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[challenge entry] Woof!

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(I helped save b3ta! Ian Woosnam, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:47, archived)
# Pfft! Record shop....
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:48, archived)
# our HMV closed recently with no warning
now where am I going to get a very small selection of overpriced and badly organised CDs?
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:50, archived)
# I saw it down the pub being consoled by Our Price:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:51, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
I miss Our Price :( Shitty fucking V Shop buying them out and closing down :(
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:55, archived)
# I still, somewhere, have a Topgun OST still with Our Price label on it.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:01, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
Somewhere I have a cassette of Spiceworld. It was bought in Our Price, but does not have an Our Price sticker upon it.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:02, archived)
# *points*
*laughs*

Spiceworld. Did you buy it when you were a little girl?
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:06, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
Easy there Grandad, I was 10 years old when it came out.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:10, archived)
# i saw some pissed up zavvi's trying to pick up some virgins the other day.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:55, archived)
# Oi! Thor!
What the hell are you playing at? I have been waiting for Andrew McDavies' return for literally MONTHS since you last promised his imminent return :(
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:56, archived)
#
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(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:02, archived)
# I no right?
There hasn't been a record shop in my high street for about 7 years.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:53, archived)
# You still buy CDs? That's sweet.
You can tell your grandchildren.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:57, archived)
# I bought my first CD in years last week.
I regret it.
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:01, archived)
# What was it?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:04, archived)
# The latest Yello
They've gone a bit too jazzy for my tastes :(
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:08, archived)
# I bought a CD quite recently
Well, two. One of them was "Captain" by Idlewild. The other was Buddy Holly's first "three" (ie 2 plus a compilation his record label pumped out in 1958 to cash in) albums. I was very pleased.

I like CDs. I like being able to choose the quality my music is at, instead of having Apple insist I get a really shit AAC, or these days a reasonable-more-or-less AAC. I like knowing that what came off the mixing desk is what's in the file, not what came off the mixing desk and then went through a couple of filters to chop off low and high frequencies and then went through a vaguely-defined psychoacoustic model to cut out more frequencies and then got encoded at a lower bitrate.

Just a pity people are mixing for MP3 and most likely releasing CDs that were mastered from 320kbs MP3. I hope they're not but if frankly I wouldn't be surprised anymore.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:07, archived)
# Yes, couldn't agree more.
I hate the fact that the mp3s I purchase are a more paler version of the originals.

Vinyl for the victory
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:10, archived)
# I more or less missed vinyl
Played a lot of my parents when I was growing up and made sure my first stereo had a record player and... never bought a record. I'm a product of my times...

Dynamic range on CD is actually significantly greater than that of vinyl. (Which is obviously why mastering engineers enjoy compression the motherfucking shit out of music these days, to the point where putting it on vinyl would make the needle fly out of the groove.) I like that and it makes up for any disadvantage you might see in the fact that it's still digital.

/Can't hear anything wrong at all with CD quality sound blog. (Come to that, on my equipment my ~200kbs MP3s sound absolutely fine too -- that's above most people's transparency limit which I think is roughly 150kbs for MP3, and certainly above mine. But I like to make that choice myself, rather than have to reencode a 320kbs (or lower) MP3 and immediately entertain myself losing quality as a result.)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:14, archived)
# I like my CDs
mainly cos of having the real thing and not some intangible file I might delete by accident
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:17, archived)
# This too :)
And the people who still put attention into the sleeve notes.

I thought I'd more or less stop buying them a few years back when I moved across here and had to rip all my CDs because there was no way I was lugging hundreds of them around the continent. Instead I think I've bought 50 or so in the last three years. Well, maybe 30.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:19, archived)
# yup
I've bought about 6 this year

not out of real shops though
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:04, archived)
# There's a quaint CD shop about 50 metres from my house
They aren't overpriced, they have a fairly big selection and there are always a lot of good albums on sale. I always wonder how they do it.
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:01, archived)
# They're probably dutch immigrants selling stolen CDs
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:03, archived)
# I suspect an intricate system of gears, ropes and pulleys.
That or witchcraft....
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:04, archived)
# That's not Nipper!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:51, archived)
# Noooooooooo!!!
Dontcha understand, time MUST stand still for the sakes of the music (read CD) industry!!



Hell they've managed to keep the same tired old format kicking for over 25 years now and panic everytime someone invents a knew recording medium, give nipper an MP3 player and those lovely DRM advocating folks in the backrooms will implode!!
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:56, archived)
# Entirely this.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 9:57, archived)
# home taping completely killed music
lots of people think it didn't

but it did

how else can we explain T*ploader?
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:03, archived)
# *dances in the moonlight*
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:04, archived)
# *gets hammers*
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:05, archived)