Why buy cds?

Australian wrote: It’s more a question of what’s right, stealing the music or buying it. I for one have a very heavy conscious and knowing that I supported something illegal really gets to me.   Though, I have no problem with burning CD’s…

I'm fine with burning CDs, at least it's something keeping the format alive...even MP3 CDs are fine by me, a long as they're made up from other CDs...

I don't downnload music legally or illegally - maybe it's something about the presentation of a CD, physically holding something as opposed to looking at a computer screen to access your music. There's little doubt they are a dying breed, and i'm doing my best to clean out second-hand record shops and keep the disc from disappearing.

oliverstoned wrote: MP3 is not in my life and will never be. It's the worst format ever (along with others compressed formats). But maybe one day records will disapear as everybody turns to this crap.

Luckily, there are lossless formats aswell.

Edited by Philéas - October 16 2006 at 05:20

MP3 is not in my life and will never be. It's the worst format ever (along with others compressed formats).
But maybe one day records will disapear as everybody turns to this crap.

First of all mp3 are really in our lifes. You can download (illegally) almost every cd in just a few minutes (even rare ones). I’m not going to lie here… I have one it many times but only cause I can’t afford buying the cds at all. The best I can do is buy 1 cd every week and I do it by saving money from other stuff that I do (for example I go out with my friends and try not to spend anything, eat home etc).

I know it’s really nice to have the cd. You have the booklet, the lyrics, good quality (not like the crappy mp3s) and it’s really nice to have the cd somewhere in your house. Especially in prog (as well as other genres), having the cds is really nice since you never listen to tracks but always to albums. On the other hand, I really don’t like the fact that from the 15 euro that I give, the musicians take only a very little part. I know, the owners of the music store have to be paid, the record companies have to earn money but the musicians? If there is one reason to buy a cd that would be to financially help the artist.

Artists in general know that it’s tough to live from their work (IMO it shouldn’t even be called work). Not saying we aren’t supporting them by buying cds but there could be better ways. I don’t know… It’s just that to me music is not a product…

 

Admins: feel free to move this thread. I wasn’t sure were to put it since it doesn’t really fit in the non-prog music.