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if i knew i could get £350 for it i would do it. I hardly ever use the damn thing.

hahaha, what a great fucking idea! it will be worth it for that guy if just one person buys it.

meg, if you're question is serious, then I guess it depends on your budget and how you feel about music. if you're the kind of person that buys into the whole hipster culture and you've got money to spare, then go ahead any buy one. i'd never do it, but it is a pretty good starter kit if you consider the music you listen to nothing more than a fashion accessory.. which would be a damn shame.

04/18/2005 10:44 AM christian fennesz - field recordings 1995-2002
04/18/2005 10:44 AM fennesz - 2001 - endless summer
04/18/2005 10:44 AM fennesz - 2002 - wrapped islands
04/24/2005 07:17 AM fennesz - 2004 - the return of fenno'berg
04/24/2005 07:17 AM fennesz - 2004 - venice
04/18/2005 10:44 AM jim o'rourke + mats gustafsson - xylophonene virtuosen
04/24/2005 07:17 AM jim o'rourke - 1993 - new kind of water, with kk null
04/24/2005 07:17 AM jim o'rourke - 1993 - nitrogen 7 in
04/24/2005 07:17 AM jim o'rourke - 1994 - acoustics, improvised
04/24/2005 07:17 AM jim o'rourke - 1995 - terminal pharmacy
04/17/2005 07:49 AM jim o'rourke - 1997 - bad timing
04/17/2005 07:49 AM jim o'rourke - 2000 - computer hotel
04/24/2005 07:17 AM jim o'rourke - 2000 - halfway to a threeway
04/17/2005 07:49 AM jim o'rourke - 2000 - xylophonene virtuosen, improvised
04/24/2005 07:17 AM jim o'rourke - 2001 - i'm happy and i'm singing and a 1 2 3 4
04/24/2005 07:17 AM jim o'rourke - 2001 - insignificance
04/17/2005 07:48 AM jim o'rourke - 2002 - love liza sndtrck
04/17/2005 07:48 AM jim o'rourke - 2002 - old news vol. 1
04/17/2005 07:48 AM philip jeck - 2003 - 7
04/17/2005 07:48 AM philip jeck - 2004 - stoke

i can't fault him for slamming sigur ros, mogwai, and nirvana though.

at least you get RATATAT.

"I never leave home without it."

"I never leave home without it."

2005 - spoon - gimme fiction

If I'm Britt Daniel, I sue, and have this dude thrown in the clink.

Keep It Lie a Secret came out in 98.

Calexcio is not a band.

The Good Earth by the Feelies goes for like $150 on Amazon, and it's part of the package here. At least that's something.

I mean, if you're going to do this whole hipster thing you should at least do it right. It wasn't that hard to miss Junior Senior in 2003 was it?

And why are we assuming it's a him? Is their a name?

also -- if he thinks that sigur ros and mogwai are "cold and/or pretentious," then WTF is all of that godspeed! you black emperor during on his IPOD?!?

Rockist? Look at all the hip-hop he's got on there!

04/17/2005 08:28 AM 2005 - chicarones - josh martinez and sleep are
04/17/2005 08:27 AM anticon - 1999 - music for the advancment of hiphop
04/17/2005 08:27 AM anticon - 2001 - giga single
04/17/2005 08:27 AM anticon - 2004 - anticon label sampler
04/17/2005 08:27 AM anticon-stuffed animals
04/17/2005 08:26 AM blockhead - 2004 - music by cavelight
04/18/2005 10:44 AM buck 65 - 1999 - vertex
04/17/2005 08:26 AM buck 65 - 2003 - square
04/17/2005 08:25 AM buck_65-this_right_here_is-advance-2005-jce
04/17/2005 08:25 AM clouddead - 2001 - cloudead
04/18/2005 10:44 AM deep puddle dynamics - 2002 - the taste of rain... why kneel
04/17/2005 08:24 AM dose one - 1997 - slowdeath
04/17/2005 08:24 AM dose one - 1998 - hemispheres
04/17/2005 08:24 AM edan - 2002 - sprain your tape deck ep vinyl
04/17/2005 08:24 AM mr lif - 2002 - emergency rations ep
04/18/2005 10:44 AM mr lif - 2002 - i phantom
04/18/2005 10:44 AM non prophets - 2003 - hope
04/17/2005 08:23 AM north american adonis ep
04/18/2005 10:44 AM passage - 2004 - the forcefield kids
04/17/2005 08:23 AM sage francis various
04/17/2005 08:22 AM slug - sad clown bad dub 2
04/18/2005 10:44 AM sole - 2000 - bottle of humans
04/17/2005 08:22 AM sole - 2002 - mansbestfriend
04/18/2005 10:44 AM sole - 2003 - selling live water
04/18/2005 10:44 AM themselves - 2000 - them
04/17/2005 08:21 AM themselves - the no music
04/18/2005 10:44 AM why - 2003 - the early whitney ep
04/18/2005 10:44 AM why - almost live from anna's cabin
04/17/2005 08:20 AM why - with odd nosdam - split ep!

