--- Static Beats <idm-list@staticbeats.com> wrote:
quoted 3 lines Man you guys. I had the exact same experience.
> Man you guys. I had the exact same experience.
> I was stoked to get Vespertine months before the
> release date
...
quoted 3 lines When it got a full release in the shops I picked it
> When it got a full release in the shops I picked it
> up and it
> sounded much different than the Soulseek version.
Mr. Knowles replied to me that there are at least two
versions of Vespertine on Soulseek, a rough promo
version, which appeared some time ago, and the Japan
version, which does apparently have some different
track titles or something. I don't know, but he
called the situation confusing, and I agree.
quoted 9 lines So can anything be learned from this? Like free
> So can anything be learned from this? Like free
> music doesn't
> stop people from buying it in the shops? How many of
> you are
> *not* going to buy Drukqs because you already got it
> on Soulseek?
> Same thing with Confield - did you buy the full
> release after you'd already
> had it on MP3 for a few months? I certainly did.
Um, actually, I'm on a pretty tight budget lately, and
I'm not buying a lot of music that I manage to find on
Soulseek. I prioritize based on what I really really
really want to have. I wasn't gonna buy Vespertine
until I realized that what I had wasn't the real
thing. There are a few things I've downloaded from
Soulseek that I'm just not going to buy, that I might
have normally. On the other hand, there are
occasionally things that I normally wouldn't have
bought, but upon hearing the MP3s, I simply must have.
Although on my budget right now, that's amended to be
"I simply must have them ... some day..."
And of course there're always those things that I
think will be great, but I download and quickly become
glad that I didn't spend money on them!
quoted 2 lines old debate but damn, I'm so sick of the lackluster
> old debate but damn, I'm so sick of the lackluster
> quality of 128k MP3's
Definitely. That's why I encode everything with Lame
using the VBR setting endorsed by www.r3mix.net ...
not that I'm an audiophile; I'm sure it still doesn't
sound as good as real CDs, but it sounds good enough
to me.
-adam
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