well this is interesting.... very cool.... however, maybe its just me..... but wouldn't things like Spotify and youtube be.... just additional income for the musicians? I am certainly not to the point where I want to pay a monthly fee to stream ... but, that's just me.... I think one of the reasons vinyl is coming back - not only because its cool and sounds good if you have a nice deck....... but also because of copyright protection.... I am sure Victor you remember the days (or maybe you don't) - of recording your albums on a decent cassette deck so you could play 'anywhere' .... I will say though - I have seen talk of the revitalization of the cassette!! and to that I will just say... as you in the UK might say.... 'rubbish'!!! .... The goal of the cassette was to try to get it to sound 'almost as good' as your albums... and then you were constantly fighting the tape hiss with Dolby Digital B&C.... The little bugger just couldn't go fast enough to reduce those artifacts is my thought....
I buy almost all of my music on CD's that I rip and then store. The artist still gets their cut
I gave away my last turntable and I don't miss it. Moreover I don't even like to deal with CD's. They are still too inconvenient compared to a music server.
RCH,It's good to see that have a conscience and support the industry. I can identify with your HDD feelings to some degree. The only difference is that I "rip" special cuts of vinyl to HDD and enjoy them when I'm too lazy to go upstairs and dig out the LP ;^)
(Sounds like sacrilege coming from an analogue diehard like myself)
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