{"id":125,"date":"2014-07-18T10:44:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:44:50","slug":"buyer-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Buyer Beware"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It may have happened to you.\u00a0 Maybe you are browsing the used CD bin at your local record store.\u00a0 Maybe you stopped to fill up at a Flying J on your way to South of the Border<\/a>.\u00a0 Maybe it was a gift from your clueless Auntie.\u00a0 But this is no gift.\u00a0 What I’m talking about is the pervasive threat of re-recorded country music.\u00a0 Sure, that Merle Haggard’s Greatest Hits<\/a> LOOKS like a bargain, at $4.95, but when you slip that shiny disc into your Pioneer, as you accelerate onto Highway 17 South, something sounds…different.\u00a0 It’s shiny-sounding, the vocals are too smooth and loud and just WRONG.\u00a0 You skip to the next track, same thing.\u00a0 What the hell is going on here?<\/p>\n

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What’s going on, is you have bought a collection of re-recorded songs.\u00a0 Flip over the case and look at the liner notes (if there are any).\u00a0 You’ll notice the copyright dates are way too recent to match up with when you know this music was recorded.\u00a0 Why does this flat circle from the depths of hell even exist?\u00a0 A couple reasons.\u00a0 Some artists want to take another swing at the sound of their classic songs, the Perfectionist Theory.\u00a0 Add a horn section here, turn the bass up, the guitars down, etc.\u00a0 Some artists owe a lot of bread to Uncle Sam, so this is strictly about putting more content out there to bring in the needed dough, the Empty Pockets Theory.\u00a0 And then there’s the “Up Yours Theory”, where the original masters of these classic songs are owned by a greedy, evil record company and the artist puts out these versions to flip them the proverbial bird.\u00a0 Whatever the reasons, it is still a kick right in the ear, the three or four times I’ve been excited to listen to some music, only to be greeted by some oiled up, sanded down, re-recorded bull hockey.<\/p>\n

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So, fellow country music fans, be wary.\u00a0 Check the dates like you were looking for spoiled milk.\u00a0 Because taking the rough edges and scars out of a Country song is like plastic surgery on a pretty woman.\u00a0 All your doing is ruining a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It may have happened to you.\u00a0 Maybe you are browsing the used CD bin at your local record store.\u00a0 Maybe you stopped to fill up at a Flying J on your way to South of the Border.\u00a0 Maybe it was a gift from your clueless Auntie.\u00a0 But this is no gift.\u00a0 What I’m talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothkindsradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}