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I never wanted to do this but this one guy has hit me with a low blow when it comes to my integrity and my dedication and hard work I have put into what you see here. I found this comment on another blog and at first thought just to ignore it. I told myself I would never bother with this kind of garbage but, pictures speak.
Jon writes…
I recently sold most of my record collection due for financial reasons. I ripped and scanned everything before I sold it though and a good amount of it is available in my Soulseek folder. The other day I noticed 7inchpunk had a post on the Queer Pills 7″ and the cover looked awfully familiar. Indeed it was my exact copy that they downloaded and uploaded to their site. If it wasn’t for the hand stamped cover an argument could be made that it was a different one, but it is EXACTLY the same, even the rip of the record.




What a fag. In the end, would it really even matter if someone downloaded it from here, as opposed to just downloading it from him on soulseek?
Even if you ever HAD just downloaded stuff from his site and put it on your own, who would give a flying shit? What I’m trying to say is, the point of these blogs is to get this music known to as many people who care to listen. If he saw that someone took his picture scans or song rips and talked about them for their own site, he should consider his job done. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
All of the whiney shit about who scanned this or who ripped that is just stupid. Does he expect people to scan/rip every record they have if they ever wanted to share it online? The only credit he deserves is for taking the time to provide the internet with yet another picture of The Depraved. Oh, and his rips. But, people only care about the band that actually made the damn record, not the person who scans pictures of it.
Well said Crass_must_die.
Hey with all the blogs out there, you’re bound to get some duplicates. Hey, share the music and enjoy. It’s not a competition.
I will forth everyones comments. Who gives a fuck where it came from! This is hardcore, not fucking Britney Spears. I was doing a blog last year where I documented all of my live shows I have collected over the years and some band threatened (and continues to) me because I blogged about their demo! Over a blog post!!
Shit like this is exactly why I don’t involve myself that much anymore. No matter what you do (in this case, something as cool as 7 Inch Punk) people will still shit on you. Bogus.
Oh my?!? All this: I ripped it and i want to get the credit for it, it is so, I don´t know. Everybody should be glad to share the music he/she likes with someone who appreciates it.If this is rare stuff, the better. If you want the original, cough up the bucks on ebay, if even possible, but I am so glad to have this site to make it possible to get this gems. And I think most of the bands do, too. They never intended to create collectibles, they just didn´t have the money to put more copies out.
So thank you all here at 7inchpunk and have a good holiday and a happy new year.
the thing with hardcore always was to set an example that will overcome the selfish “object-fetish” tripe that makes “jon” think he is more important than any other consumer/fan. don’t quote me, tho, or I will sue you . . . .
what’s the point of this site then!?! why don’t you all hint to the files on slsk with a link to the cover.jpg?
have some fucking backbone and say it’s not your rip or at least post something from yer own collection in good quality bit-rate.
fortunately there are other blogs out there delivering quality punk time after time.
maybe you should just consider renaming yer blog slsk7inchlowqualitypunk.
QUALITY NOT QUANTITY and SHARE THE WEALTH!
Hey G-Sus, since you’re apparently not so hot on the whole “reading comprehension” thing, I’ll lay it out for you….some nerd accused the guy that puts in all the time and effort of running this (extremely useful and informative) site of doing what you suggest here– just uploading someone else’s rips with a stolen JPEG. The response was an obviously recent picture of the very copy of the EP used to make the rips, pose in front of the post in question, which obviously shows that the complaint was entirely bogus as clearly as your little rant shows only how much sense it would make for you to think things through before posting shit that only embarrasses you.
Hey g-sus, with everything wrong with this site, whatcha doing hangin’ around and making comments.
Seems like you’d be way too busy stroking the other “quality” sites or posting high quality rips
of amazing hardcore records on YOUR site…….
what’s the address again ? www dot ……huh??? speak up-didn’t quite get that, what’s your website again????? yeah, thought so!!
Thanks also for having the “backbone” to make snide comments about “quality” of this site without actually having done anything yourself (except make comments). How about contributing to this site, doing your own “high quality” site or until you’ve actually done something besides comment- just shutting the fuck up…………….
So wait… maybe it’s that I’M dumb as hell, but let me get this straight… this guy “stole” the music and put it up for download… then someone else (7inchpunk) “stole” it from him and gave it away… and… and… what’s the problem? I’m just not getting it. “He’s trying to kidnap what I rightfully stole” The Princess Bride. Nothing worse than a REAL cyber-punk if you ask me. For fuck’s sake. WE’RE ON THE INTERNETS!
OH MY GOD! Punk Rock Nerds! GAG ME WITH A SPOON! Back Bone? Hey G-Sus… why don’t YOU get some backbone and just make your own goddamn music instead of just downloading it and claiming some sort of rights over it. Holy Monkey Shit. Everyone just calm down and tell yourselves “it’s just punk rock”. And even more, it’s just the internets.
I no longer consider myself a punk I just love to much music to settle into one niche, I love Madonna and think Snow Patrol is amazing. I also enjoy sites like this music is a sacred and very emotional and one of the true and rare gidts humans can give to the world. And sites like this and many others make sure to spread this gift to millions to continue where bands couldn’t even imagine of achieving because like someone said before they didn’t have the money to do so. I believe that person should at least get a thankyou if someone actually used his picture and rips, but I doubt that happened. If it did happen though he shouldn’t bitch about silly and pointless things he should feel a warm fuzzy sensation deep in the pit of his heart. An overwhelming sense of joy should swallom him up for helping open peoples eyes to these little treasures collecting dust in our musical past finall being dreged up to be posted here for aour ears delight. I praise this site and would like to let Jon know, relax dude there a worst shit in the world than who stole your pics and rips. Go take a trip to India and live there for a year and come back to reflect. Than maybe next time you feel the urge to post some stupid message you’ll realize it’s no fucking big deal. So just turn off your computer and get som fresh air and let the rest of us who give a fuck about music enjoy the cintiued success of sites like these.
PS: Check out Daniel Johnston!!
JON
I no longer consider myself a punk I just love too much music to settle into one niche, I love Madonna and think Snow Patrol is amazing. I also enjoy sites like this. Music is a sacred and very emotional;one of the true and rare gifts humans can give to the world. And sites like this and many others make sure to spread this gift to millions, to continue on what bands couldn’t even imagine of achieving. Because like someone said before they didn’t have the money to do so. I do believe that this person should at least get a thankyou if someone actually used his picture and rips, but I doubt that happened. If it did happen though he shouldn’t bitch about silly and pointless things like this. He should feel a warm fuzzy sensation deep in the pit of his heart. An overwhelming sense of joy should swallom him up for helping open peoples eyes to these little treasures collecting dust in our musical past. Finally being unearthed from obscuritys grave To be posted here for our ears delight. I praise this site and would like to let Jon know, relax dude there a worst shit in the world than who stole your pics and rips. Go take a trip to India and live there for a year and come back to America to reflect. Than maybe the next time you feel the urge to post some stupid message you’ll realize it’s no fucking big deal. So just turn off your computer and get some fresh air and let the rest of us who give a fuck about music enjoy the continued success of sites like these.
PS: Check out Daniel Johnston!!
JON