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Originally Posted by tgpo
Now that lala allows full album screams for free, I don't download anything. I listen to it once and decide if I want to buy it or not.
I've never bought a digital song, I always figured getting a used CD and ripping it made more sense.
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Why does that make more sense? If I wanna buy a game, I'll download it from Steam if I can. It's likely to be cheaper, takes me less time and I won't have to get the discs every time I wanna play it. Plus the box and the discs take up real space, something I prefer to avoid. I only have so many places to stash stuff in this apartment.
The way I see it - if all you do with a CD is rip it because you listen to files and don't ever use a CD player, then buying a CD when you can buy downloadable files is a bit of a contradiction.
I've come to terms with the fact everything I love on a CD can be digitized, the art and the music. All you're missing is being able to hold and manipulate plastic and paper with your hands. Perhaps also the joy of having a huge collection of physical items, but that feeling is something holding you back really. Letting go is good.
I think physical mediums make people feel the music or product is more real and more significant. You could easily argue the opposite, that the feeling is illogical and that in reality, the physical existence of all your CDs is likely to be a disadvantage rather than an advantage.