Hey remember queen before internet??

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Lady Nyx wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="sky blue">QueenMercury46 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I really wish I was around during those days, it seems more exciting. Nowadays people just buy a song off of iTunes and it's just so easy and...well, boring. One thing I never like to do is buy a cd from iTunes. Some people think it's weird, but it's just not as fun as finding it in a store, taking it home, opening it up, popping it in right away, and looking at the inside pictures, etc. I've always loved the excitement of doing that. For me, music just doesn't seem like it should be downloaded from a computer. It's more special than that.[/QUOTE]



i completely agree!
its like a sport! i love goi to great house of guitars nad digging thru the shelves and under corridors to find the CD i have wanted for so long.

i actually wrote a paper on how downloading should be banned for the sport of it XD

i used to save all my earnings just to buy some new CDs.
i still buy them, in case my itunes dies XD.

i still buy tapes too!


its grea to hear stories about how people used to anticipate new albums. ive always wondered what that would be like. the closest thing i had to that was when i was younger and 'made in heaven' came out, and mom bought it. this was when our queen repetiore was first starting to build (other than greatest hits) so it was a real treat!

and before i was net-savvy (taha) i used to love scouting out the cds in the stores.


is there anyone in rochester NY who ever particpiated in the 'all night album release' stuff at GHOG?[/QUOTE]

I've never done the all night thing, but I love the HOG. I live about a half hour away from there.

I remember recording my CD's on tape, one track after one, making a Queen's "Best Rocks Songs" compilation (including live tracks and some B-sides) for listening in my car. Spending hours doing it, making smooth transitions, artwork and stuff.

Now, i don't have the time anymore to rip and organise my CD's, so I **download** (ouch') them and store them on my IPod... What a time !!

I do download stuff on mp3 for use on my PC or to listen to in my car. I don't want to convert my cd's to mp3. Since I already bought the music legally I don't think downloading it again isn't such a problem. For example some of the b-sides of my 7" singles have scratches on them. I can't buy them in the store anymore, so I downloaded them from Limewire.com
I know it's illegal, but so is pissing behind the church...

We were reading fanzines and articles in newspapers. Yeah... Bootleg catalogues over the post...

About 9 years ago I was working at a bike shop. One of my customers noticed I was playing the Sheer Heart Attack album, and we got talking. A couple of days later he came by with a cassette tape filled with De Lane Lea demo's, some 12'' versions and some other demo's... I was absolutely in shock for about a month!!

those were the days.. :p

In East-Germany there was a radio station called DT64. Every sunday they played one side of an album which was a new release in the year. Beside The Cure´s "Desintegration" in 1989 I remember recording Queen´s "A Kind Of Magic three years earlier. One sunday side one and one week later the other side.
It was hard to get western records, tapes and whatever. All you could get were licenced records from Hungary or Czechoslovakia and the east-german release simply called "Queen" (when you had a good relationship to the man behind the store desk)
After the political change it was hard to find vinyls because the CD start´s it rise a few years before. So I bought tapes and visited second hand stores and flee-markets in West Berlin to find some singles.
I read magazines called "Bravo" and "Popcorn" today I know they are nothing else then "The Sun" or "The News of The World" for kids. A lot of facts were wrong and fast written. I was on the top when my aunt from West-Germany brought me the Innuendo-single as a present in 1990.

so was it
W.