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Afro Lint · **Joined:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:30 am **Posts:** 1212

heatseeker wrote:

I don't understand why you bother buying all that stuff when you could just download. It's not like you're supporting anybody by buying all of that used stuff, and it's not like you're building a collection because you're basically trading CD's when you use those websites (I think...). I mean, I buy as well but when you do it to that extent you're basically taking away all the good things about buying CD's.

Hey, I've never made any notions that I'm supporting the artists by buying used albums. But I am supporting music this way. If it's just the used record shops, then so be it. They're integral to the music world that I know and love.

Maybe it's the generation gap, but I just can't understand the concept of enjoying downloads. To me, owning something I can hold in my hands will never be replaced with a digital file. Could you enjoy a virtual girlfriend? Sure, that's taking it a bit extreme considering I don't fuck my CDs, but it's the best I can come up with on the spot. There is nothing more enjoyable than owning the music you enjoy. Owning, as in being able to touch it. You can't own something you can't touch, and that's an MP3.

As for the trading websites, most of what I trade I buy at used shops. Very little of my collection is expendable. So I buy cheap $1 or $2 trade fodder for those sites. Plus, SwapaCD allows you to just purchase a limited number of discs a month without trading off a CD. It comes out to about $4.85 per disc, or something like that. And lala.com sucks now, so I hardly use it.

hellraiser_xes · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:32 am

Afro Lint wrote:

Maybe it's the generation gap, but I just can't understand the concept of enjoying downloads. To me, owning something I can hold in my hands will never be replaced with a digital file. Could you enjoy a virtual girlfriend? Sure, that's taking it a bit extreme considering I don't fuck my CDs, but it's the best I can come up with on the spot. There is nothing more enjoyable than owning the music you enjoy. Owning, as in being able to touch it. You can't own something you can't touch, and that's an MP3.

Very well put. I download music a lot but I make sure I buy the ones I like, or from the bands that I really like. Like you said, it's a totally different experience.

Spot on on the virtual girlfriend. Why would I have have one if I can't fuck her?

noodles · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:41 am

CDs are just bigger digital files on a less efficient format

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:07 am

Thrashtilldeth wrote:

so what is that, 154 total for you DW? I'm gonna have to pick up the pace if I wanna be the thrash guy around here, hehe....

$94 and that's Canadian

Thomas · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:25 am

Afro Lint wrote:

heatseeker wrote:

I don't understand why you bother buying all that stuff when you could just download. It's not like you're supporting anybody by buying all of that used stuff, and it's not like you're building a collection because you're basically trading CD's when you use those websites (I think...). I mean, I buy as well but when you do it to that extent you're basically taking away all the good things about buying CD's.

There is nothing more enjoyable than owning the music you enjoy.

Agreed...

Afro Lint · **Joined:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:30 am **Posts:** 1212

hellraiser_xes wrote:

Spot on on the virtual girlfriend. Why would I have have one if I can't fuck her?

Now, there is nothing wrong with having a real girlfriend and a virtual girlfriend, of course!

Afro Lint · **Joined:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:30 am **Posts:** 1212

The latest:

Answer, The - Rise (2CD)
Astral Doors - New Revelation (w/Bonus Tracks)
Baby Flamehead - Life Sandwich
Brainstorm - Before The Dawn (Promo CD Single)
Brainstorm - Live Suffering: The Official Bootleg
Britny Fox - Bite Down Hard
Danzig - Thrall - Demonsweatlive (EP) **
Gaskill, Jerry - Come Somewhere
Girlschool - King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents...
Gryner, Emm - Symphonic (CD Single w/Non-LP Track)
Hades - $avior$elf **
Iced Earth - Frankenstein/Ghost Of Freedom (Promo CD Single)
Killers - Menace To Society
Lane, Lana - Echoes From The Ocean (EP)
Lane, Lana - Garden Of The Moon (w/Bonus Track)
Lane, Lana - Return To Japan (2CD w/Bonus Tracks)
Lane, Lana - Winter Sessions
Non-Fiction - In The Know **
Platypus - Ice Cycles
Rose Hill Drive - Moon Is The New Earth
Tarja - My Winter Storm (w/Bonus Tracks)
Victory - Don't Get Mad - Get Even **

** From SwapaCD.com.

The rest are a sweet fucking hook-up from a friend in Ireland! Those Brainstorm and Iced Earth CDs are rare as all hell!

Thrashtildeth · **Posted:** Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:16 am

DevotedWalnut wrote:

Thrashtilldeth wrote:

so what is that, 154 total for you DW? I'm gonna have to pick up the pace if I wanna be the thrash guy around here, hehe....

$94 and that's Canadian

I meant, 154 thrash albums in your collection (in my collection thread you said you had exactly 150)...

Thomas · **Posted:** Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:15 pm

Opeth - Watershed

Looking forward to listening to this, after I enjoyed Ghost Reveries quite a bit.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:27 pm

The Mars Volta -- Amputechture

Zeth · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:19 am

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

The Mars Volta -- Amputechture

Awesome. I'm planning on getting their 4 studio albums. Too bad they cost so much, in my usual online store of preference they would be about 100$ altogether. :sad:

Should probably look to import some moar.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:28 am

Zeth wrote:

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

The Mars Volta -- Amputechture

Awesome. I'm planning on getting their 4 studio albums. Too bad they cost so much, in my usual online store of preference they would be about 100$ altogether. :sad:

Should probably look to import some moar.

