Comments on: Availability of SG Downloads: Part 2

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:24:14 +0000

The thought of the Homeland, Benson, and Canaan catalogs being made available has me excited. I would love to see that. I’d also like to see the Skylite label being made available again. Those albums are typically even harder to find than those from the three labels you named.

You are, of course, fully right; we don’t have everything that we could have yet.

By: David Bruce Murray

David Bruce Murray — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:22:10 +0000

While this list is slightly longer than I expected to find, I still think the exploitation of outlets like iTunes and eMusic is low. A number of current groups on larger SG labels are represented, but what I have a difficult time finding are catalog titles.

By this point in time, you’d think every out-of-print title in the Benson and Canaan catalogs would be available for download. This technology isn’t new any more. Every SG label with an extensive catalog of popular artists (Homeland, Benson, Canaan, etc.) should be exploiting this technology for residual income (the best kind) by now.

It’s a no-brainer.

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:19:01 +0000

Dean, your point is well taken. Of course, the list could also be expanded by going to other download sites.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:44:04 +0000

I meant to say in my previous post that combining the lists (eMusic & iTunes) would reduce the number of pages.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:38:59 +0000

The total of 17 pages is a little misleading — there is a lot of repetition (multiple listing of the same group). The page total could probably be reduced by half if that was taken into account.

By: JImT

JImT — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:43:52 +0000

I am shocked. It has been several months since I last tried downloads from the internet, and at that time nothing much was there. This is tremendous progress.