TheDigitalGardener said:

KingSausage said:

laurarichardson said: Actually, cassette sales are way up. They're coming back. Well, "coming back." There's been lots of coverage of this. I think it's ludicrous, but it's true.

A few artists and record labels I follow have been putting out limited cassettes of late. I can't see them making a return in the mainstream, I think it's more of a collectors thing.

True.

laurarichardson said:

--- Thank you for being the voice of reason. I have being saying all long Prince made the right choice to go with streaming. The time for a box set has pasted.

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That's funny, I could swear he posted a vinyl mockup of that turgid 3EG record a year or two ago to cause hype. Oh, and he's selling his music through iTunes -- not streaming eaither. Hell, he's selling FLACs and MP3s and actual CDs (for absurd prices) through Tidal. All of those things: not streaming music.

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Meanwhile there are new box sets released by specialty labels each week and they must sell plenty since those labels are still doing business.

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Oh, and there's Adele. Not on any streaming service, yet selling a couple of million albums, digital and physical. I was stunned to see a display with a bunch of copies of the new Adele album recently at the small newspapers and magazines stand in the train station recently -- she's bloody everywhere.

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But don't let those facts bother you when you parrot your dear leader's latest brainfart.

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[Edited 12/27/15 8:35am]

KingSausage said:

laurarichardson said:

--- Were are people going to go to buy the players?

No idea. Crazy, isn't it?

just bought one for €10 in a second hand store. I have resurrected 100's of cassettes from my "vault". I was actually surprised by the quality of the sound from the tapes. It was going to take me too long to convert these tapes to MP3.

iON USB Turntable with ipod dock (dsiplay model) - €60

Pionner CD player - €19

Sharp cassette deck - €10

Phillips Amplifier and 5 speakers and subwoofer - €35.

for close to €100 I have an amazing sound system probably 20 years old, and steadily building up a vinyl collection. Dusted off all my old CD's and saving my digital music for the car or running.

I just like having something physical to hold and look at, it just feels more complete. Call me old fashioned or whatever...

Toofunkyinhere said:

V10LETBLUES said:

Because it's cheaper to just release digitally. Why waste money printing discs, when the album will more than likely be a flop? This is Prince now-a-days, an flop artist. The only reason why Warner Bros haven't tossed his ass like an bad habit, is because of his legendary backlog vault of great music (made during an time when he actually valued the music over $$$).

Scarfo said:

Because it's cheaper to just release digitally. Why waste money printing discs, when the album will more than likely be a flop? This is Prince now-a-days, an flop artist. The only reason why Warner Bros haven't tossed his ass like an bad habit, is because of his legendary backlog vault of great music (made during an time when he actually valued the music over $$$).

If it costs you 10 cents to make a CD how could you lose money? (With regards to Prince). So let's just say Prince sells 10,000 copies and Prince pockets 10 bucks per sale, that's 100,000 minus costs still a profit. Most bands that release a CD don't even make money off their CD sales and what little they may make go towards marketing (Unless they make their own CDs and sell them.).

kewlschool said:

Scarfo said:

Because it's cheaper to just release digitally. Why waste money printing discs, when the album will more than likely be a flop? This is Prince now-a-days, an flop artist. The only reason why Warner Bros haven't tossed his ass like an bad habit, is because of his legendary backlog vault of great music (made during an time when he actually valued the music over $$$).

If it costs you 10 cents to make a CD how could you lose money? (With regards to Prince). So let's just say Prince sells 10,000 copies and Prince pockets 10 bucks per sale, that's 100,000 minus costs still a profit. Most bands that release a CD don't even make money off their CD sales and what little they may make go towards marketing (Unless they make their own CDs and sell them.).

It just seems Warner Bros are now not to keen on spending 2 pennies on Prince. Remember the joint annoncement of unreleased material and remasters starting with Purple Rain? Now all these years later we have Prince begging for Warner Bros to release the remaster of plain old Purple Rain album. Once again (like many of us here wisely predicted) Prince had soured his relationship with Warner Bros once again. That's why he's so keen on tidal to release his medocre "hitnrun" albums. Honestly, I don't blame Warner Bros for this.

