Re: [microsound] [OT] Glut of new cds of just no money to spend?

[Kassen <kassen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

izam studio writes;

> Its justa  transition
> period , people will buy cds until they lose all sense of material want  ,
> do you see humanity doing that soon ?

No, of cource not, and your note here touches on a point I´ve been thinking
about which might be somewhat related for some. I myself prefer vinyl over
cd in most cases. I´ve wondered about why this might be and one possible
explanation I came up with is that I can´t press vinyl myself. I can burn
cd´s if I want to, I can do this on the train if need be. Stronger even; if
I quickly need to be able to play some of my own work I will often burn a
cd, put it in the local system and afterwards either donate it to some
friend or simply throw it away. I am not unique in this, far from it.

 Vinyl is a different matter. Sure it has it´s limitations that come with
the strong points, sure those limitations are sometimes unsuitable for more
extreme types of music but the truth is that for any given release there are
a finite amount of copies, probably not that many for experimental music.
Suppose you release a record and suppose your label gives you a box of
copies, that´s 25 copies for a single 12". Suddenly, at least to me, the
medium on which the recording rests becomes important, you can give away any
number of cds for next to free while records have a certain value that
depends on how many there are left. For mp3 the only value is in the music
itself, cd´s have some amount of extra value that depends on the quality of
the disc and perhaps on the design printed on it but you can´t create exra
records without going through extra steps that are probably influenced by
the market to a uncomfortable degree if you can at all.

I´m not sure what effect it´s had on the general public but at least to me
personally the general availability of cdr´s at low prices has had a
enormeous impact on how I value the medium. The strange thing is that I very
rarely actually copy a cd.... I freely admit that on a conceptual level this
should plead in favour of mp3´s or at least digital media in general because
their value rests soley on the musical material but I find that on a
emotional level that doesn´t hold true at all.

My two cents on materialism,
Kas.



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