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Do you buy music?

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Gridgm:

--- Quote from: Hat on 28 Dec 2007, 20:36 ---
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 28 Dec 2007, 20:20 --- CD's cost too much fucking money, they're bulky, they're inconvenient and I often as not end up breaking them.

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I will never figure out what you people are doing to your CDs to render them such a flimsy and unusable format.

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i can't work out how they can say that and then turn around and promote vinyl

jimbunny:
I have a subscription to emusic.com

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and the mediafire thread.

CDs aren't a terrible format, but if I had a convenient, purely digital way of pulling tunes through my speakers I don't know if I'd ever buy another CD again (unless I couldn't find it any other way - and then I'd just rip it and forget about it). All those cases and liner notes, they pretty much sit in my room and look pretty. I don't really ever consult them, unless it's to update my mp3 tags.

casull:
For me, forums like this + torrents are a perfectly good replacement for a record store, but then I was never terribly romantic about 'em anyway.

As far as CDs go, it seems like every time I would actually use one rather than just rip it and put it on my shelf, I would break it. Maybe some people don't share computers, have little brothers, insert hardship here,  blah blah blah, but I always end up with broken CD if I keep it around and use it.

Hat:

--- Quote from: monkandmovies13 on 28 Dec 2007, 21:03 ---A whole bunch of stuff on the aesthetic pleasures of buying music

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I find the actual experience of buying the music is a massive part of it for me. I have a lot of friends who only buy CDs from sites on the internet, and I just could never imagine doing that. Even if theres an album I specifically want to buy, its nice to poke around, look at the 9.99 and less racks, and chat to the clerk at the counter. Plus quite a few albums I've bought on hearing them after kicking around the store for half an hour trying to find albums I want.

Also, I am just glad that someone else agrees with me there Gridgm, I thought maybe I was going mad or I had been placed in a world populated entirely by mad-people without my knowledge, but it is good to know I am not completely insane.

Jackie Blue:

--- Quote from: mfpole on 28 Dec 2007, 20:25 ---I don't think I could ever reach the point where I'll legally own everything I have so far

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This is such an alien concept.  Consider that less than a decade ago, it was pretty difficult to own any music that you DIDN'T pay for, aside from people making you tapes.

I think that one appreciates music more if one doesn't have 9,000 mp3s, but rather a collection of albums, all of which were purchased, listened to and considered rather than just downloaded on a whim.

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