Comments on: With which medium do you listen to Ska music?

By: Interview with Matzge Broeckel from the German Ska Label Pork Pie Records about the effects of free downloads | Words And Music

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:42:56 +0000

[...] dwindled. Today people mostly use mp3s to listen to music, which was confirmed for the Ska fans in a recent poll on joescholes.com. It’s easy to download mp3s from the Web without paying anything. Many record companies [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:21:02 +0000

Hi Jon,
that’s more or less what I do. Buy CDs, convert them for the use in the computer (and ipod) and let them catch dust. Not sure whether this is clever, but I think mp3s are more expensive than they should be. My favorite way to spend money on music would be: Buy vinyl in connection with the right to download the songs. Never really liked cds, my heart is with vinyl.
Anyway, thanks for your comment.
Joe

By: roger

roger — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:29:49 +0000

I personally like cd versions for the album art work hehe.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:16:17 +0000

I put .mp3 since technically I only listen to digital music files. I rarely buy music digitially however. I buy CDs, encode them (Lossless for the stereo, compressed for the iPod), and file the CD away as a backup copy. I prefer a couple things about CDs, first the liner notes, and secondly sound quality (with CDs I can control the quality of the digital music I use). I own thousands of LPs and 45s but I almost never purchase that format anymore for the two simple reasons – I filled up my record shelves and don’t want to (and the wife probably wouldn’t let me) get additional storage and digitizing vinyl is a pain. I’ve done a few hundred of my albums and have a 10 year plan to get them all encoded digitally, since that suits the way I listen to music more (commuting to work, at work, in the kitchen when I’m cooking, etc.)