In the words of Monty Python, "There's no pleasing some people."
cutuphalfdead, you come off as incredibly arrogant. Couple that with a standoffish attitude that 'you're not going to help fix the problem' just makes you a talking head.
Your mantra that, "If you're gonna do it, do it right." misses a critical qualifier. That is, it's "your" version of what is right. A majority of people who visit gremmie.net, or the dot net, or fucking gremmieland, find it valuable. I know this because of the feedback we get is overwhelmingly positive. There's a reason we have so many fans, we're doing something right.
But instead of just complaining (like some people) I'll reach out and help. If your collection of Pearl Jam is of a higher quality, then organize it and send it to me. We'll sort through it, assess the quality, and if we agree with you we'll upload and overwrite our current files - and of course we'll credit your contribution. Should you decide you're above such a task, then that's fine, we'll carry on, peddling our low quality wares to the ignorant masses.
Please email me at
m@gremmie.net to discuss further.
cutuphalfdead wrote:Whatever, we just see things fundamentally different. This is the best he can do, and for many people having this collection is great. My complaint is it's become "the" source for this type of stuff and it's just poorly done from the standards that I would have for something like this. At the very least I want source info for the recordings. There are so many different recordings it's good to know which one you got so you can compare it when you stumble upon another one. And when you're converting to a lossy format, which I don't think should be done in the first place, especially with live audience recordings, it's a good idea to be upfront with the lineage.
When people used to trade for these things the old fashioned way, it was always made clear among traders that if you convert to mp3 it's for your own personal collection, and not for circulation. Just because the technology changed doesn't mean that becomes less important.
The dot net has grown into a pretty extensive archive for live Pearl Jam and the like. It's my opinion that in the long run, you're doing the community a disservice by being an archive containing 160kbs mp3s with no source or lineage information. It's not hard to do, but it's hard to fix.