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I buy my music, don't they want me to?

doodo!doodo!
edited January 2011 in General Chat
For a After Forever CD used on line they want me to spend 70 dollars!? That's ridiculous, at least meet me half way! :mad:

"Alice's Inferno"

I don't want to download buy it either...*sighs*

Comments

  • doodo!doodo!
    edited January 2011
    :mad:!!!!:mad::mad:!!!!

    Get this! I try one of those stupid download buy sites and I need to pay a fee to use their services so I back out. Then I try another one and a million windows open and now my computer is SCREWED UP!

    Why is it so hard to find a reasonable price for music!? Don't they want me to buy it!? What the ARGHGHGHGHGHAHHGAHGHAGHG~!

    :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::
  • HaydenHayden
    edited January 2011
    Let the hate flow through you.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited January 2011
    What download site did you try to use? Are you in some region where you can't use iTunes or Amazon mp3? Both have no general usage fee (aside from the per-song or per-album charge), and both are pretty safe and reliable.

    Is this the album you were looking for? The band "After Forever" doesn't appear to have an album called 'Alice's Inferno," but this one is "Alice's Inferno" by "Forever Slave," and Amazon does show a used CD version for $73, so either that's a very weird coincidence or you just mixed up the band name (both bands are foreign symphonic metal bands, apparently). Anyway, this is $7.99 on Amazon mp3, and $9.90 on iTunes.
    http://www.amazon.com/Alices-inferno/dp/B001F8P6DM/ref=tmm_other_title_0
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alices-inferno/id213366580

    You can't really complain about the absurd prices of used CDs, those aren't determined by the record industry or the band or anything, they're just arbitrarily decided by the owner of that particular disc. It's a bummer when a disc is out of print so buying used is the only option, but at least here it does appear to be available through legitimate download sites.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited January 2011
    Spotify + Independent record shops = Happy JedEx
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited January 2011
    I love Amazon MP3 store.
    DRM free music and NO LAME ITUNES!!
    (Just buy it, download it (downloader is user-friendly and pretty darn quick), back it up, and listen to it! :D)
  • taumeltaumel
    edited January 2011
    I like music live, music on LPs, musiv on CDs, music in uncompressed formats, music with lossless compression (like FLAC). I don' think it makes sense buying music in something like a mp3 format as well as if somekind of annoying DRM is involved.
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited January 2011
    RetroVortex wrote: »
    I love Amazon MP3 store.
    DRM free music and NO LAME ITUNES!!
    (Just buy it, download it (downloader is user-friendly and pretty darn quick), back it up, and listen to it! :D)

    This.

    Very very VERY this.

    iTunes might have a big music store, but the program itself sucks.

    Plus, I'd rather give a cut to Amazon than to Apple.
  • FoxhackFoxhack
    edited January 2011
    RetroVortex wrote: »
    I love Amazon MP3 store.
    DRM free music and NO LAME ITUNES!!
    (Just buy it, download it (downloader is user-friendly and pretty darn quick), back it up, and listen to it! :D)

    Unless you live in a country where it's not available. Like me.
  • taumeltaumel
    edited January 2011
    Amazon is really cool.

    The way they banned WikiLeaks from their servers was proof enough that they are the good guys and that you can trust them.
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited January 2011
    Foxhack wrote: »
    Unless you live in a country where it's not available. Like me.

    I feel for ya man.

    Amazon's game store isn't available for us British folk,
    and Impulse?

    Just no.
  • Hassat HunterHassat Hunter
    edited January 2011
    No, they don't want you to buy their music. They put bonus tracks on their CD's you can only get by illegal downloading, ask exhorbitant prices, and have stupid encryption on the disk preventing it from playing in your car/PC/whatever.
    They prevent Pandora from running in your country so it's even harder to find stuff you like...

    They make their money through taxing your Harddisk, CD's, MP-3's and other similar media. Since they get their cut from there (and then spread it to musicians that totally suck anyway and I never listen to) I happily pirate any and all music I listen to. Screw them. I do buy all my games and DVD movies though...
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited January 2011
    I had to import Take That's The Flood single from the UK since the Netherlands doesn't sell singles anymore.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited January 2011
    I tried Amazon Mp3 Dowloader...if it's really "encrypted" and I can't play it in my car, then it's game over...I'm sorry...
  • TromeritusTromeritus
    edited January 2011
    Nah, it'll work fine. I love AmazonMP3. Only thing is, iTunes has a somewhat bigger library. Higher prices aside, I'd give it a go for mp3s unavailable at Amazon if the Store didn't take so long to load and wasn't prone to freezing up.
  • KatsuroKatsuro
    edited January 2011
    I heard that Napster is pretty cool. It has some kind of music flatrate or something (meaning you pay monthly and listen to whatever you want, but you don't own it). But you also can buy the music.
    Never used it though.

    I use itunes because I'm lazy and it is convinient. I don't mind the "bad" quality since I'm no audiophile. I'm listening to my music through crappy/not state of the art headphones/speakers so I'm fine with the quality.
    What upsets me the most is that there is no EASY way to get back your legally bought music if doodoo hits the fan.

    I read some rumors (= no official statement) that some users were able to redownload the entire bought library of music after some conversation with apple itunes support team. I dunno if I should believe that or not.
  • taumeltaumel
    edited January 2011
    The problem is less beeing an audiophile like somekind of elitist, it's more about that once you had good headphones on your head, a good amplifier as well as some properly working ears, music changes in a way that you can listen to sounds you've never heard before because those frequencies were hidden and that music gets more intensive. It's hard to go back once you've experienced this. Contrary to loudspeakers luckily good headphones are kind of affordable.

    iTunes is easy to use but it makes me feel like a slave.
  • IronCladChickenIronCladChicken
    edited January 2011
    'The way they banned WikiLeaks from their servers was proof enough that they are the good guys and that you can trust them.'

    lol... Are you being ironic?
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