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Share new music you have recently acquired. Thread idea stolen from "Recent gaming purchases."

I've lately taken a delve into the digital music market. I can't believe I got around without iTunes all my life. Great tool.

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I purchased disc 2 for $4.99. Recording quality isn't all that great, but there's a wealth of intelligence to the music. This particular concert consists of a small bulk of jazz standards which Coltrane renditions into something so unique to the fire of his playing. Four of the five tracks are standards, where the fifth is another performance of his famous arrangement of "My Favorite Things."

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This set was released just last month. Over 5 hours of Chopin for $7.99, in which over half the pieces are performed by Abbey Simon, a definitive virtuoso of our time. Quite the steal.
 
Music purchase? What the **** is this, the 90s?
 
I still buy CDs, but mostly classical music. Searching for the right conductor and orchestra can be a bitch online.
 
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Insurgentes by Steven Wilson. Great album, especially the first song which is now probably in my top 10 all-time favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BClzBQmZZBc

It was my first experience with the iTunes store too. Don't really like it, but I suppose it works. Actually, not quite. It didn't fully download two songs, but left them without ID3 tags in a temporary downloads folder, so I had to manually tag them. Why music stores don't follow a Steam model where your purchased songs are tied to your account, allowing repeated downloads, rather than being a one-time download thing is beyond me.
 
Because it's impossible to download high quality music

gg
 
I purchased Stop What You're Doing by Untold from Beatport, for 99 cents. After trying to download it three times and having the download fail halfway through every time, I gave up.
 
Dalamari said:
Because it's impossible to download high quality music

gg
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sorry, but vinyl beats the shit out of internet download, vinyl rip or not. nothing beats the physical.

enjoy your sterile sounds.
 
jet_porkins said:
This set was released just last month. Over 5 hours of Chopin for $7.99, in which over half the pieces are performed by Abbey Simon, a definitive virtuoso of our time. Quite the steal.
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I considered buying a Chopin cd for $5 from a cd shop last week (which isn't really a "shop" but rather a couple of small bookcases of cd's inside a very small used bookstore). But the plastic case had some icky-looking gunk on it. I probably would've been more inclined to buy the cd if it came without the case.

Anyhow, I think the performer was Andre Watts. Would you happen to know if his recordings are good? I don't listen to enough classical music to know.

KineticAesthetic said:
I purchased Stop What You're Doing by Untold from Beatport, for 99 cents. After trying to download it three times and having the download fail halfway through every time, I gave up.
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This just reminded me of the last time I got 99 cent cds with a bunch of friends as a joke. Somehow I ended up with a Barbara Streisand cd where she sings a pretty crappy version of Moon River.
 
knut said:
sorry, but vinyl beats the shit out of internet download, vinyl rip or not. nothing beats the physical.

enjoy your sterile sounds.
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knut said:
hi I am still for some reason under the impression that vinyl is the superior medium for music and I will not stop reminding people of that until all of you agree with me and are impressed by my collection of giant plastic disks that I need a huge ****ing machine to play and basically never get any use unless I'm at home by myself and want to think I'm cool and keepin' it real
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WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO STICK YOUR DICK IN A GIANT VAT OF ANALOGUE, YOU PRETENTIOUS WANK

I'm just kiddin' babe, you know I love you.
 
I'd love to hear a proper vinyl. The Beatles or something.

The old skool way. I keep hearing people say the sound quality is unbeatable, but Ive yet to hear it.
 
I won't deny that it's impressive when you're actually listening for it - we played half of DJ Shadow's Endtroducing on vinyl at my radio station, and on the incredibly high-end monitors it sounded absolutely amazing. But I can guarantee that in almost all other situations, it's really not going to be something you can pick out.
 
KineticAesthetic said:
WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO STICK YOUR DICK IN A GIANT VAT OF ANALOGUE, YOU PRETENTIOUS WANK

I'm just kiddin' babe, you know I love you.
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but... every word you put into my mouth there is pretty much the truth and undeniably the better way to listen to music. it's not the current medium because everyones ****ing dumb as shit these days and doesn't appreciate quality sound, great packaging, fantastic art direction and design and most importantly COLOUR DISCS.

no doubt i listen to music on my computer, but i'll run it down into the ground and the dirt anyday when it comes to comparing it to vinyl, no matter how expensive and a minor hassle the whole process is.

