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I don't see how purchasing $150-200 equipment is a big deal. Especially between so many people. The quality of the content justifies the expense IMO.

Just a suggestion...

But with so many people who are wanting a high quality copy of this - why don't we put together a fund to have a good HDMI to PC capture device bought and sent to Hahninator's place (if he is okay with that)?

I know I'd happily drop $50 into that fund... so I can't imagine it would take long to get the money needed.

LP Live tried a petition before, it didn't work...

Which is why I said a petition in and of itself wouldn't be enough. It will need to be a fairly coordinated activity and I feel we would need to provide good examples of how it can work.

So Pooch just tweeted within the hour that if we want DSPs, we need to organise a campaign and let the band know. He says "if enough people ask for it, they will do it."

I would love to start a petition, but I think a petition in and of itself is pretty meaningless... we need to give the band concrete examples about how the process can and should work.

I think we can all agree that in the last few years, the DSPs have barely been promoted/advertised.

I have a couple of suggestions that I think would increase the sales of DSPs, I would love for others to chime in with some ideas too:

- Revert to the old process of selling blank CD-Rs with codes for the DSPs at shows. People spend ridiculous amounts on band merch at shows, and the opportunity to own a recording of the show they just witnessed for $10 is an absolute bargain. I did always find the inclusion of a CD-R fairly pointless since more often than not, the entire show would not fit on a CD-R in the audio CD format. Perhaps, to reflect the length of the shows and the increasing shift towards digital technology, maybe the band could sell LP-branded USB drives at the shows which include a code to download the DSP for that evening?

- Much like many of the ticketing sites try to sell physical and digital copies of the band's albums with ticket purchases, perhaps the DSP can be offered as an upgrade at this point in the sales process? That way, they have an opportunity to explain what the DSP is and hopefully encourage sales at this early stage of the process.

- I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain Metallica advertise via their Facebook page when a new show DSP is available to download. With LP having over 62m fans, surely a timed post (per city) promoting each DSP would result in additional sales?

I'm happy to escalate this... but I'd appreciate further opinions and ideas before doing so.

This was #17 before on the Aussie iTunes charts. I'm surprised to see both this and Wastelands climbing so high so quickly... GATS and UIG barely scratched the top 60.

Wastelands is currently hovering between 47-60, so it did drop fairly quickly. Hopefully enough time in the top 50 to guarantee a spot on the official weekly chart.

"Keys" and "Nothing" don't seen legit to me. As for the others, I seriously doubt Spotify would have fan-made covers in their system... so looks like we may be hearing those other two tracks soon after all. Here's hoping for the iTunes countdown.

Definitely makes sense. If someone can go to iTunes and purchase the tracks, it makes sense to make them available on Spotify as well. Do these new two, plus Wastelands line up with the three that had their track lengths added to iTunes originally?

*facepalm* This fanbase. I can't even.

It's the same old story LP can and never will win with most of the fan base. It's a shame because I think what they've put together for this setlist is one of the most interesting things they've done. Just needs a little more practice on the road and some fine tuning and it'll be awesome.

I enjoyed the set. The audio wasn't fantastic on the stream which lessened the impact for me. Brad was also way off. But overall, love the addition of medleys personally. Only element I could have done without was the chorus of Crawling. Seemed pointless to me. Rest of it was epic. COG and the Hip Hop Medley 2.0 are winners.

Yeah cause how the fuck can they rip the shit off a CD in the middle of a 24346k crowd? Great work Sherlock, You're awesome

Lose the snarky attitude mate. If you actually read what I said before jumping on the opportunity to be a smart ass, you'd see that I said "within hours". Absolutely nowhere did I say I was expecting a rip now.

It's fairly common for bands of this age to combine songs into a medley.

BTW, am I the only one sitting here thinking "oh I really hope Mike threw enough copies of that CD into the crowd so we have a rip online in the next few hours"?

Why are the abbreviated songs suddenly such a shock? They played the same set not more than one week ago and played abbreviated songs at the iheartradio performance ages ago.

The tvfree link is better audio for sure. To bad we have to sacrifice video for it though. Also fuck this COG dance music shit. Lets blab about making rock come back then put dance music in our setlist.

Hmmm, have you not heard Recharged?

That version of COG is welcome in the setlist any day for me.

