Pearl Jam 2006 Tour Recordings
Just got an email from the Ten Club saying that the 2006 shows are going to be available for online purchase and download just as in 2003. The new item here is that they're offering the shows in MP3 and FLAC this time around. The sham of it is that they're charging $9.99 for the MP3 shows, but $14.99 for FLAC! What sort of bullshit is that?! I understand that the FLAC files are significantly larger, and will cause more bandwidth charges for downloads, but c'mon… $5 more?! $2 would suffice. Also, the 2003 shows were available immediately after the show, but the 2006 tour is going to be delayed possibly by a day or two after the show takes place once again to supposedly accomodate the FLAC recordings. Annoying, but at least they're finally offering lossless audio quality files rather than just MP3s. I guess it doesn't matter much to me cause I'd be converting the FLACs to 192 kbps MP3s anyways, but it's a nice gesture.