**** y'all well we have vinyl listening parties anyway. last night we got incredibly blazed and listened to trouser jazz.

edit: oh jesus christ this relates to both the discussion and you KA but NEW AUTECHRE. what the ****, i had no idea. acquiring now, also stumbling around my room looking for my card to put a order in for the vinyl. ohmanohmanohmanohman
 
I think the last music I bought was Life of the World to Come by the Mountain Goats. I should buy more music.

Actually, I haven't even been listening to much music lately. I should get my iPod properly fixed so that I can put new stuff on it.
 
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Thinking of buying Emancipator's new album too.
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knut said:
last night we got incredibly blazed and listened to trouser jazz.
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****ing hippies.
knut said:
edit: oh jesus christ this relates to both the discussion and you KA but NEW AUTECHRE. what the ****, i had no idea. acquiring now, also stumbling around my room looking for my card to put a order in for the vinyl. ohmanohmanohmanohman
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HOLY SHIT
 
it's really really good

it reminds me of amber. really chill waves and soothes. lovely stuff.
 
Kinslayer said:
It's usually a lot harder to find a high-quality torrent than it is to just buy it.
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Yeah, okay Richie Rich.

knut said:
sorry, but vinyl beats the shit out of internet download, vinyl rip or not. nothing beats the physical.

enjoy your sterile sounds.
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Vinyl made today isn't going to sound better than your digital recordings. Most music is made digitally now, so before the music gets put on that vinyl it gets converted from digital to analog anyway, actually screwing the quality up.

So enjoy your shitty vinyl, my 320 Kbps MP3s sound perfectly fine and represents the original recording much better. And if I wanted to add a vintage static effect to my digital recordings thats very easy to do (but Im not a fan of static, sue me).
 
you obviously have no idea who hydra head records are.

of course there's shitty vinyl out there. no ****ing shit, much like there is goddamn amazing digital downloads and are also really ****ing bad ones. that isn't to say that vinyl of today is rubbish compared to yesterday. there's tons of great presses out there printing proper good vinyl.

right now i'm enjoying zozobra by old man gloom on vinyl and it's far, far superior to the CD and digital rips. suck it.
 
Kinslayer said:
It's usually a lot harder to find a high-quality torrent than it is to just buy it.
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..No.
It's not.

Not that I know or anything but the only music that's reasonably hard to find is gospel.

Infact, FLAC might be even higher quality than what they stick on the CDs.
 
knut said:
you obviously have no idea who hydra head records are.

of course there's shitty vinyl out there. no ****ing shit, much like there is goddamn amazing digital downloads and are also really ****ing bad ones. that isn't to say that vinyl of today is rubbish compared to yesterday. there's tons of great presses out there printing proper good vinyl.

right now i'm enjoying zozobra by old man gloom on vinyl and it's far, far superior to the CD and digital rips. suck it.
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The point is not how it is pressed. The entire argument people have as to why vinyl is better is that it is a truer more original represenation of the original recording. This could have been true back in the day (I really dont think it was, but I never really listened to old records so I wont make assumptions) because music back then was recorded in analog. So you didn't lose any of the information by converting to digital for a CD or other digital format. But today it simply doesn't apply. Somewhere along the way the track will be processed digitally. When that happens when the record goes back to be pressed on vinyl it is being done from the digital recording taking away any advantages vinyl might have had. Any sound quality advantages you think you hear are in your head, using some basic filters you could produce the exact same sound off a MP3 or other digital media.

And no, I don't know what hydra head records are but wikipedia tells me they were founded here in my home state. Other than that I don't see what that has to do with anything (aside from the fact that metal music sucks ;) ).
 
my point was that hydra head, and similar other renowned record labels, presses and distributors, are still going strong in making good quality vinyl. i don't give a shit about your technical bullshit on music that you like that sounds bad on vinyl. i find a good majority of the music that i like to be much better, so get the **** back in line with your ''enjoy your shitty vinyl'' snarks. oceanic by ISIS disagrees with you.

you obviously didn't even research that very well if you think that it's a just a simple metal label that you can ignorantly sweep over with a metal sucks comment, as it's so, so much more than that, and a whole different kettle of fish to what i imagine your conception of metal to be.
 
You can piss all over the quality of digital music and I can't say anything bad about vinyl? My apologies, I forgot being an audiophile was a religion these days.

