John Peel tapes on Ebay - SECURED!!!

[Stefan Lingnau]

Nice!
As I wrote before I'm in for £20 but only for a lossless rip of the
tapes. No Paypal account here...

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Riving Ton <deedeeramain@...> wrote:
>
> Ach! 
> My secret identity is now known!
> Ladies and gentlemen - the Peel Group HAVE secured the archive for
posterity!
> I'll arrange with Rocker for collection and then he will arrange
(with consultation with the group) the digitising and distribution.
> Personally, I would like to see the tapes digitised in a lossless
form such as FLAC for posterity's sake but let's have a debate about
it as this is a democracy!
> If anyone would like to contribute to the cost of these tapes then I
welcome nominal payments of £20 to my PayPal account of:
> mike_hyde@...
> If you don't have a PayPal account - don't worry about it. I prefer
not to post addresses on the web for everyone to see. If there's a
short fall then I'll cover it!  
> Oh happy day!
> DeeDee
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: RobF <robfleay@...>
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 3:09:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [peel] Re: John Peel tapes on Ebay
> 
> 
> > The last-minute snipe from Bidder7 (DeeDee?) appears to have failed,
> > and the lot went for £529(!) in the end. If we have been beaten, that
> > must be a very keen Peel fan indeed, or someone with, as you said,
> > very deep pockets.
> 
> Astonishing! The winner is called Mike Hyde and is probably the same
guy who posted a comment here
> http://www.bbc. co.uk/6music/ shows/inthearchi ve/johnpeel. shtml
> saying "Did the BBC record John's shows? I could see that a digital
channel playing solely John Peel shows would work - Pay per listen
perhaps. (Old shows are available on P2P guys! Check out eMule! Post
your own old recordings there and maybe we can start our own virtual
archive!)"
> 
> So..on that basis I would recommend contacting him via his ebay
account congratulate him on his win and explain that there is an army
of people on this list who would dearly love to help him with project
to digitise the tapes & share them on the web...got to be worth a try
> 
> Maybe Ken should be the one to contact him to give the offer some
credence?
> 
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