Last week I was driving down in Washington, on a trip to retrieve an item from careful custody since the 2019 end of my/grandparents' house down there. I had NPR on the radio, and behind one or another talking segment there was an intriguing piano rendition of "Miss Gradenko", by The Police.
I like that song, and I liked what I could (almost sorta) hear of that rendition, so once back home I set out to find it. It wasn't hard to home in on the Hazelrigg Bros; I found this rehearsal version on EwTube.
Cool, neato, excellent, but not quite the version I'd heard on the radio. Eventually I found the wellspring. These Hazelrigg Bros "intepreted" (their word) the whole of the Synchronicity album on piano and cello and drums.
No samples, not even five-second snippets. No availability but via a staggeringly precious, obnoxiously up-themselves distributionship full of selfgratulatory audiophile piffle. The album is preferentially proffered as tracks in a format the likes of you certainly hasn't ever heard of—your DAC probably only cost four figures, if you even have one, god!
Look, just…fine »exasperated sigh« you can buy the album as regular ol' normal ol' boring ol' inferior ol' gross ol' terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad .wavs if you're not really serious; please do it quickly and go away before you stink up the place overly much.
Oh…oh, did you think that was all? You thought you'd what, pay the money and download the files? »indulgent, scornful little half-chuckle« Er…no. Pay the money, then you will download and install our bespoke app. You can ignore the "Welcome to the community" email; that's auto-generated and certainly isn't meant for…your kind.
Once you've installed the special Chinpòkòmòn app, then you may enter this key code we're giving you—don't think it makes you as good as us; it doesn't—and proceed to download the tracks from within the app. Now go away.
Thusly I got the tracks, then immediately converted them to .m4a (.mp3 would've been fine with me, too), and I'll listen to them in awhile when the yuck from the procurement experience has faded.
Jesus tapdancing Christ on a 3-speed Schwinn. I understand that audiophilia is a thing, and there are people who get off on it. Thing is, there are people (such as @octothorpe ) who manage—somehow, some way—do so without being fœtid douchenuggets about it. So it is possible.
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