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  For those without tickets for tonight.

Posted by: sadohert
10-17-2006, 06:30 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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How does this kind of "special" presentation work. Are the only available tickets those that were given out by thehip.com, EDGE, or Mav? Is there a line already forming down there to scoop up any remaining tickets?

Any info would be greatly appreciated. I'm sorted out now, but my wife is outta luck right now.

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  Weird opinion

Posted by: beanmedic
10-17-2006, 05:58 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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One of my all-time favourite bands is The Tragically Hip. I've loved them since I first heard "Blow At High Dough" on Q107 back in 1989. I remember vividly going to Sam the Record Man at Yonge and Dundas to pick up the album Up To Here with my buddy Joe that summer. I've been hooked on this band from Kingston ever since.

I've read a couple of articles today about The Tragically Hip and their feelings about those to illegally download their music via P2P networks. The two I recommend you read are this one from Chartattack and this one from the Toronto Star. They both say pretty much the same thing. According to Universal Music Canada, during a five-week stretch from March 30 to May 7, there were more than half a million attempts to illegally download the latest Hip single, "Vaccination Scar". "To me it's an ethical question," Hip bassist Gord Sinclair said in a statement. "If you hear something you like, go out and support the artist."

Support the artist? There isn't a band on this planet I've supported more. When you see that list of Hip albums in my collection they were all ripped from original CDs that I own. If you visit my Ticket Stubs page, you'll find several stubs from Hip concerts that I paid serious money to obtain. When the new CD is released in June, I plan to add the CD to my collection and I intend to rip that CD into MP3s because that's how I actually listen to my music.

Having said all that, and keep in mind I've personally spent hundreds of dollars in my life on Tragically Hip CDs, concert tickets and concert tee shirts, you can add me to that list of 500,000 people who went hunting for a free download of "Vaccination Scar". I love the tune and I want to hear it but the CD is unavailable. Universal Music Canada will tell you the track is available as a legal download from Puretracks.com for 99 cents, but this is unacceptable to me. I would gladly cough up a buck for this tune legally if it was available from Puretracks.com as a DRM-free MP3. Read the Puretracks.com terms and conditions for heaven's sake. And from their help page, "All of our music files are in Windows Media format". I want my MP3. Why make a digital music file only available in .wma format? This forces the consumer to buy a product in a proprietary format so they have to use Windows Media Player to burn it to CD only to rip it from CD to MP3. Puretracks.com can call me when they get this right.

I'm not at all comfortable with The Tragically Hip judging their fans like this. It's libel to backfire. How many Metallica fans were turned off by their hate-on for Napster? I'm not going to turn on the Hip for this stance, it just pisses me off. It's never pretty when rock stars attack.

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  Anyone In Buffalo find World Container yet?

Posted by: tragicallymike
10-17-2006, 04:49 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Anyone have any luck with the local music stores. Seems that the storm has screwed up the shipments.

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  www.thehip.com

Posted by: Billy
10-17-2006, 04:15 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Just wondering what's happening there today? I can't seem to access the site at all,
so does that mean there is a brand new site and the kinks aren't worked out yet, or is
there simply too much traffic on the existing site?

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  Hip Channel

Posted by: Triacc
10-17-2006, 03:55 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Wouldnt it be cool if they came out with an all Tragically hip satellite channel.
Hey if Springsteen and Elvis cane have them why not the Hip.

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  No respect from Much Mucic for the Hip - why?

Posted by: The Tragically Hip
10-17-2006, 03:49 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I've been hitting the Much site leading up to the release of World Container and I haven't seen shit on their site about it.
No link to the new video.
I'm surprised, I don't have Much Music down here so I don't know if they have been playing In View.
You would think they would support The Hip.

I thought for sure today there would be something on the much site.

For fuck sakes their pluggin weird al on the front page.

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  iTunes Bonus tracks

Posted by: hotmetal401
10-17-2006, 02:08 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Are in fact from prior singles. The version of New Orleans is the "Nuclear Submarine" with the half of "Fire In the Hole" and a full "Nautical Disaster"

Cheers,

Pat

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  Gord D in Ottawa

Posted by: Dr. J
10-17-2006, 01:12 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Gord D in Ottawa. Nothing new, but interesting. When asked why he's the one doing the promo work, I like how he says the guys "have done a lot of the heavy lifting over the years" and now it was his turn.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news...ec9&k=7285

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  Hip Song Download Of The Week (or so) - Yer Not The Ocean

Posted by: Tthip
10-17-2006, 12:46 AM
Forum: Download & Trading Central
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Closed.

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  World Container is here

Posted by: mojo_mattv
10-16-2006, 03:50 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Well its been almost two years since I became more then a casual Hip fan. November 28 2004, ACC. man it did it for me, regardless, I've waited ever since that day for the new CD, and since the day is finally here (15 minutes actually) I just thought Id like to thank, and congratulate the band on what in my mind is an already impressive album. Thanks for everything you do guys, if you keep putting out albums of this callibre I'll never have to worry about my music becoming stale. And to everybody at hipbase, i think its fair to say, this is gonna be one hell of a day for most of us. Hope everone enjoys the album as much as I'm sure to.

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