Mar

24

Digitally speaking, we’re on the edge of a revolution…

Filed Under Babbling, Music 

As you read this, I’m probably immersed in school work and just took a second to hit “publish” from my cell phone. But believe me, when I come back tomorrow, I’ll give full updates on the move and soon you’ll get all of the rants from me about how subleasing can be a pain and the stupid things I encountered…

Before even starting the move, I made a list of DVDs and CDs that I’ve been selling online through LiveJournal on some communities that I’m on there. We’re talking a list of over 140 albums that I’ve all digitized and no longer need or care for the CDs. Nope, don’t need the liner notes, and why the heck do I need to keep Boyz II Men’s II sitting around?

And then I started to think about how we all do that nowadays. Really, why do we need to worry about buying all of these CDs? Think of all of the space that they take up. Heck, I have almost 100 albums on my 4 gig iPod nano alone (just about 90, if you’re really caring), and if I were to carry that many CDs with me daily, I’d throw my back out. Have you ever stacked up that many CDs? You’re talking about a five to six foot tall stack of CDs.

So what’s really going to happen? Are we ever going to get rid of CDs? Where the hell am I going with this post? Nowhere. I’m sad because I spent $9-13 per CD and I’m reselling them for about $4 each. Considering I’ve named about 140 albums there? That means I’ve lost between $5-9 per CD. Over $500 that I spent on music that while I enjoyed it, in the long term I’ve lost the money on it.

I guess now that I realize it, here’s where my point is: the record industry tells us that we’re to buy more music and support all of these artists. I’d love to do just that, honestly I would. But I don’t have $500 to just throw away like that, and I shouldn’t have even done that in the first place.

And they wonder why folks download…

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