All I'm saying is that, for me, owning CDs is like being on the gold standard. Every AAC or MP3 on my phone or iPod represents a track on a disc in my basement. As storage becomes cheaper and huger, I can re-rip the music at higher and higher bitrates on and on into the future, until some weird spacey kind of format comes along that records a holographic movie of the artist in the studio, including the smell, along with the music.
The fact that my CDs are relegated to my basement vault kind of bums me out, because I used to really like making covers for home-made CDs. Yeah, technically there still is "album art" attached to the files I guess, but it's not as nice as a color print in the jewel case. Making a cover for a new mix of songs was part of the fun, as was the constraint of "how many songs will this disc hold?". A playlist can be as massive as you want. It kind of took away the challenge, and hence, the fun. I lament the death of physical media in my day-to-day existence.
Anyway, if I still needed to maintain a collection of "found images" for use as album covers, this fashiony ad thing from Life magazine would have been an excellent candidate.
The photo studio is lit about as romantically as a grocery store. I guess Mr. Eula spent most of his career shooting tool catalogs. If we're going to make a decently cheesy album cover out of this, it will need some vignetting or something. Observe...
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Is the lapdog the child of the rug, or is the rug crocheted from lapdog trimmings?
Th dog is a very well-fed, poorly-groomed rat. Thank you for your concern.
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This caught me by surprise, because I didn't first understand what you meant: "...represents a track on a disc in my basement. As storage becomes cheaper and huger..." I was still wandering in your basement archives until I tripped over that pile of old 50-meg drives.
Ya know, that 20-something realizing the short-term gains of a buck back for his ripped discs A.) may never be able to afford the luxury of his own basement storage, and B.) pretty much capsulizes why economic short-term gains have "fouled" the world's economic structure. (You may replace the word in quotes with a pithier word of your choice.)
Not only is ripping with a lossy format and then selling the disks stupid, it's also no different than copying and thus theft. With these morals, that kid probably went on to work for Goldman Sachs or the Fed (yeah, same thing).
This is the way I feel about LPs, and very glad I saved all of them.
Good on you, Sue. I hope you have a USB turntable. I'm tempted to buy one and start rebuilding my record collection.
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