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You were just born in the wrong era… Plenty of girls would dig that now.
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Lady in Red (Chris De Berg), Please Forgive Me (Bryan Adams).
Yup…I see it now 
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Unbelievably , back in 2015 the Russian Synchronised Skating Team performed a routine to the song ‘The Joke’ by The Fall. The song was inspired by a book of the same name by Milan Kundera , a Czech novelist and was about a Party member falling foul of the Communist regime and being sent to a work camp for five years.
I wonder if they knew ? 
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Far too synchronised for something by The Fall.
Strange choice of music all round imo. Very brave.
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Just here to inform people that you actually can still buy records and even cassettes.
Apologies in advance in case I blew some minds.
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They would have been on thin ice
@mods ban
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Fuck sake…
You let the stupid match thread puns pass and ask for a ban for this!
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Yeah no skating the issue there eh :0)
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Look, what can I say. Quicksand is quicksand. Once you get mired in it you never get out…
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Worse
Much worse than mine…
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I very much admire people who do that but… Even though I am an anachronism, digital media have proven to be incomparably more practical to me, especially nowadays when you can stream music in FLAC, assuming you have a decent player and speakers/headphones.
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FLAC? What that?
Anyway, for @cynicaloldgit
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I still buy CDs and immediately rip them so I can play them in the car and so on. For smaller bands (essentially everyone apart from Taylor Swift) buying physical media actually allows them to make money from recorded music. As far as I am aware, CDs are the cheapest to produce and they will sound exactly as the artist intended.
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Unfortunately, I don’t have a CD player anymore, haven’t had one in ages… And when you live in these parts, it’s extremely difficult to obtain physical copies of albums (as the great Lemmy once said, talking about a Motorhead album, “you couldn’t buy it - you couldn’t fuckin’ steal it”), especially of artists that I listen to.
From that perspective, Bandcamp is probably the only way that artists can get their due from downloads, although I also make sure that I get a ticket for their gigs whenever they’re in town.
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Unless some mastering dude, often forced upon the artist, puts his compressors and limiters into rage mode to compete in the loudness war. Which makes everything sound like undynamic, squashed dogshit. Fortunately you can’t do that with vinyl.
Although apparently some younger musicians are now so used to that squashed sound that they actually prefer it.
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It depends on the artist. I have bought a few albums by Ian McNabb, a Liverpool based singer-songwriter. He self releases his own recordings, and he actively recommends the CD as his original preferred mix.
Obviously there is a lot of over-compression, but that will tend to be for the streaming market.
Oh, there’s a shit ton of over-compression on CDs going on.
But yeah, sure, if the artist/band do their own stuff it’s obviously great. There’s very little need for any middlemen nowadays, which is a definite positive.
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Some of it is oppressive, although compression as a tool isn’t the problem. The Beatles used it extensively, and it is part of the reason that their records sounded crystal clear. Having said that, there were a lot of US artists at the time that couldn’t work out how they sounded so damn loud.