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pip07
02-03-2009, 02:25 PM
I bought becks modern guilt on vinyl and it came with a free digital download coupon.

will PB have anything like this ?
iancrogers
02-03-2009, 02:59 PM
Not that I know of.

My best advice would be to cancel the Amazon order and buy from BeastieBoys.com for an immediate digital download.

ian
pip07
02-04-2009, 12:41 AM
Its too late
kensai
02-04-2009, 03:59 AM
Topspin let's you download all tracks of the album for free. (160 kb/s mp3)
Just go to beastieboys.com and start the album player. To see what URL your browser is using to play the songs, just have a look at your browser cache. In Firefox you could just open about:cache. Look for http://bits-#.topspin.net entries. Open these URL's directly to download the songs. Thank you Topspin.
ellwood_court
02-04-2009, 10:21 AM
MP3s at 160kbps will in no way replicate the sound quality of a remastered album. Just buy the damn thing.
AceFace
02-04-2009, 10:46 AM
i thought in the email it mentioned that the LP came with a digital DL.
AceFace
02-04-2009, 10:47 AM
^ yeah, i'm wrong.(n)
pip07
02-04-2009, 12:47 PM
well fuck
kensai
02-04-2009, 01:41 PM
well fuck

Don't care too much. Paul's Boutique was mastered at 16bit in 1989. Now they remastered it at 24bit for the re-release. Great. Let's hope they sent the 24bit master to the record pressing plant. For the CD release they had to downsample it back to 16bit. I believe all those mp3 and flac version were created from the CD. So you might be in luck with your choice for vinyl.

I don't understand why there is no hybrid SACD release which contains a normal CD layer at 16bit and a SACD layer at 24bit.
pip07
02-04-2009, 02:31 PM
maybe cause SACD is more niche than vinyl
iancrogers
02-05-2009, 01:41 AM
kensai: yes, our streams aren't encrypted and there is no DRM on the files that you download. it works on the honor system. personally I believe that people are generally good and given the choice will choose to engage in a value exchange with the bands they love instead of going to a lot of trouble to get something for free.

it's not like MP3s of Paul's Boutique haven't been available for free on the interwebs since 1999.

you're welcome.

ian
pip07
02-05-2009, 10:22 PM
didn't mean to cause a brouhaha just wanted the remaster on my ipod