The General Chatter/Off Topic Thread

Why bother? It is a temporary marketing campaign. Let it blow over otherwise you’ll have to put them all back again in a few days time.

This is clearly not a permanent change from the artist marketing team. It is just temporary marketing money.

It is not that much different than when an artist sticks a Ukrainian or rainbow flag on their artwork as a protest. Just the only protest here is to make more people talk about something to make more profit

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They want to stimulate our imagination. It’s an exercise for our little gray cells.

Let me fix that quote for you. “They want to stimulate our wallets”.

Have you seen the prices of that merch? Wish You Were Here 50 - Pink Floyd

Selling us old bootlegs. Amazing in many ways. I guess the artwork\advert at Spotify have now gone back to normal?

I was a Pink Floyd fan. What Sony have done to monetarise the catalogue has driven me away…

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A true psychofan loves until the end.

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Ivan, as a souvenir. This screenshot will be worth millions of bitcoins in 50 years.

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Air guitar - Wikipedia

Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland

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Probably a protest toward AI art too? Still sucky

Six days later and I see you are putting things back now the advertising campaign is over. Curious - does this now mean a new release or are you restoring the old Digital Media release that had been suspended? Have Sony now changed to a single World Wide release instead of the old areas method?

I had only withdrawn about a dozen releases before I realized it really was just a short campaign and knew they wouldn’t last. I had changed them back rather quickly a few days ago. I’m withdrawing all the ones that have no sites linked anymore to the new artwork. All of HDtracks & Most of Mora still have the campaign artwork. Wouldn’t be surprised if they changed tomorrow. No, they are the same releases as prior.

To answer your other question, Yes, there are no more Warner distributed digital releases. Those were the ones that were in Europe. Sony is now distributing all the digital releases worldwide, except Russia, so they have all gone worldwide. So, all those previous Sony releases that were everywhere that Warner wasn’t have taken over the old Warner market and are now worldwide. I moved the Europe releases to withdrawn due to label change.

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Thanks for the update. It was always a confusing one with the US \ Europe split with the labels. So at least that is one thing Sony has done for us.

I have to admit, when checking my Subscribed Edits list I have had to block your many edits for now as it leads to dozens of pages of “can be played at” links :laughing:

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@IvanDobsky

Would you like to add this release to our database?

Pink Floyd – The Broadcast Collection 1967 - 1970 – 5 x CD (Compilation, Remastered + 2 more), 2022 [r25195855] | Discogs

Are you saying you own it and need help adding it?

I’ve added variations of those bootlegged BBC recordings many times. A couple of examples that can be used as a guide: https://musicbrainz.org/release/b7a3eb8c-0748-4fa7-8457-6d180f8bf196 and https://musicbrainz.org/release/9197db83-31b5-4eaa-9e96-1dc08ae5aa39.

No, I’m just checking if you’re still angry at Pink Floyd. :wink:

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A presentation of the British band Pink Floyd in the Soviet monthly magazine Кругозор (Horizon), which contains discs with various recordings (music, reports, interviews).

Audio recorded from the speaker output. I only applied a 50 Hz filter; I did not clean up the recording in any other way.
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I was never upset at Pink Floyd. Sony and the marketing team are the money people, not the band members. The way the product is now sold has put me off buying anything “new” from the money machine. They have been eaten by the machine that is the industry. Corporate greed. Ironically a topic of some of their music.

That Soviet magazine is interesting to see.

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:+1:

There are corporations everywhere now. I wonder what percentage of the money and decision-making musicians have.

A bit of a joke: if you don’t want to belong to or work in a corporation, you can broadcast your “wisdom” from your room via the internet.

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In this example, None.

To quote Dave in that article:

He said he’d be most tempted to sell to “be rid of the decision-making and the arguments that are involved with keeping it going,” and added: “I am not interested in that from a financial standpoint. I’m only interested in it from getting out of the mud bath that it has been for quite a while.”

This is now just Sony making as much money as they can out of the catalogue. Even to the extent of stealing bootlegs from the bootleggers to sell to people in these boxsets.

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Sad and unfortunate.

If you’re looking for a Soviet newspaper, I can buy it and ship it to you. It’ll cost you about $25.

You just have to trust me and provide your home address.

I’ve emailed you the listing for the newspaper.

Will you upgrade to Windows 11?

“Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. The current version, 22H2, will be the final version of Windows 10, and all editions will remain in support with monthly security update releases through that date. Existing LTSC releases will continue to receive updates beyond that date based on their specific lifecycles.”

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My new PC is not compatible with Windows 11 (my old Linux Debian PC broke 1 or 2 years ago).

Il liked Debian, except its version names and the apt command name.
I found another Linux with its command pacman which is more funny and there was no need to migrate versions (unique version constantly updating), but the pacman command line was a nightmare.

I think I will go back to Debian, once Windows 10 is really made unusable.
Going back to Linux will have the side-effect of bringing my old scanner back to life, again.

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