Hi there,
being new to AMIT, i can't help thinking what i have missed, all this time. Collecting is so much different than listening to, and i sometimes wonder if i could ever listen to all the stocked CDs and Vinyl i have, (not only MK/DS) at least once before i die. Since the bootlegs, silvers are not that hard to record and create, the collectible factor has to do with the quantities manufactured and the demand from collectors. But is it the item or the actual recording that inflates the desire? Do you think that you will fulfill your desire with a silver or with a CDR of the same content? I don't know, maybe it is a philosophical issue, and a psychological one, as well, but i do believe that some things will change with the internet downloading. I am older generation fan, vinyl mostly, don't like downloading that much, but i tend to think that the music is a form of expression - art that can truly be appreciated even without the actual object containing it. The enhanced feeling when you hold a record of your favorite artist with a shiny cover and a touch of detail that can (sometimes)worth the money paid alone with the music as an extra bonus. Paying money to download feels like paying for thin air, but then again do you remember your childhood days, when all the music that made you dream came from a one - speaker radio? Fantastic times(i confess that i wouldn't like to go back there, except if the world could go back as well. Pure things...)
Todd Rundgren said that musicians should make money by playing live music. This is the only way to fight downloading and burning CDs. And anyway, unless the artist sell millions, he usually never sees a dime from the record company. It is playing live and selling merchandise. Of course this alone is not a reason to make copies of your music and spreading them around. But wouldn't it be nice to buy them cheaper, say 5
