Generally when you say you 'own' something, you have it in some physical form, most of the times it was paid for. I always watch repeats of "Pulp Fiction" on IFC, Showtime, etc., but I don't own Pulp Fiction.
QUOTEi don't. i own most of my music, but an MP3 is a helpful way to know whether i want to buy it or not.
"I don't have a problem with that. I would be a hypocrite if I did. I'm fine with mp3s as a means of discovering new music, previewing albums to see if they're worth it, etc. What I despise is that mp3s are becoming the new format. The standard. People are charging $10 for intangible data files that you can lose in 3 seconds. People downlaod a record from a torrent site in 2 minutes and suddenly they 'own' it. People download Bob Dylan's entire discography in 10 minutes and suddenly they're a huge Dylan afficionadao. That rare Boredomes EP is suddenly widespread, there is no hunt. There are no hours rummaging through used bins. Everything is at your fingertips. There is no vinyl hiss, there are no Cd skips, everything is 'perfect.'"
QUOTE(Doucheface @ Jun 5 2005, 07:02 PM)I didn't. You're saying that looking for music and parading your knowledge infront of other people is better than the actual music itself. You feel threatened that people can find good music a lot quicker and easier than you could.
"What the fuck? Where do you get that from? My argument is that when everything imaginable is at your disposure, it's somehow less special. It holds less value. You can get in 1 second. Overload. What knowledge am I parading? I feel threatened? I don't even own anything considerably rare. I just despise the concept of downloading The Velvet Underground's Squeeze in 1 second, when people spend months, even years, looking for a copy. I'm jealous? Why would I be? I have broadband, if I wanted I could download everything I please. There no fun in that. There's nothing special about downloading that Human Switchboard record on soulseek. There's nothing special about downloading every David Bowie album in 5 minutes. Yes, the music is the most important thing, but there's something really great about that hunt. That wait. That 30 minute drive to the record store. In my opinion, it makes you appreciate it FAR MORE than if you downloading it in 3 minutes and then placing it amongst your other 30 GB of mp3s, most of which you've probably never gave much attention to."
QUOTE(Shitforbrains @ Jun 5 2005, 07:37 PM)QUOTE(Doucheface @ Jun 5 2005, 07:02 PM)I didn't. You're saying that looking for music and parading your knowledge infront of other people is better than the actual music itself. You feel threatened that people can find good music a lot quicker and easier than you could.
This is exactly the case.
The only legit arguments against mp3s are:1. The sound quality isn't as good as CDs.2. You're not supporting the band.
I've discovered 90% of the music I listen to now through mp3s.
"Didn't you read me say that I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH MP3s AS A MEANS OF DISCOVERING MUSIC, AND I WOULD BE A HYPOCRITE TO STATE OTHERWISE?!? You're missing my point entirely. I'm not opposed to mp3s as a a gateway to discoverung artists, I'm opposed to their seeming 'replacement' of all other media, as they aren't a tangible thing. It's a datafile on a machine. And, as I adressed before, Infinite Loop's argument is void because: 1. I'm not a hardcore record collector. 2. I download. 3. I'm a mere 17 years old, so people "finding music easier than I could" makes no fucking sense. 4. I don't 'parade' any 'knowledge' around. I have a blog, started it to share new songs I discovered, big fucking whoop. I chose to make it available for everyone, I could've made it friends only, yet I'm a "douche" and a "fag." Whatever.
Yes, I'm the fucking bad guy because music is quite special to me, and it's way more than something you can download in a few seconds and discard in the same amount of time if it doesn't tickle your fancy on first listen. Right."
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)
Imagine if everybody could own a Vermeer. Would it make the paintings less good? No, just less valuable in monetary terms. Yay for easy access.
― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)
― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)
(Also of course whole NEW rituals and war stories will surface - I spent three months collecting enough German psych to finally get onto that DC++ hub, god it makes me appreciate it so much more etc etc.)
― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)
― I made the same mistake (Alex in SF), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)
― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)
― Bow House (Twilight), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)
really, somehow i did
― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)
― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)
― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)
Ol' Warez BBS/VX BBS behavior, codified now so it migrates to everything digital.
How much is fakeware in the nets?
― George Smith, Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)
and why would i? imagine a world without the internet now, we would get stuck at Coldplay probably
― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)
-- Jetlag Willy (noodle_vagu...), June 5th, 2005
Hence the need for iTunes 'exclusives', 'bonus tracks' and such to fill that record company penny-pinching void (IMO). Completism costs and instead of 70 mins at a time there's a whole HD to fill!