You can listen to whatever you like. I'm just pointing out that if you took a digital recording, mixed the stereo channels to eliminate true stereo seperation and add a little bit of compression it would sound just like a vinyl record. Of course nobody would do that because side by side the compressed track would sound like shit. But if you just listen to the compressed recording for some reason people think the quality is unbelievable.

And calm down on the metal stuff, I was just joking. As much as I do think it sucks I listen to rap, so I can't really talk shit now can I?
 
No Limit said:
You can piss all over the quality of digital music and I can't say anything bad about vinyl? My apologies, I forgot being an audiophile was a religion these days.
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all my vinyl sounds better than it does on cd or digital. what the **** is the major malfunction here. that said, i didn't piss over anything - i use digital all the time, i just prefer vinyl quality. i don't get what's going on here.

You can listen to whatever you like. I'm just pointing out that if you took a digital recording, mixed the stereo channels to eliminate true stereo seperation and add a little bit of compression it would sound just like a vinyl record. Of course nobody would do that because side by side the compressed track would sound like shit. But if you just listen to the compressed recording for some reason people think the quality is unbelievable.
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because sometimes it just... is. look, i'm taking the ground here that states there is obviously bad vinyl - sometimes shit gets pressed that was simply made for cd or digital download especially and is then made into vinyl because it's an expensive market and has gained quite the following - but there's a **** ton of great vinyl out there. i'm being levelheaded here because in no way is it possible for me to have listened to all the vinyl and then decided upon it all being really good or really nothing special, the latter somehow being your argument. i would implore you to listen to some certain records, amongst many, before generalizing so much.

And calm down on the metal stuff, I was just joking. As much as I do think it sucks I listen to rap, so I can't really talk shit now can I?
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i ****ing love rap, do you want to start a fight about that too? because i don't like the attitude you've just taken with it. **** son, have some goddamn pride in what you listen to.
 
To each his own, I haven't seen anything "scientific" that could explain how vinyl could have better sound quality, in fact the evidance seems to point in the exact opposite direction. But it is true that I'm not a hardcore vinyl listener, in fact the last vinyl record I listed to was with my ex-ex girlfriend many months back since she was in to that shit. She had hundreds of records, I don't know how they were pressed or wether her system was good enough, but to me the quality wasn't as great as people make it out to be (although it was better than I expected).

And wow, someone here likes rap, I'll be damned. I have a lot of pride in rap, I was just trying to be funny.
 
Acepilotf14 said:
Infact, FLAC might be even higher quality than what they stick on the CDs.
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FLAC, ALAC, WMA Lossless, and WAV are all indistinguishable from eachother.

You can download ALAC with iTunes, not sure about CD's. CD's are much more expensive and I usually only get them for really obscure stuff. Besides: What you're downloading is usually a CD rip, so I don't understand what point you're trying to make.

And for the record, I just searched for about 15 minutes for one of my favorite albums in good quality - no dice.
 
I actually have a pseudo-scientific theory as to why vinyl might feel better to listen to.

But lol @ you guys arguing. Who gives a shit. If you enjoy the music, have at it.
 
Viperidae said:
If you enjoy the music, have at it.
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that's kind of been my point throughout the entire discussion. i enjoy it better in this particular way, no limit just thought it'd be clever to get all up in my shit and claim vinyl to be inferior.

i disagreed.
 
"get all up in my shit", damn, I love this guy.
 
dfc05 said:
I considered buying a Chopin cd for $5 from a cd shop last week (which isn't really a "shop" but rather a couple of small bookcases of cd's inside a very small used bookstore). But the plastic case had some icky-looking gunk on it. I probably would've been more inclined to buy the cd if it came without the case.

Anyhow, I think the performer was Andre Watts. Would you happen to know if his recordings are good? I don't listen to enough classical music to know.
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He's a very safe bet.

Two of Chopin's etudes (be sure to watch the second-half. "Revolutionary" is a beast) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brbsdE70A2g

A bit of research reveals that he's a professor of music at Indiana University.
 
good god

i mean seriously

but anyway to get us back on track, my recently acquired:

four tet - there is love in you (actually surprised me, as in it wasn't shit like i expected it to be based off my feelings for his past records

peter gabriel - scatch my back
throats - throats
blakfish - champions
washed out - life of leisure
wu-tang clan - return of the wu
cable - gutter queen
set your goals - this will be the death of us

a good week for music.
 
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