quisquose Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 I have gone back to vinyl having treated myself to a Rega turntable for my birthday last June. I've as good as finished with compressed, squashed, lifeless, binary (signal, no signal) sound. Sure, iTunes is handy for seeking out that obscure track and is cheap. But get yourself a nice turntable, amp and spend as much as you can on a pair of speakers. Instead of seeing music as something you take with you, look at it instead as something to come home to: kick off your shoes, grab a can and put the vinyl on the platter! Who owns the music? Who cares so long as I have my vinyl!! We must be separated at birth. Rega Planar III + Arcam Amp + AE1 Speakers = Lovely The only things that I download are podcasts, and coincidentally one I was listening to the other day was a documentary about Viv Stanshall narrated by Stephen Fry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo77 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 yeah! annoying. what's your band doing these days. I stopped playing in bands a while ago now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo77 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 You own the physical CD or Vinyl, but you dont own the recordings on them and are restricted in what you can do with them. I can sell or pass on my vinyl and CD collection though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAxe Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 The entertainment industry is greedy, what else is new? I'll stick to torrents (where flac is king). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo77 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 The entertainment industry is greedy, what else is new? I'll stick to torrents (where flac is king). The music business may be greedy, but the artists that play and write the music deserve their money. Especially the young, up and coming acts that don't have million pound contracts to promote them. I hope your computer doesn't get infected with child porn and you get sent to prison.....and raped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAxe Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 The music business may be greedy, but the artists that play and write the music deserve their money. Especially the young, up and coming acts that don't have million pound contracts to promote them. I hope your computer doesn't get infected with child porn and you get sent to prison.....and raped! Nowt like taking things to the extreme is there? please behave yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul2412 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Think again! That is, if your music has been downloaded from iTunes. I only discovered this after reading the story about Bruce Willis wanting to pass on his iTunes collection to his children after he dies. Apparently, the small print states, that you are only loaning the music from iTunes and once you pass away, your collection passes back to Apple! Also, something else that I didn't know, Apple can freeze or cancel your account if they suspect that you are sharing your MP3 files, even with friends or family......and the best bit, they can close your account if they find out that you are putting the MP3 files on any other device, other than an iPod. Personally, I prefer owning a hard copy of the CD or vinyl, then at least I know it belongs to me! Yet another bit of proof that whoever buys Apple products are basically just fools who buy something because someone else says it's cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAxe Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Yet another bit of proof that whoever buys Apple products are basically just fools who buy something because someone else says it's cool. Hipsters is the word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamatron Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Yet another bit of proof that whoever buys Apple products are basically just fools who buy something because someone else says it's cool. I just go for a product that lasts a helluva lot longer than its windows counterpart! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psalm8318 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 ah vinyl ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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