Comments on: It’s not you, it’s us

By: Davros

Davros — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:16:41 +0000

Hi there, As I am a fan in Australia it makes it very hard to come to your shows. I found out about your album on a blog site and downloaded it for free purely out of interest. I have since spread the word to my friends and others. if you tour down here we will make it worth your while. Anyway, if you are self-releasing save time and offer the your album as a good quality download at a reasonable price – i don't know 4-6 euro. other sites do the same such as indiecater records or zunior and i bought fanfarlo's album for a $1 (extreme but best dollar i have spent in years). so perhaps the focus should be off the "physical" product such as a CD and more on high quality downloads at reasonalble prices. Keep up the good work and perhaps follow the Ed Droste (Grizzly Bear) philosophy that this file-sharing allows you to reach a much greater audience than before – have a look to see if your gigs are getting fuiller?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:35:27 +0000

I agree with your opinion. I have written a book so I can imagine how difficult is to create. You love your work and you´re proud of it. I´ll keep download your music legally I promise. There´s only one problem about availability of such songs as I Gots the Magic.
I wish you luck

By: mogwai

mogwai — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:35 +0000

All true what you said… on the other hand, in the media world where content being played on radio and TV is heavily pushed by publishing houses, I find the illegal downloads to be the last bastion for the indie bands – in fact, most of my last legal CD buys have been a consequence of hearing a band on some illegal indie samplers. Lucky Soul were also one such find for me – so its not all bad…

By: gabbazoo

gabbazoo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:45:07 +0000

Make sure to release the new one on vinyl. In fact I think it's the way to go. If I were starting a label (again) I would make release stuff in vinyl and download only, no CD version. Yes I will buy a CD if that's all there is tho.

PS any chance of a US release?…

By: Dante Kleinberg

Dante Kleinberg — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:19:02 +0000

It drives me crazy that almost everyone I know pirates music, movies, software, video games, etc. I used to do it when I was in high school, but I'm not in high school anymore, you know? It's so ridiculous. Just because it's easy doesn't mean it's not stealing. I try to discourage it when I can but the fact is I don't want to get into heated arguments with all my friends and end up with no friends left. So I just mention cheap legal services like Amazon MP3 and Lala.com, etc., whenever I can and maybe one day they'll decide to use them.

By: Manish

Manish — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:13:32 +0000

Excellent. A very fair and reasoned post. On a slightly tangential note, I'm always amazed by the hypocrisy of many "indie" fans when they slam bands for taking what they consider to be the corporate dollar. Its like what David Sitek of TVOTR said when criticised by some fans for licensing "Staring at the Sun" for the end credits of Entourage: "Simmer down dude, you've got like $5,000 worth of stolen music on your iPod". It might surprise some people but musicians have to fork out for the mundane stuff like food and rent as well. And yet you guys still show great generosity to your fans. At the last Technicolour night you gave us all a free CD single. To hand out a £3 gift at a £7 event is very thoughtful. I can't remember the last time one of my mates gave me a CD for no reason! Keep sayng your piece and keep making gorgeous music x

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:54:10 +0000

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:53:56 +0000

I can't come to your gigs unless you plan on coming to the Netherlands any time soon, but I've definitely planned on buying your album as soon as it's released. (I have to admit I downloaded Woah Billy! though – which sort of is the reason I'm buying the album.)

By: manc_ill_kid

manc_ill_kid — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:47:15 +0000

Would you prefer I spent my hard-earned cash on your album or one of your gigs?

Please pick one or the other.