craigb
I'm constantly buying "new" music that was made in the 60's and 70's.  Lovin' it! 
 

If I remember correctly, my most recent purchase was... Beethoven's Late String Quartets, months ago. I've been enjoying it so much that I have yet to consider moving on to something else and buying a new record. I just can't get over it.
 
 
I still do buy contemporary music and pop records though, like this one - the last album I purchased. :P

 
Though I already owned a digital copy of that one, obviously... I couldn't live w/o it.

craigb
I'm constantly buying "new" music that was made in the 60's and 70's.  Lovin' it! 

Same here, and blues, r'n'r and other stuff from the 40s and 50s.

One of the advantages of downloads as a format is that stuff it wouldn't make economic sense to release on a physical format that requires duplication, distribution, printing costs etc. can be put out on itunes etc. at very low cost. Lots of good long-deleted music, and artists that never got a UK release at all is now available.

Not having to buy an entire compilation just to get the one or two tracks on it I actually want or don't already have is a bonus.

As for Floyd, sorry, but I'm a Barrett period only sort of person, I've heard Dark Side played in too many elevators (or "lifts" as we know them).

tlw
As for Floyd, sorry, but I'm a Barrett period only sort of person, I've heard Dark Side played in too many elevators (or "lifts" as we know them).

I am a huge fan of Barrett and if I had to pick one Pink Floyd, I'd go with the Barrett era stuff. But I think of Pink Floyd in its various incarnations as a bunch of different bands.
 
- The experimental Floyd, between More and Obscured by Clouds, which I really like.
 
- The classic Floyd, between Dark Side and Animals, which I also like, though maybe not as much overall.
 
- The not-quite-Pink-Floyd-because-Roger-Waters-is-a-megalomaniac-nutjob - but I like The Wall.
 
- The Gilmour-era Pink Floyd, which I also dig.
 
They're all so different, but I like them all for different reasons. 

Unless the option doesn't exists (like the latest Mostly Autumn special double album), I'm all digital now.  However, I always buy the full album and, frequently, different versions if there's a reissue with double the songs for example.
 
I find that sometimes I like one of the "songs no one has heard of" better than the so-called "hits."

The first album I ever owned was Relics by Pink Floyd, a compilation of their earlier stuff. I believe I was about 7 years old, and I made my mother buy it for me purely on the basis of the quirky artwork by Nick Mason on the cover. I didn't know who Pink Floyd were but I liked the picture so I had to have it. And then of course when I actually got around to putting it on the turntable I loved it. I think See Emily Play was my favorite. I'd grown up in a household full of Frank Zappa, The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Little Feat, but funnily enough no Pink Floyd. 
 
That same year, The Wall was released along with the hit single Another Brick In The Wall. I was mesmerized by that song, and the imagery in the video, so I had to have the single. And then for my birthday I asked for The Wall. Loved that album to bits and could sing along with every note and word within a few weeks. I'd never listened to Dark Side Of The Moon yet, that was to come later. I think I ended up preferring Wish You Were Here and Animals though. Sheep remains one of my all time favorite songs. I loved the build up and was blown away how the note Roger Waters sustained at the end of every verse was crossfaded into a synth note, such a well done technique and I think this was the first time I noticed how good the production was. 

I had a Dark Side CD that was disappointing--not like the vinyl record I remember. What download are you listening to? I will download.

ampfixer
I like the period of Floyd production that includes Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals.

Same here. What an amazing great run in a 3 album span.
Even the album before Dark Side of the moon where "Echos" started it all off in my opinion.

Hi,
 
By the time that PF brought out DSOTM, I was already into the European side of things, and while that album was magnificent for me, it was not the seminal album and musical experience that many other things around Europe were already affording me. I prefer the "Saucerful of Secrets" all the way to "Echoes" period, ten times over!
 
If you like the "sonic" qualities of the album, the European scene had many things that stood out just as well, and deserved the listen, but they will NEVER get them, because so many of us are STUCK on this piece of music as the "standard" for this and that, when in fact, there should not be a standard ... it's like saying that someone in England can make music, and anybody in Italy and France and Germany are a bunch of wannabe idiots and copies, and not able to put together music, and play it.
 
All in all, there are many things, specially in 1971/1972 out of those 3 countries, that were far superior to DSOTM (not in production unfortunately!!!!!) and should be a part of many folks listening, if not just for the appreciation of the musicianship and their ability to create something so different and enjoyable, that us Anglo-Americans have lost that ability to appreciate because of the commercial side of things in rock music.
 
PF deserve a lot of attention, detail and beauty and I will never doubt that ... but that's like saying they were the only ones, and they weren't.
 
If you really LOVE music, DSOTM, is not the only thing you will have ... or you are just another hit ninny!

Pedro's back!

I have the LP of Dark side and a nice turntable. Groovy!