How much physical music (CDs, vinyl, minidiscs, cases ingles, whatever) have you bought so far this year?

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

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 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 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