21 Responses

1. mibayasa Said,

   NO

   Posted on May 20th, 2012 at 1:53 am

2. Jay Mayhem Said,

   Aaron, you CAN’T be serious? Dude, this IS the 21st century! I’ve digitized 2,400+ albums (combo of vinyl and cd) that I bought and shared them on the web just as ALL should do! You should be glad NAR exists so those that can’t afford to purchase your “small” album can enjoy it! EVERYONE should be able to sample an album before they invest in it! Get real, guy!!!

   Posted on May 20th, 2012 at 3:02 am

3. Jay Mayhem Said,

   mibayasa, DON’T be a dumb Spic!!!

   Posted on May 20th, 2012 at 3:04 am

4. chen Said,

   I WILL be ordering this album when i get paid. Its a shame albums like this aren’t easy to find in record shops in the UK. For some who can’t afford to purchase the album and get it shipped, this is the only way they can hear your music. This is good publicity. I can guarantee if this album was not on here or similar sites, the amount of people who turn up at live shows would be significantly lower.

   Posted on May 20th, 2012 at 3:19 am

5. ronny bottles Said,

   All should do? glad NAR exists? Entitled? You aren’t entitled to shit. No one is. No one who buys a computer, pays for high speed internet access, and trolls these kinds of bullshit sites looking for Old Man Gloom records is a person that “can’t afford” to support this band. It’s someone who wants something free, and who is making it very difficult for musicians to make records. Don’t try and justify it, it’s stealing, asshole. I sincerely hope you are personally affected by someone elses inconsiderate laziness.

   Posted on May 20th, 2012 at 12:28 pm

6. Someone Else Said,

   Word. Its a good album and u should buy it. My friend just showed this to me off a cassette tape. Which I think is awesome and old skool. and Jay, it IS the 21st century and its that much harder to work you’re way up as an underground band.

   Posted on May 20th, 2012 at 9:41 pm

7. Katharsis Said,

   Sadly you can’t avoid piracy. However, you should give some incentive for people and fans to pay for your music and encourage sharing to spread it around, like NiN did with the Ghosts album. Maybe put it online for streaming. I for one will be buying this… I bought most Isis albums and support Aaron’s work.

   Posted on May 20th, 2012 at 9:48 pm

8. The Hinge Said,

   Try before you buy. If it’s good, we’ll buy it. if it’s shit then we won’t and the band will only have themselves to blame for wasting their time putting out shoddy crap and asking unwitting fools to shell out for a pig in a poke. Get an idea of the expectations of modern society and we might have repsect for your opinion, Aaron.

   Posted on May 21st, 2012 at 3:05 am

9. Munk Said,

   Wow, these comments are pretty sad. Here is the artist who produced the album asking that it be removed from here and this is the response? Pathetic.

   Aaron, being a long-term ISIS fan, I will not download this. BUT as this album is not for sale in my country (nor are any ISIS albums) I cannot listen to it at all. While I totally see your point of view, as a fan I’m still left screwed over.

   Posted on May 21st, 2012 at 4:43 am

10. Conker Said,

    Don’t just see the disadvantage of this. By making it free to download you get more popular easily. If the album is good people spread the word and if people think its worth buying they do. Thousands of people are downloading albums from sites like this, let’s say every twentieth or even less is buying it after downloading, thats still a huge success. Try that with marketing and commercials. Most people, like me, may would have never heard of a lot of bands if they couldn’t get music here. I got to know a lot of new bands here, and I pay for good music, bad music gets deleted.

    Posted on May 21st, 2012 at 5:29 am

11. The Hinge Said,

    All I can say is thank fuck I downloaded it and listened to it first. I liked Seminar 2 but this one here in my opinion is crap so I’m glad I didn’t buy it.

    And to keep the moral kneejerkers like Munk happy, it’s also been deleted from my hard drive. I’m not a freeloading cunt who’s in the habit of keeping MP3s of albums I don’t own or don’t intend to buy.

    Posted on May 22nd, 2012 at 8:38 am

12. Aids Said,

    this album sucks. face it, aaron!

