Jon Lai wrote: ↑I know there are some sites out there but selection is still quite limiting. And to be quite honest, if it costs the same or more to download than it does for me to get the physical medium, I'd rather get the physical medium, rip it myself, and store it somewhere. At least that way if something happens I still have a reliable backup.
HDTracks.com has many albums that are 192/24 and 96/24. For backup purposes, I just copy them to an external backup drive.rabbit wrote: ↑> CD's cost the same amount as online albums. I still like collecting discs. That being said I don't buy too many CD's anymore. As a fan of rock music there isn't too much new music I like.
Ditto. Pretty much all the stuff I buy now are reissues/remasters/anthologies.
And agree that digital download prices are a ripoff, when compared to a CD. Another sign of the music industries retardedness is how they still use CD-DA standards for digital downloads. They could be offering higher resolution lossless downloads, at least for newer stuff. Why limit everything to 44.1/16?