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This is a really interesting thread, been fun to read all the opinions. So first off, thanks for sharing. .... (edited for space) But I'm with devomeister - the difference in sound quality between CD and MP3 isn't obvious 99% of the time I listen to music. I like a good production, but I'm no audio...

I find it especially confusing when it comes to metal heads. I mean, 80s metal sound quality was shit. It was shitty for second tier bands well into the 90s. Indy records sounded like shit until the early 00s. Today, I find the average band recording out of their mom's basement and posting up on ba...

I honestly don't think that higher res formats are going to ever be the standard. We're not even to the point yet where the top vendors of digital music are selling FLAC, nor are the top selling portable devices capable of handling FLAC. Most don't want to pay more for lossless files anyway. I thin...

The first two, I care about. Not so much with the rest of that. No mention of sound quality, eh? Is it really just Ken and I that can hear that mp3 is a poor substitute for a cd on your main system? Inferior and sonically exhausting. If I had to listen just to files on my phone, I think I'd sooner ...

I'm hopelessly anti-digital upon reading my post. :cry: lol... Album artwork can be amazing. I fondly remember the sea serpent on Asia's debut, as well as most of Iron Maiden's catalog - especially Somewhere in Time - which was always superior to Judas Priest's cover work. :) And who can forget the...

I love physical media, and fondly remember the hours I spent, as a youth, looking at the artwork and reading liner notes. However,, the problem I've had with cds is that they're fragile (sun and scratches can do a number of them), and, more importantly, they're an incredibly inefficient use of space...

Had the minimum wage of 1968 ($1.60/hr) been adjusted for inflation, it would be $10.74/hr in 2013. Had the minimum wage been tied to productivity... from 1960 through today it would have risen to $22/hr. Productivity? As in "how much stuff I get accomplished in an hour"? I'd like to see how you wo...

http://www.nelp.org/page/-/rtmw/uploads/Real-Value-Minimum-Wage-NELP.jpg Had the minimum wage of 1968 ($1.60/hr) been adjusted for inflation, it would be $10.74/hr in 2013. Had the minimum wage been tied to productivity... from 1960 through today it would have risen to $22/hr. Slaying dragons? No.....

What percent of jobs, I wonder, are provided by people in the 1 percent? No matter the country, it is much much (much much much) less then the money financed by the "job provide people" (among others) to that 1 percent. Judas Trickle down down economics is a sham. Over 50 years of data should be en...

Out of 141 countries, the U.S. has the 4th-highest degree of  wealth inequality in the world, trailing only Russia, Ukraine, and Lebanon. It's well known that the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch are bankrolling the Tea Party, and the influence they have had is undeniable. http://www.alternet.org/ec...

the top 1% captured 121% of the income gains in the first two years of the recovery. From 2009 to 2010, top 1% grew fast and then stagnated from 2010 to 2011. Bottom 99% stagnated both from 2009 to 2010 and from 2010 to 2011. In 2012, top 1% income will likely surge, due to booming stock-prices, as ...