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Hmmmmm. As Thor would posit....
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On Amazon.de they recently listed "Chinatown" for 20 $. You really had to take a closer look to read that is was a CD-R on demand. At this prize it is far to high. I don´t have any CD-R´s in my collection and i won´t purchase them in the future. It is like making a good colourcopy of a stamp instead the real thing.
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Jun 4, 2011 - 7:40 AM
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Joe E.
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...which is exactly what it is!
Oh no it isn't!
Care to elaborate?
There was no hidden meaning in my comment.
An official CD (to me) means factory pressed.
CD-Rs don't seem much different to home-made discs (i.e. copies, and not official).
My usage of "official" means the physical medium, and was not referring to its legal status.
But yes, I understand that your explanation is referring to the legalities of paying for the rights.
I guess in my head, it's the difference between an official download (i.e. licenced and paid for) compared to an illegal download (theft). Although the difference here is that you're still getting the same end product. Whereas an "official" CD compared to a CD-R is different.
Well, "official" would seem better applied to the legal status of a product than to its (perceived) durability. If you prefer pressed CDs to burned CD-Rs, I can understand (and I'm even with you on that), but the word "official" isn't the one I'd choose to use to indicate the greater desirability of one over the other - certainly not when there are other words you could use. Heck, if you really wanted to be dismissive of the CD-R version, you could refer to the pressed one as the "good" one or the "decent" one or the "acceptable" one. Alternately, you could go with just a neutral descriptive term - "the pressed disc," or "the non-CD-R disc," for example. But "official?" That doesn't really distinguish it from the other; you might as well refer to it as "the circular disc" or "the shiny disc" or "the one with the music on it."
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I've noticed several previously out of print scores have returned as Amazon CD-Rs including Mummy Returns, Home Alone, Field of Dreams, Lady in the Water, Sneakers and others. I guess its a good alternative than paying high prices for the original version in regards to Lady in the Water and Sneakers.
Nooo that is not a good option...
cd-r = bootleg and I would never pay for a cd-r (or a boot for that matter) the same goes to downloads on demand...A genuine CD is the only way and if I missed it and it´s OOP ánd I really wants it , I hunt it down...
I don´t buy the licence, I buy a genuine CD with music as a factory pressed CD and not something joeblow makes in their homebasement for all I know.
It+s a cheap way for labels to go with cd-r, that I´ll never support, and nobody can change my mind on that.
I rather give the studio 5$ and then hunt the CD down myself and they do not have to insult me with a CD-r
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