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Mr. Doctor:
Dude.... I go to Lund's university! hahahahha This is getting creepy... If you tell me that you are studying in the "math house" this will be just "hanners-creepy" and I will think that you're a stalker.

I buy a lot of my stuff online though. So my prices are from websites like cdon.com where they usually have lots of random discounts but the most expensive I usually buy for is 159 SEK. On the regular stores in town the cds du cost around 180 so the prices haven't really changed since online stores are always cheaper anyways. I buy used cds to, the cost around 60-80 here.

idontunderstand:
Naw, I go to juridicum, I have no stalker intentions!  8-)

(I'm just a lawyer, bad enough I guess)

And... nothing more to add to the discussion. I guess.

Barmymoo:
I don't know quite why but I feel that my music is safer on CDs - I worry that if it only exists as a downloaded file, it would be easier to lose.

Jimmy the Squid:

--- Quote from: smack that isaiah on 12 Nov 2011, 18:15 ---w/r/t the "physical format evolving beyond the CD format" you mentioned, I remember seeing things previously of bands selling new albums on collectable usb thumb drives with the band's name/logo on them, with the music in flac or other lossless formatting.  I haven't seen any deals/offers like that lately, but if one of my favorite bands offered up something like a thumb drive with music on it, I'd buy it up in a heartbeat.

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We were thinking of doing something like this with my band (we're about to begin recording an EP) but frankly the cost involved is prohibitive. When CDs are so cheap to produce and stamp etc... And when, especially here in Australia, it's really expensive to buy physical music (most new albums will be going for $30 to $40 if it's from a major label).


--- Quote from: smack that isaiah on 12 Nov 2011, 18:15 ---One thing I already dislike about the whole digital download thing is the dissolution of the "album" as a concept/piece (I don't mean concept albums or rock-opera type deals, I just mean the creation of an album as its own musical entity).  With such an ability for people to only download the latest single/individual song they like, it seems a number of musicians/producers are caring less and less about the structuring of an album--flow of songs, arrangements, etc.  (e.g. how often do you see CD's (particularly pop) that are quite obviously just structured "1st hit single, 2nd single, slightly less popular song, 3rd single, cliche slow song, album starts to wind down now since there will be no more singles till the next summer, etc..."?)

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Speaking as a musician, I can definitely say that both my band and other bands that we know are starting to shy away from the traditional album concept. We've talked about it at length and for a band like ours whose tracks are at minimum 6 minutes long (maximum is about 15 minutes) recording and releasing a full 10 or 12 track album and selling it at shows for $15-$20 is silly when we can release three 4 track EPs over the course of 18 months and sell them at shows for $10 each. I don't mean to say that all this reasoning is based on what we think an appropriate dollar price for 25-30 minutes of music is, but rather that the amount of time it takes to adequately record and produce our music and the amount of money it costs us to do so, not to mention how long it takes us to write new material, doesn't really justify sticking to that existing album paradigm.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 25 Nov 2011, 16:34 ---I don't know quite why but I feel that my music is safer on CDs - I worry that if it only exists as a downloaded file, it would be easier to lose.

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Curiously (as my job involves keeping clinical trials data safely on hard disks) I feel the same; however, I had to have a number of CDs replaced because of "CD rot" (a major factory made a whole lot of CDs with incorrect sealing, so that the reflective layer oxidised over the next ten years, and they became unreadable).  Now that even some commercially sold CD are CD-R type, this can happen again.

I have a lot of time for the idea of selling music on USB sticks, though that's only cost-effective for a substantial amount (the USB "apple" of the Beatles output is a case in point).

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