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AtomicCrimsonRush 
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 05:43 |
Which do you prefer to collect? and why? 
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richardh
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 05:53 |
CD's most of the time (ease of use and I can't be bothered with a turntable) but digital downloads account for about 10% of my music buying if the price is much cheaper.
apparently all these are formats are going to be replaced by streaming so perhaps that should be a forth option?!
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:03 |
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CDs. I grew up with them being the norm, they sound great, and they're very easy to use and store.
But I also like Vinyl and Digital. Vinyl has nice and big artwork and they're usually real cheep; I love the things I can find for 2 bucks in a shop! Digital is covenant sense I don't have to go to a store or wait for it to ship, and I can easily burn them to CDs.
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:06 |
 richardh wrote:
apparently all these are formats are going to be replaced by streaming so perhaps that should be a forth option?! |
I don't think it will replace owning music (or at least not very soon), but probably become more popular. There's to many people like me who like to own it and have it physically
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:10 |
smartpatrol wrote:
richardh wrote:
apparently all these are formats are going to be replaced by streaming so perhaps that should be a forth option?! |
I don't think it will replace owning music (or at least not very soon), but probably become more popular. There's to many people like me who like to own it and have it physically
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agreed and the fact that the available content is a long way from being comprehensive at the moment especially for a prog fan. I reckon I would be lucky to find 20% of what I own currently available for streaming.
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smartpatrol
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:13 |
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For me it's probably 90%, but that's probably because a lot of what I liked, I streamed first.
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:19 |
Up until last year I probably would've voted cds, but I've been getting into vinyls lately and there's a reverence in the media, that I don't associate with the others. Maybe it's to do with size, or just the fact that you have to be more cautious with em... Anyway I love the small crackling, watching the needle slip into the groove, as well as the mad people who sell you vinyls.
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Junges
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:22 |
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Vinyls, because CD's quality suck.
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Gerinski
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:39 |
richardh wrote:
smartpatrol wrote:
richardh wrote:
apparently all these are formats are going to be replaced by streaming so perhaps that should be a forth option?! |
I don't think it will replace owning music (or at least not very soon), but probably become more popular. There's to many people like me who like to own it and have it physically
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agreed and the fact that the available content is a long way from being comprehensive at the moment especially for a prog fan. I reckon I would be lucky to find 20% of what I own currently available for streaming. |
Possibly some new service will be developed like 'data storage for personal streaming', where you just store your music collection in a server and access it from wherever you want and whenever you want with your password (including artwork and lyrics, why not?), without the burdain of taking space in your house or personal computer.
I'm too old and also like to scroll through the physical stuff on my shelves, but habits change and possibly 1 or 2 generations further they will find it crazy to keep physical records at home. How many paperwork at home has been replaced by electronic files? invoices and receipts, bank statements, salary sheets, photo albums and so many others.
Edited by Gerinski - June 16 2013 at 06:43
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:50 |
Vinyl for the experience, as Guldbamsen says above. I still have the first vinyl record I bought more than 35 years ago and still buy them if it's something special (Bowie's 'The Next Day', Calexico's 'Algiers', all the Decemberists and GY!BE albums).
But I have hundreds of all three media types along with Spotify, Pandora and Songza accounts since streaming is by far the easiest way to take your music with you. Have even found myself with headphones on streaming Spotify while flipping through vinyl stacks at used record stores. That's a good day. 
Edited by ClemofNazareth - June 16 2013 at 06:52
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:52 |
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Vinyl : Dream. Cd : Reality
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 07:03 |
Good call. It's the experience for me as well. Flipping through stacks of vinyl also has a funny way of making the music more tangible and 'real' - at least it does to me. I still collect cds, mostly because there are some artists who are damn near impossible to get on vinyl(Good luck finding an early Porcupine Tree album), and because I don't want to be one of those connoisseurs who look down their nose at anything digital(pronounce with extreme prejudice and a sourpuss mouth). CDs are great and less a hassle than a scratched vinyl.
I have a fair deal of MP3s as well, but that's mainly from bandcamp artists and other such acts that don't produce actual releases(or they do, but it's only on 8track or cassette tape).
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 07:05 |
Guldbamsen wrote:
Up until last year I probably would've voted cds, but I've been getting into vinyls lately and there's a reverence in the media, that I don't associate with the others. Maybe it's to do with size, or just the fact that you have to be more cautious with em...Anyway I love the small crackling, watching the needle slip into the groove, as well as the mad people who sell you vinyls. |
yeah I like buying vinyl off those mad sellers, who are always eccentric. I bought Rush's signals on vinyl last monthoff a dealer who knoew too much about music. I used to buy off a guy who owned a second hand record store and he was eccentric and knew everything too. It must go with the territory.
Anyway CDs are still easier to keep so its a moot point with me. Vinyl for the nostalgia, CDs for posterity.
Digital is simply technological - not everyone wants to deal with that. Though I do big time for ease of obtaining!
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 07:13 |
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
Guldbamsen wrote:
Up until last year I probably would've voted cds, but I've been getting into vinyls lately and there's a reverence in the media, that I don't associate with the others. Maybe it's to do with size, or just the fact that you have to be more cautious with em...Anyway I love the small crackling, watching the needle slip into the groove, as well as the mad people who sell you vinyls. |
yeah I like buying vinyl off those mad sellers, who are always eccentric. I bought Rush's signals on vinyl last monthoff a dealer who knoew too much about music. I used to buy off a guy who owned a second hand record store and he was eccentric and knew everything too. It must go with the territory.
Anyway CDs are still easier to keep so its a moot point with me. Vinyl for the nostalgia, CDs for posterity.
Digital is simply technological - not everyone wants to deal with that. Though I do big time for ease of obtaining! |
Vinyl vendors are a special breed. They're all somewhere around 60 to 70 years old, longish grey hair, unshaved, perhaps a bandana, glasses hanging around their neck in some orangy string. They've been to every concert with PinkFloydKingCrimsonJethroTullTangerineDream insert big/small/obscure name here, and they enjoy talking about them in the shop - preferably over a beer and a cigarette(in some instances pipe).
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Gerinski
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 08:46 |
Guldbamsen wrote:
Vinyl vendors are a special breed. They're all somewhere around 60 to 70 years old, longish grey hair, unshaved, perhaps a bandana, glasses hanging around their neck in some orangy string. They've been to every concert with PinkFloydKingCrimsonJethroTullTangerineDream insert big/small/obscure name here, and they enjoy talking about them in the shop - preferably over a beer and a cigarette(in some instances pipe). |
What a life, I wish I was a vinyl vendor (only that I'm 46, no money to invest and scared of wanting to keep all the albums for myself and spending more money than making any  )
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 08:52 |
I wish I was a vinyl vendor too  To think that I could wear bandanas all day long...
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 09:09 |
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CDs - strange how these days CDs are considered "old", I am of those that moved from the cassette to CD.
Vinyls are for serious collectors, I don't consider myself one of them - plenty of "heartless" mp3s in my collection, to which I listen more and more with time as I am lazy to get to the CD player...
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 09:35 |
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Vinyl : Dream. Cd : Reality 2!!!
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 09:42 |
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CD. grew up with Lp's. Glad they became obsolete.
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Posted: June 16 2013 at 09:43 |
Junges wrote:
Vinyls, because CD's quality suck. |
For me it is the vinyl quality I dislike.
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