7/26/01 - Chastain Park, Atlanta GA.

An interesting purchase made from a Marietta record store about two months after the show. The label, Laughing Cow, was used for dozens of recordings made at various Atlanta venues. Prices for their CD-Rs were very, very high: $30-45 were seen on various single and double-disc issues on bright blue CD-Rs with paper labels.

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

No concrete facts can be written about the Laughing Cow label. It was thought curious by many local music buyers that their line, which started at least as early as 1994 with a Tori Amos concert recorded at the Variety Playhouse, would always turn up at one or two certain music stores, but what inquiries were made didn't result in honest answers. It was alleged that at least one store would trade Laughing Cow CD-Rs straight across for certain other labels' work.

By 2004, Laughing Cow seemed to be dead, done in by the ubiquity of home CD burners and print-to-disc labeling. Around the same time, a certain CD store had to shutter its large space and relocate to something much smaller, without a street-facing storefront. It was noted that the number of unofficial CDs sold in this establishment had dwindled away to nearly nothing, despite previously offering dozens of Laughing Cow titles for the prices named above, and yet the propreitor suggested that Napster was the main culprit.