Music Lover? When was the last time you purchased one?  

Albums, cds, tapes, etc. are a different form of music format. Downloading is okay but nothing beats owning a hard copy of your favorite artist and being able to see the artwork, feel the material and listening to it in your own component. I don't know with you but I find the sound of cds are more clearer than mp3's. It is because the songs or the tracks is unused unlike for mp3s the more people downloads the song, the more quality of sound is being used and it depreciates. When I was a kid I used to collect cassette tapes, because back then cds are so expensive and its kinda futuristic thing. As time goes by, cds became just a common thing to collect kinda like the cassettes and they even lowered their prices to almost 3$ or 100 plus pesos here in the Philippines. Yesterday, I was quite shocked. Me and my bestfriend went to our local music store called "music One". We heard that a certain label had a couple of sale cds. To my surprise there are tons of titles..i mean quality titles to choose from.. From Paul Weller to Bob Mould, to indie pop to lounge. Wow! I felt like in heaven. We ended up buying 10 cds and we still wanted more but we had to control our budget until the end of the month and when payday comes we'll probably buy again.
Surprisingly I find this a bit odd or sad because I feel that there are few people who are buying the original hard copy of the artist. I think most of the people nowadays just download few songs and have a nerve calling it a collection. Time changes, but like painters or any other artists I think we should still support their work in order to produce more good artists in the future for us and for our children. In my opinion, mp3's should be a sampler not a collection.
How about you? When was the last time you bought a cd or cds? What certain feeling did it gave you?Yesterday I bought, 3 Paul Weller albums, Madness, Gang Of Four, Edwin Moses, I'd Spend the Day With You compilation, Bloc Party and Rita Calypso. Quality titles and artist for only $3 each.