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Is the idea of owning your music now just as outdated as the LP?

© fensterbme© fensterbmeWith the new year brings new formats, so the Independent’s cyberman Rhodri Marsden has done a critique of the digitial world of music and questioned the relevance of our stacks of cds, cassettes and vinyl.

“There’s always a persistent, low-level chatter across the internet about revolutionary new ways to consume music. Record companies are constantly jockeying for position, anxious not to back an outlet for their material that might quickly be outmanoeuvred by some other groundbreaking idea. But over the past few weeks, many have signed agreements to give tunes away for free under an advertising-supported model…”

Click here to read the rest of the article and check out the links below to compare the best (legal) collections of music to play online, for free:

We7.com
Qtrax.com 
last.fm
iTunes

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One Response to “Is the idea of owning your music now just as outdated as the LP?”

  1. Mark Says:
    February 11, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    I’d still say that owning a vinly is a great thing. The space on a cd isnt exactly worthy of showing off any great artwork, whereas a vinyl is. I’d buy a vinyl purely for the artwork and then download the tracks/purchase(!) online as I can’t remember the last time I bought a cd…and I have stacks that just sit on shelf…gathering dust like everyone elses…

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