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Under what circumstances will you or won't you buy a CD or download of something you already have on LP?
If you have the CD (or download) first, under what circumstances will you or won't you buy the LP?
For me, there are two major factors (presuming it's a score I care about in the first place):
A) Will this sound remarkably better on CD? Is the lp a bad-sounding recording from the 1960s that would greatly benefit from a remaster. This is generally more often the case for film music than for other genres (oft times with '70s rock albums, the pristine digital remasters end up removing a lot of the grit that made these albums iconic in the first place).
B) Is this likely going to be something I'm going to want to listen to outside of the house? Is it an "album" album that I'm only going to really want to sit through and play all at once in the comfort of my living room, or is it something that I'll want in my iPhone to play on the metro, in coffee shops, running errands, etc.? And if so, do I care about this album enough that access to it on Spotify won't be enough.
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Feb 27, 2017 - 9:10 PM
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OnyaBirri
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Thanks all so far.
I've been buying and listening to LPs all my life. While I had accumulated quite a few by 1990, the 90s was the decade that I did most of my LP buying. Everyone was unloading them. While I had soundtracks prior, the 90s was also the decade when I really started focusing on soundtracks.
(Does anyone else remember all the amazing vinyl deals in the 1990s? Especially with stuff like soundtracks about which no one knew anything or cared?)
If I have the LP already, I will get the CD if I really love the album. If the CD is expanded, I am more likely to pay higher prices; if it is a straight reissue of the LP, I will probably only opt for a less expensive used copy.
If I have the CD and not the vinyl, I will probably buy the vinyl only if I find a clean copy for a good price. In a few cases, with rare LPs that I have on CD, I have bought beat up copies if the price was right and the cover was in nice shape.
I have never taken an organized or purposeful approach to getting CDs of things I have on LP; in fact, I don't really take an organized or purposeful approach to music buying in general. It is based mostly on my current mood and what I happen to find.
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One hears less these days about LP transfers to CDR, probably because, as time elapses, people who do this have eventually transferred everything.
But, as long as it's not sold on or redistributed, and is for one's own use, it's a solution for many albums, and is very straightforward. Now, if you want to, you can remaster and remove clicks and noise etc., but I never really bothered with that. As a matter of fact, for some of those audiophile albums (such as was common with Jerry Goldsmith etc.), you can retain a lot of that certain 'warmth' that resulted, often subliminally, from background frequencies mixing with the bass layers. Removing clicks and pops is hard without losing hi-end, so why really bother? But you can amplify or avoid compression, or slightly enrich.
It's an option if you detect failings in CD remastering.
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I buy (actually mostly have bought) the stuff I have on LP when it is released on CD, since the CDs were both remastered with improved sound as well as usually more comprehensive in presentation. I usually don't buy CDs if they are just remastered from an LP I already have anyway. I do not buy LPs anymore, unless I really want it as a deco piece. But that happens very, very rarely (don't need much deco).
I don't buy digital downloads (yet?), as there are a number of things I don't like about them, though I digitize my own CD collection.
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...oh it's a hopeless neurosis. Just like Mr. Cleveland's Obsession obsession. Caramba! 
