a longer span of time. But these are widely distributed with the US and no one is taken to court.
I agree it’s awful that artists and artists’ families don’t receive renumeration from many types of sales. There are many perfectly legitimate reissues of material in the US where it is reported (I don’t know how factually) that there is no payment to the creators. And even at the time of original release there was little payment to artists from some labels at some periods of time. The record industry generally is set up to make income for the record label. Some artists who make boatloads of money for labels can receive dinghies worth of money. . . some starve. At some point in the 'seventies touring became a better way for artists to make fortunes, and over time artists have begun to gain more control and income. But things seem to be heading backwards with streaming etc.
Right now I’m revisiting this, an excellent release and recording.
The reissue of this on Winter&Winter goes for bigger bucks than quite a few others. I thought of getting that, but this original release sounds so good it seems there’s no urgency.
An excellent point, copyright laws do vary a good deal depending on jurisdiction.
Alice Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda – Divine Songs
These wonderful contraptions in motion on the beach are delicious (they are wind driven).
I know I put this up before, but right now everything seems lined up perfectly and man, does this sound just delicious.
P-Funk fans, this is worth tracking down for (among other great live cuts) Funkadelic’s nine-minute version of “Southwick” recorded live in 1972 at the Sugar Shack in Boston (or, you could just stream this '72 “Southwick” on YouTube here (where it is mis-titled as “Cookie Jar”).
Qobuz 96/24
Here… Tidal stream of some Tiesto mix, need some energy today as it’s quite rainy and gray out there!
Going to the used music store tomorrow. I’ll look for it - along with a hundred other titles on my list. This holiday break has cost me a lot of money so far.
