What kind of music buying services do you use on the net

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Rhonda B♥

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I know I know, I SHOULD BUY VINYL!!! lol. But I am kinda interested in if ppl use anything else than Itunes to buy music, any services that offer anything better that I am not thinking about?


Shoot me your idizzles! :love:
 
eBay is the staple for me. Almost any CD or vinyl, all the way to band tshirts and rare posters - it's cheaper than anywhere else when you find the right seller. Just search what you want and arrange the list by price.

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Why should you buy vinyl? Is there some mandatory hipster law that says you must? I mean yeah the sound quality is awesome IF you have a good needle and the record is in good shape and you have a decent receiver and speakers. That seems like an awful lot of ifs to me for better sound quality, which largely attributed to why I stopped collecting and listening to vinyl. Anyways there's a site I use called amiestreet.com which has some really cool stuff on it, but it doesn't have everything. It's far cheaper than iTunes (for the most part) and usually the sound quality is around 320 kb/s.
 
I randomly just found one on facebook via a Variety story today. Scattertunes, they give you 320 kb/s and a bunch of bonus behind the scenes material for the same price.
ScatterTunes | Facebook

other than that, Amazon I guess. But I agree Itunes sometimes leaves something to be desired
 
Yeah, I feel ya. I like getting the little bonuses of buying a new release, I did notice that thing Paul was talking about (Scattertunes) tries to give you virtual extras like scanned lyric sheets, behind the scene video.

I am from the generation where it's just so much easier to buy it online, apposed to driving to the record store. lol
 
I have an iTunes voucher and I can't bring myself to use it :laughing:
Another thing too, I can quite often buy cd's cheaper than downloading, and while I'll probably never play the CD on a CD player, I still love them :rolleyes:

I'm 15, so people are a bit confused when they come in my room to see 30+ CD's on my rack, which I suppose is a collection for someone of the iTunes generation :rolleyes:
 
I pretty much avoid buying from iTunes at all cost (though I use it to organize my digital music). I rarely purchase MP3s, but if I do it's from:

- independent labels
- Amazon
- eMusic (not a meraber anymore, but it's a good deal)
 
Yeah really the download price vs. used CD price is ridiculous in most cases. Let's see...an overpriced digital file or a physical item that's a bit cheaper? Hmmm.
 
Vinyl is one of the few analog media left. I suppose that's why it attracts so much attention but in reality most LP players don't have the fidelity to take advantage of it, especially players produced after 1990 or so.

It definitely sounRAB better if you have the right playback equipment, but maintaining vinyl can be such a pain in the ass. An outboard digital-to-analog (DTA) converter is far more effective in reconstructing an analog signal, without any loss of signal due to analog signal processing.
 
i bought music a few times from independent labels or direct from artists, but only because it simply wasn't available anywhere else.

the other 160gb of music in my digital collection was acquired in more direct ways :D
 
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