Post #3426 by Trader Woody on Mon, Jul 8, 2002 6:12 AM

How I like my music served up in order of preference:

1. Brand new vinyl
2. Second hand vinyl
3. Brand new CD
4. Second hand CD
5. Cassette
6. MP3 files (If that's the only way I'm ever going to hear a track)

I can understand people trying out new stuff by downloading MP3'S, or using them to fill up gaps in collections that are otherwise impossible to fill. ( Note to record companies - release this rare stuff!!).
Downloading a whole readily-available album is just lame.

When buying music, the whole package is important, particularly the artwork. Those Martin Denny albums look pathetic when
reduced to fit the CD size, but having an burned CD of 'Forbidden Island' is even worse. (Even if you download a jpg of the cover).
One of the joys of visting friends houses is to have a good look through their music collection. I'd have more respect for someone with a collection of Rod Stewart & Dire Straits albums on vinyl than someone with a mass of home-burned CD's.

Saying that, I blame the greedy record companies themselves for trying to kill off vinyl, and make themselves a big profit flogging CD's. If they hadn't foisted CD's onto us with such force, we wouldn't be so digitalised. It's not that big a jump from a
soulless little CD to a hard drive full of digital sound files.

Trader Woody