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Old 09.01.2008, 06:52 PM   #21
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audio tape cassette. There's an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60's functional cassette designs, moving through the colourful playfulness of the 70's audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the 80's and 90's.
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Old 09.01.2008, 06:55 PM   #22
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Old 09.01.2008, 07:36 PM   #23
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CD-Rs are less "charming"

I never realised CDs had any charm, whatsoever.

Lets not forget whilst CD-Rs may be a disposable substitute, they're widely a disposable substitute for the 'most disposable of formats'; CD's. I'd never really have anything on CD-R unless I had it or will have it on vinyl or cassette.
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Old 09.01.2008, 07:52 PM   #24
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It's music. Who gives a shit what format it's on. Just enjoy sound.
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Old 09.01.2008, 08:02 PM   #25
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I think the idea of any format having charm is full of shit. Fuck your hipster nostalgia (or self-trained retro-nostalgia).
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Old 09.01.2008, 08:03 PM   #26
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tapes got charm. even the look of em is charming
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Old 09.01.2008, 09:07 PM   #27
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I don't like burned CDs. I have no problems with downloading and listening albums as MP3s. I have a lot of them on my computer, and I always end up buying them one day or the other. But I don't like burning my downloaded albums on CD-Rs, even if they're out of print or whatever. I can't really explain why - I just feel strange about it. And I know that I won't ever listen to a burned CD - whereas I often listen to MP3 albums.

I think that's because the MP3 is totally decontextualised from the whole packaging: that's just a MP3 folder - even if it has the cover art on it. With the burned CD, you have an object - but I feel like it's not the real thing. I prefer having the whole packaging when I have an object.

Do you get my point? Do you feel the same about burned CDs (or asked differently: am I a psychomaniac)? Or more generally, what is your relation to packaging?

I understand the way you feel, in a way, but not to that extent.

And yes, tapes have a hell of a lot of charm. Coloured vinyl does, too, in a very different way.
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Old 09.01.2008, 09:13 PM   #28
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Old 09.01.2008, 09:22 PM   #29
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cd-r releases can be good; i've gotten vinyl releases that look ten times shittier than the shittiest cd-r releases i've ever had.

i wo't dignify answering "omg!! i hate burnt mp3s, like wtf?" because it's stupid.
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Old 09.01.2008, 09:58 PM   #30
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God I sometimes feel you guys don't care about music anymore.

A lot of people on this board have been like that for a while. It's sad.
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Old 09.01.2008, 11:15 PM   #31
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I know, atsonic, I mean I don't have the best taste in music. However I like anything will listen to anything, whether it be Techno(current) rock, jazz, noise, pop, rap, etc... Music is music enjoy it whatever forms it comes from.
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Old 09.01.2008, 11:46 PM   #32
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Music is music enjoy it whatever forms it comes from.

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Old 09.02.2008, 04:02 AM   #33
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God I sometimes feel you guys don't care about music anymore.
Of course I care about music... but not if it's on a burnt CD-R
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Old 09.02.2008, 04:17 AM   #34
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Old 09.02.2008, 04:19 AM   #35
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ok, I think here is a gap between people JUST listening to music and people who are also COLLECTORS when it comes to music....

and yes I wouldnt want to ruin a splendid scotch whiskey with drinkin it out of a styrofoam cup, of course not
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Old 09.02.2008, 04:58 AM   #36
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i have shifted, since i stopped working and started studying from a material collector to an aural collector.
i dont have the funds to buyt that many cds anymore, but i constantly listen to music.
and i must say after a while you sopt missing the physicalness of a release and start enjoying the music for what it is, music, with no preconceptions based on packaging and record label...

i still love buying music, but i dont always have the funds
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Old 09.02.2008, 05:02 AM   #37
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have you guys not yet realised that all CDs suck, CD-R or otherwise?
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Old 09.02.2008, 05:03 AM   #38
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same goes for me. I am a student and can just buy a couple of cds from time to time, but I like to spend my money for that, I really enjoy it, I never wanted to say that listening to mp3s is bad or something, its just that if I can afford it I will buy it (same with the whiskey)
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Old 09.02.2008, 05:04 AM   #39
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have you guys not yet realised that all CDs suck, CD-R or otherwise?

its not aout the cd itsself its more about the packaging
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Old 09.02.2008, 05:19 AM   #40
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its not aout the cd itsself its more about the packaging
that does nothing to disprove the point i made. and that is that CDs fucking suck.
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