{"id":303,"date":"2004-02-14T20:36:53","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T19:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2004-02-14T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T19:36:53","slug":"simmer-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/simmer-down\/","title":{"rendered":"simmer down"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;From my personal point of view I&#8217;ve found that acquiring (buying, loaning, downloading, whatever method) more and more music actually makes me increasingly unhappy. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve reduced my acquisitions to almost nil recently. I pick up tunes only occasionally and there have been months without any purchase. I&#8217;ve dropped my presence on download\/swapping arenas to almost nil as well. Some enthusiastic and nice people on dc++. I miss them but do I really need all that music available. No.<br \/>\nThis increasing rush of re-issues and people&#8217;s bottomless greed for new tunes just makes me sick. It wasn&#8217;t like that before, people meekly waited and murmured not. And they were happier, because when you finally found something it was worth the long wait.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Juha on the Blood &#038; Fire Board. This obviously relates well to what Dubversion and Matt have been talking about &#8211; the &#8220;ipodisation&#8221; of music consumption. (I can&#8217;t be the first person to use that term, can I?)<\/p>\n<p>Juha also runs this great <a href=\"http:\/\/koti.mbnet.fi\/maple\/st1_fav.html\">Studio 1 albums site<\/a>, which will no doubt inspire all you lot to download it all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From my personal point of view I&#8217;ve found that acquiring (buying, loaning, downloading, whatever method) more and more music actually makes me increasingly unhappy. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve reduced my acquisitions to almost nil recently. I pick up tunes only occasionally and there have been months without any purchase. I&#8217;ve dropped my presence on download\/swapping arenas &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/simmer-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;simmer down&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dwnlads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}