What do you think of the Backspacer iTunes LP feature?
Crazy Marcus
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I was curious what everyone thought about the new LP feature that was included with the iTunes purchase of Backspacer. Anyway you can share some screen captures? What do you get? What's the album art look like? Is it just a PDF file or is it interactive? When you listen to a song, does it show you in the lyrics where you are as the song plays kinda like a karaoke machine? I've got something like $25 bucks left from a iTunes card that someone gave a me a few years ago and have thought about purchasing it simply for this feature but I've already got the CD and LP. I don't really want to download it from iTunes if the LP feature isn't really worth it. Please let me know what you think. Thanks! 
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I can make mp3's off the cd and I get a physical product to collect.
I can't see myself paying for digital music. I think the one time was a live metallica boot (they have a similar program to pj, but no physical copies).
I'm not sure if anyone else feels the same way. I like CD's (and vinyl). Even if all I do is rip the cd to mp3/flac and store it on my computer for easy transfer to my mp3 player... lol
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The Muse one is pretty chintzy... not much to it.
The Pearl Jam one has all sorts of fun stuff... lyrics to the songs, two videos, interview audio clips, comics, a great interactive graphic interface... Well worth the money I paid for it.
I'm an iTunes junkie... I love buying old songs a la carte, I love the impulse of thinking of a song I liked 15 years ago and buying it on the spot without having to buy the whole album at a used CD store next week when I have time to go, and I like the fun of the the iTunes LP line.. we'll see where they go with it.
I also got the vinyl and the CD for the car (and I like to have the booklet and such...)
I'm a physical media guy too.
I hope to hell that one day this downloading thing fucks right off...but something tells me its here to stay.
I'm with you two.
Hard. Drives. Crash.
Yes, I got the Target Vinyl and 10c cd, and this was worth it too!
I'm also a physical junkie, but if there's extra tracks on iTunes not available anywhere else, I'll gladly buy those in addition to the actual cd.
What I hate is having to decide between pre-order-only tracks and the physical cd. I'm NOT buying a disc twice, I don't care who it is. Usually music trumps the book, but then when I find those same tracks easily "available" a day after the release, I kick myself for not buying the cd. The new Thornley disc for one. I pre-ordered Tiny Pictures from iTunes, it had a bonus track called Straight To Hell that only came with the pre-order. The very next day people on the Thornley message boards were openly trading the song with each other.
And I'm glad I decided against pre-ordering the new AIC. It was listed as having two bonus tracks with the pre-order. I checked late last night, and both those tracks were available for purchase seperately (so I snapped em up), and strangely, the first single, A Looking In View, was "album only". Sometimes I think iTunes has no idea what they are doing half the time, but at least this time it was in my favour.
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To me, cd's are becoming obsolete. I listen to vinyl at home and always had the cd's in the car. BUT, now with my iPod, I have 7421 songs on it alone, so I can be virtually anywhere I want to be, musically, in the car in one click. Facture in airplanes, work, sitting in the car with my husband while he plays country, out fourwheeling, walking, falling asleep, sitting out somewhere in nature, my iPod and Itunes is INVALUABLE to me. I have it in my possession at all times. I seriously could not make it through a day without it. I can't remember the last time I had to fall asleep without some beautiful music lulling me far away, and without disturbing the guy next to me.
I could NOT agree more. I feel lost if I forget it at home (which doesn't happen often!).
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I agree that the portability of music is great. I walk to work and back, so my portable samsung mp3 player is awesome for that. I'm just saying.. when it comes to a choice between the physical cd for 12.99 and it being 12.99 on iTunes. I'll choose the physical cd because I feel like I'm getting more for my money. It only takes me a few minutes to rip the cd to mp3 when I bring it home, then it works on my computer, mp3 player, and I can share it through the network so I can stream the songs on the xbox 360 (if i'm too lazy to put on the cd).
I can't couterargue the benefits of portable music, but I feel I get both from a CD (physical item, and I can make mp3s), where as mp3's all I get our digital files.. meh
When I lived in toronto and worked in Purchasing for HMV I had a HUGE WALL OF MUSIC. like.. about 5,000 CDs... entire catalogues of The Stones, Floyd, Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Eurythmics.. My Björk collection took up almost a whole shelf.
When I go a job in America and had to move here, I was very glad I had ripped the whole thing to my iPod piece by piece over the previous few months. Because there was no way in hell I'd be able to afford to move it down here.
I sold the whole thing and now have a portable digital collection.
Yes.. I still like CDs but only for the car. My iPod is all I really need... I can even plug that into the car.
Works a little smoother in iTunes..
Interesting the way someone asks a question about a new type of digital offering and instead of answering the question the conversation degenerates into an "iTunes sucks" vs. "no it doesn't". I was curious about the iTunes LP myself because a guy at work says they really did the Alice In Chains one up nice and wanted to know what the Backspacer one was like. Thanks for an answer.
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