Leo
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Upon reading Woebot's post (http://www.woebot.com/2016/05/more-thoughts-on-vinyl.html and this Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/music/co...5/selling-cds-spotify-digital-music-streaming article), I'm prompted to come out of the closet and proclaim my enjoyment of CDs.
I've felt like an outcast the past few years with the boom in streaming and vinyl resurgence, but there are practical reasons for still liking CDs:
- I don't want to get up and flip double-LP albums three times to hear a complete album (after paying $30 for said double-LP).
- I especially don't want to hear a chopped up version of album-length compositions by artists like the Necks or Harold Budd.
- There are too many shitty pressings on those overpriced vinyl albums.
- Can't play vinyl in a car or pop it onto my iPhone (and even if you go through the bother of ripping from vinyl, it never really sounds that great).
- I've got what I imagine is early-stage tinnitus, so the purported sound superiority of vinyl is lost on me.
- I don't want to lose music when an artist decides to pull their catalog off Spotify, etc.
- I want to be able to listen to music even if my internet connection goes dead.
- And the cycle of used music formats is making it a good time to pick up cheap used CDs.
I feel liberated. I can say it. I like CDs.
I've felt like an outcast the past few years with the boom in streaming and vinyl resurgence, but there are practical reasons for still liking CDs:
- I don't want to get up and flip double-LP albums three times to hear a complete album (after paying $30 for said double-LP).
- I especially don't want to hear a chopped up version of album-length compositions by artists like the Necks or Harold Budd.
- There are too many shitty pressings on those overpriced vinyl albums.
- Can't play vinyl in a car or pop it onto my iPhone (and even if you go through the bother of ripping from vinyl, it never really sounds that great).
- I've got what I imagine is early-stage tinnitus, so the purported sound superiority of vinyl is lost on me.
- I don't want to lose music when an artist decides to pull their catalog off Spotify, etc.
- I want to be able to listen to music even if my internet connection goes dead.
- And the cycle of used music formats is making it a good time to pick up cheap used CDs.
I feel liberated. I can say it. I like CDs.
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