Buying CDs
On the one hand it's lots of fun to browse through CDs and look for things I'm interested in buying, admiring cover art, checking song lists for things I recognize, looking for bands I'd like to better aquaint myself with, etc.
On the other hand, the average CD is almost up to $20 now a day.
On the one hand there's something nice about having solid real CDs, I don't read books on a computer, and though lesso, real solid CDs are cool too.
But then, I spent an hour and a half looking through three different stores with a list of seven CDs I wanted and didn't find any of them. I went home and downloaded half of them immediately.
Buying CDs is supposedly the morally correct thing to do, it gives money to the artists and the distributers.
Some record companies have started using anti-copy protection to keep you from ripping CDs to computers. A month or two ago I bought a copy protected CD and tried to rip it. It let me rip it right down to the last five seconds of the last song. For the sake of completion I downloaded a fully intact copy of that song.
Holy hell, are they outright trying to discourage CD sales here?
To conclude, buy what you can (be bothered to), download the rest. 5/10
On the one hand it's lots of fun to browse through CDs and look for things I'm interested in buying, admiring cover art, checking song lists for things I recognize, looking for bands I'd like to better aquaint myself with, etc.
On the other hand, the average CD is almost up to $20 now a day.
On the one hand there's something nice about having solid real CDs, I don't read books on a computer, and though lesso, real solid CDs are cool too.
But then, I spent an hour and a half looking through three different stores with a list of seven CDs I wanted and didn't find any of them. I went home and downloaded half of them immediately.
Buying CDs is supposedly the morally correct thing to do, it gives money to the artists and the distributers.
Some record companies have started using anti-copy protection to keep you from ripping CDs to computers. A month or two ago I bought a copy protected CD and tried to rip it. It let me rip it right down to the last five seconds of the last song. For the sake of completion I downloaded a fully intact copy of that song.
Holy hell, are they outright trying to discourage CD sales here?
To conclude, buy what you can (be bothered to), download the rest. 5/10
posted by graham at 4:26 AM
2 Comments:
My main problem with cds is that they don't fucking last. I'll have a cd scratched and unplayable within weeks!
They need to invent some sort of indestructible physical media thingy. Like, I want to be able to say, "yeah, I have that song/album"
not
"yeah, I use to have that song/album"
I'd buy indestructible music that was absolutely 100% free of corruption, dust, scratches, or fucking anything.
If I'm to get into trouble for downloading music, then would it not be fair to demand that record companies replace all of the now faulty music I have purchased from them over the years?
I bookmarked you on my delicious
maybe now everybody will come here and I will demand recognition
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