Bungalow with Stairs album

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Originally Posted by froopy seal

As much as I respect Reznor's progressive approach, to me digital-only releases still aren't as valuable, as significant, as 'beautiful' as physical copies. Even if they comprise tons of additional photos and stuff. That's why I'm hardly ever psyched by an Underworld release if it's digital-only.

With this opinion, I'm probably part of the analogue dinosaurs who will die out, by the by. But I have a feeling that there's still a decent share of music-lovers out there who think along the same lines, and who value CD + artwork over instant availability.

I love that Underworld take an effort in producing quality physical releases, whilst accepting that they have to go with the flow of the great digital data stream. And, of course, I prefer being able to purchase a Bungalow download instead of not having it at all.

I understand that. But honestly I wonder why stuff like this is not released digitally. You can still have a physical copy, just give me the option to pay whatever to download it. I don't want an answer of "this is the way they choose to release their art", I want to know why. I respect that if they only want it on disc but this is just music for an installation, I don't really understand keeping that physical from an artistic perspective. I don't know if they necessarily lose anything by releasing it in mp3 form.

Right now the price with postage is $62. As much as I love UW that's just a really steep price for something that is not even really an album proper. I'd gladly fork over $20 or maybe more for a digital copy. If they don't offer it I'll probably just torrent it like the Live in Tokyo set that I so desperately wanted on CD. When the Riverruns came out, I was really happy with that and was hoping for the beginning of something big. It's hard to believe that five years later they are still releasing stuff on very expensive and limited discs. I don't want to whine about it, I'm just curious as to why they are doing it this way. Maybe a digital release will come along next week and I'll just shut my trap. Who knows.