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Can you even buy new cassette players? You still haven’t given any reasons I’d want a cd. Vinyl I can see the attraction as the players are pleasingly simple,
by grey-area 4y ago
Can you even buy new cassette players? You still haven’t given any reasons I’d want a cd.
Vinyl I can see the attraction as the players are pleasingly simple, these other formats, why bother? I can’t see use outside very niche cases.
- iggldiggl 4y ago> You still haven’t given any reasons I’d want a cd. Not universal reasons to exclusively buy only CDs (because I haven't done so either), so I guess it might fall under your "niche cases", but 1. Some gapless live albums have been released online (both downloads and streaming) in a broken fashion, so getting the CD is the only legal way of getting a non-broken digital release. 2. Occasionally even a new CD costs less (!) than the digital download. 3. Vinyl albums are of course unmatched in terms of cover art, but even CDs are usually still a step above purely digital distribution – sadly the practice of including the cover booklet as a PDF or something like that is far from universal. While of course ultimately the music is the main thing, with a number of albums missing out on the full cover art and/or liner notes is still somewhat of a shame, because they're interesting/funny/informative/part of the complete art package.
- crtasm 4y agoYes, the mechanisms are poor quality though.