I haven't been able to find my Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual cassette and am really jonesing for it lately, so I'm considering buying and downloading the MP3 album.
If I do (and I haven't yet), it will be the third format I'll have purchased this album in: LP, cassette, and digital.
Like most of you music-lovers and collectors, I'm sure there are tons of albums you've purchased in two formats, but what are the albums you've enjoyed so much that you plopped down your money for a third?
I'm having some difficulty coming up with even one: since I still buy CDs (prefer them, in fact), and since CDs can easily be converted to digital formats, most of the stuff I love is most likely to be purchased on CD and therefore unlikely to be purchased in digital format.
I was a cassette purchaser in the beginning of my fandom. I'm thinking I may be unusual in that the redundant LP purchases almost always came after the cassette purchases. Now, to figure out which (if any) were then followed by CD or digital purchases.
Some musicians now are selling CDs and packaging them with digital downloads (this way, you can purchase the CD but download the digital format right away while you wait for your CD to arrive in the—what was that service called again? oh yeah, the—mail. This doesn't count as two purchases unless you paid more for the other format! I also don't think I'd count CDs you purchased the special editions of, after purchasing the original CD releases, but of course I'd love to hear about them.
I do own a few 8-tracks, but I'm pretty sure not one of them went to three purchases, or even two.
Anyone? Three purchases of three formats of the same album?
If I do (and I haven't yet), it will be the third format I'll have purchased this album in: LP, cassette, and digital.
Like most of you music-lovers and collectors, I'm sure there are tons of albums you've purchased in two formats, but what are the albums you've enjoyed so much that you plopped down your money for a third?
I'm having some difficulty coming up with even one: since I still buy CDs (prefer them, in fact), and since CDs can easily be converted to digital formats, most of the stuff I love is most likely to be purchased on CD and therefore unlikely to be purchased in digital format.
I was a cassette purchaser in the beginning of my fandom. I'm thinking I may be unusual in that the redundant LP purchases almost always came after the cassette purchases. Now, to figure out which (if any) were then followed by CD or digital purchases.
Some musicians now are selling CDs and packaging them with digital downloads (this way, you can purchase the CD but download the digital format right away while you wait for your CD to arrive in the—what was that service called again? oh yeah, the—mail. This doesn't count as two purchases unless you paid more for the other format! I also don't think I'd count CDs you purchased the special editions of, after purchasing the original CD releases, but of course I'd love to hear about them.
I do own a few 8-tracks, but I'm pretty sure not one of them went to three purchases, or even two.
Anyone? Three purchases of three formats of the same album?
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