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Dookie Demastered
- peoplefromibiza 2y agoAm I going to listen to the whole album after seeing this? Of course I am!
- aaronbrethorst 2y agoThis is the best thing I've seen in a long time. When an album hits a big milestone like its 30th anniversary Oof, so this is what getting old feels like. Yikes. Crank it as long as you want with “All By Myself,” arranged for the first time on a hand-cranked music box. chef's kiss.
- fragmede 2y agoThe mere mention by the title had the classic phrase "Do you have the time..." blaring in my head as if it were thirty years ago, even if the last time I listened to that was at least a decade a ago. The nostalgia, right in the feels.
- hluska 2y agoI hadn’t listened in Dookie in a very long time. Then my kid and I were talking about music and she wanted to know what kinds of music I streamed back in high school. :) That turned into a talk about CDs and led into listening to Dookie with my eight year old. The album has aged very well. As an adult, I find that different songs are more appealing now than they were as a teen and in other cases, age has warped the meaning of the songs. But as an album, it stands up really well. There are some other well known albums from the nineties that really haven’t stood up as well. I’d recommend another listen! Though, “I declare I don’t care no more.” :)
- iddan 2y agoAs someone who was a teen about ten years ago I can confess it was still very relevant and I even got its CD (though honestly I listened to it mostly on my iPod Touch)
- rhinoceraptor 2y agoI'm 30 now, there's nothing I wanted more than the iPod Touch but I think I made the sales pitch to my parents too hard because I was very excited it had a web browser. I grew up without even basic cable but I did eventually get an iPod classic which I still miss having. I think it eventually met it's fate in the washing machine.
- throwup238 2y ago> There are some other well known albums from the nineties that really haven’t stood up as well. Some day Limp Bizkit will get the recognition they deserves.
- akiselev 2y agoA crimes against humanity tribunal at the Hague?
- KingMob 2y ago"Nookie Demastered"?
- 09thn34v 2y agofinally someone says it. nickelback too
- cloverich 2y agoI will say I saw them in concert accidentally once (attending for the headliner, I had no idea they were also playing). I had no real interest in them musically, no hate or anything just no real interest, but wow. They were incredibly good performers compared to the 30 or so other rock bands I'd seen in my youth, easily top 3 performance wise. It really changed my view on the impact a live performance can have on your perceptions of a band and its music.
- notjulianjaynes 2y ago100 gecs is more or less a Limp Bizkit tribute band IMO.
- lelandfe 2y ago> this toothbrush plays Green Day’s “Pulling Teeth” while you brush. Finally, you can put Dookie in your mouth (not recommended).
- agrippanux 2y agoWhen “Out Come The Wolves” by Rancid hit 20 years I was starting to feel my age.
- pipes 2y agoI love this album. So many catchy songs. I prefer it to dookie too.
- lawgimenez 2y agoEasily top 5 punk album of all time.
- iwaztomack 2y agoNot punk. Punk is about being bad at your instrument and looking ugly and being the underdog and still creating a community. When Dookie came out, every highschool and college kid was lined up to buy it, it had constant airplay, and was blasting in every classroom and dorm room. That's not punk: that is 100% mainstream pop. Which is Green Day in a nutshell. Commidified dissent x100.
- lawgimenez 2y agoI was talking about And out come the wolves, and still punk to me. Pixies is punk, replacements is still punk to me. No need to be a purist.
- iwaztomack 2y agoCollege Alternative is not Punk. I went to Pixies concerts when I was at BU in the 80's. They were a rich white kid college band. Punk was a very specific movement. It's like saying, "Yeah, impressionism is same as Cubism." No. It isn't. Don't rewrite history because it suits your invented personality.
- SmellTheGlove 2y ago
- larodi 2y agowe definitely gonna rediscover what de-mastering means, when AI finally gets to master everything instead of us. can't wait for a wave of punk-pixel-human-in-the-wrong-loop-nostalgy much stronger than vaporwave.
- rhinoceraptor 2y agoAmerican Idiot also had it's 20th anniversary, I ordered the CD/bluray box set that comes out later this month.
- aaronbrethorst 2y agoShockingly apt timing.
- samplatt 2y agoWell, the first time around was Bush's re-election.
