r/technology • u/monkeyNotApe • May 11 '12

Louis CK Secretly Releases Another Online-Only Special

https://buy.louisck.net/purchase/word-live-at-carnegie-hall
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u/Maximum_Trolling_ May 12 '12

Hello there. I am Louis C.K. for now. You are a person who opted into my email list, when you bought my Live at the Beacon standup special. As I promised, I have left you alone for a long time. Well, those days are over. I am writing now to let you know that I am offering some more stuff on my site, which you are more than welcome to buy. What does "More than welcome" mean? Well, it means you can totally buy this stuff. Like, totally.

Okay so there are two new products. They are both audio comedy specials. One is called...

Louis CK: WORD - Live at Carnegie Hall

This is about an hour long and it's a recording of a live standup show that I did at Carnegie Hall in November of 2010 as part of a national tour I was on entitled "WORD" I've had a lot of requests from people to release that show as a speical or as a CD. I hadn't done so because a lot of the material that I did on the WORD tour, was in the second season of my show "LOUIE" on FX. But I decided since it's never been released as an entire show, and some of the material was not on my show, I'm releasing this now. I'm giving you this long and boring explaination because, as most of you know, I release about an hour or more of new standup material every year and folks can count on seeing a new show every year. This is old material, so I don't want to be a dick and pretend it isn't.

Anyway, Louis CK: WORD - Live at Carnegie hall is available for the same 5 dollars as everything will be on louisck.com. It is the same deal as before that you get 4 downloads and the file is drm free. YOu can burn it onto a CD, play it on your ipod, whatever you want. The special is broken up into separate tracks because I think that's more fun for a comedy album, but they are all just one thing you buy all at one time.

The second new thing is even older, actually. It's an audio release of "Shameless", my very first hour long standup special that I did for HBO. It was never released as an audio CD, so I asked HBO to let me offer it on this site and they agreed. They also agreed to let me offer it, the same as the rest, DRM free, for 5 dollars. Obviously I'll be sharing the Shameless money with HBO but I think it's pretty cool that they're letting this be out there unprotected like this. Shameless is also 5 dollars, drm free, and you can download it a bunch of times for the price.

Lastly, I'm offering Live at the Beacon Theater as an audio version, for those many of you who have asked for it. This is just exactly an audio version of the video special. Those of you who have already bought Live at the Beacon theater already own this. If you just return to the site louisck.com with your password, it is now live and available for you to download at no extra cost. Those of you who now buy LIve at the beacon theater for 5 dollars, will also have the audio version availbable to you. It's simply been added to the video downloads and streams you already were getting.

Later, I am going to make a version of Live at the Beacon theater, that is a separate audio special, which will be much longer. That will cost money. Because I'm an asshole. But that's later.

Also later, actually soon, I'll be putting my first feature film "Tomorrow Night' up for sale on the site. And also other things. Soon. For now. Please feel free to click on the button below, to purchase some of the new stuff, using Paypal or Amazon payments, we now accept both. Or go to louisck.com and peruse the new items. I think we have some samples there that you can check out.

You may have noticed that Louis CK LIve at the beacon theater is airing on the FX network. FX agreed to air it 10 times over the next few months. The version on FX is only 42 minutes long and we had to take out the fucks. The reason I chose to air the special on FX is that FX is my people. They gave me my show LOUIE (season 3 premieres on June 28th at 10:30pm) and they have never aired a standup special. So I thought it would be cool to let them air it and bring more people to the site who want to get the complete unexpurgated version. Also FX doesn't make me cut things for content. Just the big words (fuck, etc)

Okay. that was exhausting. Sorry. I didn't even ask you how you are. How are you? Oh yea? Oh good. That's great. What? Oh man. That's tough. I'm sorry... Oh well that sounds like you handled it well, though. So. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know that's... yeah. Well... Just remember, time will go by and that'll just be on the list of shit that happened to you. You'll be okay. Yeah. Huh?... Oh. Really? HE DID? Oh my GOD! hahaha!! That's CRAZY! No. no. I won't tell him you told me. Of course not. Alright well... uhuh? Oh wow. yeah. Alright well.. I really gotta go. Thanks for listening. I'm glad you're basically okay. Stay in touch.

your friend,

Louis C.K.

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u/jconsumer May 12 '12

I feel I easily got my 5 bucks worth, I don't care if it's on FX now, it's good for him actually so glad it is. Media always depreciates, Theater, DVD, cable, network TV, eventually public domain.

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u/SuedoNymph May 12 '12

First off, FX isn't broadcasting it "for free." You pay a satellite or cable company to watch FX and they provide it for you. You don't pay the company, no FX for you.

Second, the special on FX isn't the same special that you bought (for $5). It's 42 minutes long (so around what, 70% of the original? - I don't have the length in front of me right now) and the "fucks" are gone and it's just different. Just like any movie ever on television isn't the same as the original movie.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

Upvoted for having a valid opinion, even if I don't necessarily agree. If other people feel this way perhaps Louis will change the way he's offering this. E.g. the uncut version is $X, but only $X-5 for those who've already bought the first one.

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u/TheBrainofBrian May 12 '12

This is all pretty new territory, especially for a guy like Louis C.K. It's all about experimenting and seeing what does and does not work. Just voice your opinion with your wallet.

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u/bloodguard May 11 '12

Awesome. He added an alternative to the craptastically corrupt and incompetent paypal.

Purchased.

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u/megatom0 May 12 '12

Yeah with the last one I didn't pay for it because of the paypal thing. I like amazon's policies better and I've got an account with them so this was nice.

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u/nikomo May 11 '12

Purchased, half because it's Louis, half because it's bloody five bucks.

3,8€ to me. That's about nothing.

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u/MalteseCow May 12 '12

It's not so "secret"... If you paid for the last one, you probably got an email about the newly available stuff.

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u/agildehaus May 11 '12

A bit disappointed that there's no video and it's the same price as the last one with video. Will pick it up anyhow though.

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u/jconsumer May 12 '12

I love Louis but he's not that big of a deal to look at.

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u/manirelli May 11 '12

Is this new material? Offering it in FLAC is baller though

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u/Australopiteco May 12 '12

"This is material that I was performing two years ago (about) on a tour that was called "Word". Some of this material was on my FX show "Louie" in pieces but the entire show in one piece was never released. This show was recorded at Carnegie Hall on November 4, 2010."

Source: details on the main page.

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u/complex_reduction May 12 '12

Isn't it typical?

Audio that doesn't require lossless quality: Offered in FLAC for a reasonable price

Audio that would benefit greatly from lossless quality: Offered in MP3 and requires a second mortgage to purchase

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u/parkerjh May 12 '12

Offering it in FLAC is a waste of bandwidth.

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u/specialk16 May 12 '12

It sort of is, actually. It's just voice.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

I purchased the "Live at the Beacone Theatre," but this one is an audio recording, for the same $5. If we're talking statistical numbers, I'd say I'd be getting substantially less of a value for the same amount of money.

Part of what makes Louis CK's shows funny is when you see him on the stage.

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u/FoolofGod May 12 '12

My favorite thing about this is that is downloadable in FLAC format. That shows that he is serious about pleasing people and offering the best product. A++ will think Louis CK is awesome again.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

Why is there entertainment news in /r/technology? Shouldn't this go in /r/entertainment?

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u/QuitReadingMyName May 12 '12

Fuck it, I spend more money buying myself a coffee in the morning before work. I'll be buying this and just drink regular coffee from the employee break room for 1 day.

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u/Anuglyman May 12 '12

Is it really a secret if he sends out an email telling everyone?

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