{"id":763,"date":"2009-08-26T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T14:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2009-08-26T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T14:55:50","slug":"good-news-and-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Good news and bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news people are reading <a href=\"http:\/\/blogerantz.blogspot.com\/\">Blogerantz<\/a>!\u00a0 The bad news is that one of them is Dave Meros of Spock&#8217;s Beard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks for the nice words.  Not so many thanks for offering our CD up for illegal downloading, though.<\/p>\n<p>You P2P and Bittorent guys are killing us. .. literally.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Meros \/ Spock&#8217;s Beard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry about that, Dave.\u00a0 I thought the title (Live at Whiskey and Near Fest) was unavailable through conventional means, but I have since confirmed that it can be purchased directly at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiantrecords.com\/catalog.asp?Item=37\">Radiant Records on CDR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to say that I did purchase this item back in the day, as opposed to getting it from bittrorrent or P2P.\u00a0 My original vision with Blogerantz was to share music the way I did back in high school when I would copy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Defector_%28album%29\">Steve Hackett&#8217;s Defector<\/a> for one friend and they would copy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Curious_Feeling\">Tony Banks&#8217; Curious Feeling<\/a> for me.\u00a0 Behavior like that generally did not lead to cease and desist letters, even though it was technically in violation of copyright laws.<\/p>\n<p>But I understand Dave&#8217;s point and I am very sensitive about posting &#8216;official&#8217; releases for artists who are young or independent.\u00a0 Despite my deep and abiding love of Beardfish, I&#8217;m not posting any of their studio records at Blogerantz, no matter how much I want to spread the word.\u00a0 Those guys really need the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news people are reading Blogerantz!\u00a0 The bad news is that one of them is Dave Meros of Spock&#8217;s Beard. Thanks for the nice words. Not so many thanks for offering our CD up for illegal downloading, though. You &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[76,499,100,721,720,291,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}