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Oh wow I entirely forgot about Dungen even existing. I love(d) them. Definitely need to go back and re-listen.
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I bought 3 CDs this weekend.
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Sep 25, 2017 15:39
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Cool. Do you care to elaborate?
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Sep 27, 2017 06:14
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Beelerzebub posted:Cool. Do you care to elaborate? One is very good, one is okay, and one is real trash and I wish I hadn't bought it.
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Sep 27, 2017 13:55
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happysaph98 posted:A bunch of people are getting those Square things for phones so they can take cards, else some will just take Paypal or that Facebook money thing. Cash never fails, though. Went to Arizona a few months ago. Was driving through the Navajo reservation, came across some craft tables under tents, literally on a packed clay road, out in the middle of the desert. The native Americans running the place had those little square things on their cell phones so they could accept plastic and not lose a sale. Might be time for everybody else to catch up. 
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Oct 24, 2017 01:56
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I have recently added a few CDs to my collection and forgot to picture Pink Floyd's The Wall. I have added: Iron Maiden - Powerslave, Number of the Beast Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee, The Sunset Tree, Goths
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Dec 27, 2017 16:08
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I got Monty Python’s Total Rubbish for Christmas! All 9 albums (including the BBC one) in one box with liner notes about the recording of said albums.
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Dec 27, 2017 21:35
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My wife's mother got me Jimi Hendrix's First Rays of a New Sun on CD. My wife got me a record player and the Westworld soundtrack on vinyl. So now I guess I've started that collection too. 
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Dec 27, 2017 22:10
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My haul from DeepDiscount Funkadelic: Cosmic Slop Oingo Boingo: Dead Man's Party Scarface: The Fix Propagandhi: How To Clean Everything (remastered) Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space Big L: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous The Damned: Machine Gun Etiquette Dillinger Four: Midwestern Songs of the Americas Jello and the Melvins: Never Breathe What You Can't See Sly and the Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On 80 bucks. If you're shoring up your collection, give the site a try.
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Feb 8, 2018 05:13
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Best Buy is eliminating CDs in their stores starting July 1st. When I started at BBY back in 05, music was one of the biggest areas. Nowadays it’s an anemic row or two. Crazy to see that over time.
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Feb 8, 2018 13:20
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Man, I haven’t gone to Best Buy for a CD in ages. Last one I remember picking up was Random Access Memories.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:51
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The FYE closed in my mall, BestBuy is doing this, and Target has always been garbage. I hope that places start selling 24bit FLAC files, because if I'm buying a digital file, I want it to be at least as good as CD quality. EDIT: I've been toying with the idea of going to pawn shops to see if I can get used CDs on the cheap. I miss when GoHastings would put their used CDs on sale, and I would buy 30 CDs for like $100. IUG fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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Feb 8, 2018 18:08
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IUG posted:The FYE closed in my mall, BestBuy is doing this, and Target has always been garbage. I hope that places start selling 24bit FLAC files, because if I'm buying a digital file, I want it to be at least as good as CD quality. I don't disagree but cd quality is 16bit and 44.1keelohurts
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Feb 9, 2018 01:14
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Yeah, but why limit music releases to that standard if you’re not releasing it on a disk? So far, I think I’ve only gotten NiN that was released in that format though.
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Feb 9, 2018 02:26
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No reason, just wanted to make sure you weren’t avoiding 16bit stuff because it is lower than CD quality. I’ve had quite a few times where the flacs that a band puts on bandcamp are higher than CD quality, which I guess is appreciated by some. The problem is bandcamp doesn’t tell you what quality the flacs are, just that they are flac, so I always end up downsampling them to 16/44.1 anyway since sonos won’t play any higher.
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Feb 9, 2018 02:51
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listening to flacs is stupid. like you're some kind of drat sound robot? ridiculous
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Feb 9, 2018 04:29
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If you’re lucky sometimes the downloads that come with (some) vinyls are good quality. St Vincent’s latest gives you WAVs, for example. However I have also bought a record that came with 128kbps MP3s which is hilarious in 2017.
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Feb 9, 2018 06:01
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That reminds me of the fact that REM released every single song off New Adventures in Hi-Fi for free, a few songs at a time, ahead of its release. And of course, it being 1997, they were incredibly low quality .wav files
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Feb 9, 2018 07:53
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Beelerzebub posted:Nice. That's one of my favorites. Bat Out of Hell 2 is just as good IMO. Get the gently caress out of here that album is dogshit especially compared to Bat Out of Hell
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Feb 15, 2018 06:14
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A human heart posted:listening to flacs is stupid. like you're some kind of drat sound robot? ridiculous Also it's physically impossible to tell the difference between flac and a high enough bitrate mp3 And by high enough I mean like, less than 320
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Feb 15, 2018 06:15
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Yeah but if you're going to rip all your cds, why do it in mp3 when you can do it with a lossless format these days? it's not like storage space is a problem anymore
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Feb 15, 2018 06:31
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realbez posted:Yeah but if you're going to rip all your cds, why do it in mp3 when you can do it with a lossless format these days? it's not like storage space is a problem anymore Because it's fast and who cares.
