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What are all of the OSTs do you have in that picture, Galway?
Valkyrie Profile Lenneth Original Sound Track (KDSD 00088.89)
Valkyrie Profile Lenneth Arrange Album (KDSD 00100)
Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections (SQEX 10020)
Final Fantasy X Piano Collections (SQEX 10028)
Final Fantasy VII / Reunion Tracks (SQEX 10042)
Chrono Trigger Arranged Version The Brink of Time (NTCP-5024)
Final Fantasy III Original Sound Track CD + DVD (SQEX 10076~7)
Chrono Chross Original Sound Track (SQEX 10047~9)

You can purchase music on physical media still? Why would one do such a thing?
Yes, just for collections. I have more actually, around 60 CD's of game / anime OSTs, mostly Final Fantasy :D

To rip them DRM free? Why people buy DRM MP3 files is beyond me! oO
No, I just love to have it for collections. And yes, I have MP3 version of them, either *BEEEP* :evil: it from internet or rip it from the CDs.

lol you'd have to be a really law-biding soul to actually spend money on them.
As I said, I'm a collector and I have Final Fantasy items from OSTs, game, console, figure, etc. So it's nothing to do with "law abiding" whatsoever soul :innocent:
 
Most big digital distributors are DRM free.
Next argument?
I'm willing to buy both when they aren't DRMed to death.

:innocent:
 
Valkyrie Profile Lenneth Original Sound Track (KDSD 00088.89)
Valkyrie Profile Lenneth Arrange Album (KDSD 00100)
Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections (SQEX 10020)
Final Fantasy X Piano Collections (SQEX 10028)
Final Fantasy VII / Reunion Tracks (SQEX 10042)
Chrono Trigger Arranged Version The Brink of Time (NTCP-5024)
Final Fantasy III Original Sound Track CD + DVD (SQEX 10076~7)
Chrono Chross Original Sound Track (SQEX 10047~9)
Wow those are some beautiful soundtracks. It seems like you get them imported to you from Japan, huh? That's how I get mine. :3

Yes, just for collections. I have more actually, around 60 CD's of game / anime OSTs, mostly Final Fantasy :D
That's the reason why I collect the CDs that I have. Honestly, if I think the music is incredible, then I will go out and buy the CD of it. Music that I absolutely love shouldn't be pirated IMO. I'd rather buy it.
 
Wow those are some beautiful soundtracks. It seems like you get them imported to you from Japan, huh? That's how I get mine. :3

That's the reason why I collect the CDs that I have. Honestly, if I think the music is incredible, then I will go out and buy the CD of it. Music that I absolutely love shouldn't be pirated IMO. I'd rather buy it.
Mostly from Hong Kong, but it's authentic Japan version. I bought it from Play Asia because they offer free shipping (after I calculate, it still cheaper than if I bought it straight from Japan, for example CD Japan). For rare / old limited edition, I bought it from Yahoo Auction Japan with friend's help. I have FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, FFX-2, FFXI, FFXII, and FFXIII limited edition, all of them brand new (sealed) and I'm proud to have it all, because they're rare and difficult to obtain :evil:

You're most likely the same as me, I'd love to hear music and collect the original one.
 
Most big digital distributors are DRM free.
Next argument?
The quality stinks compared to CD, also when taking music to friends house they are more likely to own a CD player then something that plays digital files
 
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Just a standard $6 12 foot HDMI cable :). I got it so I could hook my roommate's 360 up to my monitor, instead of my standard-def 32" CRT that I have upstairs (my 360 is downstairs with the HDTV). Now I can play Borderlands, PGR4, GTA4, etc. when I'm fixing a computer or people are watching movies downstairs. It's also long enough so I can leave the 360 on the TV stand instead of having to lay it on top of my router with my monitor's 6' cable :p.
 
Still prefer to have a CD with cover and booklet ;)
Yeah, specially if you're collector. If just want to hear the music, you can always rely on MP3, but collecting is different, so I have the CD for collection and the MP3 for my ear :lol:
 
I don't understand the logic behind this... mp3 is much lower quality than cd, it's a waste not to listen directly from the real thing or at use a lossless codec instead.
the difference between lossless and lossy audio is purley theoretical IMO

I mean the wave forms sure are different , but my ear cant tell the diference between a FLAC and a V0 mp3 , and on my lame sound system (i listen to music on the PC and in the car ) I have an XFi extreme gamer fatality sound card and the creative t7900 7.1 speakers

and i honestly cant find a reasonable difference even when comparing cds/flac to 320 cbr mp3s
 
Maybe you don't, but your brain actually does, because dynamic compression/decompression doesn't give a natural sound, our ears know it's 'fake' and it requires more 'effort' to simply listen.

The difference is definitely not theoritical, and I can guarantee you that any audiophile/musician can tell the many differences.

But it's not just for audiophiles that mp3 is crap, it's bad for anyone's ears no matter what.

Now that memory is cheaper people have no excuses not to use lossless, seriously.

There's even mobile/walkman stuff better and cheaper than ipod and that support FLAC now.

Curse the mp3 and ipod tiranny ! :rant:
 
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