The Cure

Do you buy CDs or download MP3s?

I still prefer a cd for the artwork, lyrics and extras. there are lots of people downloading mp3s from torrents or blogs, which i hate. but how do you get your cure music?

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CD if available.

Digression:

CD's are tangible and generally better quality: 16bits @ 44.1kHz stereo (uncompressed pcm).

MP3's are usually compressed data whose sound quality is less than that of a CD.

It is easy to make MP3's from CD but you can't make CD quality sound from MP3.

Since portable sound players have always been great;and memory is so inexpensive, I transcribe from CD to microSD to play in a SanDisc Fuse portable player. The format I use is FLAC which sounds better than most mp3 formats and it is mathematically supposed to be lossless.

btw the first time I heard the Cure was March 1981 on a friend's hand held cassette player with built in mono speaker...they sounded great of course...even with the hissy tape and tiny speaker!

I had loved Cult Hero's "I Dig You" in summer of '80 while in Montreal. They must have played it on a radio station at least every hour when I was visiting. Didn't know it was RS at the time but his talent precedes him.

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I now buy CD's but did have a short spell downloading from itunes however it dawned on me I did not physically possess anything I had purchased so returned to buying CD's.
I had thought for sometime Cure fans are a minority to some extent, this feeling was increased when Bestival was released and all Cd outlets did not even have it on the stand for new releases......

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CDs!!!!!!

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For some music I download, but for The Cure I buy the CDs. Something about having the CD makes me feel secure. If my computer crashes, then I'll at least have the Cure.

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CDs and vinyls. There is something very attractive in the vinyl presentation. The bigger artwork, the record itself, etc.

Can't wait to get Wish remastered in both formats.

Also, Orange was supposed to be released last year and nothing happened. I hope Robert prepares a boxset with Orange, Show and that promised Prayer Tour concert video!

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Originally vinyl and cassette. Now CD

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CDs, I'm old-fashioned and don't like listening to music on my laptop. Dunno, I'm spending about a quarter of my lifetime online or at least in front of a computer screen. From time to time I really like to feel independent from my computer and read a book or listen to a CD playing on my stereo.

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yes

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filthypit wrote:
yes

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some people download torrents in loseless formats. They sound as good as the originals but I prefer to phisically have the discs.