Comments on: Things are touch and go for Touch and Go

By: The Black Heart Procession Marches On... | The Decibel Tolls

The Black Heart Procession Marches On... | The Decibel Tolls — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:24:55 +0000

[...] a break in the clouds. After the unfortunate demise of the their former label, Touch and Go (see “Things are Touch and Go for Touch and Go”), the band put out an SOS on its Myspace page seeking “anyone who wants to release the new [...]

By: Mike H

Mike H — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:08:49 +0000

definitely a time to start appreciating the labels we got left, if K Records meets a similar fate I don’t know what I’ll do. It definitely does seem like a label has to be very exclusive to thrive nowadays (like Warp or Kranky).

By: Around the Net Week 9 | undomondo

Around the Net Week 9 | undomondo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:23:25 +0000

[...] news as Chicago’s influential Touch and Go label stops distributing & manufacturing. via The Decibel Tolls and Time Out [...]

By: Xavier Van Zandt

Xavier Van Zandt — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:50:42 +0000

I know I should be listening to albums but with my adult ADD and all I’ve become a playlist junkie. The music did seem sweeter when I used to sit down to an entire CD. In fact, entire periods of my life are marked by the constant play of a particular album.

Nowadays I find myself picking out the 30 best tracks from GBV’s oeuvre and saving a few hundred bucks by forgoing the rest.

I’m trying hard not to come off like a luddite, but I do wonder what we’ll put in our time capsules in years to come. A Kindle and iPod with a 500gb Passport drive?

By: Justin Snow

Justin Snow — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:37:24 +0000

I can’t say I’ve followed you in your resigning of the album. If anything, I’ve become even less “song oriented” than I used to. When I was younger, I would buy an album because the single was cool and catchy, listen to the album once or twice all the way through, figure out which songs I liked, and only listen to those from then on out. It was a really special thing when I only had to skip a song or two on an entire album.

Now, the album is sacred to me. I hate listening to a single song without any context in regards to the rest of the record. Yeah, I’ll check out the new single by whoever before the album comes out to get a taste of things to come but I don’t do that once I actually have the album.

I know I’m probably in the minority, as evidence by T&G. I think both hard economic times and the digital era proved too fatal for T&G. Although, I’m still surprised at their demise. I would have thought that the type of customer they appealed to would be more inclined to purchase physical records even if they couldn’t necessarily afford it. Maybe I’m just naive, or think everyone’s like me, but the whole digital music thing hasn’t really changed how I buy music, only how I listen to it.