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In Reply to: RE: Chris Sommovigo: The Great Digital Swindle posted by Tony Lauck on April 18, 2014 at 10:49:28
"Article was verbose, told many anecdotes and didn't make one clear point, hence the confusion in some quarters."
I guess that is possible. But IMO the gist was that we are just paying for air. What is the real value, and cost of digital D/Ls...
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if your music collection consists entirely of downloaded music, which for many of us is doubtful, then when the time comes where you have to liquidate things to pay the bills, or feed the kids, or hire a great defense attorney to keep you out of Club Fed, you're going to be shit out of luck trying to sell a hard drive, or memory stick full of those downloads on Ebay, or on our 'For Sale' section here on Audio Asylum.
You'll stand a better chance selling things that are tangible, or at least more tangible than a HD, or MS, with nothing solid inside, except magnetic platters and silicon.
His mistake is in thinking that most people only have D/Ls for their collection, or that they've sold off their LPs and CDs after dumping their contents onto said HDs, or MSs.
He does have a pragmatic point and I've seen people selling older iPods with large libraries on them, basically giving the device away for free and ehhh...it's just not the same and things take longer to sell, if they sell at all.
At least if I offer up my CDs/LPs, I might be able to group items by band, format, or genre, selling them in batches, finding more buyers for more items.
Putting a storage device up for sale, even one with the highest musical resolution and greatest fidelity, might present a problem, so recouping one's investment might be a bit more difficult.
An example for me, might be my preference for buying vacuum tubes with their original boxes. Back in my tube buying days, I would pay a 'small' premium for tubes with their original boxes, if I had the option. It was worth it to me, to have those boxes as part and parcel of the entire package, even though they didn't matter one bit in the overall scheme of things. I've sold a few of them over the years and having those boxes made things sell more quickly.
Chris
Kids will starve to death (most likely), or will have an advanced dystrophia - in best-case scenario.
my LP, SACD, DVD~A and CD collection is worth a pretty penny on the open markets.
Whether your HD, or MS is worth as much as my 'hard copies' is debatable.
I bet that I come out ahead, is all that I'm proposing.
Chris
One in MP3, another in FLAC - both converted to WAV for listening.
The rest is ripped from ~1000 CDs, which I of course still own, and not planning to part with.
I'm selling CDs, that I don't listen to, on Amazon, currently about 50 titles. Most are sitting there for YEARS, but my (and my prospective customers) musical tastes are pretty unique.
Although I downloaded 3 year's worth of alternative music on EMusic.com, I pretty much still have my records going back to high school and my first CDs bought in the summer of '85 (Siouxie & The Banshees and Jean Michael Jarre!).I'd sell off all of my stereo equipment before I'd even think of selling off my software.
I have stuff that's long out of print and probably can't be had without a lot of searching and money.
If I had to, I could sell off my music collection of LPs, CDs, SACDs and DVD~As and probably make a substantial profit.
I think that's mostly what the author is saying, with regards to a HD/MS full of music.
Chris
ETA: grammar
Edits: 04/22/14
What is the difference where you store digital music? Who cares whether it is stored on a Compact Disk, Hard Drive or Thumb Drive?
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that you cannot legally resell the purchase of downloaded music where you can with media. Therefore, downloaded music has no intrinsic value. My LPs and CDs, on the other hand, do have potential cash value.
On the other hand, the ease of replication makes acquiring "evaluation copies" much easier. :)
Which is almost meaningless in my book. When I go to a Music Concert I don't expect to sell the experience to someone else.
When I buy music, if I get to listen to it multiple times, it has fulfilled every expectation that I have.
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some folks view their music library as a collection. Much like those who collect coins, comic books, stamps, baseball cards, etc.
I'm guessing there aren't many in the latter hobbies who do so with digital copies. :)
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