    Posted on May 23rd, 2012 at 2:08 pm

13. Cub Said,

    Sorry Aaron but those (a little agressive) people are right. Today, the 20-30 generation is listening to the album before buying it. BUT that means they buy even more stuff than they would without the internet… They have access to a lot of music, they discover more and more stuff they wouldn’t even listen to without it (I certainly did myself). I think labels need to understand that. Because for once, it’s never gonna go away. So take advantage of it, embrace it. Do limited editions, digipacks, inserts, video bonus, think of an album as a concept and get the concept to the limit. An album should be an object, and the usual plastic case with one sleeve of artwork isn’t enough any more. Those people who download and share the album on the net are the same people that will buy an expensive limited t-shirt+2 colored LPs + DVDa edition… People who just download and don’t buy anything don’t listen to stuff like Old Man Gloom, I guarantee you that.

    People who share these albums don’t do it to screw with the artists : on the contrary, they want everybody to know how great they are, they want to share their enthusiasm, and you need to understand it. None of them think they doing any harm to the band, and I’m convinced they don’t.

    Posted on May 24th, 2012 at 12:15 am

14. The Hinge Said,

    @Cub
    Amen, brother!

    Posted on May 24th, 2012 at 2:35 am

15. mibayasa Said,

    totally agree with CUB!
    Aaron… i saw ISIS 2 times live. I had to travel 550 kilometers from my home, pay hotel and everything else included on a trip just to see one of my favourite bands play live!
    I have all ISIS albums on cd AND vinyl!!!
    these days i have become a father and cannot afford buying albums anymore. Only a vinyl once in a while from sth i really like.
    So…
    I m thankful that people out there share their music.
    if i like what i hear i will surely buy
    cheers man
    and thanks for OCEANIC and PANOPTICON!!!

    Posted on May 24th, 2012 at 8:59 am

16. Chris Said,

    So Good, Thanks & Congratulations for this choice N.a.r !!! Inspired as every Things they did,I Recommend it ..!!

    Posted on May 26th, 2012 at 6:28 am

17. clintaur Said,

    great album. i bought it on vinyl (locally here in LA, i’m lucky) and haven’t stopped listening to it. it’s completely different than their previous releases, which all had a similar consistency. Change is good. In this case? Really noisy and really heavy!!!

    Posted on May 31st, 2012 at 11:44 am

18. Clintaur Said,

    a birdie told me that this rip is A COUPLE OF RPMs slow…… so…. yeah…. don’t download this cause its a poor example of what is coming JUNE 26. stop being babies and wait it out or find a way to get it WITHOUT stealing….

    Posted on June 4th, 2012 at 1:33 pm

19. Necro P Olitan Said,

    Rip seems to be slow, yeah. Wiki says the album is 56 minutes, but this is 59. Pitchfork ‘Common Species’ upload was eight minutes; this version eight and a half.

    Quite apart from the ‘I can’t afford albums’ ‘point’ above, which is pathetic, the HH marketing strategy is also poor. Very limited vinyl run. I tried to buy it, was too late. I asked if there’d be a re-press; no response. I actively tried giving them my money to no avail.

    So eBay flippers will end up making the money, as per usual. And please don’t fob us off with tapes. Nobody has a cassette player worth a damn.

    Posted on June 9th, 2012 at 6:18 am

20. 324 Said,

    if you live outside USA or UK, getting albums like this in record stores is pretty difficult, if not imposible. I would be pleased to buy this and many more records if I could find them at an affordable price. If you try to buy records in foreign internet stores you always have to fight ridiculous shipping charges, and there is absolutely no sense in this if you end paying $18 or more for a reasonable priced album in origin.

    So, yes, we all have high speed internet, but it is way cheaper than buying 2-3 records a month. Obvioulsy, I would prefer not to download, but if I want to listen to an artist and hypothetically support his work in the future, there is no chance.

    Posted on June 29th, 2012 at 10:24 am

21. p0wr Said,

    It’s a pity that Aaron’s comment was removed when every other comment here is a reply to him.

    I laugh at the people saying they literally “can’t” get or listen to this anywhere legit, so piracy is their last resort. Are you kidding?
    Listen to it in full on bandcamp (try before you buy). Then you have the option to buy in any format you like, without drm, for a massive wallet breaking $7. I’m not telling anyone how to obtain music, the internet has pretty much made that up to you, just don’t use the excuse that it’s the only possible way.

    Oh and if it’s true that sites like this are for spreading the love for the band and it’s nothing but a good thing, then where are the links to the legitimate places to obtain the album?? I can only see advertising that the site owners profit from – I guess they donate their profits directly to the band? Very funny.

    Posted on July 5th, 2012 at 4:15 pm

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