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Reply #1775 –
Yup, if nothing else that €35 ranges from a large chunk to the entirety of the weekly grocery bill. In this case it was just a special offer on French Amazon for Paris Games Week or something like that.

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Reply #1776 –
Quote from: Luxor
Rubber soul.

I don't think I've ever seen that album :)

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Reply #1777 –
Quote from: Syav on
I don't think I've ever seen that album  :)
I'm surprised at that, it's a popular album. It's where the Beatles started to experiment a bit I think, moving away from that pop music sound of previous albums.
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1778 –
Quote from: Luxor
I'm surprised at that, it's a popular album.

The only album that I've seen is Let It Be that my older brother bought when I was a kid. After that I've seen several documentary films about the Beatles when they were younger. 

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Reply #1779 –
Quote from: Syav on
The only album that I've seen is Let It Be
:o

That's their worst album as far as I'm concerned. Horrible production, somewhat improved (but not greatly) when Let It Be... Naked was released in 2003, Not much of an improvement, but nearer to the sound Paul McCartney wanted it to sound like. I'm still not overly keen on it though.  :(
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1780 –
Quote from: Luxor on
That's their worst album as far as I'm concerned.
Wow that's a shock. :eyes: I'm sure that I've seen other Beatles albums in music stores but it's hard to remember.  I think Let It Be album was my 'Introductory' to the Beatles so I remember clearly how the album looks like. After that I started listening to older Beatles songs because I said to myself, "This Beatles are great! "

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Reply #1781 –
Quote from: Syav on
Wow that's a shock.  :eyes:
I think it's universally acknowledged as a bit of a stinker, the Beatles were near to imploding at the time so that's bound to have had an affect on things.  :)

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I'm sure that I've seen other Beatles albums in music stores but it's hard to remember.
I would have thought that if they don't stock Beatles albums, they can't really call themselves a music store.  :D
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1782 –
I don't care much for the album as a whole, but I like Get Back. :P

Let It Be… Naked obviously sounds much better, but I think overall that has more to do with modern mastering technology and the technical superiority of CD than with the vision — although the songs I like the least (because they're just… what's the word, overwhelming?) indisputably profit immensely from the vision. The Long and Winding Road is like wtf skip in the original and pretty neat in the Naked version.

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Reply #1783 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
I don't care much for the album as a whole, but I like Get Back.
Get back is good right enough, pity you have to listen to the rest of the album before it comes on.  :P
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1784 –
Quote from: Luxor
Neither of them, Brit Floyd are another Pink Floyd tribute act.

Wow,  I didn't know there's another tribute to Pink Floyd. I couldn't really tell because of all that visual effects on stage :)

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Reply #1785 –
Quote from: Syav on
Wow,  I didn't know there's another tribute to Pink Floyd.
Search Google for "Pink Floyd tribute band" and you'll see there are quite a few of them.
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.
 

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Reply #1786 –
Quote from: Luxor on
Never noticed as I only buy CDs.
The only place I've bought some digital music from recently is Qobuz, where the quality isn't inferior to CD. (Except insofar as vinyl is inferior to CD.) But I noticed while looking at Eminem's new album that it said €15 for the CD and €10 for digital (inferior MP3). I wonder if you even get a PDF version of the booklet with that like on Qobuz. :P

Meanwhile, on Qobuz the CD quality-download costs one or two Euro… more than the physical CD. I could almost get behind the same price, although imo it should be one or two Euro cheaper if not even less. I mean for the same quality FLAC; that MP3 nonsense from elsewhere should be significantly cheaper. But anyway, why would I ever consider buying CD quality for more than the price of a CD? I'll just buy the CD, pop it in my CD drive and five minutes later I've got the same digital FLAC copy on my drive. I guess some people must really dislike CDs or something, but the proposition of paying more for less is beyond absurd to me.

Of course the record companies/book publishers/etc. say that the costs for the physical media and shipping pale in comparison to the costs of making things in the first place. But that would explain digital being only, say, 50 cents cheaper. It doesn't explain being several Euros more, does it?

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Reply #1787 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
Meanwhile, on Qobuz the CD quality-download costs one or two Euro... more than the physical CD.
That's the wrong way round surely. No sleeve. no liner notes and no lyrics and you're expected to pay more for it.  ???
That is totally bonkers!  :eyes:
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1788 –
Quote from: Luxor on
That's the wrong way round surely. No sleeve. no liner notes and no lyrics and you're expected to pay more for it.   ???
You do get those on Qobuz as a high-quality PDF. It's not as bad as that. ;) Also, if you buy the high-quality audio you get the "mere" CD quality for "free" as well.

I'm quite satisfied with the few purchases I've made on Qobuz while they were on sale. A few digitized records from the 1950s in excellent fidelity. The records from the BNF (French national library) were deposited there back when they came out and basically sat around being well-preserved until they digitized them. You can also listen to most of them in not half-bad quality for free on YouTube in order to fully inform your purchase. (That's just about the BNF; not Qobuz in general.)

I also bought some modern recordings, like an interpretation of Chopin by Kotaro Fukuma and piano sonatas by Haydn interpreted by Hiroaki Takenouchi. Truly excellent.

Anyway, all that was on sale for a few Euros each. I definitely like their approach. No DRM, high quality audio with everything you expect (PDF booklet, etc.). But, presumably because of the record companies, the standard price is just too high to be of interest.

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Reply #1789 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
You do get those on Qobuz as a high-quality PDF. It's not as bad as that.
Not quite the same as having the real thing in your hands though.
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Anyway, all that was on sale for a few Euros each. I definitely like their approach. No DRM
That is a plus point, free to use it on any device you want then I suppose. Still think I'll stick to CDs for the foreseeable future though.  ;)
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1790 –
Quote from: Luxor on
Still think I'll stick to CDs for the foreseeable future though.   ;)
So do I. But Qobuz (and one or two competitors) is the only digital music that isn't hugely inferior to CD. You do have to treat your data more carefully of course. Anything that's only on Qobuz' servers if or when they go bankrupt is something you don't have. Fifteen years ago I used to copy my CDs on CD-R for actual listening; now I listen digitally. I pretty much missed the era where CDs were just what you had. They've always largely been storage to me. (I mean, I guess you could copy them on tapes but that'd sound worse…)

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Reply #1791 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
(I mean, I guess you could copy them on tapes but that'd sound worse...)
You would probably find it hard to find a cassette player nowadays, I know they are almost impossible to find here. Which is a pity as I still have a lot of them in a cupboard somewhere.
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1792 –
I actually bought a ~$20 USB cassette player (also usable as a walkman). :P

It was somewhat of a spurious decision and I haven't even tried it out yet. Problem is I only have tapes I'd rather not see destroyed and I want to try it on some old harmless tape first. :-D

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Reply #1793 –
Speaking of buying things, I decided to hop onto a Chinese wholesale and buy a basic MP3 player for not much money), hopefully it arrives by the end of January. I prefer using an actual MP3 player over my phone for listening to music, probably because I'm forced to use iPhone by my parents (they won't let me use Android because of bricking it being likely knowing me), and it's a pain to transfer music through iTunes...

I also bought a PS1/PS2 to USB adaptor for £2 there. Hopefully that works.
Jamie Fibel | whiteneko21

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Reply #1794 –
Welcome to the forum @whiteneko21  :up:
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1795 –
Thanks @Luxor! ^_^
Jamie Fibel | whiteneko21

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Reply #1798 –
Happy New Year to everyone here in this forum!