[BNM] Music

[Tom Dussek (Hotmail)]

But you've just given an example of how downloaded music goes missing. 
I'm with Jim - why on earth wouldn't I want the CD? I half-heartedly 
started looking at buying music downloads, but I couldn't seem to find a 
site that would let me just buy some tracks. There was a raft of special 
deals but all with the most mind-boggling stings in the tail  - my 
favourite was paying a monthly subscription for unlimited downloads, but 
if you stopped the subs you lost all your music. So what, like I'm 
renting it or something?!

I think one outcome of the current cleansing financial flames is that 
all these bollocky business models will go the way of the monkeyed-up 
financial vehicles that started the mess - it really only needs to be a 
complex as "I give you some money, you give me a thing. I then keep the 
thing, you keep the money." Any deviation from this will fail, and good 
riddance.

Tom Dussek


Wayne Douglas wrote:
> I have no place for cd's/dvds - I don't like the clutter. I don't even own a
> stereo capable of playing a cd!!
> I don't like the way they scratch, get lost, go missing.
> 
> If you're careful it's a good way to go - I learned the hardway about iTunes
> and ended up losing a few hundred quids worth of music from my iTunes when I
> moved back from Canada. I won't be using them again - ever. But DRM free,
> cheap downloads are the way forward for me. I prefer the subscription model
> over pp tune.
> 
> w://
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> 
> 2009/3/6 Jim H. <jim.hedley at googlemail.com>
> 
>> I must be missing something with regards music purchasing; I understand the
>> ease and convenience of online purchasing but I still don't get the
>> benefits
>> of downloads over old fashioned hard copies.
>> Regardless of arguments about quality etc, are there enough cost benefits
>> to
>> outweigh waiting a day or two for a cd/vinyl that is usable in more places,
>> and can be turned into mp3s as and when.needed..?
>> Or is the modern way the reverse,  to purchase a download and turn it into
>> a
>> cd as and when needed?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/3/6 Wayne Douglas <wayne at codingvista.com>
>>
>>> Yo bnmtown
>>> What's everyone using to buy their choonz these days?
>>>
>>> I used to use Napster but the client is a pile of dogshiz and the
>> selection
>>> sometimes leaves you wondering and you can't put napster tracks on my
>> iPod.
>>> I'd rather partake in m0naRchypr0nz than use iTunes. Spotify, despite a
>>> recent security blowout - is really, really good but I can't put the
>> tracks
>>> on my n95 or my iPod.
>>>
>>> Is there anything I'm missing from that list? I'm probably going to need
>> to
>>> re-subscribe to napster...
>>>
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>>>
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