Yes, I'm moving in a few weeks and spent most of yesterday boxing up my quite impressive DVD collection which is pretty much obsolete now due to netflix/amazon prime/kodi/torrents etc. I miss buying physical copies of albums as well with all the great artwork and lyrics you used to get in the sleeve. |
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" I miss buying physical copies of albums as well with all the great artwork and lyrics you used to get in the sleeve."
But that was just packaging, airbrushed marketing to get us to buy albums as some kind of "artistic concept" when it was really the hits bundled with filler. Gotta love the MP3 for killing filler. It's not art, it's the shit the band knew was shit, which is why they spent so little time in the studio on it. Even my all-time fave albums have a track or two I can live without.
Vinyl has made a comeback but people are buying albums which were recorded digitally. That defeats the purpose. If it was recorded and mixed anaolgue, listen to it analogue and vice versa.
Digital CDs, we were told, gave better separation, but musical instruments create harmonics which blend and mesh when played together in the same room. Analogue gets near capturing and recreating that fuzziness but if it's not there why fake it?
Lose a bit of an analogue signal and there's still something there, the old static interference you'd get on a TV picture - you could still make something out. Digital dropout means there's nothing. A high wind takes away my TV signal completely.
A chewed-up cassette can still be played; a scratched CD does nothing except whir around not being recognised by the player.
When Musical Instrument Digital Interface [MIDI] became commonplace in recording studios, producers began using click tracks - a computer-generated metronome - so the band recording live could be synced up with a computer running digital drum machines and synthesisers later. Thus music became more "in time." This might seem better to some but music played by musicians should breathe. Your heartbeat tries to match the beat so when the band get excited they should be able to speed up. This speeds up your heartbeat so you feel their excitement. Instead it all got blanded out to a rigidity only really suitable for dance and electro.
Digital was cheaper to produce, yet the record companies still managed to charge more. Now they bleat that the MP3 has ruined their profits. Boohoohoo. |
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"As someone who experienced it and mourns its passing, I'm curious to find out if anyone feels the same. And here I am making full use of didge!  "
Not much we can do about it now but yes, I preferred it when life was less "instant". No mobile phone to interrupt your conversation, more face to face interaction, no global diplomacy via Twitter....the list goes on. |
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And proper album launch parties where you could get a physical copy signed by the artist!
Gaming is the same though, I used to like going in the shop to browse all the latest titles and as with music I liked it when you had a game in a box with a manual and often little extras in there like a fold out map or poster (a la Grand Theft Auto), now you just download everything from Steam or PlayStation network. |
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