Upcoming shows professionally recorded! Options

[Pokey]

Looks like TGF are going to be having their next set of shows professionally recorded and available for purchase according to facebook:

The Gracious Few
Surprise announcement! We are exited to let you know that TGF will be recorded on each stop of the band's upcoming tour leg, starting in Seattle and ending in Ventura , by Abbey Road Live. These are high quality, limited edition double-disc sets. Best of all, if you go to the show, you can pick up your CD set as you leave, encore and all! And if you are not going, you can still have it shipped home to you. Since these are so limited, we are offering these for pre-sale at www.abbeyroadliveus.com. Jump over and your copy today, as it is sure to become a collector's item!

[+Ed+]

It'll become the official Appetite sooner or later

[FishOutaWater]

I don't want to make enemies here, but I think that anyone who trades these recordings that have been commercially produced and sold, or conspires to do it, is a dick. This band, that everyone supposedly loves, has arranged at their own expense to have their shows professionally recorded, mixed, packaged, distributed and sold so they can make a little money for their signifancant efforts. It was probably done as a grant to requests from fans. I don't think they are making much money from the modest cd sales of this album or the $10 tickets at venues with 150 people in them. Heck, when they reduced ticket prices from $20 to $10, they gave away a free T-shirt and personally autographed poster to everyone who bought a ticket for $20. They're are 5 members in the band. They are touring around the country and to Europe. They have a tour bus, tour crew, tour manager. I know they love this and they are having a good time, but what does everyone think the economics of this look like? I am guessing that they aren't pocketing much for all of this time and effort and trips away from their families. I for one, wish to support a band that has given me so much excitement and enjoyment. I am going to buy as many of these concert recordings as I can, and I'm not going to take a free download from anybody. Besides the fact that it is illegal, it is also direspectful to the band and, in my opinion, a dick-move to steal these recording or illegally distribute them for free. Do you think that they want to go to all the trouble of putting these cd's out into the market place so that their own hard-core fans can each buy one and them swap the rest for free? They obviously want to sell these. I wouldn't steal from my worst enemy, let alone my favorite band that I love and admire.

Now I'm off my soap box. Please feel free to take reputation points away from me for offending everyone.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Nov 23 2010, 9:49 am

[Pokey]

I don't want to make enemies here, but I think that anyone who trades these recordings that have been commercially produced and sold, or conspires to do it, is a dick. This band, that everyone supposedly loves, has arranged at their own expense to have their shows professionally recorded, mixed, packaged, distributed and sold so they can make a little money for their signifancant efforts. It was probably done as a grant to requests from fans. I don't think they are making much money from the modest cd sales of this album or the $10 tickets at venues with 150 people in them. Heck, when they reduced ticket prices from $20 to $10, they gave away a free T-shirt and personally autographed poster to everyone who bought a ticket for $20. They're are 5 members in the band. They are touring around the country and to Europe. They have a tour bus, tour crew, tour manager. I know they love this and they are having a good time, but what does everyone think the economics of this look like? I am guessing that they aren't pocketing much for all of this time and effort and trips away from their families. I for one, wish to support a band that has given me so much excitement and enjoyment. I am going to buy as many of these concert recordings as I can, and I'm not going to take a free download from anybody. Besides the fact that it is illegal, it is also direspectful to the band and, in my opinion, a dick-move to steal these recording or illegally distribute them for free. Do you think that they want to go to all the trouble of putting these cd's out into the market place so that their own hard-core fans can each buy one and them swap the rest for free? They obviously want to sell these. I wouldn't steal from my worst enemy, let alone my favorite band that I love and admire.

Now I'm off my soap box. Please feel free to take reputation points away from me for offending everyone.

I respectfully disagree. I do want to pay for these recordings. I do. But I also want them all and can't afford them. It mentions there will only be a limited amount that will be made unlike the pixies one for example who are a much more popular band and have recordings up there dating back a year still available. I think everyone that wants one should buy their own copy no doubt but at $25 each Inc postage that's $200. So i will be getting my own copy, it'll be a stab in the dark as to which one, but I'll get one. 
If they were available via mp3 or at least had samples then maybe I'd just get the one show after determining which recording I preferred like Ed did with his online recordings. And like his that each show would have it's differences in quality. This is also something more intended for those who can go to these shows as a memory of their night. I can't go to these shows (nor will I to any tgf show for a long time as I have a strong feeling I'll be living overseas when they come here next year) so yeah I'm being greedy and want to have it all but not for $200, but not for nothing either. 

For those to disagree that's fine, dealings will be done privately for those who have agreed. I don't think it should bring anyones fan status into question though. I dont see what the big deal really is, I can't imagine getting worked up over this, but anyways. 
I don't think this is exactly taking food from their table. They don't work extra for each copy that is sold. If no one orders a copy that is obtained via trading then it doesn't get made and printed up and sent out so they probably don't lose money, just lost the ability to make more. If these were mp3 and I had a way of sampling which recording was my favorite then I would in all honesty only really buy one show for download and leave it at that because id really only listen to one best recording. So either way I only buy one copy. But the way it's done like I mentioned it's impossible to do that. And if you wait till theyre all out for reviews then it could be too late by the sounds of it. 
So either way I'm content to be a heathen, or a dick or whatever it makes me. 

This post has been edited by Pokey: Nov 23 2010, 11:57 am