only ever really bought one thing via mp3 route.
that was the freelance hellraiser/paul maccartney collab as i didn't wanto to break the seal on the vinyl i had, and there was never a cd copy pressed up (despite the ebay bootlegs - there was never an official cd release). so, other than - nah .. i dont buy mp3s.
in fact, i'm with the fuck 128s brigade.
i cant abide 128s. anything less than 160 and its just painful to listen to ..
and no, i'm not a sad cabling audiophile, but someone who likes some whomph, and fizz in the sonics on my normal mid-range system.
studio bods spend hours making a sound rumble, the least we can do, is give the music a chance to represent the musicians desire, and 128s just kill that whole process dead.
also regarding that brilliant thread re the decline of the industry, while i have no real sympathy with majors, i do go along with the whole collector scum aspect of music.
i like a label to have an identity, i like to subscribe to the labels belief system, and trust their judgements in their releases, so to see the labels suffer as so many are doing now, is quite a tragedy in my opinion and not something to be gloated over.
there are some serious lovers of music running small, well known labels really struggling (no names - and not really dissensus related ), and i think this can only be a bad thing, as so many artists need the label to perform the day-to-day action of getting the music out there. so many musicians just aint into that aspect, they jsut want to make music, and let others perform the business slog.
enough rambling, and back to lurking ..
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