BFTG 9 tracker

Monster Mike said:
It's nice to be able to download to my ITunes and play in the car and work, though. Tried to talk Tim into including a free download card with Vol.9...but I doubt it will happen. I think they'd sell a lot more copies if they did.
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If you don't do this it's commercial suicide. Vinyl sales and D/Ls are up and CD sales are down. People want the real deal vinyl but they also need something for their car/to share with friends!
 
Phil Istine said:
If you don't do this it's commercial suicide. Vinyl sales and D/Ls are up and CD sales are down. People want the real deal vinyl but they also need something for their car/to share with friends!
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This is true, but I personally prefer CD's or CD-r's for said purposes. I like to have something tangible. I also have a lot of fun making covers for CD-r comps I make for myself & others.
Like when I comped my old collection. Much more personal and way more fun to create a series than to download them onto a little stick.
This looks much cooler


than this

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These are pretty simple. I've gotten more elaborate in the artwork since.
 
if you want cool you buy an LP, right? And downloads usually include artwork anyway. Everyone's a winner! ;)

CDs have become the middle, satisfying neither party. I like a CD, but then any CD i get does end up on my portable listening device too...

Heitkotter77 said:
This is true, but I personally prefer CD's or CD-r's for said purposes. I like to have something tangible. I also have a lot of fun making covers for CD-r comps I make for myself & others.
Like when I comped my old collection. Much more personal and way more fun to create a series than to download them onto a little stick.
This looks much cooler


than this

ipodnanos.jpg


These are pretty simple. I've gotten more elaborate in the artwork since.
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I'm surprised that those coming from a collectors point of view seem so against new technology. It's just an easy way to store massive amounts of music, which can be organized in a variety of ways and have access to them at the the touch of a button. It's like saying your against the G45 database because you believe "pure" information must come from a printed book.
Yes, we all prefer vinyl, but I can't always post up and listen to my records due to time constraints. It's nice to have some killer tunes on hand at all times, though. Just a thought, what are you really fighting against????
 
Ultimate version: a box of faithful reproductions of each 45. Retail: $hundreds
Next: 12" vinyl 45s, 3 or 4 songs a side, 2 or 3 discs. Retail: $50-100
3: regular 12" 33 lp, single or double. Retail: $10-30
4: CD(s) with jewel case and booklet. Retail: $20ish
5: D/L. Retail: $10-15ish
 
Monster Mike said:
It's like saying your against the G45 database because you believe "pure" information must come from a printed book.
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It's a bit different really. Because a book and a database can hold exactly the same information, whereas the information stored on a digital soundfile and an analog record can never be exactly the same.
:sonny:
 
Monster Mike said:
I'm surprised that those coming from a collectors point of view seem so against new technology. It's just an easy way to store massive amounts of music, which can be organized in a variety of ways and have access to them at the the touch of a button. It's like saying your against the G45 database because you believe "pure" information must come from a printed book.
Yes, we all prefer vinyl, but I can't always post up and listen to my records due to time constraints. It's nice to have some killer tunes on hand at all times, though. Just a thought, what are you really fighting against????
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I agree 100% with every word. I don't get the anti-CD or anti-mp3 sentiment. As long as I can listen to what I want to hear, who cares? Nobody cared when Rhino was issuing cassettes of '60s music, so why the digital backlash--especially since it makes it 1,000 times easier to listen to music when and where you want?
 
MopTopMike said:
I'm not against MP3s, but they sound lousy, why listen to lousy sound? Just for the sake of convenience?
I don't need to have music on my person at all times.
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In my general experience, a good mp3 sounds better than cassettes used to, so why bother bitching about it?
 
Perkeo said:
In my general experience, a good mp3 sounds better than cassettes used to, so why bother bitching about it?
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Have to disagree. Cassettes were still analog and had the full sound if recorded well.
MP3 sound is very flat, like a CD whose sound has been over compressed. You really lose a lot of the muscial sound. I'm no audiophile, but I can tell the difference very easily.

It's not about being anti-technology; I am in favor of technological advances that improve my experiences. That does not include mp3 sound.
Do we :sonny: feel this way because we grew up listening to the full ambiance of vinyl? Maybe that's a big factor, but it shouldn't be. I feel sorry for all the younger people who are accepting a watered down sound quality and never know what they're missing.

Anyway, that's we bother bitching about it. :twistedevil:
 
P.S. I'm also tired of being called a dinosaur because I prefer older audio technology.
Anyone here a Record Collector reader? Remember a few years ago when some guy named Stephen Islip was dropping the D-bomb all over the letters page on anything that wasn't mp3? He even suggested they changed the name of the 'zine to Audio Collector or something equally brilliant.

P.P.S. If we really were dinosaurs, we wouldn't be hanging out online and yakking on boards like this. We'd be sitting in our rooms cranking up our victrolas or channel surfing our black & white tv's (VHF only of course).
 
Hey, squawk all you want. Feel that pride. Turns out I agree with you, analog sounds better, though I do basically disagree about the cassette experience, there`s enough hiss and distortion to destroy the plusses that you mention. BLACK POWDER!
 
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