- pavlov 2y agoIt’s pretty wild that the Republican Party has transformed so much that GWB and Cheney don’t vote for it anymore. It’s only been 16 years since they left office. (Cheney is officially supporting Harris, and Bush clearly is not on Team MAGA either.)
- asveikau 2y agoThis is off topic, but I don't see Bush/Cheney as very different from Trump, and there is a straight line between those. The biggest contrast is that Trump jettisoned decorum and politeness. Bush was outwardly polite as he enacted the same kind of policy. I mean, the appointment of Samuel Alito is a prime example. Look how the Bush court appointments are unleashed now that they've got a few more like-minded colleagues.
- krapp 2y agoYeah, I don't know why Trump is seen as such an iconoclast and anti-establishment type when politically he's a boilerplate establishment Fox News conservative. His personality is really the only thing that distinguishes him from the pack.
- idontwantthis 2y agoNo HitClip?? They could fit 2/3 of Coming Clean on one. Edit: I completely missed it. Everything is now perfect.
- GuinansEyebrows 2y agothis is honestly the most impressive one here. i looked into doing hitclips with a friend and we basically tapped out once i found out how they work under the hood since there's no way they'd be cost effective.
- idontwantthis 2y agoCan you elaborate? I’ve always been fascinated by their existence.
- a2l3aQ 2y agoBeen discussed here before :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24599366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24599366
- bitwize 2y agoWhat's missing is the PXL-2000 tape with a video for one of the songs.
- runjake 2y agoYes, this is officially endorsed[1] by Green Day. Very cool. 1. https://www.facebook.com/GreenDay/ https://www.facebook.com/GreenDay/
- petesergeant 2y agoHard to know if this was truly one of the best albums ever or if I just heard it at a super impressionable age, but the starting riff on When I Come Around gets me every time
- geoka9 2y agoFWIW, when it came out I couldn't be bothered to listen to Green Day. 20 years later they became one of the favorites.
- DowagerDave 2y agoIt's very catchy, but not super-impressive musically IMO, however it had a huge impact on the scene and entire ecosystem at the time. Many other bands piggy-backed off their success, which I'm not sure happens as much in today's mega-single model. The band has gotten continually better while still staying relevant as well, which is really cool.
- hluska 2y agoEveryone already said that about punk. We know it’s not Bach, but it’s not meant to be. It’s punk music - it’s not meant to be impressive musically.
- geoka9 2y agoHaving said that... :) ... GD are very much above average musically when it comes to the popular music of the last 30 years. With those songwriting/performing chops, it's almost surprising they are a punk rock band.
- aaronax 2y agoAgree. Approximately rank 65 on best-selling albums of all time, but generally ranked in the 250-350 range on top 500 albums of all time. Such more subjective measures probably include sales/popularity as one of the ranking factors, so one could think that the album is of particularly below-expected "quality" to drag it down a few hundred positions.
- jdalgetty 2y agoWow - what an amazing site!
- eddieroger 2y agoI'd take the whole album in 8-bit chiptunes in a heartbeat. Heck, I'd buy an old GameBoy if that was the only way to listen to it.
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- SirFatty 2y agoI never really understood the 'punk' genre assignment for this band.
- drcongo 2y agoThis is getting downvoted, but I'd never even heard them referred to as punk before. And as a British former punk, I don't understand it either.
- mmastrac 2y agoThey were punk, just mainstream, pop punk. It was a common label for them in North America in the 90s.
- mattw2121 2y agoAs a former North American Punk, they were posers, not punks.
- DowagerDave 2y agoSaying I'm punk, and you are not punk, is about the least punk thing you can do.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agowhat about working for an investment bank? How punk is that on the scale?
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- criddell 2y agoIt could be very high on the scale. Like punks, bankers often don't ask for permission.
- standardUser 2y agoThey really went all out on these... "A preloved Teddy comes with a cassette tape featuring an eight-channel recording of “Chump” including synchronized eye and snout movements." "This fully-playable version of “Welcome To Paradise” will immerse you in the world of a small apartment in Oakland, California. Search out the record to play the full 8-bit rendition of your favorite song." Totally impressed and amazed.
- sailfast 2y agoAbsolutely incredible product. I don't have the $99 to splurge on this but it was very enticing :)
- joezydeco 2y agoYou enter a lottery to buy the 1 Ruxpin that was built. You can probably get more than your money back if you don't want to keep it.
