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Conscientia Peccati
Quinque Viae

I used to turn up my nose at CDRs. If it wasn't an official CD release, I wanted nothing to do with it. Of course, this was a ridiculous artificial "rule" I made for myself, and it prevented me from getting to hear some really great music. (For one thing, how else are you supposed to get your hands on the Andrew Szava-Kovats back catalog, much less anything from the Elsola label?)

So I relented. And lately there's been an explosion in CDR releases, which means there's been a corresponding explosion in the number of CDRs in my collection. Which means there are a lot more discs that my iMac just plain won't play. This disc by Conscientia Peccati is a good example. I loaded it into the tray, and I could hear it trying to spin, but then I got that deflating winding-down noise that tells you it's having trouble reading the disc. Spin, wind down. Spin, wind down. About 50 times. It was like listening to a terminally ill patient on a respirator. I finally had to force a shutdown.

To be fair, this happens with copy-protected CDs as well. But still, in this age of people listening to music on their PCs, artists should be mindful that CDRs, while a cheaper medium to produce for them, aren't always the best medium for their fans.

Obsessive-compulsiveness and consumer advocacy too--didn't think you'd get all that in one blog, did you?

Also today:

66:58 Equinox, Holon
66:57 S:Cage, Madness Turns to Glass
66:56 Einstürzende Neubauten, Perpetuum Mobile
66:54 Love Spirals Downwards, Temporal
66:51 Cruciform Injection, Critical
66:50 THD, Outside In
66:50 Velvet Acid Christ, Between the Eyes, Vol. 3