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I buy everything on CD, then make an mp3 backup for playing in the car. I don't care so much about the format I'm using to play the music (although if its a lower quality mp3 I can certainly hear it), but I still want to own the album with artwork and packaging.
Artwork and music go hand in hand to me.. at least with the artists that care to try to do something interesting with the packaging (U2, Beatles, DA, etc. ) Its not that I couldn't still enjoy the music without the packaging.. but it wouldn't be the same. Not to mention the joy I've always gotten since I was a little kid in buying that new album, cracking open the plastic and studying every photo and liner note. Its a huge part of (at least) that first listen to me. When I think of albums like DOppelganger, Abbey Road or Joshua Tree.. I think of the artwork as much as the music.
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Jimmy Brown
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Artwork and music go hand in hand to me.. at least with the artists that care to try to do something interesting with the packaging (U2, Beatles, DA, etc. ) Its not that I couldn't still enjoy the music without the packaging.. but it wouldn't be the same. Not to mention the joy I've always gotten since I was a little kid in buying that new album, cracking open the plastic and studying every photo and liner note. Its a huge part of (at least) that first listen to me. When I think of albums like DOppelganger, Abbey Road or Joshua Tree.. I think of the artwork as much as the music. |
I agree. As much as I love the music itself, when the entire package works together, there is something magical about it.
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I was absolutely obsessed with music since I was probably 3 years old. I had probably a half a dozen 8-tracks.. some of which were Christmas presents I think... KISS Alive II, Beatles at Shea Stadium.. a lot of weird stuff for a 3-year old. When I was in first grade, my teacher let the kids bring in records and the entire class would sit and listen to them. Most kids brought in childrends records.. I almost always brought in rock and roll records which the teacher didn't care for too much. She'd hear something she didn't like and intentionally skip the needle. Kind of ticked me off. I'm actually not sure if I ever bought an 8-track myself.. can't remember. Sometimes our parents would give us cash to buy a 45, record or 8track. A couple of local stores had 45's for something like 50 cents. I forget what LPs cost at the time.
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Yeah I remember you getting Kiss Alive II for Christmas on 8 track. I absolutely loved looking at record album artwork while listening to an album. I remember looking at the Alarma! inside cover picture a lot. For me the visual element is just as important as the audible element.
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Some of my early memories of buying an album are still importat to me, I miss that feeling quite a bit actually. Going to a music store and picking something out, getting home and cracking the celophane. They even had that inky plasticy smell, putting the record on and looking over the artwork and reading who played what and all that. It was an experience. I remeber buying certain albums to this day, I have downloaded a few mp3's over the years and the experience doesn't stick with me in the same way. In fact, things that I have downloaded, I may not even have listened to it right away. They went in a folder, so I know I have them. (They were usually a download exclusive or something of that nature.)
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Some of my early memories of buying an album are still importat to me, I miss that feeling quite a bit actually. Going to a music store and picking something out, getting home and cracking the celophane. They even had that inky plasticy smell, putting the record on and looking over the artwork and reading who played what and all that. It was an experience. I remeber buying certain albums to this day, I have downloaded a few mp3's over the years and the experience doesn't stick with me in the same way. In fact, things that I have downloaded, I may not even have listened to it right away. They went in a folder, so I know I have them. (They were usually a download exclusive or something of that nature.) |
i really like the experience too, but it wears thin after awhile. i think cassettes were awesome over records because they sounded better and took longer to wear out. sometimes cassettes came with extra tracks you couldn't get on a record. and the print was small, but usually legible. i would take more music over more info in most cases.
waiting on a CD in the mail is kinda like waiting on a new release you anticipate coming from a store too.
download is the ultimate instant gratification. if only you could really own it and the artwork like a real CD.
who knows - that fresh ink and cellophane smell probably causes cancer or something anyways 
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i think cassettes were awesome over records because they sounded better |
Huh?! That's the first time I've heard anyone say that.
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Huh?! That's the first time I've heard anyone say that. |
I would say that many times over. I've yet to hear a record I thought sounded better or lasted longer than a cassette.
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i think cassettes were awesome over records because they sounded better |
Huh?! That's the first time I've heard anyone say that. |
I would say that many times over. I've yet to hear a record I thought sounded better or lasted longer than a cassette. |
as the absent dr. rich would say, "you need a new needle then!"
before cds i did play cassettes more than records, but only because i my living room is not the main place a play music.....
cds sound better than mp3s...
but i still play mp3s more.... 
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Some of my early memories of buying an album are still importat to me, I miss that feeling quite a bit actually. Going to a music store and picking something out, getting home and cracking the celophane. They even had that inky plasticy smell, putting the record on and looking over the artwork and reading who played what and all that. It was an experience. I remeber buying certain albums to this day, I have downloaded a few mp3's over the years and the experience doesn't stick with me in the same way. In fact, things that I have downloaded, I may not even have listened to it right away. They went in a folder, so I know I have them. (They were usually a download exclusive or something of that nature.) |
Yup. I love that feeling of buying an album. 
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Yup. I love that feeling of buying an album.
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I've posted elsewhere, so forgive the redundancy, but I'm a completist. I bought the original cd release of DFBB back in the day. And I bought the new release.
I wish there was a way to purchase the bonus material, either as a cd or a download, without repurchasing the original material. I can't resist the bounus material! It's like buying Star Wars over and over again.
I would like to purchase items like the NewPax Alarma radio special. At one time I had the 45 single of Memory Lane and Real Girls. Both songs had intros by Terry. A compilation of Terry's explanations of songs from radio specials and singles would be incredible.
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everything i own is now digital.....
i've converted all my CDs, and a lot of newer stuff, i've never even bought the physical CD.....
the first thing i do when i buy a new CD now, is rip it to multiple hard drives and devices....
all my CDs are boxed in the back of a closet, and my small vinyl collection in on a top shelf, waiting for frames.....
by the way.......
i remember when CDs were still fairly new... dad said i shouldn't buy too many... they were likely a passing fad, like the 8-track
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Darn Floor and Fearful Symmetry were two of my first CDs. I bought a rather large clunky CD walkman witha 3 hour battery pack that had to be charged for 12 hours.
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Darn Floor and Fearful Symmetry were two of my first CDs. I bought a rather large clunky CD walkman witha 3 hour battery pack that had to be charged for 12 hours. |
Mine Too! Along with Ideola's Tribal Opera, The Joshua Tree, and I Predict 1990. Bought a cd boom box and those 5 discs.
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