I'm 62. I wouldn't let a CD-R pressing stop me. Honestly, how long do you expect to live? I may have 20 years left, but the "loss" of files from a CD-R wouldn't stop me from buying it. Better to just find it streamed or by download.
It's because of attitudes like yours that some labels are fine with sending poor quality CD-Rs to customers, since they think they can get away with it. I guess you have no problems with labels being completely dishonest about what they are selling. If you ordered a high quality art print I suppose you'd be ok with receiving an inkjet printout from a desktop printer.
First listen to CD 2 from "Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Mystery Sonatas" performed by Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti on Harmonia Mundi.
On the turntable: Still going through my most recent thrift store finds. Borodin | Tchaikovsky - Saxon State Orchestra / Kurt Sanderling – Symphony No. 2 In B Minor/In The Steppes Of Central Asia | Romeo And Juliet Heliodor – HS 25061
Here you go: "Bach - The Art of Fugue" performed by Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque on Channel Classics.
On the turntable: Still going through my most recent thrift store finds. Chopin, Alfred Brendel – Polonaises Vanguard – VCS●10058
From a newly arrived 10 disc boxset Haydn 2032 vol. 1 Haydn Symphony 39 CW Gluck Don Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre Haydn Symphony 39 Haydn Symphony 1 Il Giardino Armonico Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Now playing: Vagn Holmboe - String Sinfonias I-IV "Kairos" - Camerata Wales, Owain Arwel Hughes - recorded 2009
Labels don't usually send out these CD-Rs but licensed operators like Presto. And it's because of my attitude and my full embrace of streaming and downloads that the industry will still exist. Also, if I am to get one of these CD-Rs, I would rip it to my hard drive and call it a day.
It's because of your attitude and your full embrace of streaming and downloads that the industry is collapsing. Except for the streaming companies who are making more than ever. Artists are making less than ever, unless they are mega sellers. But I guess you're ok with that as long as you can get all the music you want for a small monthly rental fee. And when you rip it to your hard drive and the hard drive fails, then what? You buy it again?
Exactly. That's what irks me. They should just be honest about that they are selling, so consumers can make a choice.
First listen to CD 8 from "The Complete Liszt Piano Music - Leslie Howard" on Hyperion. Album D'Un Voyageur, S156 II Fleurs melodiques des Alpes / III Parapbrases Faribolo pastour S236/1 Chanson du Bearn S236/2
LOL. I am doing exactly what everyone knows is the future of music reproduction. Hyperion joined Universal because of their short-sightedness when it came to streaming and downloads. It's not my fault, even though you'd like to make it so, that I alone am to blame for all of this. Artists get whatever money they agree to get from the companies. And I buy enough physical media that you probably pale in comparison to my purchases. I just plunked down $277 for the Pink Floyd 50th and I still buy SACD on occasion. Did you?
Not a surprise there. I do not see Presto making the capital investments to produce audio CD's for OOP CD's ...
Another from the estate sale. Issued 1989. Recorded 10/31 and 11/1-2, 1988, Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA. Producer: James Mallinson. Engineer: Jack Renner. Microphones: Bruel & Kjaer 4006. Digital recording processor: Sony PCM 1610 with Apogee Filters. Console: Benchmark Microphone pre-amp model M1A-4 x 4 +. Monitors: B & W 801 Matrix Series II. Amp: Threshold Model S/500 Stasis, Series II. Piano: Steinway D-150 from Pro Piano.
A very Mendelssohn morning. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, "Scottish" Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, "Italian" Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11 Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107, "Reformation" Kurt Masur Gewandhausorchester Leipzig 1987-1989
