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sister_luckThere is one band whose cds we always buy. Die Ärzte don't believe in copy protection and don't care if you download their songs. There is even a lovely little logo on the current cd cover with a one-fingered salute to copy protection.
So, why purchase the cds? One reason is probably their belief in free music, but they also make the actual packaging worth having. I'm part of the generation who bought cassettes and vinyl and consequently I care about the covers, the liner notes, the pictures and all that nearly as much as about the music. Die Ärzte always come up with great ways to store the silver discs that contain the music. There are no plastic jewel cases but instead intricately folded paper sleeves. One cd lives in a bright blue (think the Smurfs) plush bag with a velcro fastening. Then there is the double album which looks exactly like the double albums of the past only smaller. Even the cds look like vinyl longplayers.
The newest cd comes in a tiny pizza box which seems so authentic that you first believe this must be some marketing ploy from your local pizza delivery service. There are two cds in the box, one is a pizza and the smaller one is a slice of tomato.
As to the music? It's their usual brand of mixing all genres but still relying on their punk rock roots with texts about teenage rebellion and the evils of downloading.
In other news:
I've been trying to do my bit in keeping the neighbourhood clean. Some neo-Nazi assholes have put up stickers on lampposts and other surfaces showing their favourite martyr Rudolf Heß. The aesthetics are pure 1930s/40s propaganda with lots of red, black and white. I managed to remove one of them, but there's one I couldn't get off. It was pasted onto the small box housing the menu of the empty ex-Italian, briefly African God Victory International restaurant. I need to get some cleaning stuff and tackle it again. It's probably not a coincidence that these stickers have turned up at the time as we've been remembering the past .
So, why purchase the cds? One reason is probably their belief in free music, but they also make the actual packaging worth having. I'm part of the generation who bought cassettes and vinyl and consequently I care about the covers, the liner notes, the pictures and all that nearly as much as about the music. Die Ärzte always come up with great ways to store the silver discs that contain the music. There are no plastic jewel cases but instead intricately folded paper sleeves. One cd lives in a bright blue (think the Smurfs) plush bag with a velcro fastening. Then there is the double album which looks exactly like the double albums of the past only smaller. Even the cds look like vinyl longplayers.
The newest cd comes in a tiny pizza box which seems so authentic that you first believe this must be some marketing ploy from your local pizza delivery service. There are two cds in the box, one is a pizza and the smaller one is a slice of tomato.
As to the music? It's their usual brand of mixing all genres but still relying on their punk rock roots with texts about teenage rebellion and the evils of downloading.
In other news:
I've been trying to do my bit in keeping the neighbourhood clean. Some neo-Nazi assholes have put up stickers on lampposts and other surfaces showing their favourite martyr Rudolf Heß. The aesthetics are pure 1930s/40s propaganda with lots of red, black and white. I managed to remove one of them, but there's one I couldn't get off. It was pasted onto the small box housing the menu of the empty ex-Italian, briefly African God Victory International restaurant. I need to get some cleaning stuff and tackle it again. It's probably not a coincidence that these stickers have turned up at the time as we've been remembering the past .
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Date: 2007-11-10 07:52 pm (UTC)Those stickers sound hideous. How disgusting.
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Date: 2007-11-10 08:08 pm (UTC)We've had a couple of listens and it is a great album. We especially enjoyed "Lasse reden".
They're doing lots of genre-bending as usual - they are quite inventive musically.
I guess the stickers came from a bunch of righ-wing hooligans. I saw a similar one a couple of weeks ago in a slightly different part of the town. Den habe ich auch abgeknibbelt. Is there an English word for abknibbeln? It might even be local dialect, so don't know whether it is understood in Switzerland...
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Date: 2007-11-10 08:25 pm (UTC)I know what you mean, the local dialect of Bern would say "abchnüble", that's close enough. I suppose the closest word in English would be... scratch off, perhaps?
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Date: 2007-11-13 07:29 pm (UTC)I didn't know the cd was out - spotted it by accident in the local MediaMarkt.
Scratch off is rather boring compared to the German word.