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hammerhands
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
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 Posted - 08/24/2004 : 12:13:54
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Can anyone point me to a good music reference site?
I was using allmusic.com to research discographies. It changed recently, they make you "sign-up" to access Credits. Credits had a list of albums that the musician had appeared on.
It's useless to look up a Jazz musician's discography and only see albums where he is the leader. What a joke.
As much as I like this forum, I refuse to sign-in to most websites. Give me your cookies, give me your pop-ups, but I have no intention of inching toward the pay-to-learn model.
Why can't I find one myself? There's another sore spot. I've been playing around with this 'Internet' since the time of Archie and the Lynx browser, when Usenet was the preferred communications vehicle, even before smileys. There was, for a short time, a balance between the quantity and quality of content but now there is so much garbage for and so much manipulation and commercialization of search engines that a non-specific search (one of less than eight words) yields many dozens of garbage links. Garbage in, Garbage out. I don't have the inclination for this anymore; I spend so much of my life looking for lost objects, I refuse to bring this psychotic behaviour to the web.
I spent 30 minutes following links and leads and came up empty. |
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A cold day in hell before I pay for content
