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Originally Posted by Mutt
yes we did, the album art and notes/photos were a big part of the music buying experience when i was a kid. i hated moving on to cassettes and then CD's. lying on your bed listening to the music, holding the cover, looking at the cover art, reading the lyrics - big part of being a music fan/collector in the days of vinyl. very much like buying a hard cover book versus buying a digital version - the sense of touch, smell, actually bonding physically/emotionally with the product. makes me sad that that is disappearing.
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Nice additions to the music, not anything else.
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Originally Posted by bronco67
So that means now instead of 1% of people buying music, it's like 1.4%.
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Yes record sales up, revenue down. Because of the extra access to the Internet.
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Originally Posted by DWB
Yes they will. If you have something they can't easily get elsewhere, they will pay for it.
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Yes they will.
For most tastes the product is free everywhere, legal or not. For a tiny few they have to pay willingly or not and these markets are small in numbers of people who like it. Please point me to a mainstream product sector that can't be found for free. Not a brand name.