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TCLP 2010-09-15 Interview: Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

There is no new hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is the interview I recorded with Randy Chertkow of Beatnik Turtle. If you are interested, here are the 2007, 2008, and 2009 interviews as well. In the interview, we mention the Indie Guide web site, Randy and Jason’s columns at Electronic Musician, and TrackMyDisc.com.

View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.

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  1. John T says

    Great show. Since then I’ve listened to a bunch of BT online, and am itching to get my ears on the special copy of Sham Rock. with the built-in GPS tracker ;p

    I already know who’ll be the next recipient; my Irish brother in law.

    Did Randy mention when the tracker will go live? Do I just purchase from CD-baby and wait for an announcement on their site, or will it be a special purchase?

    • Thomas Gideon says

      I don’t think the discs are for sale, yet. I think http://TrackMyDisc.com is still in beta. I will let everyone know as soon as Randy updates me when that changes.

      For now, I’ll consider you on my list to choose from to receive the disc Randy gave me. If no one else responds by the end of the month, the disc is yours.

    • Thomas Gideon says

      I fired off an email to Randy the other day. He still plans on pushing some of the TMD CDs to CD Baby but it will take some time to do so and for them to cycle through the existing discs. He’ll send me a heads up when the TMD versions are available for sale and I’ll let everyone else know here and on the podcast.

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