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The year is 2014. Digital sales are overtaking physical = deal with it! You can abstain from ever buying anything digital, or you can actually enjoy listening to music that most likely otherwise would have no release at all? And for those who feel too high and mighty to listen to a 320 kb mp3, I'm willing to bet you have no problem listening to it when its shared for free? I'd have given my third nipple if it meant listening to some holy grails releases in mp3 when there was no other alternative!!!!! End rant.
I'm with you, man. If that's all we get, I can deal.
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Download as much as you want, just do not complain here when all of your storage of those files are hit from a power surge/storm/crash and you have to re-buy all of those titles. I have coworkers that have lost everything and had to repurchase titles. One had all their music on their Ipod that was stolen. I also do not purchase anything illegally. Well as I have said here before, I do have a copy of Slipstream that I am holding onto until I get the proof needed to know that it is a legal release. I listened to it up to all the controversy, now it is in a storage box with the jewel case taped shut. As far as sound quality of downloads, that does not really matter to me, my Father and I still listen to many of his LPs. We listen to pops and skips. My Father does not buy anything anymore unless it is very outstanding, he listens to my CDs.
We have listened to this COSMOS and it is good, but we will hope that there is a physical CD.
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I also do not purchase anything illegally. Well as I have said here before, I do have a copy of Slipstream that I am holding onto until I get the proof needed to know that it is a legal release. I listened to it up to all the controversy, now it is in a storage box with the jewel case taped shut.
And as I've said before, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard! Though imagining a scenario in which you take this CD, hastily sealed with duct tape and with the word "NO" feverishly scrawled all over it, into a bank to ask for a safe deposit box makes me laugh a bit.
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I didn't say that he/she is stupid. Smart people do dumb things from time to time, just like dumb people do smart things from time to time. It's just such a bizarrely paranoid thing to do. You bought the CD, listen to it! No one on a state or local level will report you for listening to the soundtrack to Slipstream.
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If anything it just adds a little animosity to the thread.
Food for thought...
Annnnnd now....I'm hungry.
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Mar 4, 2014 - 7:57 PM
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JJH
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Ya know... the gnashing of teeth...standing on the front porch shaking your fist and proudly proclaiming you'll never buy a digital album... doesn't do a single damn bit of good. All it does, all it can ever do... is impact product sales in a negative way and then convince studios ( or labels ) the release was a bad idea to begin with.
Not my problem if studios can't take the time to seek out message boards and read opinions from potential buyers.
FWIW, I'll buy digital IF - and only IF - I want it badly enough, *and* there's no CD, *and* the digital release is mastered properly - none of that lossy 320kbps or lower junk. That said, I can't recall buying any digital release (ever) because nothing that potentially interests me meets all three of my personal criteria.
320kbps is not that bad, and you *really* have to think your ears are something special to notice any real sonic artifacts. No, 320's not WAV or FLAC, but then it's not the storage hog those formats are, either.
If studios or record labels took time out of their day to read this message board, or some others I won't name, to find out what their potential buyers want...they'd kill themselves.
This board is all over the map when it comes to opinion.
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