IceCreamMan wrote:
pricing has to be similar all over the world , this is the internet ...and there aint no freight costs on 1's an 0's....
ppl have found all sorts of ingenious ways to ensure they dont get ripped off from country to country
bob - i hate to say it ...but your sleeve notes and cd package .......are on borrowed time ....but i guess artists could always include an electronic version which you could choose to download
Some do when they offer downloads from their own site.
I think it'd be a shame to lose them. Partly because I like to know who is playing drums or bass or whatever on each track (which is how you get to know about guys like Jerry Scheff, Steve Gadd and Jim Keltner), partly because lyrics are important to me and I like to read them, partly because good notes can convey extra information about the song and make it more interesting in various ways (see the comments I made about Martin Simpson's between-songs patter).
Doc-phil's post suggests that, indeed, the cover art is available. But I know what you're saying - eventually it'll JUST be digital, with no CD equivalent and then what will happen?
I LIKE liner notes and that extra information. I remember being fascinated to find out that Paul played guitar on some Beatles songs. My appreciation of session drummers really began when I listened to a Steely Dan track and thought the drum part was pretty good and could pick the sleeve up and find out that it was Bernard Purdie on that track. This, in turn, led me on to the group Hummingbird who had Purdie drumming on a couple of their albums. If it weren't for liner notes I'd have not have known that Danny Thompson played bass on Solid Air and then been able to pay attention when I saw his name on other projects. Liner notes can send you down paths of discovery.
