Dead Can Dance have released their complete catalogue on Bandcamp

[wettpaynt@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard Nice. And it's not just DCD - looks like 4AD Records has put a big chunk of their artists' catalogs up there. Pixies, Breeders, The National, etc...

[kinsale42@mstdn.games]

@davidgerard BIG

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard i have that one CD with the hand that was ubiquitous in 1990s yoga classes

[allenbrunson@mastodon.world]

@davidgerard wow. i can remember a time when i had to pay nearly a hundred bucks on an auction site to get a copy of "the serpent's egg." not sorry though. if i'd waited until now, i would have lost about 20 years' worth of listening

[fred@social.fthevenet.eu]

@davidgerard My own CDs (well, rips from them; I'm not a monster) got a lot of play time again at home a couple of years ago, when my then-11-yo started mastering games of DnD for his friends.
Happy to reports that this next generation of adventurers got to "sit at the Prancing Pony Inn when, suddenly, a shadowy figure approached them" to the sound of the Saltarello, as Tradition would have it!

[muddle@infosec.exchange]

@davidgerard Nice timing. Hot on the heels of the Ides of March, we saw sagacious Caesar next...

[muddle@infosec.exchange]

@davidgerard (oops... it seems I've muddled up my lyrics (no pun intended))

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/deadcandance/howfortunatethemanwithnone.html

[imalcolm@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard

Excellent news! Still have their entire catalogue on CD (I just listen to the rips nowadays, but holding onto the physical artefacts cos nostalgia) but this will hopefully make them more accessible broadly.

[imalcolm@mastodon.social]

@allenbrunson

Eek! I had no idea it had become rare or hard to acquire - my CD copy was picked up from a used record shop in the mid '90s for about $8.

@davidgerard

[allenbrunson@mastodon.world]

@imalcolm @davidgerard 4ad’s distribution was poor and spotty over the years. they would let stuff go out of print, it would be more or less unavailable for like ten years or so, then they would refill the pipeline with a remastered version or something, ad infinitum.