How much physical music have you been sent as a music writer, Lex, out of interest? Or is it all downloads and streams now?
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 07:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
Too much physical. I try to deter that wherever possible but it seems that major labels still believe in concepts like the promo cd single, if not in any form of promo album to reach you before your deadline
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 07:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
I've bought more cds than usual this year, probably close to 40. New and old. Partially because I have been having similar sobering realizations about musicians' incomes to those which Nitsuh's piece so effectively evokes. Partially because they are easier to listen to in my car than other media, despite it having a sort of clunky iPod integration attempt. And I guess partially so they can sit around in my house or car and people can notice them in addition to whatever's currently playing.
At home I use Spotify pretty much 24/7 to listen to a little of anything, everything + I try to buy most of the things that I find myself listening to over and over. Maybe if rather than 6mil people on Spotify there were somehow 600m it could (in a perfect world?) be a legit revenue stream for artists. But I guess it's more likely that would just result in Daniel Ek moving 100 positions up on the millionaires list.
Maybe Youtube digital-tip-jar-button is the only pseudo-viable future for music at this point.
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 07:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
I've bought a handful of used records this year. The last time I bought a CD was 2008.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 07:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
Should used vinyl be counted in the poll? I've bought a fair amount, mostly priced very low.
Bought a few CDs, mostly as gifts, but occasionally for myself, usually limited to stuff with elaborate packaging. Also some new vinyl like Record Store Day exclusives. Mostly though it's downloads, or increasingly streaming. I'm planning to replace my iPod Touch + cheap dumbphone duo with a iPhone largely so I can stream music in the car, subway, or when walking. Doing so will double my monthly phone bill though.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 07:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
Let's not count used purchases - as this was inspired by musician's income that seems counter-productive.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
Around 60 albums on CD, all new releases or compilations, almost all previewed on Spotify before purchase. On the rare occasions when I've bought an album unheard, it's mostly turned out to be a bad bet. (Six Cups of Rebel, I'm looking at YOU.) I mostly buy from Fopp, only from Amazon when I have to. Some purchases from an independent store in Leeds, some at gigs, including a few singles and EPs. Vinyl: I had a Record Store Day splurge at our local vinyl-only indie store, because it's run as a social enterprise and I wanted to show support. Curiously, I made several blind purchases on vinyl that turned out very well indeed, most notably the Personal Space electronic soul comp.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
Sadly there's literally only HMV, an Oxfam specialising in msuic, film, and books, and a solitary independent / second-hand shop catering exclusively for Mojo readers left in Exeter now.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think I've bought about 15 CDs at 10 12"s from MVE this year. Nothing remotely new either. I'm having a weird year with muisc; even though I work 55-60 hours a week in shops that let me play whatever I want, most of the time I'm spinning the same few podcasts/albums, despite this being a year when I could, if I could be bothered, really indulge in hearing as much new stuff/doing as much cratedigging as possible. And aisde from the stuff I've had to review, I don't think I could name you more than five albums I'd actually want to listen to from this year right now.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
so, if its allowed, can we have a very brief thread-detour where you tell me what I should be listening to from this year now that I'm at work. Will listen to whatever the first suggestion is. And reeprt back.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
Swans.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
To test out if you really can play ANYTHING.
Haha, that's one of the ones I've already played down here - turned out that my boss used to be a big fan of them!
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
Probably only bought about 10 or so new releases on CD so far. Kind of low really, normally I buy around 30-40 new albums a year but I think I also buy more stuff towards the end of the year when I accept that some things will never be up on Spotify or eMusic or whatever so I just buy it on CD unheard. I have bought a fair wodge of back catalogue and reissues though, plus a shitload of digital too.
― DJ Mooncup (NickB), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
New CD and vinyl, 100+.
Hazard of working in a record store.
― Five Phoenix Combined Shouting Tortoise Resting Method (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
Somewhere between 40-50 CD albums, all from 2012. Most I listened to on Spotify first unless they were follow-ups to albums I loved or Spotify wasn't an option. I probably buy about 1/4 of the new albums I listen to on Spotify. If I don't like them enough to buy I'll listen only once or twice.
