Friday, October 15, 2010

Should labels drop the price of CD to £1 ?

Question: Hi Dig,




Andrew, Glasgow From:












Joaquim ghirotti said...

Dig as collector yourself (well you used to be) I think you belittle the importance and pleasure of collecting a little too much. I appreciate your, well, almost anarchist approach to the love of the music itself, you are saying that you don't care about showing off a fetishezed piece of vinyl, all you want is the music, going against the grain in current punk and metal which is all about the fetish, but there is something to be said about having a real record collection as much as there is to have a library, a museum with paintings, sculptures and real artifacts and not only a bunch of fucking .zip files you know? In my personal experience I learned much about books and music going through my father's record and book collection and there is something to be said for that. A piece of art is a real object not a compressed digital copy of it, and I'm not willing to leave my children a USB drive with my napalm death collection you know? I want them to have the physical, tactil experience of touching an album that was pressed in England, with pictures printed on the back and worn edges of earache shelves. Something which as also a witness of what it represents. I agree that the art matters so much more than any of the physical fetish and music literally speaks for itself, but a good record collection seems to me still very valid. Would you agree?

Anonymous said...

Spotify has not replaced my buying of CD's but I can't afford to buy 10 albums a month. Spotify means I can listen to that new music.

The only pain is it doesn't always appear on it Spotify. example is Grave Yard classics 3 by Six feet under or Elephant Riders by Clutch.

For a quid though, I'd buy 20 albums a month.