- rob74 2y agoYeah, the teddy bear singing "I don't know you, but I think I hate you / You're the reason for my misery" and the bass singing "I am one of those melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone no doubt about it" are my favorites. "Longview" would have sounded... interesting too coming from the bear, but I guess they chickened out there and picked a device that couldn't reproduce the lyrics :)
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- wibbily 2y ago> answering machine Tried and true distribution channel for hit music - see dial-a-song ((844) 387-6962) or the lovely "callin' oates" ((719) 266-2837)
- bagels 2y agoI love that... 13 years on that Callin' Oates is still alive. "The hotline dates back to December 2011 and was created by Michael Selvidge and Reid Butler. Selvidge, who at the time worked for Twilio, told The Verge that he was required to build an app for the company and “Callin' Oates” was the result"
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- yapyap 2y agoThe prices are insane to me but to be fair the people that remember this from 30 years ago will probably have some spare money to spend if they’re still interested Edit: well to be fair I see now that they are very limited
- nervousvarun 2y agoApologies, a little slow here (probably because I was in high school when this album came out)...what are you actually buying for those listed prices?
- hluska 2y agoYou get exactly what it says. For example, if you put $99 down and win the draw, you can get an actual Teddy Ruxpin that sings Chump. Or for $79 you can win a Big Mouth Billie Bass that sings Basket Case. If you click through to the previews, there are videos.
- nervousvarun 2y agoI mean I thought that at first, then thought no way because that's just a one off product but yeah, that's incredible. If anything the prices are far too low.
- hluska 2y agoI just spent a stupid amount of money for a chance at getting Teddy Ruxpin. I’m feeling remarkably dumb right now but your words make me feel better.
- fourseventy 2y agoYou only pay if you win
- hluska 2y ago
- lelandfe 2y agoThis site is unexpectedly AWESOME. The frontend is so nice! The audio perfectly syncs up to a video when you open up the accordion, and I love the giant fonts. The best part though is the bitcrushing image carousels omg. The images get higher res as they're scrolled into view! https://imgur.com/a/TIWA9FW https://imgur.com/a/TIWA9FW Kudos to the designers and devs on this.
- farmeroy 2y agoI mean, when I first tried to open the website it just wouldn't load on my iPhone, so I tried on the laptop. It took ~10 seconds to load. I just assumed the bitcrushing was more issues with bandwidth and badly compressed images rather than a design choice. But your comment made me sit through everything to see if i could really get it. I guess I can recognize the work that went into this and the concept behind it... having said that, I am definitely not the target audience for this website and am struggling not to write an extremely negative comment about green day and 90s nostalgia
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- fkyoureadthedoc 2y agoAlways at least one every thread. > Sorry but this site is trash because it took 10s to load on my One Laptop Per Child running LFS connected to my 3g hotspot. I literally cannot imagine why anyone could ever like this.
- iddan 2y agoI physically chuckled
- drawkward 2y agoLiteral old man yells at cloud.
- kstrauser 2y agoThe struggle was in vain.
- DrNosferatu 2y agoOne of these tracks as an Opus file, 1.44MB long, shouldn't be that bad sound quality. ...but then, what would be the point? ;)
- nunez 2y agoThis is one of the best things I have ever seen.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoThese Brain guys giving MSCHF vibes (i.e. https://deadstartuptoys.com/ https://deadstartuptoys.com/)
- al_borland 2y agoThis was my first thought when checking out their website and other projects. Just more digital than physical. https://brain.wtf https://brain.wtf
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoThis is officially sanctioned by Green Day? interesting
- stronglikedan 2y agoGotta stay relevant somehow!
- llamaimperative 2y agoFor real. Ever since they sold out Petco Park ummm... last week... they've been super irrelevant.
- hildolfr 2y agoA sold out Rolling Stones concert doesn't suddenly make them more relevant.. Green Day has the luxury of having a fan base that's not entirely dead of old age yet.
- llamaimperative 2y agoIt doesn’t make them more relevant, but it does prove they’re not irrelevant, as GP suggested. Idk, not many people can sell tens or hundreds of thousands of pricy tickets to see them do their thing for 90 minutes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- randomdata 2y agoTo be relevant usually speaks to some kind of broad social impact or defining of a culture. You might argue Green Day did that back in the day, but do they really continue to? A lot of people willing to pay to be entertained by their performance does not imply relevancy.
