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How do you buy music?

Author: earspasm
Date: 2010-03-13 13:20

Question -- well, focus group really:

Do you still need full CD-length releases to consider a purchase, or would you pick up shorter 30-minute releases for 1/2 the price?

Is there some psychological need for a long-play to consider a recording a "real" release? Sometimes I personally feel there might be (but maybe it's just me).

Just trying to figure out what people want these days from their music-buying experience.

Thanks in advance!
Mike Lowenstern

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Re: How do you buy music?

Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-03-13 13:34

I am very relieved to hear that Pink Floyd has won a court case that forbid their publishers to rip single pieces out of a CD for marketing them separately.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10467622-261.html

In that spirit, I'd say "buy the whole CD".

--
Ben

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Re: How do you buy music?

Author: Tobin
Date: 2010-03-13 14:55

Hi Mike,

I would consider the 1/2 price 30 minute recording. I guess the issue would be where would I find it? How is it presented?

I will say that in listening to multi-movement works (or rock albums) that I do listen from the beginning, and rarely skip a movement/song. I never make playlists of multiple songs from multiple artists. So I guess I prefer the "album" experience.

James

PS: loved your performance at the NIU Clarinet Cornucopia years ago.

Gnothi Seauton

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Re: How do you buy music?

Author: USFBassClarinet
Date: 2010-03-13 15:08

I generally like to have the whole album. I will admit to using ITunes frequently, but when I do I generally buy the whole album rather than the one song I am listening to. Being a young one around here, I often view the other songs as a learning experience for what else is out there.

unless it is a 'classical' (I use that term very loosely) I rarely, if ever, buy music.

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Re: How do you buy music?

Author: NBeaty
Date: 2010-03-13 15:11

If you were to make a recording of a particular idea. Say that compositional idea produced only a half an hour's worth of music. That would be a complete album to me (although would be half the price for half the music).

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Re: How do you buy music?

Author: pewd
Date: 2010-03-13 15:14

I prefer to buy a full length cd over individual tunes.
I then download it to my computer, into itunes.
I keep the cd's indexed and filed away as a backup.

This in a house with a working record player, and a files full of 33 1/3 and 45 rpm records...

Most of my students (teenagers) prefer electronic delivery of music they buy.
Most of them do not routinely backup their computers fwiw.

- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas

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