What would improve CD’s

Lower prices, better sound quality. Muchos older prog albums rereleased on cd sound sh*t. A simple remastering job will do, but seemingly most labels are reluctant to do that, or they do when you've already bought the damn cd out of despair. I bought KC's 'Islands' twice, the old version sounds excruciatingly bad, the remaster sounds 300 times better.

ivan_2068 wrote: Probably I'm a purist and like to have the album exactly as it was released by the authors, I don't want to listen what a producer or a label searching for money decide is better to add. I don't care for the lenght if a band releases an album with 80 minutes of music it's better (specially if they don't sacrifice quality for quantity as Jim said, but if the band releases an album with certain songs, I want to listen it that way. If a band has many B sides or unreleased versions, there's always the chance to release a special album after the band is dead so we can have some new stuff after we believed we would never hear something new. Iván

The question is... What would make a CD buyer (You) more inclined to buy a CD?

The question is... What would make a CD buyer (You) more inclined to buy a CD?

Only one thing THE MUSIC.

I don't buy an album for it's lenght, bonus tracks, beautiful art covers (though it helps a bit), footage, etc. I simply buy what I like.

Iván

I've got a very simple solution, let's just lose interest in music and take up basket weaving instead. Just kidding. I am a vinyl junkie and if I can find something on Vinyl in a second hand record shop or junk  store or a flea market I will grab that before paying $25 for a CD, anyway I'm into mostly older stuff. I find that the old analogue recordings which have been remastered and  transferred to CD sound overproduced and clinical. I will never give up my vinyl not even a team of wild horses. Nothing could improve CD's for me. I like sitting with the headphones on with album sleeve in my hand in my recliner watching the record go around on the turntable. and another thing with CD's I hate the gimmick of bonus tracks the record companies use such as studio run throughs and discarded material to jack up th prices of CD's. For example the re-mastered CD of Misplaced Childhood, the bonus tracks take up more time than the original bloody vinyl version! And no I don't own it I lisented to it at the listening station at a local music store. CD'S I have never owned a discman or walkman and believe music is a special and sacred artform  which requires your full attention. I 've even seen morons driving their cars with the things on. I guess we all have different approaches to listening, mine is more of a technical one I try to figure out the time signatures, what keys are being played in etc. it requires my complete and undivided attention somtimes I will play play a track over and over and over again until my dogs start snarling at me and my wife threatens me with slow agonizing painful death. The moog at the end of lucky man is a good example I will play that part over and over. I have favourite parts of songs whether it be prog, Elvis or Classical Music. But I guees some of you younger guys on the site grew up with CD's and that's the only format you know but that's OK. Heck I am so old as the hills that I remember 8 tracks and 45's.! But seriously I think that the way to improve CD's is to lower the prices is to stop all this downloading over the internet perhaps another format will be introduced which will prevent this. I have never down loaded music over the net it hurts the artists and the music lovers and Mariah. There! I have spoke my mind and as Maani would say peace to all.

(Danbo is that specific enough for you. Obviously I voted other)

I am all for copying cd's-I know it is theft,

Hi Reed Lover, I'm gonna give you some good news, copying a CD is not always a Civil Crime (And of course is not a felony as RIAA pretends us to believe).

If you own a legally sold album, you're entitled to make copies for your own use.

The law doesn't discriminate between formats, so if I have a vynil copy of Close to the Edge, I believe I'm entitled to make a CD copy because I already paid the rights. Courts are specific in that point, if you bought an album, you're entitled to make copies for your own use.

RIAA wants us to buy the same product as many times as posible, you may have 1 or two vynils (if one got scratched), a cassette tape bought during the late 80's when no more vynils were sold and CD was not a popular item), a CD, a remastered edition, a remnastered edition with bonus tracks and of couse a 5.1 surround edition.

This means you have to pay 6 or 7 times for the same album, I don't think so.

Iván

  HOW ABOUT SOME BETTER MUSIC

I agree with your point that once you have purchased the work you can do anything you want go use it for skeet shooting, a frisbee for your dogs, whatever, with it because the artists havee recieved their royalties.

I go a bit further I believe you can buy ilegal copies in CD format from the black market and it's still legal if you bought the LP's before.

I am aware of that but I get DVD's with the UK top 60 albums on in MP3 format every fortnight. Also I distribute them amongst friends, also DVD's etc.

Ok, this case is different, if you're busted this will be considered a civil crime.

Iván