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Feb 15, 2018 06:57
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Get the gently caress out of here that album is dogshit especially compared to Bat Out of Hell Yeah seriously.
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Feb 15, 2018 07:03
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Because it's fast and who cares. This is the CD thread lol
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Feb 15, 2018 07:28
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Get the gently caress out of here that album is dogshit especially compared to Bat Out of Hell Listened to it again recently, and yeah. It's not great. Not dogshit, but definitely nowhere near as good as the first. It does have Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through, though, which is a really great song. The rest ranges from alright to dogshit.
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Feb 15, 2018 08:06
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realbez posted:Yeah but if you're going to rip all your cds, why do it in mp3 when you can do it with a lossless format these days? it's not like storage space is a problem anymore My iPhone only has 128 gigs, and I'm starting to reach the end of my phone's capacity in music alone. At work I'll listen to over 100 songs a day. Once I go over my phone's capacity, every morning I'll have to sync 100+ new tracks. It would be much worse if they were FLAC files. But if I'm going to buy an album from an online store, I want at least CD quality to start with to down sample from.
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yeah I downsample everything to mp3 for my phone, too. I just think that if I’m going to back up my cds, I might as well actually back them up rather than compressing them in a lossy format. Not that I think I can hear the difference or anything. mp3s are good, but they aren’t a backup.
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Feb 15, 2018 22:25
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realbez posted:mp3s are good, but they aren’t a backup. No, they're the convenience. CDs are the backup, that's the point.
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so I’m talking about backing up my cds and you’re telling me not to because cds are their own backup
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:No, they're the convenience. CDs are the backup, that's the point. https://news.avclub.com/all-your-precious-collections-may-be-slowly-dying-of-d-1798257268 Discs might not be the best backup...
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Feb 16, 2018 01:09
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I still buy CD's, among other collecting methods... Of course I just rip them to FLAC right away and put them on a shelf somewhere but it's nice to have a big pretty collection of album art. And I can find great deals on used CDs sometimes.
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Zorodius posted:Digital files are either lower or equal quality to CDs Hi-Res files (24 bit/96 khz) are higher, but you could make a good case that the gains are negligible for listening. mp3s should've died a long time ago though, imo.
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Honestly this thread popping back up in the last couple weeks made me realize tonight: I don’t know when I’ll buy a new CD from a major artist. In 2014, I got into the local punk scene and so usually pay $5 for a tape and bandcamp code, or a few bucks more for vinyl. I really only buy CDs if they’re the only option the artist has. I also don’t really hit up the store around here that sells new and used music. The CDs are usually hella marked up, and so I’d rather use the gift certificate I have on vinyl or a poster, but I don’t care about buying new vinyl reissues of old albums. I’d rather an old vinyl for a bigger name or new vinyl for a small band. I never really thought I’d see optical media die. Like, of course it was going to, but I guess it came a lot quicker than I expected. Still buying Blu-Rays tho. gently caress yeah full 1080p and surround audio!
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Feb 23, 2018 06:24
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Just got The Stooges Fun House on CD and it's rad everyone should have a copy. $7 on Amazon and $2 cheaper than the download 
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Feb 23, 2018 06:37
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Just got Live at Jittery Joe's, Everything Is, and life of the World to Come. It ended up being $21 total.
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Feb 25, 2018 00:03
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 Got these today.
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Apr 3, 2018 17:56
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I recently bought Foolish by Superchunk, The Else by They Might Be Giants, and So by Peter Gabriel.
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My wife informed me that my order of 33 CDs from SecondSpin came in today. (Also that one of our cats knocked over a champaign glass and broke it.) . I'll have to check the quality of the disks when I get home.
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Beelerzebub posted:I recently bought Foolish by Superchunk, The Else by They Might Be Giants, and So by Peter Gabriel. YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I'm an old and I still buy CDs too. Any suggestions for a more compact storage method than just sticking 500 CDs on a shelf? I'm in the process of ripping but loving A I've got a long way to go. And right now they're all either 1. stacked up on the floor after ripping, or 2. in a heavy duty contractor bag in the corner of our study waiting to be ripped. And no I don't want to toss them all after they're ripped, but the contractor bag is pretty lame.
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