Digital Music & Technology

[vanhelsing]

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Due to the association with the Nazis/racism.violence Sknhead OI bands are only available on Youtube which is a pity as some of these bands don't mention anything to do with race or violence in the lyrics.
I blame the makers of Made in Britain for using UK82 as the theme for getting into skinhead music.

[vanhelsing]

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Vinyl for me primarily where possible, love the quality especially a good 12" single from the 80s, much better in many cases than a poorly remastered and noise-gated CD reissue. MP3 is fine for portable use (320k quality) and for recording and storing my vinyls onto the PC I archive as WAV format.
For the mainstream listeners vinyl generally didn't sound that great on a cheap nasty music system but on a proper hi-fi it really shows it's true colours.
Provided it's properly looked after of course!

A german software publisher called Magix (I've got some of their software and they're a good publisher) do Viynyl to MP3 software

[vanhelsing]

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the records that didn't make single status were just as good.

It wasn't a record or single but Sun And Steel on Iron Maiden's Piece Of Mind Album deserves to be a top selling single

[Chris-T]

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Vinyl for me primarily where possible, love the quality especially a good 12" single from the 80s, much better in many cases than a poorly remastered and noise-gated CD reissue. MP3 is fine for portable use (320k quality) and for recording and storing my vinyls onto the PC I archive as WAV format.
For the mainstream listeners vinyl generally didn't sound that great on a cheap nasty music system but on a proper hi-fi it really shows it's true colours.
Provided it's properly looked after of course!

[havasack]

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Too many people see it as an either/or situation which it shouldn't be. I love my spotify and would get rid of the tele before it but I still have some vinyl (mainly the stuff I never thought would come out on CD). There is a snobbiness with some with the quality, again one format is not better than the other (Vinyl Vs digital that is.....tapes was only ever for cars and for convenience when the walkman was invented). Motown will always sound better on Vinyl, Metronomy sound better on digital.

There is an argument that music streaming costs the artist as they get a lot less than if I bought their music however there are many artisits who have got my tiny little bit whereas before, without streaming, it's unlikely they'd have got anything. I can try so much more than I could beforehand which also leads on to lgoing to see them live. The advent of music streaming has got me back into music after a few years of not really being interested because I just couldn't afford to get anywhere near what I wanted, now it's all there and more.

[spuggybridge]

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Still going into That's Entertainment, last Sunday bought the new Temples album, A House of Love album and one of The Views albums.

[sweep]

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Love the convenience of music downloads but I could never give up books, and I'm not yet convinced that E Readers will have the same impact as ipods.

[the fox]

Actually, I have just discovered amazon's new "Autorip" service - get a free Digital download of CDs purchased on amazon. Seems a pretty good idea to me, promoting the best of both worlds.

[the fox]

It's strange but it always used to be the case that we put stuff on shelves as a statement of who we are and what we like.

People would visit and have a peek at your books, videos and CDs on the shelf. They knew that you knew that they were making some kind of judgement based on your eclectic taste in Bob Dylan, Stephen King, Wayne's World and Run DMC (or whatever). I confess I even used to deliberately arrange certain books, albums and DVD's to make a certain impression.

Collecting was cool. We would collect a set of CDs, or vinyl, or books by one artist or author, (such a Kraftwerk, maybe) and enjoy arranging them so that the spines matched and looked good on a shelf. I wonder if we are the last generation to really do this.

That all seems to be disappearing with the latest generation - with digital downloads, suddenly it's cool NOT to have stuff on shelves. Books, CDs and DVDs are seen as junk/clutter. I just can't get around that.

[Richard1978]

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I shop in That's Entertainment quite a but, it's good for CD's that have been out a while.

I've only downloaded songs that are hard to get elsewhere. A year ago I got all of Kraftwerk's singles from Amazon download as you can't get a greatest hits by them.

[spuggybridge]

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Being slightly old fashioned about this I still buy the CD (in the last 2 weeks bought Queens of the Stone Age and The Strokes new albums on CD and intend buying Editors new album this weekend), I would only buy any music on download if this was the only outlet available, as for record shops dying a death That's Entertainment seem to be going from strength to strength. Another point is how are the scratching "Hip-Hop" Dj's going to find new sounds with new vinyl becoming increasingly difficult to source.

[Richard1978]

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Or the background sound of frying bacon at all the quite moments.

[amethyst]

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personally i think vinyl sounds better than anything else.

Yes the scratches now and again

[darren]

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personally i think vinyl sounds better than anything else.

I did prefer vinyl to cassettes, for a start the artwork was bigger (obviously!) and cassettes seemed to get warped quite quickly.

Still, vinyl getting scratched is a problem. I remember buying 'The Call Up' by The Clash at a record fair and not realising that it jumped midway through, it was only when I bought a video compilation which featured that track that I realised!

I do agree that it's lovely getting your hands on a new album, but again for practical reasons as mentioned above I still think digital is the way forward. At the end of the day it's the music itself that matters the most to me and I'll compromise on the pretty packaging to get the clearest sound (fussy sod that I am)

[the fox]

Sorry I am late to this thread, but just wanted to say that my tactic is this: buy an album 2nd hand on the bay, cheap as anything now everyone is getting rid if them. Copy it to iTunes. Then, if it's a keeper, keep both. If not, resell the cd, effectively getting the album for free.

I miss the whole experience of vinyl. And i think that the "get anything, at any time" convenience must make life that little bit less exciting. I spent whole chunks of my youth searching out that rare record from a particular shop, and oh, the sheer joy when I found it...

I reckon downloads are going to completely kill off book shops and music stores before long. Plus, one day there will be no widespread 2nd hand market shops for games, books or music, and that will be a sad day.

As for artist income, well, why should someone be a multi millionaire just because they make good music ?The rock n roll lifestyle thing always seemed a bit absurd to me.