Redbud Tree be aired on July 9th

[jabbathehut]

things are tighter now .I wouldn't  expect a leak till a couple of weeks before release when it starts getting shipped around etc.

[Jules]

Access to the record has been granted to many journalists already so the leak must be around the corner (i hope so)
 

[El Macho]

I remember that ATRR was leaked before and songs could be heard on MKNews as well (not all at the same time).
I even remember downloading STP on Napster before it was released !

[rosco]

I remember getting STP early from Napster as well .
RPD , i got early from WINMX . Both around 6 weeks before release.
Shangri La came from the Knopfler tracker site -again weeks before release .
I think we'll be hearing the album in the next couple of weeks.

Just to clarify every MK album i downloaded pre-release , i bought on the day of release , as the vast majority on this forum would have done .

[Jules]

I remember getting STP early from Napster as well .
RPD , i got early from WINMX . Both around 6 weeks before release.
Shangri La came from the Knopfler tracker site -again weeks before release .
I think we'll be hearing the album in the next couple of weeks.

Just to clarify every MK album i downloaded pre-release , i bought on the day of release , as the vast majority on this forum would have done .

Yes, that the point...

I mean, the fact that the fans would acces to a pre-release, a leak or something similar, its ilegal, it is, but it doesnt have any negative effect because we are all going to buy the record. The only effect would be that the fans that cant wait, will have the chance to listen to it before... and on release date will go and buy it.

If the point is that if its available online before release, people wont buy it, thats wrong. The people that is not going to buy it wont do it anyway, no matter if the cd is leaked or not. When its released they will manage to obtain an illegal copy in one way or the other, but the point here is that they are not potential buyers anyway.

People who is interested in buy records, will do it anyway, and we are fans, to us, buying it is MANDATORY...

That makes me recall about the GL incident where the people from mk.com put all the record online. Well, it was a mistake, but it didnt affected the sales, people who go to their site are fans, and all of them bought the record for sure.

Its not that I encourage piracy (I dont), is that many people are very wrong about many concepts around it.

[dustyvalentino]

I still have the downloaded files on my mp3 player of GL -CD is in a box somewhere.


I don't think it affects Mk so much as his audience is "more mature". But there's a whole generation of young people out there who have NEVER bought music...

[Jules]

I still have the downloaded files on my mp3 player of GL -CD is in a box somewhere.


I don't think it affects Mk so much as his audience is "more mature". But there's a whole generation of young people out there who have NEVER bought music...

And they never will... they dont have the iconic culture that we have about vinyls, cds etc etc, they dont care about covers, booklets etc etc because that generation grew up downloading mp3s...

It doesnt matter how much the record companies try to control it, they will find the way. Actually you can find everything in the net despite all the millions spent by the record companies during so much years in anticopy systems.

The only success was to achieve that many people consider that pay for downloads in Itunes, for example, is fine, even is not, if you pay 0'99 per song, for a 16 songs cd you are paying 16 dollars / euros etc for a mp3 file, while probably the physical cd price is less, and you get much more... And the funny thing is that the distribution of a physical cd is far expensive than a mp3...

[GennT]

Come on guys, we're not all that way! It's true that we download stuff online, but hey that's how I found DS,MK and many other great artists from the past. Now why do you think we're staying here day and night? Just to see what's in the box set! Personally I've traveled a really long way and spend quite a lot just to see a show from Mark! And I'm the happiest man alive now when I know that my favorite artist is going to release a new double album. Will I download the album if it leaks? Probably not. I didn't do it when GL leaked and I had waited 2 years for it. I waited and waited until I got the CD right in my hand, and then I played it. You surely know how this feels because you experienced it a lot during the pre-internet time, but I didn't, and it was really great. Now for as long as Mark breathes and makes music I'm going to buy anything he releases.

[Jules]

Thats about choices.

If the album leaks, I will download and listen. When the album is released, I

[ingridswing]

Exactly the same for me. I will download it and still I am running to the store on the 3rd at 09.00 hours and zero seconds to have it in my hands 

Thats about choices.

If the album leaks, I will download and listen. When the album is released, I

[GennT]

Yeah I agree to that! I know that we're not many, but the few young MK fans happily buy his albums and watch his shows, just because we enjoy the music and want Mark to continue. The other "young people" surely don't listen to music with values, that's why they don't care buying.

[Jules]

Exactly the same for me. I will download it and still I am running to the store on the 3rd at 09.00 hours and zero seconds to have it in my hands 

If I know that I can go now to buy it, I will run!!!!

[Best Brown Baggies]

Exactly the same for me. I will download it and still I am running to the store on the 3rd at 09.00 hours and zero seconds to have it in my hands 

Thats about choices.

If the album leaks, I will download and listen. When the album is released, I

[Jules]

And... no news about any spanish radio airing Redbud Tree 

[Maxx]

The other "young people" surely don't listen to music with values, that's why they don't care buying.

That's not completely true. There's a lot of "young people" like me buying records and listening to music with "values".