online release...

[Hoevenen Lion]

I can't buy it because I don't have a visa card.

[gambit]

I wouldn't be surprised if 10-15 years down the line more albums/singles are released for purchase for online download. Right now, you definitely have to worry about lack of exposure and your customers having internet connections.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by gambit

I wouldn't be surprised if 10-15 years down the line more albums/singles are released for purchase for online download. Right now, you definitely have to worry about lack of exposure and your customers having internet connections.

And visa cards apparently.

I'm still old-school. I like the whole package with the booklet and the artwork and the disc and the information that I can hold in my hand and feel and look at. Although all those discs do make my wife wonder where the hell we can keep them that's not taking up a whole wall in the house.

[gambit]

Originally Posted by Sean

And visa cards apparently.

I'm still old-school. I like the whole package with the booklet and the artwork and the disc and the information that I can hold in my hand and feel and look at. Although all those discs do make my wife wonder where the hell we can keep them that's not taking up a whole wall in the house.

I keep the inserts and the discs in a big ole CD case and dump the rest. Saves me a lot of clutter.

[Ally]

Originally Posted by Sean

I'm still old-school. I like the whole package with the booklet and the artwork and the disc and the information that I can hold in my hand and feel and look at.

Which is why the missing link is the ability to create high quality versions of these yourself. I'll be the first to buy a proper "CD Surface Printer" and "CD Booklet Printer" - devices which should be cheap and will certainly pay for themselves over time as a function of how often you buy music.

[votingfloater]

Originally Posted by Ally

Which is why the missing link is the ability to create high quality versions of these yourself. I'll be the first to buy a proper "CD Surface Printer" and "CD Booklet Printer" - devices which should be cheap and will certainly pay for themselves over time as a function of how often you buy music.

Ally, can't you get dedicated CD printers for about 40 quid already? I saw a neat little TDK one in Maplin recently - a wee thermal transfer jobbie that only went up to 200x200dpi. I think some inkjets can print direct to disc too.

As for tangible vs. intangible releases, I like both. I love idly flicking through a booklet, reading the thanks and shouts; a well crafted wee book is always going to better than something I can print up myself (on crap office foolscap paper for instance).

If I'm going to buy the actual physical CD though, I want to go into a shop, riffle through the racks, find a couple of other things that I vow to buy soon and then walk out with my prize. I hate shopping for CDs online. Your Local Record Shop won't always have what you want, so if I can buy the mp3 then I'm more than happy (I remember growing up in a town where the only music was sold in the electrician's shop and a 40 minute bus ride would get you to... a little Our Price shop).

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Originally Posted by Hoevenen Lion

I can't buy it because I don't have a visa card.

pop music's fergettin' da kidz

(i mean - i doubt my parents would've given me the money if they knew specifically which albums i'd be spending the money on.)

[crank]

Regarding Credit Cards:

You american kids need to listen to an old(ish) dirty:
get a credit card as soon as you can. this doesn't mean use it at all or
even use it frivilously. it means have one. in today's america ( I'm ignorant
about how the rest of the world works regarding credit) you need to build credit now to establish yourselves 10 years down the road. I'm just baffled at the amount of people without plastic. I'm not happy about the way it works but it's just the way it works.

crank!

[potatobroth]

Originally Posted by crank

Regarding Credit Cards:

You american kids need to listen to an old(ish) dirty:
get a credit card as soon as you can. this doesn't mean use it at all or
even use it frivilously. it means have one. in today's america ( I'm ignorant
about how the rest of the world works regarding credit) you need to build credit now to establish yourselves 10 years down the road. I'm just baffled at the amount of people without plastic. I'm not happy about the way it works but it's just the way it works.

crank!

too right. without my credit score being so high, i never would have gotten a loan for my first (and only) house.