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Post by Holly Diver on Oct 9, 2021 17:20:16 GMT
I’m a big fan of decluttr.com for cheap (free shipping) bog standard CDs. It takes a long time to go through everything, but I usually find enough ceedees to make it worth my while.
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Post by graucho on Oct 9, 2021 18:56:35 GMT
Maybe because I've been waiting all my life for Astral Weeks to click, and it never freakin' ever clicks. Stop trying. It sucks.
Haha, I find Tim Buckley Happy Sad etc to be a better at the kind of thing Astral Weeks is supposed to be. I had a similar experience to antiram in that I picked up c200 CDs for a very small cost. The difference is that these were CD singles from the 90s and it quickly cured me of the creeping nostalgia for the days of visiting Our Price every Monday for new chart releases. This is because 90% of them are awful; the A-sides are a huge range between good (Glory Box by Portishead, for example) and awful (Turn On, Tune In And Cop Out by Freak Power), but the kicker is that pretty much all of them are packed to the gills with generic remixes as B-sides that don’t bear repeating. So most of these are going to the charity shop fairly soon. Yeah, quite the scam. I think also, sometimes companies would release alternate versions of cd singles with different remixes on one to another - probably as a way of getting people to buy it twice. I imagine if someone were to could haul through a ton of remixes on those cd singles and find a handful that were decent, and compile. Of course it would be a matter of finding someone with the 'ears' and a lot of time. I wonder where they could be?!
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Oct 9, 2021 21:34:50 GMT
Yeah, quite the scam. I think also, sometimes companies would release alternate versions of cd singles with different remixes on one to another - probably as a way of getting people to buy it twice. My SHiTE fact for the day is that this was known in the music industry as ‘formatting’.And I was definitely a sucker for that. Back when I had limitless free time after I’d done my homework and only enough pocket money to cover the occasional music purchase, I’d play a CD single for days on end, which meant listening to some of those remixes repeatedly. Most of them were bollocks in retrospect, but at the same time it was fairly cutting edge to pick up a double CD of Army Of Me by Bjork which had Graham Massey, LFO, Mike D, Howie B and The Black Dog across the songs and mixes (and a rock version with Skunk Anansie).
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Post by Chicken in Black on Oct 9, 2021 23:08:12 GMT
That was common practice in the British record industry to get a single to the top of the charts. Force the fans to buy CD1 and CD2 (and sometimes the vinyl single) so they could get some exclusive tracks or remixes. It was then addressed by new rules for the charts around the end of the nineties.
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Post by chaz on Oct 10, 2021 0:43:46 GMT
In this day and age of the vinylz revivalz, it’s fun to think back of how it was when CDs first appeared. No one, NO-FUCKING-ONE, wanted anything to do with records anymore. Amazing how these LP fetishists don’t realize the only reason it’s in vogue is because these corporations (corporation?) desperately needed to push some kind of physical product, after all music became free. But, but… the warmth!! The gooey analog smoothness!! 1s and Os can’t convey the artist’s true intent, maaaan!
For the record, I haven’t bought a CD in years, so I’m not saying Universal and Sony are stupid.
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Post by GeddyLeePierce on Oct 10, 2021 5:33:22 GMT
Are there really that many Rush albums? Haha. Post of the year.
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Post by GeddyLeePierce on Oct 10, 2021 5:34:47 GMT
Are there really that many Rush albums? That's not albums. 500 discs is merely one Rush song. Haha. Second best post of the year.
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Post by j365 on Nov 29, 2021 15:37:34 GMT
Geniuses.
do you think it's worth keeping records you don't really listen to? veloso2:
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Post by acslater on Nov 29, 2021 16:37:37 GMT
A 10 year old could pirate their cd collection in FLAC off the internet in 10 minutes.
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