That's the biggest achille's heel of online music selling...the scores of missing artists. Everything should be for sale online, including out of print music tracks. <br><br>
TreeBeard
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 05/20/01
Posts: 2033
Loc: the ancient forests of MiddleE...
I am happy to keep playing my vinyls.<br>Don't want to know about iTMS<br>Don't want know about RIAA<br>More interested in ARIA<br>Plenty ACCA DACCA here mate.<br>If everything was for sale online, what would happen to your local shopping centre?<br><br><br>but where will we be when the future comes?
Normally I keep my iTunes selected to Party Shuffle. I had noticed earlier that I hadn't heard AC/DC in a long time. Checked and 0 play since I installed OSX onto this HD last summer!<br><br>
#216066 - 02/11/0505:43 PMRe: A shame
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ezyrider
old hand
Registered: 10/10/02
Posts: 1156
Loc: Dallas, Texas
I have Back In Black, Highway To Hell & Let There Be Rock on vinyl. Like most of my old vinyl I haven't bought the CDs to replace them. Instead I'll check out alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classic-rock and see if it's there. I have digital versions of 90% of my vinyl that I aquired that way. The audiophiles that post there usually encode at bitrates of 256-320k which ain't too bad for mp3s.<br><br>In the case of bands like Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, etc. I have had vinyl, cassette and even 8-Tracks of their stuff. Which meant paying for it 2 - 3 times. So IMO the bands AND the RIAA have made their money off of me already. <br><br>However, I have downloaded a few classic rock/metal albums from iTMS that I couldn't find on Usenet. So again I ended up paying twice for it. Most recently: The Band (Remastered) and Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather. My iTMS "Purchased" music library is over 500 songs, so they've made a few bucks off of me too.<br><br>