O/T Buying albums on ITunes

[onemanstandsthrax11]

Anyone besides me hate it. I mean I grew up buying Records, then tapes, then Cd's, but as long as I took care of them, I always had them. (Tapes being the worse medium, man they would not last). Anyways buying a album off ITunes just sucks because I feel like I really don't own it, being I am not holding it in my hands and I don't have the album artwork and such. It sucks too because I live in a area where you cannot just go and pick albums up anymore. Even new releases, Could not find the damned things anywhere!! So that being said, any opinions??

 

[Social Distortion]

I will never ever ever buy music in digital form.

 

[mrthrax]

Anyone besides me hate it. I mean I grew up buying Records, then tapes, then Cd's, but as long as I took care of them, I always had them. (Tapes being the worse medium, man they would not last). Anyways buying a album off ITunes just sucks because I feel like I really don't own it, being I am not holding it in my hands and I don't have the album artwork and such. It sucks too because I live in a area where you cannot just go and pick albums up anymore. Even new releases, Could not find the damned things anywhere!! So that being said, any opinions??

just use torrents

 

[KillerB]

That'd be the same as downloading it from iTunes, though. It's not a physical copy, and the only difference is that he didn't pay for it.

 

[motorpsycho]

Anyone besides me hate it. I mean I grew up buying Records, then tapes, then Cd's, but as long as I took care of them, I always had them. (Tapes being the worse medium, man they would not last). Anyways buying a album off ITunes just sucks because I feel like I really don't own it, being I am not holding it in my hands and I don't have the album artwork and such. It sucks too because I live in a area where you cannot just go and pick albums up anymore. Even new releases, Could not find the damned things anywhere!! So that being said, any opinions??

I buy albums on Itunes every now and then. I like to discover new music, and sometimes buy records based on reviews or word of mouth. In that respect, Itunes is ok because it's less expensive than a cd, so if an album turns out to be shite it doesn't feel like I've wasted too much money. If the album is really good, I can always buy a physical copy later...when it's on sale.

I always buy physical copies of must-have albums (a new Anthrax album would fall into that category). I usually order them from www.play.com.
They're fairly cheap and shipping is free of charge.

Not sure if they ship to the US though.

 

[ironmaidenfan09]

I never buy shit digitally. If I like a band enough to want to purchase their music I will either order the physical CD online and have it shipped to me or will find a store that has it.

Itunes really pisses me off. I don't even have an Ipod because I hate how structured the entire apple system is. How you have to use their own Itunes and it has all kinds of restrictions. Apple takes a fairly good chunk of the profit from a CD sale. By the time the artist gets paid its watered down so much that the profits are really small.

If I buy a song I want to own it and do what ever the fuck I want with it. Not have a company like Apple dictate what I do with it.

A physical CD I own. I can burn it, rip it, play it on any device etc.

I have the Droid X so that I can drag and drop music files onto my phone for playback. Don't have to fuck with Apple Itunes and Syncing anything. I can import / export any songs I want without some fucked up conflict. Or if I get a new computer I don't have to reinstall Itunes and have the content copyrighted or what ever the fuck in order to re- upload the songs to a new device or burn to a CD.

I despise Apple and Itunes and am so glad there finally are other legitimate solutions that people can use instead of Ipod.

 

[mrthrax]

similar to protools equipment,u can only use authorised stuff or it wont work,i think kid rock said he wont use itunes even acdc,they make 1 cent for every purchase or something like that...