I just went to Best Buy this evening and sometime in the last couple of months, they dropped the price of almost every CD to $9.99. I would have thought there would have been a bigger announcement of this. I got the Broadway shows I am missing from my collection (although they did not have Xanadu which I am dying to get and see how this truly awful '80s movie was transformed into a Tony nominated musical). Guess they are feeling the heat from online music sales and lowering prices to compete.
Yeah, as tech geeky as I am, I still buy the CDs. I can rip them and put them on my mp3 player. MP3s are not a lossless format and I still can tell the a certain lack of "pop" in their sound when you get them from iTunes or Amazon.
So audiophile trumps tech geek in this case.
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That's a good deal. As soon as I get I some extra cash, I'm going to buy CD's from Back Door Slam,A Perfect Circle,and Heaven and Hell.
I may be old fashioned in a sence,I don't own any I-pods or mp3's. I collect music,therefore,I prefer to listen to music as a "whole album". A song here and a song there doesn't give me a good
perpective to what a band is all about.
I agree drew, there is something about the continuity of listening to it in the order it is presented on the cd. There are very few albums/cds that are good enough to enjoy them in totality though.
Hey, I don't mind sharing the APC that I have. Drew, one is sitting here with your name on it, in fact. I'm listening to some Muse right now that you might like too.
I love my little mp3. Best investment I've made in awhile. Being able to drag and drop my music and make it portable is way too cool.
The price on the cassette tapes must have gone down as well. With that kind of bargain is probably the reason I can't find them on the shelves.
I have an audiophile buddy in Milwaukee who says that digital music lacks the "warmth" of vinyl.
And movies lack the warmth of cave drawings, too.
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