lawp
i buy albums, on vinyl even, more than anything else the last 4 years or so, and they're usually very nice objets with coloured heavyweight vinyl, nice packaging, great smell, etc, and a recent stat said in the uk vinyl sales are the highest for donkey's :-)

 
Goodness me - it can't be easy putting needles on records with hooves. Well done those donkeys. 

lawp
but what have you bought in the last couple of months?

Recent acquisitions:

• Black Sabbath - 13 (Deluxe Edition)
• Megadeth - Super Collider (Deluxe Edition)
• Dethklok - The Dethalbum
• Dethklok - Dethalbum II (Deluxe Edition)
• Dethklok - Dethalbum III
• The Jam - Direction Reaction Creation (5@CD + Hardback Book Boxset)
• Kirsty MacColl - A New England – The Very Best Of Kirsty MacColl
• Bernie Marsden - Blues ‘N’ Scales: A Snakeman’s Odyssey
• Saxon - Sacrifice (Deluxe Edition)
• Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder – Live – Eagles Over Wacken
• Phil Lynott - Yellow Pearl – A Collection
• My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
• Penetration - The Best Of Penetration
• Rival Sons - Pressure & Time
• Rival Sons - Head Down
• Sex Pistols - Spunk
• Various Artists - Now That's What I Call Christmas
• Various (inc: The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines; Central Band Of The Royal Air Force; The Coldstream Guards Band; Royal Scots Dragoon Guards) - Music For Heroes

SteveStrummerUK
 
 

• Rival Sons - Pressure & Time
• Rival Sons - Head Down

Top band...

sharke

lawp
i buy albums, on vinyl even, more than anything else the last 4 years or so, and they're usually very nice objets with coloured heavyweight vinyl, nice packaging, great smell, etc, and a recent stat said in the uk vinyl sales are the highest for donkey's :-)

 
Goodness me - it can't be easy putting needles on records with hooves. Well done those donkeys. 

donkey's what? :-)

jamesg1213

SteveStrummerUK
 
 

• Rival Sons - Pressure & Time
• Rival Sons - Head Down

Top band...

One of your recommendations if I remember correctly mate

I don't buy that many albums these days, partly because I mainly used to listen to them when driving and I don't do the mileage I used to any more, but also because I can't remember the last one I bought that wasn't a compilation type that I wasn't fed up with after 5 songs. I don't think it's an attention span thing on my part - I'm not on who flits between radio stations for example. Maybe it's a (lack of) quality thing or I read somewhere that modern production/mastering is thought to be a contributing factor to this as everything is mixed to the max and as a result can be fatiguing on the ears.
 
I also used to like the songs being in the "right" order. One of the things that drives me nuts with some mp3 players is the way they insist on sorting the tunes of an album into alpabetical order and then playing them in that order rather than the intended order. Grrrr !!!

paulo
 
I also used to like the songs being in the "right" order. One of the things that drives me nuts with some mp3 players is the way they insist on sorting the tunes of an album into alpabetical order and then playing them in that order rather than the intended order. Grrrr !!!

I name the files--usually "00X" at the beginning--so that they are in the proper order.  I don't know if it will mess with the mp3 format, though, because I've been doing wav files. 

Itunes didn't kill the album, but definitely hammered a few nails in the coffin.  The decline of albums in pop music is due to how they are created these days.  The pop music landscape is dominated by producers who charge outrageous amounts per song but virtually guarantee hits.Justin Timberlake's primary producer, Timbaland allegedly charges 500k up to a million for one song. Regardless of the exact cost, producers who crank out platinum albums charge by the track and it leaves a lot of filler.  I find self-produced albums are a lot more even these days.

lawp
but what have you bought in the last couple of months?

I've only just started to buy CDs again, mostly stuff I already own but that's in boxes back home in Canada. Mostly the old Black Sabbath stuff and a couple of Ozzy cd's when I see them for cheap at Wal Mart.
 
For the +2 years we spent traveling and away from home, iTunes was my main source of new music. Or to buy albums that I missed but hadn't had the time to rip and put on my HD before we left. I bought dozens of albums - because, as I said, I'm a full-album kind of guy.
 
IMHO, iTunes didn't kill music nor did it put a nail in its coffin - people were downloading it for free, anyway. People killed music, people killed the industry - by being people and doing what people do. You have an entire generation treating themselves as merchandise out there - how sacred can music be to them?
 
Me I still buy full albums, whether on iTunes or on CD.
 
Admittedly, I don't buy as much recent albums as I wish I could, because music nowadays sounds terrible. Last night, I was going to pre-order the new Jake E. Lee album, so I went ahead and previewed it.
 
Result: I'm not buying. And it has NOTHING to do with the music. It's all about production values and mastering. Loudness war destroyed music. Changing our aesthetics according to the "tastes" of the tone-deaf lowest common denominator killed music.
 
The list of albums I wish I could have bought but had to refrain from buying due to sound quality in recent months is much much longer than the list of albums I did buy. 

Old55

paulo
 
I also used to like the songs being in the "right" order. One of the things that drives me nuts with some mp3 players is the way they insist on sorting the tunes of an album into alpabetical order and then playing them in that order rather than the intended order. Grrrr !!!

I name the files--usually "00X" at the beginning--so that they are in the proper order.  I don't know if it will mess with the mp3 format, though, because I've been doing wav files. 

Yeah, putting track numbers is a workaround, it just grates having to do workarounds to solve problems that didn't used to exist until someone "improved" something.