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Went to the Norah Jones concert in Washington, DC on Monday night (it was really fantastic) and purchased the opening act's (M. Ward) LP (Postwar) which was for sale. When I opened the packaging, I realized that the company (Merge Records) includes a coupon for a free download of the album in MP3 format. So for one price, you get the vinyl format for your real listening sessions, but you also get the digital format for convenience/portable listening. I think that if the other record companies took this approach when selling vinyl, you would see a much larger resurgence in sales of vinyl.Does anyone know of other companies offering this type of packaging?
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While I am for any freebies that are thrown in when purchasing new vinyl. I am not sure I would want to download what is most likely a 128 kbps file when you can record the LP itself without any compression (us Mac users can rip it as an AIFF file) then convert it to a higher quality file say 320 kbps for dumping on your iPod. That way you get high quality in the form of uncompressed and reasonable quality for the 320 kbps file.Jeff
While I agree with you and sometimes I do in fact record from vinyl into higher quality digital music formats, it is still a PITA vs downloading the music right into iTunes, etc. As storage becomes less expensive and connectivity becomes better, lossless formats will be the order of the day for all sites, making recording from vinyl even less compelling.Most music companies shy away from vinyl because it has comparitively small market share, isnot "convenient" and/or portable. If they can take away the convenience and portability argument by handing over the corresponding MP3s (maybe in lossless formats) when people purchase the vinyl, it can only be good for vinyl sales and the subsequent greater interest in the new vinyl market by the music companies.
There are a lot of unused turntables out there because people don't think they can still buy records.
The new Shins was like this, and I kinda sorta recall some others as well as already mentioned, all on indie labels.If I could buy everything like this, I'd be needing an Ipod so I could listen to vinyl at home and just download everything as MP3s for the road.
Lots of bands are doing this now... Buy a CD and get the right to download 10 B sides off a dedicated site. Fans think they are gettin somethin special & get to hear material that mighta been tossed in the trash.
And Jet gave you something, but I haven't bothered.
Polyvinyl, Saddle Creek, Secretly Canadian (who for a while used to include a CD copy with some of their vinyl releases) are the ones that come to mind immediately.
I believe all new Sub Pop, Saddle Creek, Merge and maybe Matador plus many more indie labels are doing this. Unfortunately none of the majors are because most of their releases they licence to vinyl only labels and the majors WANT YOUR MONEY so they'd rather the buy the same music twice.
The newest Yo La Tengo and Calexico albums had this. The new Wilco album coming out includes a CD too (instead of giving a link to downloads).
---James
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