I don't own any music

85% vinyl, 14% CD, 1% iPod

Technology can get fucked

this !

^ I had 15,000 tunes on physical media. Bollocks to that anymore, digital is the way forward.

Many, many fucking kilograms slupping up and down stairs. No thanks...

Never trust a DJ... They put all their heavy 12"'s in a heavy metal 'flight case' and get their 'plus ones' to carry it into the gig.

i own quite a few records and many of them seem to have kept their value as well as some worth ten times their face values (not phil collins) now , as well as sounding great feeling great and smelling great they have investment value too .......mp3s worth jack shit and sound shit !

yeah 15,000 a bit extreme , i thinned my collection keep the classics , and the growers sell the ones with good value on discogs and burn em to cd before shipping :)

I didn't thin my collection at all. It now weighs about 10kg'ish and I can pick it all up in two hands.

Vinyl is for chumps. Been there and done that for the last 40 years.

Welcome to the digital age.

BTW if you think MP3 is digital then you are missing the point.

FLAC is the way forward.

Vinyl is for chumps. Been there and done that for the last 40 years.

Welcome to the digital age.[/QUOTE]

see the problem is the digital age doesn't really support musicians as most people steal (share) the music , eventually the creativeness will die when the music makers have to go elsewhere .......spotify and youtube pay minimal amounts of money per play . whereas physical products generate income for the small producer . what we will be left with is coldplay , keane, one direction (or their replacement) and paul mccartney .

who needs flac this is on offer :)
http://www.stoneaudio.co.uk/?google=12346

Yeah, right...

Do you remember the last time the record companies spouted this shit?

My C90's didn't kill it then.

I'm quite happy to buy a CD direct from a band, I'd be even happier to by a FLAC tract from them too.

Record companies have never supported musicians, ever. They only supported themselves.

Why do you think bands tours so much? They get all the money and merchandise sales.

They even record the live gig and sell it to you as you leave the venue nowadays.

I support bands, I don't support record companies.

And I've been working in live entertainment since the late 90's and people 'stealing / sharing' the music has only made it better.

Bandcamp is the way forward.

Buy a record / cd / tape directly from the band, get a download in whatever digital format you want immediately.

Do people still put a premium on owning a physical copy of the music they listen to?

I do.

I am currently embarking on a long and expensive process of replacing all the vinyl I sold just over ten years ago. I genuinely rue the day I decided to de-clutter....

I like physical media, I like gatefold sleeves, I like inlay cards, liner notes, b-sides and the ritual of listening to records. I especially like the sound of records.

I enjoy finding things in record shops, buying things because the look interesting and then finding out if they are or not.

I also have Spotify Premium and it's great. I probably buy more physical music now than ever before because it's like getting a free sample - I can listen to a lot more, see if I like anything and then go and buy it if I do.