The end of CD's ????

Fat Freddy wrote:

Pretty easy to understand, right? After all, I've had the CDs longer than I've had the wife.

...and the CDs will outlive the both of you....

spectrefate wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Pretty easy to understand, right? After all, I've had the CDs longer than I've had the wife.

...and the CDs will outlive the both of you....

Nah, I want the CDs buried with me.

Good man.

ultmetal wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

I lost quite a few mp3s through a computer crash. So I understand that POV.

I also don't want stacks of hundreds of CDs laying around my house.

Solution: digital downloads w/ regular backups

You mean you don't want your house too look like this?

great to see those photos. Realy nice collection. Hail to you!!!!

ultmetal wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

I lost quite a few mp3s through a computer crash. So I understand that POV.

I also don't want stacks of hundreds of CDs laying around my house.

Solution: digital downloads w/ regular backups

You mean you don't want your house too look like this?

My house already looks like that.

ultmetal wrote:

I think modern music fans are missing out on an experience. There was nothing like hanging out at you local record/CD store, going through bins of records/CDs while the store was crankin' some tunes. There was an atmosphere and a vibe at the local record store that was very cool. I've always enjoyed doing that.

I've also always enjoyed digging through all those CDs or records and finding that one gem I'd been searching out for months. Ebay makes it a bit too easy to obtain those gems and it's just not as fun. It takes away the hunt.

Also, I've always been one who enjoys albums, as opposed to singles. I seem to latch onto certain bands and just really dig their sound. I don't care as much for the 'hit single' as I do about a solid album of material. The cover art is part of the package and I think the MP3 generation is missing out on that. There is something wrong with downloading that one song you heard on the radio and thought was cool, yet you never hear anything else the artist did. What great music I would have missed out on all these years if all I ever did was purchase a single. Shoot, at least with a single you have a b-side. You don't even have that with an MP3.

I could not agree more!!! They are missing out on the experience big time!!!

I feel that someday cd's will no longer be the dominant form of media for dissemination and distribution of new music/bands/artists/etc. It will all be downloaded. I just hope that, for a techno moron like myself who will still be purchasing cd's the price doesn't skyrocket to like $50 or something ridiculous.

I love the CD experience but this -

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Ebay makes it a bit too easy to obtain those gems and it's just not as fun. It takes away the hunt.

is opposite of me. I LOVE the Ebay/WWW ease of finding things. Part of that is that what I like these days is almost never found in stores....


NOW...when I first got into metal I did oh so love going to the local Berean's (which had a surprisingly GREAT Christian Metal selection - if it was recorded-they had it) and spending hours listening to the demos and looking at all the new and different bands...THAT I loved.....but I was a teen with time....now time is precious and I want to spend more doing other things....

ultmetal wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

I lost quite a few mp3s through a computer crash. So I understand that POV.

I also don't want stacks of hundreds of CDs laying around my house.

Solution: digital downloads w/ regular backups

You mean you don't want your house too look like this?

Ladies and gentlemen, I have been to the Great Wall of China, I have
seen the Pyramids of Egypt, I've even witnessed a grown man satisfy a
camel. But never in all my years as a metalhead have I witnessed
something as improbable, as impossible, as what we've witnessed here
today!

Hey Ult nice Randy Rhoads pic! And nice to see that KISS have their place!

That Randy Rhoads photo was given to me by my friend, who is the photographer, Colleen Bracken. I also have some of her KISS photos from '79 matted and framed on my wall.

ultmetal wrote:

That Randy Rhoads photo was given to me by my friend, who is the photographer, Colleen Bracken. I also have some of her KISS photos from '79 matted and framed on my wall.

Wow...You're lucky! I'm searchin for things with Randy on it but...The only things that I found were in another country so...

ultmetal wrote:

That Randy Rhoads photo was given to me by my friend, who is the photographer, Colleen Bracken. I also have some of her KISS photos from '79 matted and framed on my wall.

Wow...You're lucky! I'm searchin for things with Randy on it but...The only things that I found were in another country so...