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 [...]
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. RIAA Says DRM Is Dead
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 [...]
Photo credit: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times Seen on nyt.com, via Gizmodo
Greg Kot, not only has written a great book about Wilco, but has also written a recent series of articles about the vinyl “revival” (Vinyl revival: How a dead format came back for another spin). On top of all the reasons for buying vinyls mentioned in the article, such as the attractiveness of the physical [...]
The combination of Wilco and legal mp3 downloads is probably as close to an ideal subject for this blog as it gets. W I L C O have put up an “audio postcard of sorts from a summer’s night in Oregon with our friends the Fleet Foxes & a lovely Bob Dylan tune”. It’s a [...]
If you bought DRM protected music from WallMart you’re screwed… WalMart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection — only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans – Boing Boing. People might not be attached to physical objects anymore and they might not care about sound quality, but this must [...]
Last week I bought Beck’s Modern Guilt, which is, by the way, the best album he has made in a while. At Ground Zero it was available in vinyl with a free mp3 download voucher, so how could I resist? Using the download voucher was a total failure, because the downloads were only available in [...]
Muxtape has been shut down, but now we can all be DJ’s at blip.fm.
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