On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Lee Elliott wrote: > > > > How many people do you know who've lost music collections in fires and > > earthquakes? How many people do you know who've lost music collections on > > hard drives? > > > > I'll take my chances with the fires and earthquakes, thank you very much. > > There's a greater chance I'll still have my music collection in 5 years > if > > they're NOT on hard drives. > > > > Like many - I've ripped my music for the convenience. I don't actually > throw the cds in the garbage after ripping. So the only thing I'd be > losing > is my labour - which was enough to be worth $150 for a backup. > > Lee > I'm cool with that -- but one of my closest friends recently got rid of all his vinyl and CDs after having digitized all the latter. (I don't think he'd had anything on vinyl he either didn't also have on CD or hadn't been able to find on the Internet.) He did make enough selling his stuff to be able to buy a new HDTV, but man, I couldn't have done that. People are doing this all over the place... -- Benjamin D. Lukoff ÷ lukoff@gmail.com profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukoff | blog: http://www.examiner.com/x-479-Seattle-History-Examiner | articles: http://crosscut.com/account/BenjaminSPACELukoff/ | photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukobe/