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Purchases - single tracks or full release?

  • 27-03-2010 11:00am
    #1
    ianuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭


    Just curious what others do when buying mp3's online. Say you're listening to a release with 15/16 tracks and you want to buy 5, and that comes to €10. Do you just buy the 5 tracks or pay the few quid more for the full release, even though you know you'll never play the others?

    The dj in me, says just pay for what you'd play, but the accountant in me says the value is in buying the full releae. As a dj, I reckon you're only as good as the records you play so at the moment I'm only buying tracks I like.


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  • #2
    colin29
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭colin29


    If the full release has tracks you'll never play and maybe don't even like then there's really no point in buying them, if you like all (or most of) the tracks but would only play some to other people and keep the rest for your own listening pleasure then go for it.
    There is no point in wasting money on stuff you have no interest in playing or listening to.


  • #3
    seannash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,672 ✭✭✭seannash


    id hate for you to be my accountant.

    why would you buy tracks you dont like.

    there is no value in mp3's no matter if there singles or part of a compilation.

    what value are you speaking of when your accountant side is telling you to buy the full release over the 5/6 tracks you like


  • #4
    jtsuited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    what releases have 15/16 tracks?


  • #5
    Executive Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,373 ✭✭✭Executive Steve


    vinyl


  • #6
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    I only ever pay for music I like, so definitely wouldn't consider paying an extra few quid just to own the filler tracks...

    I might buy a CD instead of digi once in a while, as for 10 tracks you're normally only paying £10 vs a lot more than that if you buy each track individually


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  • #7
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Buy the Wavs/FLACs you like and leave the mp3s at home....

    ;)


  • #8
    ianuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭ianuss


    seannash wrote: »
    id hate for you to be my accountant.

    why would you buy tracks you dont like.

    there is no value in mp3's no matter if there singles or part of a compilation.

    what value are you speaking of when your accountant side is telling you to buy the full release over the 5/6 tracks you like


    Well, for example, I was looking at a release with 20 tracks on Doppelgaenger the other day. I liked 6 tracks, which cost €9.36. But, for €13.22 you could get all 20. Now, 14 tracks for €3.86 is pretty good value IMO. And it's not like the rest were garbage, I just wouldn't buy them otherwise.

    At the same time, I don't really want to be cluttering up my collection with stuff I don't love - cos it's so easy to build up an endless amount of audio-files, mp3's or whatever. 'Click and buy' purchasing just seems so lazy - compared to going and searching through a load of vinyl in a shop. And also, with vinyl you have something you can look at. Or you may remember where you were or what you did the day you bought such an such a record.


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