[citation][nom]Belardo[/nom]Er... no Jon Bon Jovi. Jobs didn't do it... he perhaps helped it with itunes.You're living in the era of LPs, tapes and CDs. When listening to an album was a chore (I still have my records - with nothing to play them on). Tapes always sounded like crap compared to an LP.A number of people here got it right.1- Much of todays music is crap.. with only 2~4 good songs per album.2- People/kids cant/dont want to spend $15 per album... when they can get a good amount of songs from 3-4 artist for the same money.3- Times change.... we're not in the 80s or 90s.4- Having a tiny MP3 player in your pocket (or phone) when doing a work out is great. FAR better than a skipping & scratching CD player and a tape-eating cassette player.5- We can fit thousands of songs in a smaller space of a 90m cassette tape. No rewinding, flipping or changing out a disc.If anything - having the ability to BUY exactly what songs we want, allows us to buy from more artist. And that is a GOOD thing.[/citation]
1) Even though 2-4 songs sound good now, in 15-20 years your tastes will change and you may discover that some of those crappy songs are really pretty good. I have a CD thats 25 years old (Dire Striats) and I used to only like 3 songs. Now I listen to the CD start to finish. I bet you will loose all your music when your HD (Hard Drive) gets hit by a virus or dropped. Either way let me know in 25 years how many $1 you lost.
2) A lot of CD sell for $8-$10. Thank you MP3s
3) Yes times changed. MP3s are easier to deal with as a medium, but the quality of the music is inferior to CD, SACD and LP (aka records/vinyl)
4) Your right about that. MP3s are great for carrying every where, but I don't think you can beat the sound of some amazing sound system blasting your favorite song at 122 db and heart pounding bass that shakes every organ in your body.
5) Not everyone wants their music to be portable and give up quality for quantity.
Someone said they don't have a record player to play their records but that is no excuse when there are lots of places to get a record. I bet most people don't know that vinyl or records have better sound quality than SACD and SACD has better sound quality than CD and CD are better than MP3s you get from iTunes (320 kbps). The only thing better than records are blu-ray audio sampled at 96Khz @24bits and higher.
Yeah FLAC is LOSS LESS and it takes more space than a CD. FLAC are usually sampled at 96-192Khz. And SACD and Vinyl can be found pretty easily on amazon. Even more so than SACD. Kid Rock here has both CD and vinyl.
http/www.amazon.com/Born-Free-Kid-Rock/dp/B003ZHQVJO/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=IH6SK6KCDYDMI&colid=24KZEYSPGHQH3