It's the Hipster Guide to Indie Rock + some Jazz That It's OK To Like (I Promise)

The last five or six years look suspiciously like Pitchfork's top 50 albums of the year lists.

Overall, his choice of music definitely doesn't suck. There are no surprising choices, not like it would matter for anyone who would actually buy this.

Oh agreed, of course. Even though there is some stuff missing, it's pretty hard to disagree with what's on here pre-2000, or at least pre-1995.

There are at least 20+ out of print titles on here, too. Of course, that still doesn't justify the price.

I know a lot of people just want an 'add water' music collection or whatever, but to me that misses the whole point of listening to and buying music. The point is the journey, not the destination. Says Buddha, anyway.

even his hip-hop is totally rockist.

Actually, to hell with it. He shits on Led Zeppelin in the blurb and doesn't include any of P-Funk's late '70s albums; why is anyone even remotely trying to defend this dickwrangler?

and "williamsburg indie rock" and "'hateful pretentious dick" are largely synonymous! i can even do a venn diagram!!

I've been given gigabytes of music free all at once and been very grateful for it - except the storage device wasn't quite as pleasantly compact as an iPod.

-- o. nate (syne_wav...) (webmail), April 25th, 2005.

You may think that, but you'd be wrong. Damned copyright laws.

(next day)

Someone: Let's make a best album by year poll!
Everyone: Okay!

(next day)

Everyone: Pff! What a boring list!

(same list)

How do copyright laws apply differently to MP3s than records? My understanding is when you buy a record you are also buying the right to enjoy the copyrighted work on it, and it is legal to sell that right to someone else by selling your (used) copy of the record. It is also legal to make as many copies of the copyrighted work as you want, as long as they're for your own personal enjoyment. However, if you make extra copies and sell them, then that is illegal under copyright law. But you still basically own the right to enjoy ONE copy of the copyrighted work, and you can legally sell that right to someone else. So if I buy an MP3, say on EMusic or a similar site, and then I decide I don't want it any more, then if I sell that MP3 to someone else, how is that any different under copyright law than if I'd sold my used records?

mark says succinctly what i was too marble-mouthed to express myself.

Preferably a walk with a hipsterpod, jamming some mellow Putumayo.

He should offer a maintenance plan--take it in once a year and update the ratings based on what the hipster "street" is saying. This way you're never out of date.

Yeah, your plot was pretty brilliant. If it weren't for those meddling kids.

you shoulda had the "barretta" theme on yer ipod -- you know, the one that goes "don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

Selling other people's copyrighted works? Making money off warez? That is not okay. It's LOW to not want somebody to do that? Please.

If the wrong person paid you for one, and you actually mailed it to him, you could be facing years in prison now.

Sorry you can't pay rent dude. Try to find a smarter way next time. Shit, if you get busted, you'll have a lesser penalty if you're selling drugs.

-- hipsterpod (hipsterpo...), April 26th, 2005.

Yeah, it was all about the statement I was making -- maybe make a little money on the side, but the statement. Yeah.

No match for "HIPSTERPOD.COM" in the registrar database.

Registry Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK

This should probably be in massive letters at the start of the FAQ.

Still, you've got your rap albums to keep you company.

whatever happened to this dude, anyway?!?

The website, if you missed it first time around.

If I had never heard of Slsk/oink and had lots of money to spend, it wasn't really a bad deal. His claims that his choices are "obscure" are a bit unfounded, though.

I'd love to see this guy's sales figures.

i'd love to see who actually bought it

i'd track down their address, sneak inside and give them a noogie, a wedgie, and a titty twister in their sleep.

i wonder if we would have had the same response if the iPod had been filled with classical music? a lot of old recordings are public domain, and the classical canon is much more defined/manageable.

AND YET INFINITELY MORE EDIFYING

If I had never heard of Slsk/oink and had lots of money to spend, it wasn't really a bad deal. His claims that his choices are "obscure" are a bit unfounded, though.

i suppose -- but as i said way back when, i presume that most of the folks to whom he'd be marketing his hipsterpod would already have most (if not all) of what he had on his ipod already.

except the putumayo ... i would've paid him to get ridda that shit if i was interested in buying.