I’ve been a regular reader of Scott Pack’s blog, Me and My Big Mouth, for some time. I think I stumbled across it after Scott’s company, The Friday Project, published ambulance blogger Tom Reynolds‘ book Blood, Sweat and Tea. But whatever way I found it, I quickly came to enjoy Scott’s mix of books, music, photos, interviews and Friday Project news.
About a week ago, Scott had a brilliant idea:
To celebrate the fact that copying CDs may soon be legal and that my music posts on this blog tend to get more hits than book ones I am going to start a record club.
…here’s how it works. A small number of us, perhaps 5 or 6, join up. Every month (or whatever) we each make a compilation of music. We then burn copies on CD and send them to the other members. Simple really.
The thinking is that we should all end up with a pile of interesting CDs once a month and that (hopefully) there will be a bunch of new and exciting music for us to enjoy and investigate further.
I signed up in an instant, and there are now six of us busy burning our first CDs - themed, at Scott’s suggestion, as “Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself…” I’d say I’m not the only one who is having desperate second thoughts about their selection, but it’s too late now: we’ve agreed to get the stuff posted off for the weeked.
I’ll reveal my choices tomorrow, after the postman has struck. If you’re interested to see what’s in it, and what the others have chosen, take a look at the new Me and My Big Mouth Record Club blog. Who knows - you might find something you like.
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Happy to oblige Puss. One of the advantages of being a little more than faintly ridiculous is the vast amount of pleasure I seem to bring to some folk…
Ah one issue: copying CDs will not become legal. Copying for CDs for personal use may be (i.e. for creating mp3 files to play on the CD-owner’s iPod or PC; backing up the CD).
Sharing music with friends is not legal, and will not become so, because of this proposal.
Talking what you propose on the public Internet is asking for trouble too.
all the best,
Ian
Aw, don’t be cranky - I meant it in a good way. It reminds me of being at uni and making mix tapes for people, and of all the people who’ve made mix tapes for me, and the reasons why they did it.
Puss
Sorry. Sarcasm is my default setting so I guess I assume the same of others.
Puss
Ian - fair point and thanks. I daresay we’ll end up recommending MP3s to download from iTunes. There can’t be anything wrong with that.
I saw your list - half the songs I love, and the other half I don’t know. I’ll definitely be looking those songs up.
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