A plea for mp3s.

[Rachel]

I've searched everywhere with no luck, so I guess it's time to ask you guys if you can help me out. A little backstory..

I used to have a huge collection of Portland Music Scene stuff... you name it, I was probably involved in it, but especially RO. My house flooded a few years ago, and I lost everything. While most of it is irreplaceable, maybe you all can help me with one thing.

I really. Really. Really. Really. Want to listen to the songs on Spencer's 'Frankenstein Presents the Popsicko' again. It's one of my favorite CDs and I miss it.

I'm also craving 'No More Noyes' from Volume Up, and I can't afford to pay 40 bucks for a 5 song CD.

If any of you can help me out, I'd be forever thankful. I hate asking, but both of those are out of print, and one is virtually impossible to find. I just want to hear the tunes again.

Singing it to myself just isn't the same!

-Rachel

PS: I in no way support the piracy of music, I've legitmately owned this stuff in the past. Stealing music is stealing from the band, yo. Don't do it!

[Darek]

I'd like to second Rachel's request for the Popsicko album. I was also in possession of it a bunch of years ago when my PC cd drive decided to fry and etch a two inch circle in the middle of it, rendering it useless. I miss it. There are a couple of torrents online, but none of them ever have any seeders.

Rachel, I'll see what I can do for you in terms of 'No More Noyes', give me a day or two.

[Rachel]

Darek was kind enough to help me out with No More Noyes.. Still searching for someone with the Popsicko album though.

[patpatriot]

I've pretty new to the Portland scene and I'm trying to get some of this older stuff. I keep hearing about this Popsicko album and I really want to hear it. I found one of the torrents Darek mentions a month ago, but no seeders. I can't find it for sale anywhere.

Never heard of No More Noyes song. Can I get a copy of that?

Also is Shish Boom Bam worth paying $200 for? I have all the other rustic albums, PSC albums, a couple Roktopus albums, "Open Letter To The Damned", and the last GFAC 2007. Is there anything else I should get.

[Tim Nickerson]

i have a copy of the popsicko, but the last 2 songs are scratched... i will mp3 them

[moose]

while we're making mp3 pleas.... i thought of one. if anyone here knows how to do that awesome thing where you take one of the live recrdings from archive.org and make it so a shmuck like me can download it, like as has been done recently with cherry and about a kid, any chance we could get one of the recordings of revolution AM? never heard a live version of that one, i think it would be killer.

[onlycrayons]

There is a lot of free software out there to convert the .shn files on archive.org to .mp3. I use Wavepad:

www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html

It's as simple as opening the files you download and saving them as a different format.

[handsingloves]

Heavy Set is also on Volume Up. I checked ebay for a couple of months for that and got a good price, no luck with the popsicko though. Also, the former west coast band "popsicko" is not in any way related, so dont accidentally buy that one!

[Darek]

moose said:

while we're making mp3 pleas.... i thought of one. if anyone here knows how to do that awesome thing where you take one of the live recordings from archive.org and make it so a shmuck like me can download it, like as has been done recently with cherry and about a kid, any chance we could get one of the recordings of revolution AM? never heard a live version of that one, i think it would be killer.

If you want a slightly more complicated program, I use Audacity and a combination of the programs they talk about in the archive.org FAQ section:

Live Archive FAQ - www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#Live_Music_Archive
Audacity - audacity.sourceforge.net/

It's definitely worth figuring out, there's a lot of great stuff on the archive. For now, here's Revolution AM, there's an annoying buzzing all the way through but it's the only version I could track down quickly:

Rustic Overtones - Revolution AM - Live at Lupo's Heartbreakers Hotel on 2001-05-04

[handsingloves]

I use an older version of dbpoweramp for .shn to mp3 that doesnt seem to have a trial period. I have no idea how it compares to the other programs but I think I still have the installer file and codec if anyone's interested. To use it you just right click downloaded .shn's and convert.

[svenhogan]

Rachel,

I gots mad Mp3s..
"pennyweight", "no more noyes"
and da whole Frankenberry CD...

holla atcha boy
Sven Hogan..