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Re: Why CDs are Still Important

atane — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:52:51 -0000

Rocko, I don't see direct downloads happening in the foreseeable future.

With regards to concerts, we have a youtube channel that we use to upload live performances so people can view them for free!

Check out our youtube channels.

http://www.youtube.com/user/RNYK

http://www.youtube.com/user/JRComputerWorld

Re: Why CDs are Still Important

Rocko — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:52:39 -0000

I wish I had written this as a response for your "For Love of Vinyl" column. Brief and to the point.

I do have a question, maybe you can't answer it but you're probably closer to the answer than I am. Does J and R ever plan on selling downloadable digital files (either audio or video) ? And I'm not speaking only of recorded music but also of the concerts that they sponsor.

Re: Why CDs are Still Important

p0ps — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:24:23 -0000

Doree,
Your appreciation is so vivid, I love the idea of a variety of formats for the music we love. A variety of playback possibilities and situations for listening. Music can be more a part of our lives than ever before. It's all good. I like getting CDs, but I listen to the music thru lossless rips, both at home and mobile on my iPhone. With my decent Ultimate Ears buds I'm hearing my favorite music mobile better than I've heard it before.
So, what I'm saying is I like your passion, but I don't agree that mobile listening necessarily is tinny. And all formats have their place - the music lives.

Re: Why CDs are Still Important

Doree McNulty — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:10:59 -0000

Good Morning.

I ,too, am a vinyl enthusiast, however I do spend time listening/ripping/burning cd's for myself and others. You brought me back to 1983-1985 or thereabout, when I first discovered CD's. It was like discovering a new band, or even like buying your first 45" at the music store or dime store.

Although I have moved into placing songs on my portable listening device, I still enjoy CD's. My most recent religious experience with a new CD involves Metallica's DEATH MAGNETIC. I plan to buy it on vinyl (like the geek I am), but the CD experience is powerful to say the very least with this album. Hetfield's still-angry vocals ring through my CD player in digital rage, bringing this woman to her metal stance throughout the CD. I cannot imagine being on the Subway rockin' out listening to my MP3 player. The sound is so tinny, and the audience is already unstable enough, without my adding to it with devil horns a la Ronnie James Dio.

Thank you!

Doree