I'd like to throw a flower at you, Bruce, because you are absolutely right.
I never share music or transcriptions via email, torrents, etc., for the reasons you state. If somebody is over at my place and is an active buying collector - as I am - I will share hard to find things if I have them and he doesn't.
I offered to share stuff Rande
in person because, I think he has, in fact, paid for most it at some point in his life and now doesn't have it for whatever reason.
RandeDager wrote:I once owned about everything Chet & Jerry ever put out on vinyl and no longer have any of it.
Randy
P.S. You didn't miss much on Freddie's Page. The quality of the recordings/streaming were among the worst I've heard. I personally don't think the record companies, Chet's Estate, or anyone directly associated with it had anything to do with Freddie's full streaming demise. I believe it was his advertisers, and revenue there from potentially no longer being there, that was the motivation.