What's wrong with music downloads?
Spoon's "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" goes for $10.99 brand new on Amazon and $9.99 on iTunes. Ah, but the CD comes with a 23 minute, twelve track bonus CD, and iTunes gives you one measly bonus tune, "Deep Clean" which clocks in at three minutes and forty four seconds.Yes, with the CD you have to pay Amazon's shipping costs, unless you put together a $25+ order, and then it's free. I bought the Spoon CD with bonus disc from my friendly local record store for $11.99, and they tossed in a free (!) Spoon 7-inch vinyl single. It features a demo of "The Underdog" on one side, and "It Took a Rumor to Make Me Wonder, Now I'm Convinced I'm Going Under" on the other side. How cool is that? All I'm trying to say here is, if you're laying down hard earned cash to buy music you love, why not buy it in its best sounding form?Ooh, the vinyl soounds sweet!Steve GuttenbergI'll close with a theory of mine--crappy sounding music is killing the music business. MP3s are subversive because they have apparently stopped people from really listening. Music has become a background soundtrack to other activities. It's just not important anymore. So if the music isn't moving you, maybe, just maybe, it's the sound that's turning you off. The Audiophiliac is here to help.
