(06-Dec-2014, 17:41)amabrok Wrote: I hear you Confused
there is this magic of holding and owning a record. I guess it is like the magic of leafing through the pages of a book and feeling its texture on your fingertips.
i contrast that book / e-book paradigm shift with the record / hi-res download (or even more, streaming and not owning anything at all). it strikes me as very similar.
i still yearn to holding books, but i succumb to the the convenience and the additional benefits of having and an ebook reader. same thing with music. i guess one way or the other we all like holding records or physical media in our hands but let us face, digital has become very good now and it is amazingly convenient, i can now sift through tera bytes of music in seconds whereas the other night it took me ages to find Roger Waters Ca Ira CD in my library racks!
Funnily enough, I was doing a bit of pre Christmas clearing up today. Moving some stuff out of the smallest bedroom, which is used more as a storage room, I found myself idly flicking through a couple of the 12" record boxes in there. It was a box full of memories, plus quite a few "must take that downstairs for a play" moments. So no, I don't think you get that kind of fun and emotion looking through an iTunes file structure.
