You know all that Pink Floyd stuff you bought on vinyl, CD, cassette & whatever?

[zeitghost]

Well you can buy it all again again:

Pink Floyd: Remastered Collection

The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older.

The Dark Side Of The Moon [2011 - Original Recording Remastered]: Pink Floyd: Amazon.co.uk: Music

Stone me, no wonder it's £88.93.

[Pondlife]

The Dark Side Of The Moon [2011 - Original Recording Remastered]: Pink Floyd: Amazon.co.uk: Music

Stone me, no wonder it's £88.93.

WTF.

It's still the same 10 songs right?

Or is it just Money with a laughter track in the background.

[Arturo Bassick]

WTF.

It's still the same 10 songs right?

Or is it just Money with a laughter track in the background.

There are about 8 versions of it in the pack.

[Pondlife]

There are about 8 versions of it in the pack.

Can't I just put my old CD on repeat and pass out in a drug fuelled haze like in college or do I have to keep swapping them.

[xoggoth]

I have an LP in the attic - genuine authentic 1970s (or whatever it was) scratches, only £500.

PS Is there anyone who has ever actually bothered copying their LP collection onto CD or have they, like me, just kept a record player and box of LPs in the attic for 30+ years with the intention of doing so?

[PAH]

I converted a few LPs onto minidisc and later CD as they weren't available in those formats at the time. May still not be available, I don't care, I have it in a good enough format.

I'm surprised the music industry didn't try to get SACD and other super-duper audio formats beyond CD to be more popular, so they could re-sell the same music to a whole new bunch of mugs.

Remastering is the same ethos from a different angle (find a new way to sell the same music to the same person). Especially when in some cases you can't really tell much difference. I'll choose the 'free upgrade path' thank you.

[SimonMac]

Whats a cassette?

[Mich the Tester]

I have an LP in the attic - genuine authentic 1970s (or whatever it was) scratches, only £500.

PS Is there anyone who has ever actually bothered copying their LP collection onto CD or have they, like me, just kept a record player and box of LPs in the attic for 30+ years with the intention of doing so?

I have a large collection of LPs and still have a record player in the living room which I still use a lot. Never bothered copying things, and I still buy LPs from time to time, including new albums.

[PAH]

I was always wary of LPs wearing out after many plays. They seemed to lose their dynamic edge, though maybe that was just psychological, or the needle wearing.

Also don't keep them in the loft unless it's well insulated from the elements. Some of my dads old records have warped in the extreme summer temperatures.


For those reasons I backed up the rarer stuff into digital.

[xoggoth]

the needle wearing.

Where do you get needles for ancient players these days?

Bit late to worry about the warping now.

Re cassettes, they are still very much in use and likely to remain so. No real substitute for recording phone calls etc. Can't quite trust memory and even if there is a small CD recording machine they take several seconds to be ready.