Post #19325 by Swanky on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 2:57 PM

When you are talking about trading a record recorded to CD for the same, that's one thing. A CD copied to CD is another. What I have for trade is the former. A record that was sold 30-50 years ago, resold at least once, out of print 30-50 years ago. Not available easily much of anywhere, shared with people who have similar recordings for offer.

In these terms, swapping is the way to go. There is not a new recording to be had that the record company is goign to get any revenue from. So it's not possible that they are losing any money.

And if they want to say that perhaps this is eating into sales of a re-release, I would say it is creating a market for that re-release that may not have even existed or was smaller.

Saying that... I have recorded the beginning tracks of "South Sea Island Magic" and burned a CD of it. I think there is enough on my hard drive to maybe do 1/2 of a second 80 minute CD, maybe much more. Pele, you might want to avoid that huge expenditure of time and let me send you these CDs. The sound may change between your system and mine and be annoying though. Who knows.