From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #420 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, June 15 2008 Volume 07 : Number 420 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] CD Rot [Dan Sallitt ] Re: [loud-fans] CD Rot [Markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] CD Rot [Markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] To buy or not to buy? (The Greatest Music Never Sold) ["A] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:09:59 -0400 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: [loud-fans] CD Rot Howdy, all. I just had my first experience with the legendary CD rot. I have a huge, decades-old backlog that I'm slowly chipping away at: today I pulled out a shrink-wrapped digipak of GBV's UNDER THE BUSHES, UNDER THE STARS. It was visibly corroded, and wouldn't play much - I had to throw it away. Not wanting to deprive the band of their big chance in my CD changer after they waited so long, I substituted the SUNFISH HOLY BREAKFAST EP. Same year, same label, same digipak, but it wasn't shrink-wrapped all these years. It's in fine condition. Was the long-term shrink-wrapping dangerous, or was some other factor at work? - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:48:34 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] CD Rot In a message dated 6/14/2008 12:33:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sallitt@post.harvard.edu writes: Was the long-term shrink-wrapping dangerous, or was some other factor at work? - Dan I read your post after having reading the following in the reader comments on an AOL article, so I immediately thought of this: Did it ever occur to any of you that this is a diabolical scheme by the muslim oil producing countries to bring us to our knees financially? Since military force is not a viable way to defeat us, bring us under control through the price of oil. Our economy is faltering now as all transportation industries (trucks, airlines, cabs etc.) teeter on the brink of bankruptcy. Our elected officials have their heads in the sand! The answers are obvious but politically the stalemate in Washington has ground to a halt all the saving opportunities. Paranoid? I don't think so! CD Rot is a diabolical scheme started in the 1980s by Muslim oil-producing countries, back when Bin Laden was ditching temple and playing hackey sack with his buds, to bring record collectors to their knees. They will dance on the graves of our dead Guided by Voices and Aztec Camera CDs, - --Mark **************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:12:28 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] CD Rot In a message dated 6/14/2008 1:03:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Markwstaples@aol.com writes: back when Bin Laden was ditching temple I should've said "ditching mosque" but you know the cultural insensitivity of us gay rednecks. - --Mark, proud owner of pink F-150 . **************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:03 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] To buy or not to buy? (The Greatest Music Never Sold) > The Greenville County Library doesn't have it, Andy! If you're determined not to spend money, you might try something called an Interlibrary Loan. That is, you go to your local library, fill out a form on which you detail the specifics of the book (title, author, publisher, etc.); then the library contacts other libraries until it finds one which has the book, orders it for you and sends a notice for you to pick it up and check it out. This can take time, but it's free. Your library may or may not offer this service, but it's worth looking into. How else would I have read Alejandro Jodorowsky? Andy Bushwhacking President George W. Bush suffered more legal and political setbacks this week, after the Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo detainees had a right to "prompt habeas corpus hearings." That same day, the House sent an impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee. The resolution will likely die, but that didn't stop Huffington Post readers from buzzing it up. Meanwhile, Salon cartoonist Scott Bateman's comic rendering of Dennis Kucinich's charges also drew votes. "Bush impeachment" searches were more than double those for the president himself, and surged into the top 750 terms. [--from http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/91510 ] ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #420 *******************************