elmir,
I'll download the stuff and mail it to you if that's good for ya.  Should be able to do that tonight.

Edit:  Mailed them to you tonight.  Looking forward to something cool, man!

Well, one of those 4,609 in Japan was me.
And yeah...tell Baz I paid double for his CD over here!  Dig it though.

Wow. Thanks for posting this James!

I was pretty shocked reading this too.  Definitely not a very flattering image of this guy.  I can sort of understand a bunch of old guys not understanding and keeping up with the new technology, but as the guy writes here, "They didn't even have any geeky interns?"

That whole thing about not knowing what to do or who to consult with...amazing.  At that point, hiring any even slightly technology-savvy college grad would've been a better idea, but what did they do, just stick their heads in the sand?!

Honest question here, but what's it like back in the US these days?  I heard that Tower Records went under a while back, but is that the trend?  Are music stores disappearing all over?  Here it seems like downloading music (legal or otherwise) has not caught on that much yet (neither has the internet in general for that matter), so there are plenty of music stores and shops that sell new & used CDs, including Tower Records Japan which seems to be doing quite well still.  And this is a country where CDs cost 2-3 times as much as they do in the US.

How does the average American think about downloading vs. purchasing?  I mean, has it got to the point that it seems weird if someone actually went out and bought a CD rather than downloading it?  I wonder what it's like in other parts of the world.

Well, before you put up the next batch, I believe #2 is Outbreak.