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Yes, since march 1988 I buy, borrow (sometimes) and listen to music CDs. Together with my wife we have more than 2500 CDs. Mostly classical from medieval, renaissance to romantic era and 20th century and modern. Some jazz-CD. And a few hundreds of pop, a big part of it is hardrock / metal. Of course we look and listen to YouTube sometimes, out of curiosity mostly. But when we are really interested, we just buy the CDs. My favourite CD-stores have passed away unfortunately. Online purchase is still possible and a very good and old pop music store (Pop Eye) is still around in Hengelo (Overijssel, Netherlands), and one of the best in the country (as far as I know). Since 2009 I have a very fine iPod Classical with more than 100 GB so I always convert my music CDs to MP3 320 bps. I can listen my music CDs on travel, on the bicycle, in the garden at home. And of course when I'm at home on my HiFi stereo (Van Medevoort equipment and self-built loudspeakers) when I like to have a really good listening-experience. I hope there will be CDs for ever, at least as long as I live.
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For me, it really depends on what the music is, where I am getting it, age of the album, etc.
There is a ton of music out there, at least for my tastes, which was never re-released to CD - or even cassette tape - never mind online. That stuff, you can only get the physical form.
Sometimes, I will download a track or album from youtube, then later buy the CD from the artist to support them. I enjoy getting the liner notes, the physical media, and the knowledge that if for some reason google play or whatnot goes away (never say never - I've seen tons of companies just disappear that had been around for over 100 years - remember Montgomery Wards?), I still have the data.
My favorite way, though, to get music, is via Amazon - in more than one case, I can grab the CD, and also get a digital DRM-free MP3 download of the album, and also listen to it on their cloud music service. Not all titles are available this way, but many are.
I also like buying and getting music off bandcamp - 100% digital, but I always try to get the data - then that gets backed up to my fileserver and a separate external drive. I always try to support the artists there, but I also love it when they give out freebies and name-your-price. If I can afford it, I pay - if not, then I try to make it up later. There's been times when I purchased the digital and the physical album from them (one time, I got floppies of the MP3s! That was a promo). I like the fact, also, that the MP3 files come as a ZIP, sometimes with extras inside (and always a graphic "cover" image - great for many purposes). Bandcamp also allows you to re-download the files if you want a higher-res (audio-wise) of the file (lossless FLAC, etc) - but I don't have the space (or really, given my age, the ears) to bother with that, so a standard MP3 at 320VB or whatever is perfectly fine for me.
But I also like browsing old CDs and LPs at Goodwill and resale music stores - there's tons of great stuff there to be found. Sometimes the CDs will be scratched, but if it is in really bad shape, a run through my CD polisher device will fix most anything. For the records, I have a turntable that can play and dump an MP3 via USB.
Ultimately, all of my music ends up as a digital file in some manner - but I do like physical media. I even have a few stereo tape reels from my father (RIP) who collected such back in the 60s; unfortunately, I don't have a player that works to play them (though I do have his old player - but it needs to be fixed).
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For me, it really depends on what the music is, where I am getting it, age of the album, etc.
There is a ton of music out there, at least for my tastes, which was never re-released to CD - or even cassette tape - never mind online. That stuff, you can only get the physical form.
Sometimes, I will download a track or album from youtube, then later buy the CD from the artist to support them. I enjoy getting the liner notes, the physical media, and the knowledge that if for some reason google play or whatnot goes away (never say never - I've seen tons of companies just disappear that had been around for over 100 years - remember Montgomery Wards?), I still have the data.
My favorite way, though, to get music, is via Amazon - in more than one case, I can grab the CD, and also get a digital DRM-free MP3 download of the album, and also listen to it on their cloud music service. Not all titles are available this way, but many are.
I also like buying and getting music off bandcamp - 100% digital, but I always try to get the data - then that gets backed up to my fileserver and a separate external drive. I always try to support the artists there, but I also love it when they give out freebies and name-your-price. If I can afford it, I pay - if not, then I try to make it up later. There's been times when I purchased the digital and the physical album from them (one time, I got floppies of the MP3s! That was a promo). I like the fact, also, that the MP3 files come as a ZIP, sometimes with extras inside (and always a graphic "cover" image - great for many purposes). Bandcamp also allows you to re-download the files if you want a higher-res (audio-wise) of the file (lossless FLAC, etc) - but I don't have the space (or really, given my age, the ears) to bother with that, so a standard MP3 at 320VB or whatever is perfectly fine for me.
But I also like browsing old CDs and LPs at Goodwill and resale music stores - there's tons of great stuff there to be found. Sometimes the CDs will be scratched, but if it is in really bad shape, a run through my CD polisher device will fix most anything. For the records, I have a turntable that can play and dump an MP3 via USB.
Ultimately, all of my music ends up as a digital file in some manner - but I do like physical media. I even have a few stereo tape reels from my father (RIP) who collected such back in the 60s; unfortunately, I don't have a player that works to play them (though I do have his old player - but it needs to be fixed).
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No. don't really get / enjoy their music
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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A quick listen to them tell me that I will not see them.
Not my type of music.
But, hey, good for you if you see them, enjoy the show.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Nah. There ain't no party like an S-Club party!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Do mythical beasts like to be the centaur of attention?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There you go horsing around again.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Na, he just likes to peg a sus
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Oh Griff, please stop trolling!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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My hippogriff would beg to differ
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hmmm? Give me a minotaur think about it.
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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a minotaur two to think about it.
FTFY : )
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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You been smokin' that Kraken again?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So damn unreliable. I expected another Star Wars thing, today, and damn it, I'm going to give my reply anyway.
Is enjoying the taste of a small snack a light savor?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Last week was Star Wars Week (May The Forth Be With You) - this week is Satyr Wars!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Still Kraken jokes? You can attempt to keep your sanity argonauts - that's up to you.
Or are you Griffin' the us?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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They are not mythical beasts.
A mixture of demonic apparitions
And children from women and demons (genesis 6:2)
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Er, yeah.
backs away slowly, whistling quietly under his breath
Software Zen: delete this;
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Human genes were more perfect when the earth was protected from radiation by the water canopy before the flood.
Seems this allowed them to mix with demons as genesis states, and produce ape hybrid offspring that are attributed to evolution
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Those darned demons have all the fun.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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to the same extent Oedipus likes his mother!
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Well that Polyphemus was on "Blind Date" with Scylla so ...
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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