The Crime Lounge

Right I've spent enough time uploading albums for now (don't worry, there's more coming). As I haven't really said much yet I thought I'd just let you know my intentions for this place.

When I started here I was going to start off with mainly "Crime" posts then branch out into my other musical tastes, Easy Listening-Lounge, Library Albums, Soundtracks, Exotica etc, but now I've sort of got a theme going, and as this is quite a unique subject to gather together in one place. There are hundreds of blogs sharing Easy Listening, Jazz, Lounge and all things related but I beleive this is the first dedicated "Spy Music" site.

I am hoping that people who visit will take the time to contribute rips or artwork, or at the very least leave a comment. My idea is to try and build this site into a "one-stop" shop for all crime type related music albums, and if visitors help out it could become something quite special (hopefully).

So, any feedback, am I wasting my time or is there a market for this type of music? and would people prefer to see the style branching out with posts of other genres as mentioned, or shall I keep it as a dedicated blog?

I was toying with the idea of maybe starting a second "sister" blog for all other genre's, thereby keeping this one "special".

In the future I intend to share some artwork as well, many of the rips here came to me without scans so I have created my own for some of them (I've already posted some for Roland Shaw albums here!). They aren't all as polished as those though, a lot of them are basic just to get the job done. If you don't burn the rips to disc then the covers won't bother you obviously.
I should get a link up on the main page for the artwork soon, I'm still trying to get my head around all the HTML and blogger stuff, so it may be a while coming. The reason that the art isn't included with most of the rips is either, I haven't any at all or it's just because I always take out the art and keep in a seperate folder on my HD. I know its silly but I started doing it when I first got into downloading because I thought to myself "I'll never use a computer to play music on", well after collecting a largish pile of rips, its getting a bit hard to manage so I finally admit that a Media Player is the way to go (although I don't use one at the moment). Hopefully when I upgrade my Laptop (Notebook) I'll get something able to throw out the odd mp3 in decent quality to my hi-fi.

I also design my own DVD covers as a hobby, mainly to replace the bloody aweful rubbish the studios knock out, there's nothing worse than a great film ruined by being wrapped in a cover which is nothing more than a picture of the stars head and the title of the movie!
So I may also post a few of those to vary the sites content a little, keeping it themed of course.

Well I think that's enough of typing for now, although I would like to request again (I know I keep banging on about this) that I would be really grateful if you would take the time to help out with requests for rips or artwork, I really would like this to become a meeting place for similar minded "Undercover Agents".

Thanks for listening (or is it reading) and look out for future posts.

I must also just say that as I'm still learning to confugure blogger, a few things may move or change the way they work (links moving around for example) so don't think its gone without cursoring around.

Thanks

Jason
(in case anyone was wondering the "THX" prefix on my blogger name is because I'm a BIG home cinema & Star Wars fan, so there you have it, its not text speak for "thanks"