OK, when I scan my eyes across my CD collection, this is what I see:

Enya
Enigma
ABBA
ELO
Pink Floyd
The Beach Boys
The Prodigy
Catatonia [International Velvet]
Madonna [Ray of Light]
The Chemical Brothers
Ace of Base
2 Unlimited
Penulum [Hold Your Colour]
Tangerine Dream
Robert Miles
Craftwerk
Space [Spiders, Tin Planet]
Alisha's Attick [Alisha Rules the World]
Madness [Lovestruck]
Dope Smugglaz [Double Double Dutch]
Grove Armada [Best Of]
They Might Be Giants
Jem [Finally Woken]
Natasha Beddingfield [Unwritten]
Sonique [Hear My Cry]
Smashmouth
Gorillaz [Gorillaz]
Holst [The Planets]
Jerry Goldsmith [The Secret of NIMH soundtrack]
John Williams [Star Wars I soundtrack]
Howard Shore [LofR complete soundtrack]
Jeff Wayne [War of the Worlds]
The Trance Box
Trance Euphoria
Trance Anthems

I'm not entirely sure how that lot doesn't spontaneously self-destruct 
just by being in such close proximity to each other, but anyway...



So, what's in *your* CD collection?

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> OK, when I scan my eyes across my CD collection, this is what I see:

  Blog material again, eh?-)

> So, what's in *your* CD collection?

  I stopped buying any music CDs some years ago because I got totally
fed up with the music industry and its policies and its lobbying of
government (including the Finnish one), the two "Finnish RIAAs" (yes,
there are actually two, each one collecting money and harassing people
independently), the new Finnish copyright law (100% dictated by the
music industry) and all that crap.

  (This doesn't mean I pirate music. It means I don't buy it anymore.)

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Warp wrote:

>> So, what's in *your* CD collection?
> 
>   I stopped buying any music CDs some years ago because I got totally
> fed up with the music industry and its policies.
>   (This doesn't mean I pirate music. It means I don't buy it anymore.)

I stopped buying CDs because... I haven't heard anything worth buying 
for a very long time. The other day I bought Hold Your Colour (because 
it's mildly enjoyable), and Spiders (because I've always wanted to have 
it). That's the first time in about 2 years that I've bought anything...

I forget where now, but I saw some website about music piracy. Reading 
it, I found the following:

   "In 2005, music sales in the UK fell by 5%. Music piracy represents a 
significant global problem."

No attempt is made to demonstrate that sales fell by 5% *because of 
piracy*. Indeed, I'd be inclined to think it's got more to do with the 
absence of any decent music on the shelves...

OMG, I'M OLD!!! 0_0

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> No attempt is made to demonstrate that sales fell by 5% *because of
> piracy*. Indeed, I'd be inclined to think it's got more to do with the
> absence of any decent music on the shelves...

Music isn't any worse or any better than it was or will be. It's just that
there's an age period where listening and impressionability peaks. After
that, we become our parents.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>    "In 2005, music sales in the UK fell by 5%. Music piracy represents a 
> significant global problem."

  That's quite an amusing sentence since it contains so many non-sequitur
fallacies. For example, it contains an "affirming the consequent" fallacy:

  - If people pirate music, it decreases sales.
  - Sales have decreased.
  - Therefore, people pirate music.

  It also has a "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy:

  - People pirate music.
  - Sales have decreased.
  - Therefore, sales have decreased because people pirate music.

  How about "illicit conversion":

  - All music piracy decreases sales.
  - Therefore all decrement in sales is because of music piracy.

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> I stopped buying CDs because... 

...they're a bit old fashioned, aren't they?

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scott wrote:
>> I stopped buying CDs because... 
> 
> ...they're a bit old fashioned, aren't they?

Really? What makes you say that?

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Invisible wrote:

> 
> Really? What makes you say that?
> 

I understand your view of modern technology is an 8-track player with 
mechanical radio buttons for station memory :). So I'll explain:

CDs are old fashioned because people buy and download their crap music 
to their iPods now (those fashionable white boxes you see various 
teenagers walking around with) Music on CD has gone the way of the LP 
record. :)

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Mike Raiford wrote:

>> Really? What makes you say that?
>>
> 
> I understand your view of modern technology is an 8-track player with 
> mechanical radio buttons for station memory :). So I'll explain:
> 
> CDs are old fashioned because people buy and download their crap music 
> to their iPods now (those fashionable white boxes you see various 
> teenagers walking around with) Music on CD has gone the way of the LP 
> record. :)

Really? I wasn't aware it was possible to do that legally yet... oh, wait...

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> Really? What makes you say that?

Haven't used audio CDs for years now, not since I got rid of my old car that 
wouldn't play MP3 CDs.

On my PC I listen to MP3s that are stored on its hard drive.

In the kitchen I plug a USB memory stick into the mini-hifi system.

In my car I burn a CD full of MP3s - hopefully my new car will have a USB 
socket so I don't ever need to use CDs again.

In my sitting room I use the PS3 to stream music from my PC.

My CD player has been sat around unused for at least the last 5 years.

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