One of
the new ventures I am partaking on, rather than just simply reviewing cassettes
or MP3s, is to review something is available as a Name Your Price Download
(Hence, download it for free) but also as a cassette for purchase. This will hopefully help to determine
whether or not you should buy the cassette based simply on the fact that it does
offer a free download.
The
first of these (at least that I’m documenting as such) comes to us from Jan
Amit, which is admittedly a cassette I was hesitant to buy because of the foreign
conversion rate as well as (and this is the biggest factor) international
shipping charges.
These
songs begin in an ambient and instrumental manner, but they quickly turn into
something more along the seapunk borders, if only because I’m hearing the likes
of jPeg Artifacts and even Rumtum coming out.
I do think that this sound would be optimal on cassette, yes.
To make
a reference to something from quite a long time ago that I may have never
referenced before, this also sounds to me in many ways like the band Sneaker
Pimps, but that probably goes over a lot of people’s heads so I’ll just leave
it at that.
When it
comes down to it, this cassette costs $7.50 U.S. and it has $5.83 as the price
for shipping. That means this will be $13.33
with shipping, but most of that is just to account for actual shipping costs
and quite frankly, between five to six dollars to ship a single tape
internationally seems like a good deal to me.
So when
you really just look at this as being a $7.50 cassette tape, it is up to you
whether or not you think it would be worth it.
If it was $7.50 and had U.S. shipping rates, I would say to absolutely
buy it, so I don’t see why paying that little bit more for shipping should be a
big deal. (For the record, I saw a tape
recently that wanted you to pay $4 for shipping within the U.S., so there’s
your point comparison)
The
bottom line is this is really good music that deserves your support and going
through the hassle of downloading it for free, then burning it onto a CD and
then copying it onto a cassette (if you have the means) just seems to be too
much hassle for the price. So do
it. Buy this cassette not because I
broke down the money side of it for you, but because it is worth every single
penny.
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