he said...


"umm well... didn't you know music is free now?


That's like giving me air to breathe"




/

its funny to me that with all this technology, the suits have not found a way to prevent unauthorized uploading. the sure can prevent me from downloading decent porn!

Kids.

CinisterCee said:

That's sad.
But still very funny.

I gave him like 3 Jimi Hendrix cds one year when he wanted to get into him, and he did! Now he knows that shit better than I do.

But I don't think 3 cdrs of mp3s would have made him a fan, yknow?

nah ...


Your little bro should buy you this for Christmas: http://www.kidrobot.com/p...av_chooser

that shit is tight.

Give him a book on copyright law. Refer him to the chapter on "Sentencing".

I think he would rather play a video game anyway.

exactly like mine ( bro)

11 year old sisters are the same

Terrible!

I just hope that when I'm an old man I'm not forced to download songs because CD's (or whatever other technology they come up with) aren't selling anymore. But by then there would probably be nothing decent to buy anyway. Except for the Michael Jackson - The Complete Unreleased Recordings (40 disc box set)

WildStyle said:

You know damn well as I do that they will again compile every single from Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 to Invincible (the album he'll never follow up).

Stax said:

I LOVE Kidrobot!

They have their First-Ever pair of kicks coming out in '07. Cannot wait.


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I only buy CDs if it's a band I really love...I've bought maybe one in the last six months.

-waits to be stoned-

evenstar3 said:

I hear you .
I used to collect CDs/vinyls and I've got many thousands, but these days it's not fun anymore. You can get anything easily, so I guess I haven't bought so few Cds this year since they started sometimes in the late 80s .
[Edited 12/14/06 9:19am]

This is one of the saddest things I have ever read. I still buy all my music on disc/vinyl because for one, it makes me feel like I actually own it as opposed to mp3s which can be wiped out with one unexpected power surge leaving me with nothing. And secondly, music wasn't made to be condensed into crappy sounding digital files. The only times I do download music are when iTunes has those exclusive EPs by artists I like.

sextonseven said:

The thing that gets me is that the kid said it so matter-of-factly, like, "damn, you buy music?" It's a little disheartening. Even though I embrace change, I really hope CDs -- or the *physical* aspect of music -- aren't completely wiped out. An MP3 just simply isn't warm to me. CDs really aren't either, but at least it's a touchable, physical entity.

Actually I used to buy 4 or 5 CD's per week, couldn't wait for tuesdays @ Best Buy looking for new releases, but then I got into legally downloading songs from itunes, then got accustomed to the crappy sound of the compressed files.

But now I began to buy CD's again, I started to re discover the great sound and fidelity of the CD format.

That is basically what's happening to teenagers they hardly appreciate music,and barely bother with the sound quality of it.

sextonseven said:

That is my motivation as well. That AND I hate digital rights management.

sp edit
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Mara said:

CinisterCee said:

Haven't all of his songs been released at least 4 times already? The Motown stuff has been released more than that.

I hope cds will exist for a long time, but it's really sad with all the downloading. I don't see the point in downloading music. It's not the same as having something physical. I've only just begun collecting lps, and I love having music I've paid for on black plastic, instead of a crappy sounding sound-file. I don't understand the youth of today. Why don't they want the whole package including wonderful sound and last, but not least art work. I don't want an invisible music file which I can't touch.

CherryGirl82 said:

why do you have to touch music to be able to enjoy it? it's easier for me to just download it and get it onto my mp3 player that way, rather than buying a cd and burning it onto my computer

Mara said:

What's "touch" got to do with anything? Especially to those who will go to school, play games and have their first friends in a virtual environment.

Touch is a luxury. To some it may even be a nuisance.

Being touched without touching, might not be a completely bad thing. But it doesn't look so bright, the way things are headed.

coolcat said:

evenstar3 said:

You don't have to.

But it is infinitely more rewarding to be able to smell that crispness of a new CD, to take in the perfect gloss of the CD book, to feel the difficulty of first popping the CD out and hoping that it will eventually become easy because the disc will be played a lot. Plus, it's great to be able to study liner notes and see the art. Owning music on a physical format makes music an onslaught of 4 senses as opposed to just 1. And hey, maybe some of y'all freaks taste your music too.

Of course, vinyl takes all of this to another level, but the point remains the same.

anon said:

I've read that kids today are even starting to use computer shorthand in regular conversation. I don't get kids.

sextonseven said:

i'm guilty of doing that with my sister, though we mainly do it to discuss things we don't want our parents knowing about in front of them.

sextonseven said:

That's funny, especially if they're using "LOL". Still, I think we're all guilty to some degree. I once, when looking for a physical item, thought "command + F". I knew I needed to step away from the machine and I did. I spent that day outside.

The virtual and the physical will merge. It's now a part of our existence.