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I recently made the decision to only buy 2nd hand vinyl (and thus not often), and for all my new music to be digital. Bandcamp, Bleep.com and Beatbport are simp
by the_other 6y ago
I recently made the decision to only buy 2nd hand vinyl (and thus not often), and for all my new music to be digital. Bandcamp, Bleep.com and Beatbport are simply amazing in their own ways.
Digital music is easier to carry (I sometimes DJ). I also wonder if digital has a lower environmental burden overall, compared with new vinyl. I've not done any research; in fact, I don't even know how to begin such research.
I used to love "albums". I've definitely moved to playing more singles. Partly through DJing again, partly through the convenience of Spotify... but I think mostly because there's so much new music that if I'm listening to an album and don't enjoy half of it, that's time I could have used finding the good singles from another album. I don't claim this is a good practice, only that it's a novel perspective I've gained recently and offer it up for inspection.
- sjm 6y agoFor me it's vinyl for the albums I _really love_, and digital/streaming for anything else. I understand buying digital ultimately supports the artists more, but as a library/collection, digital files just can't compare to LPs or even CDs.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoI do the same. And most new LPs come with digital downloads anyway. These days I have kept my existing album downloads but I sub to Apple Music so I can grab almost anything on the fly, download it so I’m not constantly streaming (I listen to whole albums, not shuffles or playlists really) and listen to that often at work or on the move but buy LPs for everything else. It can just be an expensive hobby so it’s usually pretty filtered. Also used LP shopping is just a hell of a lot of fun. Seeing how much good stuff you can find for what it would cost for a new copy elsewhere.