well look at dance music. Thousands upon thousands of records all released in faceless black sleeves. It started 20 years ago !
Interesting point about file retention. I read somewhere that a lot of cheaper CD-Rs only last for about 2 - 3 years before the quality slowly disintegrates. Not sure how, but I'm sure some tech people could source that. I mean, how much would you pay for a hard drive of say, 100 gigs worth of music that in essence could be duplicated in a very short time? People are paying 99cents for something that isn't actually worth anything in a material sense. It's an unusual step. -----Original Message----- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 July 2004 15:09 To: Toby Frith Cc: Ken Odeluga; placid; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Re: what's the most people are willing to pay for rekkids? > And at the same time where we praise artwork, gatefold LPs etc - we're > lapping up faceless mp3 files. hmmm kind of...in fact this is the biggest barrier to acceptance of DLs as a way of delivering music, isn't it? or is it an old-fart thing to want packaging? apparantly the 'kids' don't care about any of this (until their 200GB drive crashes and they lose their whole iTunes collection that cost em 10K, try and cover that with yer household/renter insurance :) ) robin...