― if, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
A conservative 7-10, but that includes a spree in which certain items were heavily reduced. The nearest record shop to me is a town away. I went there on Friday to watch Last Shop Standing and the author gave a talk http://lastshopstanding.com/. It was fairly interesting, and I was moved into making a point of shopping from independent outlets in future if I can. I'm starting to believe that the death of the physical format is quite a dangerous thing because it means the death of the record shop. Whilst researching a piece about my local music scene, it became apparent how important record shops were in their day; not just as outlets but communal hubs. Much of the early rave scene was organised through a network of record shops in and around the Home Counties. Two Bad Mice and Omni Trio produced their biggest tracks in the backroom of a now defunct dance specialist in Hitchin. They were also places where kids would go in their lunch hour to spend pocket money, pick up flyers and hear new tunes.
And yeah, now we have the internet and YouTube and stuff, but a thousand kids sat behind a thousand computer screens isn't the same as a chance encounter in a record store. Purchasing music online is very different from in a shop - there's less chance of buying something "on a whim" for a start, but really it's the communal aspect that concerns me more. Instead of going to your mate's from the shop with a record or CD in your bag you can't wait to show them. When people come over to listen to music, suddenly there's no album cover to skin up on and look at. Music listening has become very insular - suddenly everyone's listening to their own thing on their own iPod with its hegemonic list of artists and albums. The sharing aspect, the whole "hey man what's this, can we listen to it?" factor only exists through Spotify playlists. Many are going to argue and say I'm being a luddite about it - I do love digital, I love having my record collection in one contained space - but I also miss flicking through CD racks looking for something interesting to listen to, or marvelling at weird and wonderful things on other people's shelves, or reading an inlay cover, or looking at an awesome album cover, or bonding with someone in a record shop who just bought your favourite album. This is an essential part of being a music fan, for me and many other people, and if we lose that I think a younger generation will grow up wondering why their parents used to put so much value on listening to music.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
My problem with buying CDs these days is that I tend to take it home, rip it and then plonk it on a shelf where it gathers dust, taking up space and never getting played. Think I'm going to switch to buying a vinyl record with download included at least once a month.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
I haven't bought physical music product since mid-2007. I buy quite a bit of music via amazon mp3 or itunes. not sure how much off the top of my head.
― how's life, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
I've had all the arguments and discussions and understand thoroughly all the plus points and so on and so forth and it still absolutely baffles me that people who are big music geeks can have not bought a phsyical music product in YEARS. I just can't ever imagine not doing it.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
I've been on a panel with Graham Jones, author of Last Shop Standing. Enormously likeable guy. DL, I can tell that you've fallen under his influence - but he's such a dedicated and passionate advocate of independent record stores, that it's impossible not to!
I almost never buy digital, by the way. Only as a last resort.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
Like yesterday I cycled to physio first thing and made a 10-minute detour via HMV so I could pick up the Flying Lotus CD. Today I had Swans and Janelle Monae CDs arrive from Amazon. On Sunday I pre-ordered the Daphni CD.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
(the Daphni record is SO good btw)
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
I buy the odd track digitally (generally b-sides, old singles, one-off tracks I want where I'm not interested in the whole album), or maybe a whole EP if I can't get it on CD - Owen Pallett, Antlers. Moving house might encourage more vinyl-buying as we'll be able to keep it in the same room as the record player, thus it might get used. I occasionally download an album nefariously, but 80% of the time I'll then buy it on CD too.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
moving house is what completely killed any desire on my part to own physical music again. my dislike of physical objects grows immensely every time i do it.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
I guess moving often would be a complete hassle, but we've been in the current place for 5 years, and anticipate being in the next for 7+.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
I haven't even owned a CD player other than my laptop's disc drive in a couple of years. After my whole CD collection got stolen a few years ago, I decided I was done with the format.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
If I did buy CDs, I'd really have no use for them other than ripping them to mp3 anyway.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
moved house at the weekend and tho my new place is great i am in full agreement with lex, must rip and discard my cds, if only i cd happily do the same thing with books
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
I've bought at least one item a week on average, mostly CDs but some vinyl, a mixture of new and second hand. The majority of the "new" items will be reissues and compilations. When I have more time I will aim to estimate the total number so I can do the poll.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
I do question why I continue buying CDs, as even after I've bought them, I'm still more likely to use Spotify for listening to them. (Through the iPhone app and into a DAC via Bluetooth - sound quality is every bit as good as CD.) CDs don't scrobble, that's their problem. Reasons why I continue: 1) no digital music in the car, 2) residual product fetishism, 3) residual "collector" mentality, 4) offline backup, 5) digital purchases still don't feel fully "owned", 6) adequate recompense to the artist. Of these, 6) is the clincher.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 09:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
moving house is what completely killed any desire on my part to own physical music again. my dislike of physical objects grows immensely every time i do it.― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:37 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:37 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, it got to the point where I realised I had an entire wall of music in variously sized units that was just taking up room. When it came to moving there was literally no way of housing them comfortably in the new place (and besides my cuntflap housemates of the time had taken to using my CD inlays as speed-wraps. I could KILL!) Many of the CDs were rips or secondhand things so the resell value wouldn't have outweighed the time and cost of selling them online, so I picked the ones that were important to me, phoned friends and told them to take however many they wanted. I rarely feel as though this was a bad idea as at least I know they've gone on to happy homes.
