I still buy them. I own hundreds. Many people do.

Artists still put out their new music on vinyl.

Yes, I listen to MP3s more, or XM, or the occasional CD, but I still love my LPs.

And to an earlier commenter — Paste is wonderful. I highly recommend it.

I’m running some courses on web publishing for the magazine fraternity here in the UK and your comment is definitely going to spark some debate

As a music nut I started subscribing to my favorite music related blogs via reader.google.com. There has never been more variety in music that suits my personal taste/interests.

Just imagine being the editor of your own music magazine. Quick and easy. And all info/reviews/recommendations/news delivered to one site instantly.

You’ll have input from e.g. your favorite artists blogs, recommendations from other people that are even crazier about music than yourself, blogs that have live bootlegs of concerts and so on…

I can only encourage anyone who loves music to have a look at combining it with music related blogs and a nice RSS-Reader. For me it’s the modern version of my dad’s recorde collection + record player setup

Music for life! Happy weekend.

me

PS: start here http://reader.google.com + http://hypem.com/feed/time/today/1/feed.xml

I’ve been wanting to read books again for the longest time, but then I wanted the obscure titles or I would want something I got from the Web.

Printing out is impossible: I have no printer; plus, it’s not practical.

Reading using my Mac is just plain straining… or an exercise in muscle and eyestrain heheh.

The Kindle makes reading so much easier; from magazines to books.

Soon we wouldn’t have paper books anymore… If poverty were eradicated that is.

The only reason why print media would still proliferate would be when people from countries like mine would still opt for books, because e-book readers and computers are still too expensive.

But the world is changing.. There is a certain nostalgia to it.

I do put ‘em together, nmw. Believe me, I do. And it’s a depressing sum. Sh**tiness trumps quality in the marketplace, over and over and over. People are more willing to pay less money for cheaper crap in the short run.. but then that cheap crap breaks down faster and people have to buy more again.. which costs more in the long run. Or people are happy to buy cheap, heart-disease-laden food.. easy in the short run, but costly in the long run. Or watch poor quality video and listen to poor quality music. Waste of time.

Or settle for search engines that taunt you by bragging that they have 1.2 million results to your query, but then give you no feasible ways to look through more than one page of results at a time.

Quantity too often trumps quality, and I think it makes everyone in society poorer for it.

but now i read this blog and anything else in google reader. As soon as Fry’s offers some blue-tooth electronic paper device, i will have arrived (tho’ my son will have beat me to it i’m sure).

Speaking of shitty sound quality reminded me of you tube.

Put 2+2 together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqdlKgPAJxQ

nmw