Mp’3 Advantages...

A) Cheap

B) Quick

Mp’3 Disadvantages...

A) Not everyone has a pc

B) People look down on digital software mixing when compared to turntables.

C) Lower sound quality!!!!

D) There is nothing that’s physically sold to the costumer

E) They can be easily abused by piracy

For me, the bad points outweigh the good points. I would rather be sold a cheap, well packaged CD that's been purchased online or in a shop. I would also like to see the new CDJ technology been a success. At least with CD, I would feel like I have purchased something which still has its 'quality' and its collectable value. I really don’t like the idea that you have to compromise your audio quality for the sake of ease however I do think that in some instances, vinyl is overpriced.

CD’s would make an excellent new format as far as cutting costs and ease of purchase is concerned. If everything is kept on CD’s, Mp’3 could be used to sell the product (and ffs none of that low 96kbs crap which you get on most online record shops, I hate that shit!!). As far as piracy is concerned, it would require a much more conscious effort for someone to start file sharing something from cd. Ok, it’s fairly easy to do but at least there’s a moral boundary as well as physical one. Little things like that can make a difference.