23degreesdream wrote:Magrathea wrote:Kinski wrote:leaving the state of internet back in the day behind, when the tapes were made boc weren't even widely known yet. i think they are pissed it's out. i would be. they're probably emberassed by it.
Didn't prevent them from releasing MHTRTC, Geogaddi, etc. etc. So I think it's a load of hogwash.
I disagree - reading their interviews they strike me as the type of perfectionists who would be pretty pissed off at a section of their output being represented by some shoddy quality tape-ripped Mp3's, MDG has also backed this up.
I imagine they're probably over it by now, but at the time they made those tapes nothing like Soulseek or bittorrent existed to put them into the wider public domain.
Now the reasoning that they'd be disappointed at the quality of the leaks as opposed to the leaks themselves might be more reasonable since they are perfectionists.
However, they did release them on cassette tape to begin with, and from my understand them, they weren't the kind I keep hearing about with "special tape heads" that apparently sound better than CD.
Regardless, whoever ripped it should have done it to FLAC, or WAV if FLAC didn't exist at the time and then release that alongside a version converted to 320 kbps MP3 files.