Still alive… just not kicking.
Tapes are for 500fils while CDs are for KD1.
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Still alive… just not kicking.
Tapes are for 500fils while CDs are for KD1.
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Seriously man, i think the last time i ever bought any form of audio material was when i started Uni at Newcastle UK in ’99. LOL… i bought a few CDs then got internet when i moved in a flat, and that was history..LOL
The Ginormous music library i have to date, all off the wonderfull WWW. Started with Napster back then and eventually evolved now to torrent sites now ..HehEH….wallah ayaam CDs..:P
Hi Mark, where is the place exactly and is there any jazz collection there?
tapes…CDs….dinosaurs…hmmm
cds are history?
usa, uk, japan still using music cds
its how we like piracy so much
and agree to lose quality
doesnt matter whos using what..did the sales of CDs suffer significantly or not?? check out the following chart:
https://kovtr.com/wordpress/?tag=cd-sales-bell-curve
furthermore, u dont have to settle for low quality pirated online copies, u can either buy music online legally and not sacrifice quality, or u can look carefully thru utorrent and u can find perfect quality music..u just have to know where to look
1) Apple is the largest music retailer in the US. Even legally people want mp3s more.
2) If you rip mp3s at 320kbps they sound just like CDs, there’s no drop in quality.
In the US and UK you can find used CD stores everywhere and usually the prices are dirt cheap. Kuwait has a knack for overpricing everything like we’re living in Europe. And when the www came, I don’t think many people felt like buying from the same market which would loot you on cd prices. 6.750 KD for a CD? Maybe American and European salaries in Kuwait could afford 6.750 for a CD, but Asians would think twice before spending so much. So now that we have the internet, who would even think about buying CDs from these people. Better getting it for free than paying these people even 1 KD.
DVDs are originals???
or pirated?
where is the shop located (if the DVDs are original)
wait… you said CDs! I read them dvds..
me bad.
They went downhill, used to love how they had MTV awards and very old recording of various TV shows. The originals owners left Kuwait to Dubai. Wonder if they still have those Top of the Pops collections from the 80’s.
Mark can you look that up ? somebody needs to rip those old collections.
Money laundering front lol.
The prices drops sharply after Internet sharing programs, I used to buy CDs for 6 kd.
New generation like music and videos stored softly, but they loose quality after ripping. I still buy original CDs and DVDs but only for titles I like so much and are not available on SACD, DVD-audio or Bluray discs. I prefere ultra- Hi Fi music because I spend alot on my Hi end home theater.
I not saying that I’m not using ripped music and videos but I use them only on my media server for the family and when I travel where quality is not important.
What to say about music piracy?
For years (I grew up in the UK) I bought albums at 11.99 and 12.99 (GBP), knowing full well that record company profiteers were taking the **** and ripping me off – as well as the artists…..
I arrived in Kuwait in 2000 to find tapes, finally, at a reasonable price. I thought “Hey, I really don’t mind paying 1.5KD for a tape. I’m not being ripped off.”
Then, mp3s…free songs, free downloads. Yes, it was a dream come true.
Then? Along came Apple to (try and) reverse it all. I am sick of these wise guy ‘kids’ (who pretend to be so-called musical experts) bleating on about IPhones, apps and Ipods in a age of free downloads. I feel sorry for them. They wish to go back to the 11.99 age.
So I say this to all who have been suckered in by Apple, I Tunes and the redrift toward reguation: APPLE MAKE YOU PAY THEN DO NOT LET YOU HAVE FREE CONTROL OF THE FILE.
It reminds me of growing up 20 years ago and hearing on UK TV that I was going to prison for taping the charts of the radio.
The one downside to downloading? The concept of an album has been killed off e.g. Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell or Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust.
The IPod generation will never know the pleasure of a vinyl crackle and reading the sleeve notes and one track passes to the next. Now a song sits on hard drive with ‘Unknown artist’ and tragically, ‘Unknown album.’