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- ndeast 2y agoThe cash grabs from this band is insane, they are basically KISS at this point.
- pwillia7 2y agoUh oh... Nintendo intellectual property? RIP in peace
- aquova 2y agoHey, I still use my Mini-Disc deck! Sometimes! Funnily enough, while I like the format and would be willing to get an official release of Dookie on it, it's not really worth the hassle for a single track, especially I could just as easily copy the album onto the format myself.
- dangan 2y agoI remember seeing this album on MiniDisc in a store in Sweden circa 2000. If you do enough Googling you might be able to find a copy.
- mdmdmd 2y agoSame! I feel somewhat offended that the version from the site is so lo-fi. MDs had fantastic quality, to my ears indistinguishable from CDs! Edit: Aha, I see now, this is a mic'd recording of an MD player with a built in speaker.
- eemil 2y agoUS only? Really should have put that front and center... before I spent 20 minutes deciding which drawing to enter :/
- ramenlover 2y agoYou could just proxy it through something like myus.com or the like
- a3w 2y agoSite does not load, but for that conclusion, it takes forever. What is supposed to happen? Firefox w/ ublock origin.
- eigenrick 2y agoI'm on Firefox with ublock origin and it works just fine. Either way... the site is a store.. of sorts... for Greenday's "Dookie" album, where the songs are mixed down into various bizarre formats. They said de-mastered, and I was hoping that they were actually releasing the individual tracks. Sad.
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- fitsumbelay 2y agoFF with ublock here, not seeing any difference between this and Chrome
- al_borland 2y agoHere is a quick 30 second trailer of what's on the site, from Green Day's YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziZ8SLooNx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziZ8SLooNx8
- motohagiography 2y agoi liked the idea because it implies there could be an unlimited number of new art projects that can drive new streaming revenue of back catalog music. then I saw the $0.003-0.005 per stream figure on spotify, and so your max upside for getting 1M plays is $50. At $50/M 10M plays might buy 1 dinner for the band. they actually make more selling the teddy ruxpins. maybe someone had a warehouse full of them and this clears them?
- phonon 2y agoThat's $3,000 to $5,000 per million. Or did you mean the Roman M?
- motohagiography 2y agowalked right into that, as was thinking in terms of fractions of a cent instead of fractions of a dollar.
- snickerbockers 2y ago3 * 10^-3 * 10^6 == 3 * 10^3 == $3000 per million streams, not $30.
- bitwize 2y agoThey are only offering one Teddy Ruxpin.
- vessenes 2y agoTo be clear, this is a raffle, and there are limited editions of each item. There is no way this is going to make money directly - it’s a fun fan engagement give away, and super creative. If I win one of 100 game boy cartridges, I will pay $39, which is probably close to the unit cost of making them, and will never pay back the software engineering time to create the cartridge. I assume most of the items are like that.
- fitsumbelay 2y agoNow this is hackin'
- RajT88 2y agoBTW - as you'd expect - the protocol for Ruxpin has been thoroughly reverse engineered. IIRC - one audio channel is used for the speaker, and the other is a series of beeps which map to facial movements: https://makezine.com/projects/chippy-ruxpin/ https://makezine.com/projects/chippy-ruxpin/ Back when I thought it might be a fun side hustle to make cool youtube videos (long ago put to bed), I thought about making videos of Ruxpin singing death metal and stuff. It's been years since it seemed like it was worthwhile to make Youtube videos... And the situation is getting worse for creators year over year.
- schlauerfox 2y agonot 'beeps' so much as either Pulse-position modulation or FM to control the positions. I had a 'beta test' teddy before they were released, a friend of my father was a sculptor at WoW. I guess little me didn't want to give it back but had to, my Mom had to fight hard to find one at Christmas with a little inside info on delivery dates. You can still make cool stuff for your own sake, you don't have to monetize every hobby.
- RajT88 2y agoMy thinking was, maybe turning one of my hobbies into not a money sink. I still have 0 of those, but many in the red.
- planb 2y ago> Back when I thought it might be a fun side hustle to make cool youtube videos (long ago put to bed), I thought about making videos of Ruxpin singing death metal and stuff. It's been years since it seemed like it was worthwhile to make Youtube videos... But should it? There used to be a time when people put this stuff on the internet for fun, not as a side huste or to "monetize" it... Maybe there's not so much money in this idea, but you can make people laugh for a few seconds.