The remainder of my CD collection (which is still fairly big by most people's standards) currently sits behind a sofa in the spare room. Still, I sometimes glance at it and my eye picks out the spine of an album - usually one I'd just forgotten to play in a long time as it's squirrelled away in the depths of my hard drive - and I think to myself "I should give that another spin some time soon". This is testament to the physical format really. I have so much digital music now that my brain is ultimately accustomed to seeing certain folders in certain places and therefore skips and neglects them. So I always just scroll past, say, the Smashing Pumpkins folder, never thinking about whether or not I'd like to play anything from them. I forget that I used to really enjoy tracks off of Mellon Collie and how jarring I found it when they released Adore. Their entire career is reduced to a folder on my hard drive labelled "smashing pumpkins" and so I scroll through.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'm intrigued, Mike, by your mention of that fact that "CDs don't scrobble"; why is being able to scrobble important to you? (And is scrobble in the OED yet? It should be.)
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah he seemed like a really nice bloke. He did a Q&A along with the shop staff which ended up getting kind of heated! Think the bit that affected me most was how at the end he explained that two of the shops in the documentary had had to close down since it was filmed, and that one of the owners was now living with his sister having lost his entire livelihood.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
I dread to think, but it's probably close to, if not over 100 records. I'm actually trying to cut down the size of my collection, not expand it so I'm not really sure how it happened. A couple of times I sorted though cheap bins and bought about 20 for a pound or so which has pushed it up and most of those have been gambles which haven't made the cut.
I've probably sold 40-50 old records on Discogs this year too.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
iPhone doesn't scrobble either these days. At least mine hasn't for at least a year. I do like Last.FM but it has so many flaws that it doesn't work as well as it should. It would be great to make it that bit less buggy and more communal.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
Right, read the thread properly now, I'd say new or reissues, I've bought maybe 30 12" singles and around 5-10 lps. A few of those may have been bootlegs though, or at the very least sketchy licensing so the money may not have ended up in the artists pocket.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
Think I've probably bought about 30 albums this year which is less than usual as we moved house and I was trying to cut down a bit.
Of those 30, I estimate at least half still have their cellophane wrappers on as they were albums I'd already downloaded when they leaked.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
Why is being able to scrobble important to you?
I like having a record of what I've listened to, and how often. Mmm, stats. I particularly like having rolling "most played tracks over past 3/6/12 months" counts.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
I hate stats.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
If Scrobble actually worked properly for me it'd be great for EOY lists
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
I play albums on CD in my CD player and also play them (silently) on Spotify so that they scrobble. Also that way I'm contributing the tiny amount of money on top of whatever they got from my CD purchase.
― if, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
22 new albums including two boxed sets - nearly all CDs, the only records I've bought new this year have been reissues of older stuff. I prefer buying vinyl but new releases can be too pricey a lot of the time.
It'd be 100+ if we were counting secondhand purchases, I've bought a lot of cheap old stuff on both CD and vinyl.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
I've pretty much given up with EOY singles / tracks lists, as who knows what's actually a single anymore, and they'd be a zillion songs long.