If mp3 shopping & downloading does totally replace hard copies then I think we'll all have been had, again.
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)
Hold that thought.
― George Smith, Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)
I'm not saying refrain from downloading, that's silly. As miccio said, I'm always providing you guys with YSIs and stuff. But I think that downloading makes us take things for granted, because they're so easy to get. What's wrong with a little struggle?
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)
Then send a computer virus.
― George Smith, Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)
There've been doomy predictions about the Internet's effect on books and print media for a few years, but they have too many advantages to disappear. I figure the same applies to mp3 vs tangible music.
I think Completists are kind of to blame for their own exploitation. I realised this at 17 when I found myself one morning with a brutal hangover riding the bus to a nearby town to a pick up a Marillion import consisting of music I mostly already owned.
― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)
― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)
― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)
― George Smith, Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)
Hopefully there will be massive improvements in HD reliabity before this happens though. I'm sticking to hard copies & paranoid back ups of the music I treasure before we get to that stage.
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)
― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)
mp3 shopping & downloading does totally replace hard copies I suppose it already has for out-of-print music that may never come back into print now. £30 for a CD/Vinyl of FUSE 'Dimension Intrusion' vs. Bleep.com? :-/
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)
xpost
― rizzx (rizzx), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)
I find it hilarious that people have been duplicating their collecting tendencies online. I know people who would only purchase a full album online, or only download a full album. Around college campuses there are people with copies of every album ever done by an artist, even the crap ones, and none of it gets listened to. I'm hoping that making music readily available eventually gets rid of this tendency as it's the worst sort of compulsive behavior.
― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)
― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)
Warez board operators and VXers were the apotheosis of asshole practice. It is only natural that many would inherit and honor their traditions.
― George Smith, Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)
Hopefully, once broadband gets faster and cheaper, and once hard drives get bigger, more stable, and cheaper, then lossy formats won't be as ubiquitous.
― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)
― George Smith, Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)
However, stalling through apathy (and public cloth-eared-ness) at the technological stage of mp3's AND the phasing out of Vinyl/CD/DVDA/SACD would be a disaster. But then some people probably say the same about Vinyl > CD
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)
― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)
― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)
Er. And too-small hard drives. Doh.
What we need more of, is Science!
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)
this the best part, the Vinylist argument now used in regard to CDs to MP3s. beautiful.
― Leonard Thompson (Grodd), Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)
Handcranked record players will still work.
The problem with lossy formats is that they've spread to human intellectual endeavors. Everyone I know infatuated with technology seems to have lossy compression. Bigger hard drives won't solve the problem. They will only store greater numbers of lossy files, not smaller numbers of bigger brains.
― George Smith, Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)
They at least led to experiments with new kinds of dissonant noise from Oval & the whole clicks n' cuts crowd. But UNintentionas CD skipping = eternally painful.
I think that part of Brainwasher's comment was probably fairly off-the-cuff and not mean in that sense really. Especially as many mp3's are far from perfect. MMM 128kbps ... smushy :-P
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)
Oh yeah. Then we'd have to be thankful for the vinylists.
― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Sunday, 5 June 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)
I've always thought that anyone who thinks they have a "big" music collection that consists of mainly CD-Rs and mp3s as being the equivalent of having lots of photocopies of books and thinking it's a fine library.
― Viz (Viz), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)
Brainwasher, i think you're right but i'm not suprised people on the internet disagree with you. Go down your independent record stores and ask the same question and you'll get all the reassurance you need.
― dmun drive-in (dmun), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)
(maybe even melting their hard drives)
― dmun drive-in (dmun), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)
― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)
― peter d (peter dee), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)
CD packaging is obv. less desirable because it's that much smaller. CDs as good as 'master' back-ups but I am utterly in love with the idea of music being 'always there but never seen' and want to keep moving in that direction.
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)
― Keith C (kcraw916), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)
People download Bob Dylan's entire discography in 10 minutes and suddenly they're a huge Dylan afficionadao. That rare Boredomes EP is suddenly widespread, there is no hunt. There are no hours rummaging through used bins. Everything is at your fingertips. There is no vinyl hiss, there are no Cd skips, everything is 'perfect.'"
i think this is insane though. yeah, cd skips are so REAL...!!!
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)