Spleen Arcana second album is currently being recorded, day by day, track by track. Some of you bought the first album on cd, some of you bought a digital version, some others bougth both versions. Many others prefered the free download. What will you choose for Spleen Arcana second album? This poll is yours… Feel free to explain your choice in the comments below.
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July 11, 2010 at 9:40 am
I will – digital download. I was not overly enthusiastic about “The Field…” but I sense potential and I’m looking forward to see what will be on the second one.
July 11, 2010 at 10:23 am
Thanks Alias! I understand, I think your review was really motivating anyway ;) I work on “less spleen and more arcana” ;)
July 11, 2010 at 12:10 pm
CD – sans hésitation. Parce que le mp3 même de super qualité reste inférieur au son CD.
Ensuite, la qualité et le plaisir procuré par le 1er album influençant obligatoirement l’achat de l’album suivant, eh bien comme j’avais été super emballé, et même maintenant, je ne me pose même pas la question quand à l’acquisition du CD.
Enfin le CD c’est un truc que l’on peut toucher, lire, admirer, ce n’est pas virtuel, ni seulement un simple fichier informatique. Sorti religieusement un CD de sa boite, avec délicatesse, émotion, plaisir, n’a rien à voir avec un double clic sur PC ou appuyer sur le ON d’un lecteur mp3.
July 14, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Digital only buy. First album didn’t really cut it for me but it certainly was good enough to get the second album. And well even when it’s just 1 sale it’s still hopefully giving you guys some appriciation back for the hard work 8)
July 14, 2010 at 3:47 pm
@Julien : Un amoureux du format disque on dirait, ça fait plaisir!! Comme pour le vinyl, on se raccroche à l’aspect “physique” et non immatériel de ce format. Et choisir un disque, le découvrir déjà physiquement, c’est tout un rituel ;)
@Ginfress : Thank you for your interest! I hope you’ll enjoy the second album more than the first one ;)
And you’re right, your support is absolutely helpful! If every interested listener thought like you, a lot of independant artists could live of their music ;)
July 14, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Well, although I really like your music and expect your second album to be amazing, I admit that I will not buy neither the CD nor the digital version.
I don’t buy an original CD since I was like 15 years old, and I’m not proud of it though!
But things are hard this days, not only for artists, who I would love to support (if I could) but for everyone, and at least in my country a CD costs a lot of money and personally I prefer having my music on a hard drive, so that I can play it in my computer without the anoying noise of the CD driver playing it.
Of course, I could buy digital versions, but I’m not very into the paypal thing, I guess I haven’t dedicated enough time to realize how it works. Shame on me I guess…
I’m sorry that me opinion is not “pretty” but I prefer to be honest about things.
What I’m thinking of buying is a Spleen Arcana t-shirt, I find them very beautifull.
July 14, 2010 at 8:25 pm
@Bathory : This is interesting and it’s easy to guess that you’re not the only one in this case. It’s one of the huge question : Should music be free for all? How can modern artists make a living of their music?
Anyway, I’m sure there are different ways to support independant music ;)
July 14, 2010 at 8:41 pm
As Bathory says, he is thinking of buying a Spleen Arcana t-shirt. My wife and i collect posters from artists (some with autographs and some without), checked the store and unfortunatly non are there. Of course i have no idea how much producing those would cost but it could be an idea for independant artists to look further into merchandise?
July 14, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Anaon, I don’t think that music should be free to everyone, I think that it’s good that we can choose to buy or not CD’s. After all, before illegal downloads existed, people were forced to buy CD’s, even when they only liked one song or two. I believe it’s good that we can download a few songs and if we like what we heard we still can buy the album. Besides, most websites where we can download have something like this writen “if you like the album please buy it, support artists”.
And I agree with Ginfress, maybe merchandise is the new way for independent astists to survive, I mean, when people enjoy a band and that band has a great artwork or a unique logo, they usually look for t-shirts and for signed stuff, so I definently think that would be a good investment!
July 14, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Well, touring and merchandising are the two big options for modern indie artists to survive as we can read here and there but I wonder if it’s good for music overall.
It’s very interesting to know opinions about all this from Spleen Arcana’s listeners. Maybe I should release more merchandising than manufacture cds :D
Anyway, I have two huge posters of the first album artwork in the corner of the studio here. I should add them somewhere…
July 17, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Tiens, cette fois-ci, je le fais en français:
CD! Incontournable CD.
Le mp3, c’est comme les samples, ça permet de goûter, de tester. Le CD, lui, est plus respectueux du travail fait par l’artiste, à tous points de vue, et surtout musicalement.
Pour être franc, j’ai ton 1er album en cd, et je l’ai rippé en mp3 pour figurer sur ma petite clé usb, histoire de pouvoir l’écouter en nomade, c’est à dire dans des conditions où la qualité sonore n’est pas du tout ma priorité, mais ce principe ressemble à de la consommation de musique kleenex: on peut jeter si on n’en veut plus. Quand je privilégie le(s) son(s), retour à ta version CD.
J’attends le second avec impatience, espérant que tu as gardé en tête la remarque que je t’avais faite: plus d’espace dans le son, plus aéré et moins oppressé par les basses fréquences (et tu sais que c’est un bassiste qui te dit ça…lol!).
Allez, remets-toi au boulot, au lieu de lire mon roman ;o)
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