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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    1985 I was on a tenner a day and an album was a fiver. A CD was £12

    At £25 they are about the same price they always were.

    If you look at the sales figures it's all streaming there's only a tiny minority of youngsters buying vinyl. Even CD shifts more units than vinyl although it's less revenue.

    I bought a lot of used records when they were still cheap, as little as a quid a go even for first pressings. Wasn't intentional but best investment I ever made.

    Now doing the same with CD.
    Same here.
    MusicMagpie's a great source for building up the CD library again.

    Similar to my vinyl days,
    History repeats and its costing a fortune to get back the rarer CDs I sold went I went to streaming.
    Selling Jack shit media wise now, including my Bluray collection.

    Streamings cool,
    But now back to vinyl and CD, go figure.
    Letting go and relaxing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    1985 I was on a tenner a day and an album was a fiver. A CD was £12

    At £25 they are about the same price they always were.

    If you look at the sales figures it's all streaming there's only a tiny minority of youngsters buying vinyl. Even CD shifts more units than vinyl although it's less revenue.

    I bought a lot of used records when they were still cheap, as little as a quid a go even for first pressings. Wasn't intentional but best investment I ever made.

    Now doing the same with CD.
    I wonder why I never thought records were expensive at £10 in 1980?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
    Same here.
    MusicMagpie's a great source for building up the CD library again.

    Similar to my vinyl days,
    History repeats and its costing a fortune to get back the rarer CDs I sold went I went to streaming.
    Selling Jack shit media wise now, including my Bluray collection.

    Streamings cool,
    But now back to vinyl and CD, go figure.
    vinyl record is a precious artefact again, for a long time it was old hat. Before streaming you'd buy an album and show your mates 'Look what I got', like a caveman showing off an antelope he'd hunted down. Streaming just commoditised it all, took away that intrinsic worth. But like they say in 'Starship Troopers' - 'Something given has no value.'

    When you had to stack shelves for half a day to get the music you wanted to hear - and travel somewhere and back to get it - then it all meant a lot more. I think that is coming back at least to some degree.
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    Yeah, having a download list isn't quite the same as admiring a record collection .
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    boy, you do have a supr download list, and all in mint condition
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post

    Streamings cool,
    But now back to vinyl and CD, go figure.
    Because that's how we are, we see what's cool and go off in the opposite direction
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Yeah, having a download list isn't quite the same as admiring a record collection .
    The exact opposite of porn. Better to have on laptop than a shelf full of mucky vids, I'm told
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    The exact opposite of porn. Better to have on laptop than a shelf full of mucky vids, I'm told
    i, em, wouldnt, em... know
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    vinyl record is a precious artefact again, for a long time it was old hat. Before streaming you'd buy an album and show your mates 'Look what I got', like a caveman showing off an antelope he'd hunted down. Streaming just commoditised it all, took away that intrinsic worth. But like they say in 'Starship Troopers' - 'Something given has no value.'

    When you had to stack shelves for half a day to get the music you wanted to hear - and travel somewhere and back to get it - then it all meant a lot more. I think that is coming back at least to some degree.
    Good points there Martin, never thought about it like that.

    I buy very small amounts of vinyl nowadays as I have so much already and really don't need anymore.
    But if I do buy something it has to be great music, no fillers, good production and not just a listen once or twice type of record. I use Spotify for that!

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    Alt-J An Awesome Wave


    Damn, put this in the wrong place Sorry about that
    Last edited by Pigmy Pony; 05-05-2023 at 10:43.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Speakers: KEF Reference 3, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables

    T'other system:
    Echo Dot, Arcam A75 integrated, Monitor Audio R852 MD speakers
    A/V:
    LG OLED65 G56LS, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL T9i sub.


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