Woah. What's with all the 30STM hate? They put on incredible live shows. And I can understand why people perceive Jared to be a "douche", but the guy is an actor. Do any of you truly believe the guy we see on TV and on stage is the real Jared?

Highly recommend the haters watch the documentary 'Artifact'. You may be pleasantly surprised.

Downloaded the AXS app with my US iTunes account. Copied it across to my iPhone, now playing perfectly. Just heard WFTE now onto BTH.

Sean mentioned on IG that they played a new song? Could he be referring to ALTNC?

How the eff did these sell out so quickly. I have been checking the hot topic site every day for the past month (since they were due to be listed half a month ago). So they go online and have already sold out. Just checked on eBay and minimum with shipping here is $82AUD. Unbelievable.

Is it really needs to be forced this dance stuff? It's annoying.

Actually it's not for the fans. They do it becasue they want to stay in the mainstream.

I just can't agree with this. I don't see how making ALTNC was an attempt 'to stay in the mainstream'. Was the song even that popular? It didn't even break the top 50 in Australia. If they were trying to stay in the mainstream via collaboration like you're speculating, you'd be seeing collaborations between LP and the likes of One Direction, Justin Beiber, Rhianna, etc.

My bad, I've been speaking with Jonas about the Aussie shows from earlier this year. I should still have all of those. Will go through my collection at some stage over the weekend and supply.

Just started a new job a few weeks ago so still readjusting unfortunately

You can find these pictures here, nothing to do with the music video.

I'm sure the pictures have nothing to do with it, but someone on my Instagram feed posted about the same thing, translated it and it also said MV would be released 8th October...

To me, it sounds like they added an additional layer to Chester's vocals in the outro chorus on Out Of Time on the EP version... almost sounds echoed. Either way, I do prefer the EP version.

I don't want to sound like "this is stupid", but i think they don't need this kind of help anymore.

But great idea anyway

There's no harm. A lot of radio stations won't play Linkin Park any more unless prompted. Certainly seems to be the case in Australia.

Absolutely love it. Wasn't too keen on Black Heart originally, but it has grown on me. The rest of the EP is brilliant. Can't wait to see these guys at Soundwave next year!

That's weird, the song is still buyable seperately on the actual iTunes

Not in Australia by the looks of it. I got a response from the iTunes store team who advised that the song had been pulled - either by the label or by Apple themselves. Didn't give an explanation as to why.

It still appears in search results since it exists as part of the pre-order for the RECHARGED album - but as an 'album only' track - meaning the download of it is no longer available.

Not sure what's happened here. I checked the US store and it's still available there (and was placed at #23 when I searched before).

Grrr! Has anyone else who purchased ALTNC on their phone via iTunes suddenly had the song disappear from your files this morning?!

I was literally playing it this morning and now that I've arrived at work it has disappeared? I've tried going back to iTunes but it isn't even showing up in my purchases, and when I search for the song it just shows up as 'album only'?!?!

WTF!

For those interested in that kind of thing, the song is making a bit of a jump up the iTunes charts in Australia (albeit a gradual one).

It's currently sitting at #77 but has been climbing steadily since last night where it was in the high hundreds.

The band hasn't really had much of a chart impact in Australia since New Divide was released (hit #3 on the charts). The only other singles to crack the top 40 in Australia since then were The Catalyst (#33) and Iridescent (#39).

Would be nice for them to have another top 20 hit again, even if it is a collab project.

Nice words from Mike here (thanks to my mate for pointing this one out):

http://news.xbox.com/2013/09/ent-xbox-music-linkin-park

Haha, so in other words, music snobs. Those indie people think they know everything about music and won't accept anything that isn't indie. So funny. I love pissing those types of people off. Also, she probably wanted you to change it because she secretly loved it and probably didn't want to know about it because it ruin her indie image.

Absolutely. I have had to listen to their music for roughly 2.5 years now and I have never once complained or asked them to turn it off. So I've taken great joy in playing mine for the last few weeks and seeing their responses

I imagine your reply was "Haha, thats too bad. Bitch, I'ma blast this shit all day."

I do consider this girl one of my good work friends so I couldn't be harsh (even though I wanted to be!). I did however, subject her to it again in my car today - and she didn't say a thing this time