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Poll Question: Are you for or against the copying of original albums?
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Wow, Reed. You're a Urine Extractor and you don't even use your hands... You must be popular.

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Originally posted by Metropolis Metropolis wrote:

So I guess all that "info" in his profile is bull then?

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So I guess all that "info" in his profile is bull then?
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Originally posted by Metropolis Metropolis wrote:

Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

I burn lots of CD-R's.I also have over 500 bought CDs and I feel I have contributed sufficient funds to the greedy record companies.



How'd a 16 yr old afford all that?

I'm so poor

Dang Reed....you look terrible for 16.
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Neither am I from Sao Tome and Principe  either.......LOL



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Originally posted by Metropolis Metropolis wrote:

Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

I burn lots of CD-R's.I also have over 500 bought CDs and I feel I have contributed sufficient funds to the greedy record companies.



How'd a 16 yr old afford all that?

I'm so poor

I'm not called Don Deluego either.......Wink



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Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

I burn lots of CD-R's.I also have over 500 bought CDs and I feel I have contributed sufficient funds to the greedy record companies.



How'd a 16 yr old afford all that?

I'm so poor
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Oh, I'll copy albums I own for convenience, but at the minute there's not really an issue: I can't drive so I don't need casettes for the car; The only portable music player I have at the minute is a gig mp3 one, perhaps when I buy a discman I'll copy some vinyl onto CD, and perhaps when I start driving I'll copy some vinyl and CD onto tape. NB I have only a PC based CD writer, and no tape recorder of my own, so I might run into some difficulties . One of my life's aims is to drive near a chavvy boy racer blasting some Schoenberg at full volume*, or something equally brutal. Don't ask me why, it's just a dream . The closet I've come so far is when my brother was driving and we turned Wagner right up; it was a proud moment.




*(the chav isn't blasting Schoenberg; I am)


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Like Reed, I burn stuff I already own - vinyl to CD etc, CDs to Cd compilation for use in the car. I used to have a mini-disc deck and cd autochanger in the last car but now have just a cd changer so i have no compunction about burning stuff I own to compilations for portability.

But on the mp3 thing - if I hear tracks I like I'll download em, burn em and road test em in the car to confirm my liking - then i'll buy the album.

I did this with PFM here on the site - downloading their stuff, burning it and then ordering their first 3 albums from Laser's Edge. Thus I feel I've done the band a favour by downloading and burning their music illegally, cause I went and gave them cash for it in the end.

The stuff I don't end up liking - well I just bin the burned CDRs

Of course, I have a job (however poorly paid) and can afford to just oder up a bunch of CDs on a whim - it ain't like that for high school students or the unemployed. Indeed, I seem to remember in my dim and distant youth having an entire drawer full of illegally recorded cassette duplicates of friends' albums.

And despite all the Home Taping is Killing Music nonsense back then, the music industry didn't spontaneously combust now did it....
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I meant I was justifying why I don't do copies, just using very awkward phrasing.

Also I can't ever get them to look perfect, because I have a cheap printer, and some booklets have a lot of pages. But as I said originally, that's not the real reason I buy originals, it's just because I want to.
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Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

I f the quality of the copy is nigh on perfect why prefer the original? The music is more important than the packaging. The packaging is a marketing tool. You can get the lyrics off the bands website or fansite.

Just because.

To slightly justify it, you say the music is more important, but that doesn't make the packaging totally irrelevant. I'm a (small-scale, thus far) collector of CDs and soon vinyl, so I don't want a shelf full of copies. The only CDs I burn are bootlegs, internet-only releases and occaisionally rare/OOP ones that I just can't get hold of.

What do you think I am trying to justify Goose?

Why do you not want a shelf full of copies if they look and sound like the real thing?

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Originally posted by selling_echoes selling_echoes wrote:


I seem to feel some sort of proudness, when an album is bought, and MINE.
Of course, the money issue comes up quite a bit.


That's exactly where I stand.
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Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

I f the quality of the copy is nigh on perfect why prefer the original? The music is more important than the packaging. The packaging is a marketing tool. You can get the lyrics off the bands website or fansite.

Just because.

To slightly justify it, you say the music is more important, but that doesn't make the packaging totally irrelevant. I'm a (small-scale, thus far) collector of CDs and soon vinyl, so I don't want a shelf full of copies. The only CDs I burn are bootlegs, internet-only releases and occaisionally rare/OOP ones that I just can't get hold of.
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I f the quality of the copy is nigh on perfect why prefer the original? The music is more important than the packaging. The packaging is a marketing tool. You can get the lyrics off the bands website or fansite.



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I prefer originals, but i do have a few out-of-print or hard-to-find albums burned on cd-r's. I get rid of the copies if/when I find originals.
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I burn lots of CD-R's.I also have over 500 bought CDs and I feel I have contributed sufficient funds to the greedy record companies.

I have a HiFi CD recorder as well as my PC. The direct copies I make on my HIFI CD Recorder are virtually indistinguishable sonically from the originals and I can perceive the difference between these copies and those made on a PC.

Many of the CD's I burn now are taken directly from MP3s and converted to CD playable format (wav compatible) using Nero. The quality is obviously not as good as a standard CD ( of course most of my friends cannot hear any differenceConfusedLOL) but is barely "acceptable"  when played on a revealing seperates HiFi system. Converting MP3's is very useful for making compilation CD's to play on my car's CD player (although I had an MP3 capable player in my last car).I use printable CDR's(£15 for 100 Ritek) in my PC and can print the label directly on to the CD using an Epson R200 printer (@£80, though I got it in a PC world sale for £69.99)which has an insert for printing CDs- the final result looks really cool and many people cant distinguish them from an original! I very rarely burn full albums these days, usually compilation "best ofs" for friends I want to convert to the prog cause.

A big thank you to Leo (beau heem) BTW !!!Thumbs UpHugWink

and Useful..........when you gonna open the floodgates again?Wink



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Points: 760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2005 at 05:21
Meh, I ca't afford all the cds i want, so i copy some from other people, but i wll buy them eventually (like when i graduate, and have some money)
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