We hope you’ve been taking our advice and downloading the MP3s that the Grateful Dead and Rhino Records have been giving away through its Taper’s Section on dead.net, because the party may be over. Rhino recently changed the format of every file to shitty QuickTime and Windows Media files — we can’t get these new files to work, and we don’t seem to be the only ones with problems.
David Beach does a nice job of recapping the situation, including quotes from angry deadheads. This story is still developing, so look for more on what went into this decision soon from the record company and members of the band…
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I thought I was doing something wrong. Turns out it’s Rhino doing something wrong!
They are so stupid. With dead and the dead heads etc. the more they give away the more they will sell. They should keep their marketing geniuses on the N’SYNC account and get somebody with half a clue about the “scene” to market the dead. Oh yeah, and release some shit (not a 20 year old remaster of 2/19/71). Do your job and let Lemieux do his. R.I.P taper’s section. I for one am never going back.
Shame. It was sweet while it lasted, but I ain’t going back either.
Stupid…. Again, just like when they pulled all the AUD shows
off – the dead do not get it and I blame them. Again, they look totally stupid.
FLUFF