8 Mar
2006
8 Mar
'06
6:58 a.m.
Cesare Marilungo <cesare(a)poeticstudios.com> writes:
Another reason, and this is why I was sarcastic with
your first
post, Maluvia, is that there are still people who believe that a
printed cd sounds better than a cd-r or a flac file downloaded from
the Net.
It won't sound better, but there are other advantages to buying a real
CD (even if it's a CDR that the band's produced themselves) -- having
a nicely-printed case with liner notes, and having a physical artefact
that represents the music you've paid for. The cost of producing and
shipping a CD (even halfway around the world) is pretty trivial these
days. I'm not at all comfortable paying money just to download files,
but I'm quite happy to buy CDs from musicians who've made their music
available online (and have done, many times -- it's something like a
third of my CD collection now).
Most musicians don't make FLAC files available; they just have lossy
MP3. In that case, buying the CD is the only way of getting a
decent-quality version to listen to once you've decided you like the
music. I don't think it's a business model that's going to make anyone
fantastically wealthy, but it does seem to work pretty well for lots
of musicians at the moment...
--
Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> <http://offog.org/>