Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax on one day… Totally crazy!
“a few more of the festival dates still in the works, you can be sure these shows won’t be the only ones”
So it could be Reading Festival, although June and August are far apart…
Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax ‘Big Four’ Tour
PS: No, I have not changed my musical taste, but I am still fascinated by this…
At this stage, I would say that the announcement by Hifi-company Linn to stop CD player production is probably as much a publicity stunt as it is truly reflecting the market. It works though, because I wasn’t aware of their Digital Stream players before.
Anyway, I wanted to comment on somebody else’s comment on the the same subject, because it very much reflects my thinking.
This fact confirms what we have been writing for years: the future of Music sales is liquid (digital download of studio master files for hi-quality and MP3s for the masses) while physical media lovers will be content enough with high quality pressings on vinyl. While this is a clear trend if one considers software sales, this decision by Linn seems to be the first, strong step towards the abandon of the CD format from the hardware point of view.
It has been some time now that I have stopped buying CD. Instead I buy (lots of) LP’s for at home and listen to mp3 on the go…
I don’t really “get” the NME and I don’t think that really matters to either of us. But I find The NME Top 50 albums of the decade suprisingly relevant and in line with my taste/record collection. I could argue about the actual ranking and some of the individual records, but overall I would recommend this to anyone wanting to catch up on good music of the last 10 years. Find the top 20 here, or the full top 50 at nme.com
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This chart from the The New York Times puts the current comeback of vinyl into perspective, I guess. It’s interesting how cassettes peaked ten years later and CD almost exactly another ten years afterwards. I guess we’re now already passed the peak of DRM protected downloads as a music download. Although that wasn’t much a a peak.
I have always avoided spending any money on DRM-infected music files. Now DRM for music seems to on it’s way out…. at last.
I very much agree with Nick Hodgson from the Kaiser Chiefs, but I still believe they could provide a (legal) free download with the 2LP vinyl edition of their latest album…
I saw the vinyl edition of our new album in the dressing room yesterday. Many people have written in the past about the beauty of vinyl and the feeling you get when holding the sleeve and removing the record. I am a vinyl fan already, but just then I realised that this is what I want people to experience when we make an album. I don’t want people to download it three weeks before it’s supposed to be out because an unknown person somewhere in the world has uploaded it. I don’t want people to click on ‘Play’ and hear it through laptop speakers, skip through it and then get on the internet and comment about it.
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