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| From | matty karas <mkaras@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: RIP CD |
| Date | Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:43:07 -0500 |
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>Someone recently posted their misgivings about the trend towards music
>existing primarily as digital files, and the impending death of the CD. I
>would also be quite sad to see the hard copy give way to soft ware. I guess
>most of us are first and foremost Music Collectors, whereas most people
>these days are first and foremost Music Consumers.
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i'm not quite sure i follow your logic here. it seems to me that the
need to buy cds is the consumerist impulse. being happy just to have the
music as a digital file makes you simply a music fan in my book. which i
think is a good thing.
a lot of my recent favorite records are ones that i found first as
digital files: the singles that were eventually collected on norwegian
dance-pop singer annie's amazing "anniemal," mia/diplo's "piracy funds
terrorism," gwen stefani's "love. angel. music. baby.," sharon jones and
the dap-kings' "naturally." i eventually got most of 'em on cd because,
well, i've got a consumerist/collector impulse myself. i didn't get the
mia/diplo record on cd 'cause it doesn't exist in that format, at least
not legally, and frankly i can't tell the difference. i've still got the
music and it still makes he happy and i can still dance to it.
m@tty
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