As for EOY albums, I keep all new purchases separate from the rest of the collection, as a very visual reminder / guide to what I've bought this year (both new stuff and back catalogue). I filter everything into the stacks on New Years Day; done this for a few years now, and much prefer it to keeping a list anywhere or trying to remember by going through everything. Also gives me a default 'what to listen to niow' pile for when I'm feeling indecisive.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
My digital collection gets a new folder every time I buy a bigger hard drive. I'm not sure what the logic to doing this is, other than it categorises it into new/old/very old. This does stop me going back and listening to stuff from a few years ago though, and I've found that the time I take listening to new music now far outweighs older stuff whereas before it would have been split pretty evenly.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
I play albums on CD in my CD player and also play them (silently) on Spotify so that they scrobble.
I have been known to do this, yes. Ahem.
In place of a physical listening pile, I have a "favourite 2012 albums" Spotify playlist and a matching spreadsheet, held on Dropbox and permanently open on the laptop. Neither distinguishes between owned and unowned. (Well, OK, there's colour coding on the spreadsheet. Let's not delve too deeply into my mania.) I do miss the visual artwork cues, but it's a more level playing field.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
There's one additional bit of insanity which MUST STOP: ripping purchased CDs to iTunes, when they're already on Spotify. An utterly pointless waste of time and disk space.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
Isn't Spotify streaming lower quality than CD rip?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
Depends how you rip your CDs.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
xps I guess you get better quality from a rip unless you have Spotify Premium.
― fish frosch (seandalai), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
yep, enabling musicians to make a living and pay back the costs of recording is a waste of money. fuck those guys.
― fistula-la-la (sic), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
I just buy new because people get their germs inside the case, so gross
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
hah i forgot about buying music straight from bands at shows. those def aren't used.. my mistake
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
I buy a lotta new stuff that is limited, I'm not likely to ever see it used for less.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
i've bought 7 - 10 new albums this year. i've listened to a lot more, and like a few a lot that i've still yet to buy, and might not. i try to always buy new records that i love but sometimes they are inexplicably really expensive here (new ariel pink is like over 30 bucks, hesitant to pay that even though i think it's really dope) and sometimes they are not available. i buy used records all the time, no idea how many, about 1 - 2 per week, so like 50? accidentally voted 7-10 but that's not including used so my real answer is more like 40 - 60, which seems like a lot. i'm pretty poor most of the time so i guess i buy a lot of cheap used records. since starting a regular dj night i've had to buy music way more often cause i keep running out of things to play, or getting bored of my collection, it's a lot of fun. i like the experience of looking at different records, making a stack, picking which one you're going to buy, random picks. the record store i usually goto has a listening station so you can just listen to like 15 disco singles and buy the good ones
― flopson, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
i had to laugh though, i was expecting a traverse thru this byzantine undie netherworld and then everything's freely online, takes 20 minutes a piece to listen to, diligently blogged, physical easily obtained if you're quick enough... absolute piece of piss. try having to dig for some proper music sometime you lazy posers :)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 4 October 2012 07:24 (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(one of the bits i purchased was the crazy spirit lp so much obliged hat tip to you and flops btw)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 4 October 2012 07:25 (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol glad you liked it
― flopson, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
Bought around 25 CDs this week, a total of around 30 for the year. I usually only buy records when i'm overseas.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 03:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
i went with 20-40, the bulk direct from bands at shows or from experimedia.
hoping to catch up on stuff i've loved this year soon, though, so that number should grow.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://piratespressrecords.com/rancid/
myself and everyone itt who said that owning music in physical form was a worthwhile exercise just want to apologise, we were wrong and are also directly responsible for this
― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 09:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
Jesus that sounds awful, and I'm even a guy who enjoys a handful of Rancid's albums. It sounds terrible to listen to an entire band's discography by flipping over a 7" every fucking song.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol mencap
― flopson, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
58 journalists who get freebies or 58 people who only download for free?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
I got my quarterly money yesterday and went mental buying 14 records, I think I need to knock myself up a notch.
