so who's buying digital releases?

1 time only shopping at bleep.com for some super-rare Peacefrog and Warp stuff which was not anywhere available for a reasonable price, then subsequently also cut 2 of the downloaded tracks to dubplates.
I plan to start a mp3 shop for my vinyl label later this year but I'm definetly not in a hurry. Personally I am not comfortable with having "releases" sitting on a harddrive only, mp3 audio especially. I reject any DRM attached "un-music" altogether.

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Originally Posted by DJ Becka

still like having a physical product in my hand, which you cant get with digital. I also like the whole social aspect of going to a record shop, bullshitting with the owner and people in the store, trading ideas about music, recommending new tracks for each other to check out, etc etc -

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Thats the who point-vinyl has a tengible element to it, a smell and feel and tactile nature-It also looks great having a large wall-to-wall vinyl collection, granted perhaps 50% may be duff, but you had a reason to buy it in the first place. When was the last time someon invited you up to see their mp3 collection? ;-)

For the people who still buy vinyl:
Enjoy it as long as you can,
because in the near future this will disappear.

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Originally Posted by francois

Thats the who point-vinyl has a tengible element to it, a smell and feel and tactile nature-It also looks great having a large wall-to-wall vinyl collection, granted perhaps 50% may be duff, but you had a reason to buy it in the first place. When was the last time someon invited you up to see their mp3 collection? ;-)

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true enough. but after moving a rather large vinyl collection over 10 times in the last 10 years, i can honestly say i am less enamored of the "tangibility" of vinyl than ever before...

as a label we do both vinyl and mp3 but tbh mp3 is hardly a money spinner in techno yet, we sell a fair amount of mp3's but not enough to realistically be an mp3 only label. admitadly there's no over head's with mp3's but is it worth relasing tracks if you only gonna sell a few.