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I've never quite understood why website-of-the-album - or even website-of-the-single - never became a mainstream idea. You could include all of the usual vinyl
by TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
I've never quite understood why website-of-the-album - or even website-of-the-single - never became a mainstream idea. You could include all of the usual vinyl artwork and content in an accessible format. But you could add far more - more art, essays, making-of stories, graphics, lyrics, session photography, tour photography, artistic photography, maybe some offcuts and early versions, and so on.
- JdeBP 3y agoIt sort of did until the first Dot COM Bubble burst. There were also "Enhanced CDs" with both audio and data on them, and lots of other such gimmicks. It is telling to note that whilst one can still read the CD and LP inserts, WWW sites like http://www.friendsoflive.com http://www.friendsoflive.com and http://www.noangels.tv http://www.noangels.tv have long since vanished. So I suspect that the world has got past this being a mainstream idea, learning how ephemeral it turns out to be in practice. After all, what good is "collector stuff" if it just ups and randomly vanishes out of the collection after a few years?
- masklinn 3y agoBlue book CDs were quite cool, IIRC small-ish games would give you the OST as music tracks when they had enough space left over.