{"id":3190,"date":"2011-10-14T05:59:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/steal-your-culture\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T06:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:12:12","slug":"steal-your-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/14\/steal-your-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Steal Your Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Collectors Weekly<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Grateful Dead\u2019s Great Big Carbon Footprint<\/h1>\n

By Ben Marks<\/p>\n

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, I loved the music of the\u00a0Grateful Dead<\/a>. I guess you could say I was a fan, and to this day I still give the guys a listen.<\/p>\n

But this year\u2019s release of \u201cEurope \u201972: The Complete Recordings\u201d sort of sickened me. For those who don\u2019t know, the Dead\u2019s spring tour of the continent is considered by many to have been their finest.<\/p>\n

This music was important, if rock \u2018n\u2019 roll can ever be described as such, so it was a natural for the surviving band members and their managers to bundle up the entire tour of 22 performances, some 70 hours of music, into a package that fans could purchase. So far, so good.<\/p>\n

But why in this digital age was it necessary to create so much packaging? Instead of making the remastered files available via download, the powers that be decided it would be a better idea to burn 73\u00a0compact discs<\/a>, publish a\u00a0book<\/a>, and stuff the whole thing into a replica of a\u00a0steamer trunk<\/a>, which was then shipped in even more paper (cardboard). A total of 7,200 numbered copies of this environmental nightmare sold out in less than a week at $450 a pop (bids at\u00a0eBay<\/a>\u00a0routinely range from $600 to $900)….<\/p>\n

[ click to read full rant at Collectors Weekly<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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