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
xp: I think it's people who only listen to performer-approved live recordings on archive.org live music archive.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 01:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
rip cases ingles :(
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 01:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
I voted zero. I do pay for digital releases though. I just don't like physical objects. They take up too much space.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 01:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
on a positive note looks like 2/3's of the people who voted bought stuff
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 04:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
voted 0 /= didn't buy music
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 04:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
i mean bought physical tangible stuff
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 04:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
That's just over 200 votes, which is pretty impressive.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 05:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
That result is predictably saddening for me. I know that out of all my serious music loving friends there's only 2 of us who routinely buy music anymore.
― Internet Alan, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 08:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
Hands up if anyone actually bought a pre-recorded Minidisc. Can you even do that nowadays? Who would even do such a thing?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 08:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
Gescom released an MD-only release, but that was over ten years ago now. I used to love MD when I had one - really good for making mixtapes and really easy to use. Are tapes ever released on a commercial level (as opposed to tiny homemade labels)?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 08:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
they were great in fairness. another victim of so-called "progress".
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 08:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
dj derek still uses 2 minidisc players for his sets ...
― mark e, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
I loved minidisc as a recording format but never bought a pre-recorded one. Remember seeing a tiny rack of pre-recorded ones in Northampton HMV or Virgin circa 1999.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
i have the Gescom MD (which is no longer MD-only - http://boomkat.com/cds/24705-gescom-minidisc / http://boomkat.com/downloads/42999-gescom-mini-disc ). it's the only pre-recorded one i have.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
1928 minidiscs listed on amazon, some bargains, some collectors prices.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_hi_2?rh=n%3A229816%2Cp_n_binding_browse-bin%3A382531011&bbn=229816&ie=UTF8&qid=1349862530
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
re: gescom, does it actually work? I mean, does it work as a continuous random mix or what?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah, minidisc was designed to be gapless and survive jostles by buffering the audio slightly beforehand. you could hear it seeking to read the next track a good 5 seconds or so before the current one ended
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
as for working artistically, i'm not so sure. some things were seconds long, a couple were a minute or two (88 tracks, 74 minutes) and a range of styles and it's hard to get such disparate things to sounds like a whole.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
Encouraging results, humanity is evolving
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
I was given the new David Byrne and St. Vincent on LP for my birthday this weekend, and also picked up John Maus's last one, which I'd heard before but somehow sounds really good on vinyl.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
Hands up if anyone actually bought a pre-recorded Minidisc. Can you even do that nowadays? Who would even do such a thing?they were great in fairness. another victim of so-called "progress".― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 08:56 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 08:56 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup. Amongst other albums on Minidisc I bought at the time, I do owns a copy of Kevin Rowland's "My Beauty".
You can now, but only on ebay.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think there are literally only about three people in the country who own that particular album on that format. And Kevin Rowland isn't one of them.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
Neither is Alan Mcgee.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
AmG sold most of his 'collection' at auction recently.
A load of Creation albums were on MD (I have a couple of Boo Radley ones too), I believe it to be because of the Sony link.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
Argh! forgot to vote. Mm, would have been the 40-60 bracket, I suppose.
― t**t, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yup. Amongst other albums on Minidisc I bought at the time, I do owns a copy of Kevin Rowland's "My Beauty".You can now, but only on ebay.― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:40 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI think there are literally only about three people in the country who own that particular album on that format. And Kevin Rowland isn't one of them.― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:44 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:40 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:44 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah WTF, that might actually be worth something now that Dexy's have reformed. Sell it quick before everyone realises the new album is dull as a bruise to the arm.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
new album is awesome
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
Didn't see this to vote.
I guess about 300 used LPs, maybe 20 new ones, and the same amount of singles. A few freebie CDs. No non-physical purchases and a few downloads for work purposes.
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
Gescom released an MD-only release, but that was over ten years ago now. I used to love MD when I had one - really good for making mixtapes and really easy to use.
Yup, I really loved having my MD recorder to make mixes, especially for parties. Just pop in a new MD when needed. The only commerical album I bought on MD was Rage Against the Machine's Evil Empire, I bought it when I bought my MD player/recorder and it was the only one the store had in its limited selection that was even close to be interesting to me.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:24 (8 months ago) Permalink