KingSausage said:

V10LETBLUES said:

f... this ...wheres the new CD?

KingSausage said:

V10LETBLUES said:

..Of course you are.

I'm not hooking any bullshit Apple attachments to my Sennheisers. Tim Cook can eat from my butt.

Scarfo said:

Because it's cheaper to just release digitally. Why waste money printing discs, when the album will more than likely be a flop? This is Prince now-a-days, an flop artist. The only reason why Warner Bros haven't tossed his ass like an bad habit, is because of his legendary backlog vault of great music (made during an time when he actually valued the music over $$$).

That's cold, calling Brother Prince a flop artist!

tongueinthecrease said:

Toofunkyinhere said:

I just like having something physical to hold and look at, it just feels more complete. Call me old fashioned or whatever...

Not old fashioned at all. Physical copies are wonderful. There's nothing like holding your music and exploring the artwork and lyrics.

Exactly.

databank said:

SoulAlive said:

OK,when the day comes that I won't be able to purchase a CD of a new album,I will say that you were right but I honestly don't see that happening anytime soon.Reports of the demise of the CD have been greatly exaggerated.

See ya in a few years

You do realize that we have seen stories about the demise of the CD for the past 15 years or so As long as there are record companies and recording artists,CDs will be around indefinitely.

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[Edited 12/28/15 23:12pm]

laurarichardson said:

-// Good God are you hard headed or just oblivious to what had already been stated. Vinyl is niche market at 30 and 40 dollars the masses will not be running out to get record players. You will not be buying any new CDs in ten years because no new music will be on that format and all of the old music will be gone. Next you will be telling us cassette tapes are coming back 😱

You keep saying that,and yet,I still purchase CDs all the time.Reports about the demise of the CD have been greatly exaggerated.We've been seeing these type of stories for the past 15 years or so! LOL

I'm gonna say this one more time,so pay close attention: AS LONG AS THERE ARE RECORD COMPANIES AND RECORDING ARTISTS,CDs WILL STILL BE MANUFACTURED AND SOLD.

V10LETBLUES said:

KingSausage said:

I'm not hooking any bullshit Apple attachments to my Sennheisers. Tim Cook can eat from my butt.

You don't ever have to upgrade your phone. No one will force you into the future. You can stay where you are safe and sound. Breathhhe.

Living in the past is perfectly acceptable.

V10LETBLUES said:

It's rumored the next iphone will not have a traditional headphone jack whatsoever to nudge the future along. Hopefully people will not bitch and moan too much and just accept it.

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Nothing to do with quality. All to do with trying to make a thinner phone and locking people furter into the Apple environment. "Want to use one of the many headphones using tried and trusted technology and standard connections? Fuck you, pay $50 for this custom adapter."

V10LETBLUES said:

KingSausage said:

I'm not hooking any bullshit Apple attachments to my Sennheisers. Tim Cook can eat from my butt.

You don't ever have to upgrade your phone. No one will force you into the future. You can stay where you are safe and sound. Breathhhe. Living in the past is perfectly acceptable.

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Nonsense. An iPhone that's a couple years old won't (properly) run a new OS, and you'll need that new OS to keep your apps up to date.

BartVanHemelen said:

KingSausage said:

Astasheiks said:

Scarfo said:

Because it's cheaper to just release digitally. Why waste money printing discs, when the album will more than likely be a flop? This is Prince now-a-days, an flop artist. The only reason why Warner Bros haven't tossed his ass like an bad habit, is because of his legendary backlog vault of great music (made during an time when he actually valued the music over $$$).

That's cold, calling Brother Prince a flop artist!

Prince, Don't pay Scarfo and others like him no mind, for some of us "You Will Always Be Badd!!!!"

Astasheiks said:

Nobody seems to care but cd's as dvd's are compressed version of the original.

I like to have physical albums but why can't we buy physical Hi-res copy of it instead !

highcalonic said:

To quote Billy Sparks, " (Prince)...you're not blind. No one is digging you. Your music makes sense to no one...but yourself."

Scarfo said:

Scarfo said:

To quote Billy Sparks, " (Prince)...you're not blind. No one is digging you. Your music makes sense to no one...but yourself."

No one is digging YOU you mean , well said yes YOU

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