- smolder 2y agoThe potential for cute stuff to 'go viral' is severely diminished thanks to high production value click-bait and mainstream content. Big Content will drown out anything that hasn't gained tons of views already by promotion through other channels.
- l72 2y agoIf you win the answering machine, just beware! > Deletion: > Irreversible
- swayvil 2y agoThis is green day? I have no feelings. 90s? Ween of course.
- scosman 2y agoamazing album. amazing concept.
- i_am_jl 2y agoThe Teddy Ruxpin with the sync'd movements is crazy impressive. Having to provide an address and a credit card before the drawing is obnoxious, but it's led me to realize that if I really wanted things that played Green Day, I could make most of these things myself.
- appendix-rock 2y ago…yes, well, it’s quite common for people to pay others to do things that they could do themselves but would rather just do something else. That is kind of how the world works.
- yard2010 2y agoAlso, in the case of pure art, paying for something trivial is like voting.
- throw10920 2y agoI don't think that the GP was necessarily complaining about the money, but about the inconvenience of the payment. > Having to provide an address and a credit card You don't usually complain about providing an address if the only factor is the payment/price. I suspect the GP would have been fine paying if they had an extremely low-friction payment system (e.g. one-click).
- TacticalCoder 2y ago> The album that exploded punk rock 30 years ago, re-exploded onto obscure, obsolete, and inconvenient formats. It's really strange. I probably don't get it. I was there listening to punk rock and "grunge" rock in 1994. Back then nobody listened to music on his computer (the .mp3 format didn't even exist yet: at least not with that name) except if it was using the PC's CD drive, to play an audio CD. 1994 was kind "peak" quality: the loudness war on CDs just hadn't started yet and listening to music was often amazing for it was often played directly from CDs on actual stereos. Crappy sound only arrived a few years when the first, lame, mp3 encoders arrived and became ubiquitous and everybody made lossy rip of CDs (because we didn't know how to rip losslessly yet from CDs) and then encoded them with poor encoders at shitty bitrates (like 128 kbps mp3 were really a thing in the late 90s, for Napster sharing). So it's really strange to take music from 1994, which is precisely a year were nobody listened to "shitty format" music yet on his PC. FWIW I had my first CD player in 1988 or so. It's only in the late 90s that music quality for listening experience went seriously downhill, with people listening to shitty 128 kbps mp3 on their shitty, tiny, Logitech speakers. Nowadays all is good and fine again: Tidal, Spotify, Qobuz... It's all good sounding again. And many acceptable soundbars and systems came out (like Sonos and whatnots). So yup I don't get it: to me it's "fake retro" because 1994 music was enjoyed from CDs, on speakers hooked to a stereo (which were never as shitty as those tiny Logitech speakers and similar hooked to PCs). I just don't understand what this is: I must be getting old... But then as I'm getting old, it means I was there in 1994 and it's definitely not the 1994 I remember. It's kinda fake retro for something that never existed.
- kristianp 2y agoSpeaking of the loudness wars, remember when Californication came out? I thought my copy (on cdrom) had been ripped from a distorted tape. Still one of my favourites though.
- tayo42 2y ago128 isnt a thing? What bit rate does Spotify use for streaming online regular quality?
- vessenes 2y agoWhile I grant you that nobody enjoyed music directly from a Teddy Ruxpin in the 1990s, I think you’re wrong about this. It is nostalgic. And I think you’re missing the point that it’s supposed to be fun - they have player piano rolls and wax tubes for goodness sake. About the 90s though - people used gameboys. People used PCs. Those devices had tons of music and music culture. Chiptunes, mod music makers and players, the demo scene are all late 80s into early 90s. The very first sound blaster card wasn’t even launched until November 1989; before then it was all pc speakers. On the streets in the 1990s, people used walkmans, listened to tapes; in cars eight track was nostalgic, people listened to the radio and their tapes a lot. I didn’t have my first portable CD player until 1997 or so.