I got it used for about $10...

Which was half the normal price. :ph34r:

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

hellraiser_xes wrote:

Brahm_K wrote:

Recently:

Judas Priest- Nostradamus
Heathen- Victims of Deception
Iron Maiden- Live After Death (DVD)

How's the LADDVD? I had it on VCD previously and it's just awesome. There are some extra footages as well, right? A friend of mine bought it, bloody idiot couldn't do me a favour for the least.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to watch it yet... Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to check it out. There is a second disc that has lots of extras and stuff for sure, though.

MetalStorm · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:45 am

Judas Priest-Nostradamus special 3 LP/2 CD edition.

Zeth · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:55 am

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

Zeth wrote:

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

The Mars Volta -- Amputechture

Awesome. I'm planning on getting their 4 studio albums. Too bad they cost so much, in my usual online store of preference they would be about 100$ altogether. :sad:

Should probably look to import some moar.

I got it used for about $10...

Which was half the normal price. :ph34r:

Zomg, cduniverse.com had some great prices and not to shabby shipping costs either. And Vinyl records... I fear I will make some drastic and impulsive buy right about now...

noodles · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:05 am

Zeth wrote:

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

Zeth wrote:

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

The Mars Volta -- Amputechture

Awesome. I'm planning on getting their 4 studio albums. Too bad they cost so much, in my usual online store of preference they would be about 100$ altogether. :sad:

Should probably look to import some moar.

I got it used for about $10...

Which was half the normal price. :ph34r:

Zomg, cduniverse.com had some great prices and not to shabby shipping costs either. And Vinyl records... I fear I will make some drastic and impulsive buy right about now...

i got Amputechture for 10$ new, then bought it again on vinyl for 25$ XD

cduniverse generally has the best prices on the webbernets i find

heatseeker · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:55 am

Afro Lint wrote:

heatseeker wrote:

I don't understand why you bother buying all that stuff when you could just download. It's not like you're supporting anybody by buying all of that used stuff, and it's not like you're building a collection because you're basically trading CD's when you use those websites (I think...). I mean, I buy as well but when you do it to that extent you're basically taking away all the good things about buying CD's.

Hey, I've never made any notions that I'm supporting the artists by buying used albums. But I am supporting music this way. If it's just the used record shops, then so be it. They're integral to the music world that I know and love.

Maybe it's the generation gap, but I just can't understand the concept of enjoying downloads. To me, owning something I can hold in my hands will never be replaced with a digital file. Could you enjoy a virtual girlfriend? Sure, that's taking it a bit extreme considering I don't fuck my CDs, but it's the best I can come up with on the spot. There is nothing more enjoyable than owning the music you enjoy. Owning, as in being able to touch it. You can't own something you can't touch, and that's an MP3.

As for the trading websites, most of what I trade I buy at used shops. Very little of my collection is expendable. So I buy cheap $1 or $2 trade fodder for those sites. Plus, SwapaCD allows you to just purchase a limited number of discs a month without trading off a CD. It comes out to about $4.85 per disc, or something like that. And lala.com sucks now, so I hardly use it.

Yeah, that makes sense. I enjoy having the CD's as well, but I do think the generation gap plays a part...I've never even had a CD player, so I pretty much just put the CD on the comp and it goes up on the shelf unless I want to listen to it in the car, so basically I never had the CD experience like you did. I just get the impression that when you buy THAT much stuff, it kind of takes away the experience of having the CD that you point out.

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:14 am

Thrashtilldeth wrote:

DevotedWalnut wrote:

Thrashtilldeth wrote:

so what is that, 154 total for you DW? I'm gonna have to pick up the pace if I wanna be the thrash guy around here, hehe....

$94 and that's Canadian

I meant, 154 thrash albums in your collection (in my collection thread you said you had exactly 150)...

Oh yeah, ha my bad. Yes I should be around the 154 number. Maybe I will do another count and give an exact number.

one day...

Mike · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:59 pm

Judas Priest: Nostradamus
Motley Crue: Saints Of Los Angeles
Journey: Revelations
Disturbed: Indestructible
Alanis Morissette: Flavors of Entanglement
Whitesnake: Good To Be Bad
Ashes Divide: Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
Def Leppard: Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
Apocalyptica: Worlds Collide

Zeth · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:09 pm

noodles wrote:

Zeth wrote:

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

Zeth wrote:

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

The Mars Volta -- Amputechture

Awesome. I'm planning on getting their 4 studio albums. Too bad they cost so much, in my usual online store of preference they would be about 100$ altogether. :sad:

Should probably look to import some moar.

I got it used for about $10...

Which was half the normal price. :ph34r:

Zomg, cduniverse.com had some great prices and not to shabby shipping costs either. And Vinyl records... I fear I will make some drastic and impulsive buy right about now...

i got Amputechture for 10$ new, then bought it again on vinyl for 25$ XD

cduniverse generally has the best prices on the webbernets i find

I saw you had Warning on Vinyl too. How many Vinyl records do you have?

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