Okay it's probably kind of a dickish thing to do after the lock BUT there are really three things to mention with regard to this thread.
1) "Eau de Legitimacy":
With the current thread, we have a lot of sharing of music going on, but it's going on under the guise of "here's cool music you might not have heard" and it's basically a process of discovery. It's a matter of understanding your tastes and taking risks. It's not exactly the most perfect thread (and I don't even like it that much to be quite frank) but it's at the very least an interesting method of expanding tastes and musical horizons. You can discover an awful lot by just going into that thread and getting your click on. This is way less legitimate because it effectively is a process of going after stuff you know exists, so it doesn't have the pretense of discovering new things that you'd maybe be interested in buying later. This leads into my second point,
2) This Ain't Your Daddy's KaZaA:
We haven't tweaked SimpleMachines to let you just fire through the extant thread because we'd basically just be a filesharing browser that way. I don't have any problem with filesharing personally because I know a lot of bands get heard through filesharing and in fact I kind of want my own band to get heard through filesharing. That being said, filesharing has the propensity for getting people to get music for free without ever paying for it in any way because you already had it. Never mind that it's a legal mindfield, it's kind of morally dubious too, and we don't really want to advocate that here.
3) Sorry! We're the Fun Police:
If you have a problem with this decision feel free to send us a PM but in the indeterminate future there aren't going to be any threads like this because we don't want to get any trouble and we don't want this forum to become really lazy. If you really want an album, I know this might not be what you're looking for but can I recommend a brick and mortar shop or possibly iTunes?
