I've been revisiting the band Sunny Day Real Estate lately, due to all the talk about them on the internerd, brought on by their first two LPs being reissued and the band reforming for a US tour. Then I read that there was some new Jeremy Enigk LP out, which I managed to find for sale at a UK distro.
Nothing too special about the record or packaging. Black vinyl in a regular sleeve. But notice the sticker on the front boasting that the LP "includes free download of entire album".
So I took the record out to find the download code on a sticker on the dust sleeve. Cool. Except I had real trouble downloading it, because it seemed that the URL doesn't actually exist. I was annoyed.
Then I realised something that I have never heard of before - the URL is case sensitive! Try it yourself - type in the URL above, but all in lower case & it won't work. Then change the 'D' of the word 'Download' to upper case and it works. Now, seriously, who ever heard of a case sensitive URL before? Not me for starters. I mean, they're like email addresses - they just CAN'T be case sensitive, because that would be stupid and cause confusion and problems, like it did for me.
Anyway, download problems aside, what's this like? Well, it sounds pretty much like his previous stuff I guess. Dude has a pretty distinctive voice. The main change seems to be in his appearance. These days he's bald and podgy with a beard. Aside from that, this is exactly what you would expect I guess. Those into his previous stuff will like it.
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URLs are definitely case sensitive. It's likely the web server is linux/unix based where case sensitivity is very important. You won't see issues like this on a windows/mac box or os/2.
I've never heard this LP, but my inner nerd was crying out.
Marcus - Rebel Without a Pause
Nobody steal that from me. I'm trademarking it as we speak.
Murphy - I have no idea what you are talking about. But the notion of a case sensitive URL is ridiculous. Just because you understand how it exists does not justify it and/or make it ok.
But how far does case sensitivity go? I mean, it's not possible that a domain name is case sensitive, right? I mean, (for example) 'hardcorerecords.com' can't ever be case sensitive, surely? But the moment you add '/Discography' on the end, the case sensitivity kicks in? Is that how it works in theory?
My brain can't comprehend this.
I love this LP! Hell I love every thing he puts out! He can sing the phone book and I would buy it and be rivited by it. There is no wonder why me son is named Jeremy and I used SDR rain song as the 1st dance at my wedding.
YEP IM A NERD!
it's not the whole url that is case sensitive it's just what comes after the .com. Meaning http://endlessquestrecords.com is not case sensitive, but .com/Rules or .com/rules can be taken for different addresses.
Hi, really curious about this record. At which UK distro did you find the vinyl version of this?
Thanks
GM
A place in the fine city of Leeds:
http://www.normanrecords.com/
I've never seen "fine" and "leeds" used in the sentence before, but still cheers for the help!
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Back in the day, like 15+ years ago, all URLs were case sensitive. You always had to copy and paste because domains would have upper and lower case mixed in. It was a major pain.
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