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offline b6662966 from ? on 2007-01-31 14:52 [#02042220]
Points: 1110 Status: Lurker



I just signed up for LALA.com and already have Selected
Ambient Works II on its way to me.
Has anyone heard of this place or is already a member?
Basically you trade CDs for 99 cents + 75 cents shipping,
they send you prepaid mailers with plastic cases and you
start trading with peeps anywhere in the US. Its all
automated, so all you have to do is simply request an album
and some cocksucker mails it to you. Anyways there are a
few fuckers on there with idm/electronica.


 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2007-01-31 14:55 [#02042223]
Points: 1110 Status: Lurker



i forgot to mention that apparently you can make your own
radio station with their catalouge for free and broadcast to
whoever the fuck you want.


 

offline Combo from Sex on 2007-01-31 15:01 [#02042226]
Points: 7540 Status: Regular



Is that legal?

 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2007-01-31 15:12 [#02042242]
Points: 1110 Status: Lurker



yea totally legal. supposedly they cut out the middleman
(record labels) and pay artists directly a royalty from
every trade.


 

offline stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2007-01-31 15:54 [#02042262]
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whoa! it's like what i tried to make here, but
bigger and works!


 

offline handoverthecart on 2007-01-31 18:39 [#02042384]
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I've been on lala since July and I've been pretty happy with
my experience there so far. The two main issues I have with
the site are the trading of double disc sets (they're
treated as two separate CDs so there's no way to be sure
that you'll get both discs) and the artwork issues (you can
request the front cover art but the tray insert isn't
required for others to send you, and digipaks are an even
bigger problem, although I believe there may be another
option added to require all artwork soon... still, more than
90% of everything I've received has had all artwork).

I've actually received 32 discs from the site (with 2 more
coming to me now) by artists like Coil, Drexciya, and
Biosphere, and I've sent out albums by Richard Devine,
Lusine, and B12 (actually all of those were duplicates of
albums I already owned that I found cheap and bought just to
trade), so it's not just trash that's being traded on there.


 

offline penexpers from Toronto (Canada) on 2007-01-31 18:40 [#02042386]
Points: 4030 Status: Regular



Sounds like a good idea.

 

offline stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2007-01-31 18:47 [#02042394]
Points: 4396 Status: Regular | Followup to handoverthecart: #02042384



thats very bad since artwork is what make lots of people buy
original records instead of pirating


 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2007-01-31 20:34 [#02042550]
Points: 1110 Status: Lurker



yea i think they have 2 settings for users regarding
artwork. Option A specifies that you dont care if your discs
have artwork or not and Option B specifies that you will
only accept cds with artwork. I dont really care since
anything i trade on there I plan on ripping to FLAC then
retrading the originals back onto LALA. Either way you look
at it, its a hell of a lot cheaper than iTunes or any other
online music store for that matter.


 

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