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Jul 4, 2017 - 9:35 PM
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Solium
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People eat themselves, then regurgitate. Always. So, CDs kill vinyl - then the very people who killed vinyl bring it back because it's either hip or it's nostalgic. So, when these same people kill CDs just wait ten years and they will bring them back because it's hip or it's nostalgic. Thus it has been, thus it will always be. So it is written, so it shall be done.
I love the fact that, for the last 2-3 years, the true hipsters have been switching to AUDIO CASSETTES, because vinyl has gone too mainstream for them now. I mean there's a vinyl section in my local Whole Foods, haha, and when I was in a Cracker Barrel back east last month they even had a vinyl section. A CRACKER BARREL!!!
I think the audio cassette revival really started with the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack, which was released that way as a novelty, because it's a plot element in the film, but now Amoeba has a whole section of NEW RELEASE audio cassettes. It's crazy.
Funny that you mention Guardians of the Galaxy and it's revival of audio cassettes. There has yet to be a CD release for the sequel score. It is download only.
As for CDs versus other options, I'm with others on this board, or, at least, somewhere in the middle. I would switch to purchasing a lossless download with a PDF booklet if a CD version was unavailable. But initially I would be pretty unhappy about it. Call me old school, but I want a physical item in my hands.
I still have my Walkman. Never got into the iPod craze.
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For me it's easy - no cd, no purchase.
Same here!
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If the scores do not come out on CD I will not get it. simple
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double post the site is slooooow today
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Physical touchy-feely CDs for me, always. It's kinda funny we're even having this conversation. I mean, when people walk into your stately home and see your impressively vast library of literature lining all the walls, they don't go, "Sheesh! Couldn't you get all that on Kindle or something"?
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As film score fans, we know what is best for most listeners. We need to develop a consistent set of talking points to convince the rest of the world that they are doing it wrong. We can then prevent the manufacture of any future releases on vinyl and demonstrate to the rest of the world that CDs are what they want, because CDs are what film score fans want.
You, sir, sound like you have a good head on your shoulders!
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It is only in your hands for a short time, then you put it in your player and you listen to it. At that point the audio is all that matters.
Arguing semantics rarely makes someone sympathetic. A hard copy "in your hands" is the advantage, and it's precisely because the audio matters that you want reliable access to the music.
The advantages and disadvantages of the formats aren't going to change with the passage of time, even if we keep having this conversation every six months. Formats (still) aren't dying but if anything is getting closer, it's probably DVDs and Blu-rays. I'd be more concerned about playing CDs when they go, because players and computer drives might become less common. Perhaps significantly so.
That's the hardware that really matters if you consume physical media. And no, "consume" doesn't mean eat. 
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As film score fans, we know what is best for most listeners. We need to develop a consistent set of talking points to convince the rest of the world that they are doing it wrong. We can then prevent the manufacture of any future releases on vinyl and demonstrate to the rest of the world that CDs are what they want, because CDs are what film score fans want.
Your love of vinyl more than anything is very appropriate because at this point in time you sound like a broken record 
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