- msephton 2y agoBrilliant
- jshchnz 2y agothis is so freaking cool
- keane 2y agoI hope at least one of the five cylinders finds its way to the Cylinder Audio Archive: https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu
- npunt 2y agoAs you scroll around you'll notice it'll turn all the images into jpegs with bad artifacting like you're back on dialup surfing the world wide web. That's dedication to detail. This degraded image effect was done by moving image viewport around within source images like this: https://www.dookiedemastered.com/images/gameboy-3-sheet.webp https://www.dookiedemastered.com/images/gameboy-3-sheet.webp
- jesse__ 2y agoI noticed this too. I love this kind of thing so much. I wish more people had the time, money and patience for polish like this.
- punnerud 2y agoIt’s starting to get way easier these days with the help of Claude.ai and Cursor.ai. I find it’s easier to pay much more focus to details when the iteration process is faster.
- ddingus 2y agoI did not see it at first. Once I did, I was entranced just scrolling about to see it again. The whole site is polished to a high degree. Lqbor of love, just like all the quirky items rhey have to loved just as much.
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- quux 2y agoNice, I was wondering if they were actually making use of progressive JPEG or just switching between images.
- thih9 2y agoWe have reached an era where JPEG artifacts are used as an ornament - like artifacts from film photography, vinyls and more. Perhaps spotting that in a demastering project is bending the rules a bit, but still - I like how it indicates that our tastes and internet speeds have changed.
- robg 2y agoBasketcase on a Big Mouth Bass is exactly a world I want to live in.
- matltc 2y agoBest shit I've heard in a while
- bagels 2y agoThese are all great. Unfortunately it would just be another thing to collect dust on the shelf, realistically.
- ddingus 2y agoI LOVE everything about this! What a fun idea and a fresh look at a stand out album! I should also take a moment to recognize how great the site design is as well.
- low_tech_love 2y agoThe floppy version of "Having a Blast" is extremely nostalgic, it almost brought tears to my eyes. It's not just that the bitrate is low but also the speakers that came with PC's back then were just not that good. That sounds a hell of a lot like it used to in the 90's when I downloaded it from Spotify in a dial-up... And then followed by Chump in the teddy bear, which also sounds incredibly nostalgic. I'm starting to feel like Dookie actually sounds better on a lofi arrangement...? P.S. Yes, it does. Basket Case and She just ended this argument. What a blast!
- jasongill 2y agoI actually won one of the 50 floppy copies of "Having a Blast"! If you send me an email at my HN username @gmail.com I'll send you a copy once I get it and rip it.
- gman83 2y agoThis reminds me of how the web used to be, before everything was on social media.
- cobertos 2y agoHmm, isn't this just a co-opting of things smaller creators are doing? It's just done at a much larger scale, with the aim of making money instead of curiosity/funny memery
- oreilles 2y agoSmaller creators are also doing it for money, and Green Day and Brain are also doing this out of funny memery.
- me_me_me 2y agoI remember reading article about illegal western music in Soviet times. Creating vinyls out of xray images sounded ingenious, its amazing to hear one now.
- sva_ 2y agoA bit disappointing that the site itself requires 6.5MB to be transferred.
- throwawaycities 2y agoI love everything about this from the band, album, unique distributions of the songs, to the website. The raffle style business model stood out, so I read the terms. The terms weren't any more clear, they sort of lump sweepstakes/raffle together in section 14. Sweepstakes and raffles are high regulated but they are legally distinct, and raffles are treated as gambling in many jurisdictions. I hope they have it all worked out, it’s an awesome distribution of music.
- toufique 2y agoThis album got me into music!
- pwenzel 2y agoAs someone who listened to music from this album on a shitty clock radio growing up, this feels perfect.
- MisterTea 2y agoRemember recording the video for Basket Case off MTV on to VHS and recording it to PC using a Creative Video Spigot and SB16. Had to use postage stamp sized video at 10 or 15 FPS as my 486 could barley keep up. Wound up with a HUGE file in those days. My brother had a Teddy Ruxpin and I had a talking Alf. Was hilarious when you put some rock or metal tapes into them. Re. the site - for some dumb reason I have to click on the page to get arrow and page up/down keys working as if the page needs to grab focus.
- samspot 2y agoI sent this to my blind friend and found out this page is fantastically inaccessible. The only keyboard usable thing on the whole page is the mailing list signup. A few <button> tags would go a long way here, as well as general semantic html. Axe devtools can't even find the buttons to report violations.