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Answering Machine bootlegging out of the question
"Rolling Stones fans can listen to a soundboard mix from the group's Paris concert today by calling a telephone number and paying $1.99 for 7 minutes. The ridiculous thing is that after your seven minutes are up, you have to call back to hear more. Apparently, there's no way to hear the whole show uninterrupted. Rolling Stones manager Marty Erlichman says that's to prevent bootlegging." [Boing Boing]
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OMG!!!!!
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2006 1:05 PM
Can someone please assassinate Mick Jagger? Please? I want him to die a slow, painful death for inflicting this sort of greedy nonsense on the world.
Posted by Brandt | August 1, 2006 1:54 PM
call rich ashcroft, i'm sure he's in the right mindset about now to make something like that happen.
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2006 2:05 PM
Thanks for the advice, but I already have Jerry Hall on line one.
Posted by Brandt | August 1, 2006 2:25 PM
why wouldn't you just listen to a live album on your stereo? This is a very odd thing.
Posted by jonathan | August 1, 2006 2:28 PM
the only thing more ridiculous-sounding than paying actual cash to listen to a concert over a crappy cellphone line, is taking the time to record and bootleg said crappy cellphone concert... or to seek it out and listen to it.
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2006 2:51 PM
You could listen to it over a landline phone connection, but it still wouldn't sound nice enough to be worth your time or money.
"Can someone please assassinate Mick Jagger? Please? I want him to die a slow, painful death for inflicting this sort of greedy nonsense on the world."
Look at it this way: Any person who is willing to shell out the money to listen to a live performance by the Stones over the phone is pathetic enough to deserve the fleecing he gets.
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2006 5:09 PM
the stones are encroaching on KISS territory. shame on gene simmons for not thinking of this first.
Posted by Anonymous | August 1, 2006 5:43 PM