By the way: still a good investment! Go do it! Anyhow, previous research and my own experiments led me to write Getting the Best Bang for Your Byte seven years ago. I've recommended buying $200+ headphones and headphone amps for quite a while now. I'm not exactly an audiophile, but I like to think I have pretty good ears. So if you paid for a CD, you might be worried that ripping it to a compressed digital audio format would result in an inferior listening experience. That is, the uncompressed digital audio data contained on a CD is a nearly perfect representation of the original studio master, for most reasonable people's interpretation of "perfect", at least back in 1980. Stupid atoms!ĬDs, unlike DVDs or even Blu-Rays, are considered reference quality. I'll donate all the ripped CDs to some charity or library, and if I can't pull that off, I'll just destroy them outright. But I continue to love music and listen to my music collection on a daily basis. Note that I didn't bother ripping any of the DVDs because I hardly ever watched them mostly they just collected dust. The point of this exercise is absolutely not piracy I have no interest in keeping both digital and physical copies of the media I paid for the privilege of owningtemporarily licensing. My current strategy of wishing my physical media collection into a cornfield involves shipping all our DVDs to Second Spin via media mail, and paying our nephew $1 per CD to rip our CD collection using Exact Audio Copy and LAME as a summer project. The death of physical media has some definite downsides, but after owning certain movies once on VHS, then on DVD, and finally on Blu-Ray, I think I'm now at peace with the idea of not owning any physical media ever again, if I can help it. I'm with Merlin Mann on CDs:Īlthough I'd extend that line of thinking to DVDs as well. Daytime Dilemma (Dangers Of Love) - Eddie vedder & Zeeker/17.Lately I've been trying to rid my life of as many physical artifacts as possible. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - Peter Yorn/13. Something To Believe In - The Pretender/11. I Just Wanna Have Something To Do - Garbage/9. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Marylin Manson/8. Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio - Kiss/7. I Believe In Miracles- Eddie vedder & Zeeker/4. AWOL One/Abstract Rude/Josh Fischel/Transducer - Waiting For My Ruca/15. Mike Watt & Petra Haden w/ Stephen Perkins - Work That We Do/09. Michael Franti & Spearhead w/Gift of Gab - What I Got/03.
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