Albums you downloaded or had cassette dubs of that you decided you just could not live without owning on a 'proper' format

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I famously ridiculed my pal Tovah for going bananas over the new Fountains of Wayne album, but when I visited her, she convinced me to make a copy of it for the ride home, and I definitely liked it. Since then I've worn out the tape, and finally bought it on CD yesterday. Man, I love that album!

Also, I only owned Venom's "Black Metal" on an old Fuji blank (I can't even remember who I copied it from, it was years ago) and finally realized I needed to own it. Definitely sounds better on CD.

― roger adultery, Monday, 8 December 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

joy zipper's "american whip", if i could find a copy of the promo that wasn't $50

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, i do this a lot. i've got a fetish about owning a real copy of albums. recently...

Stina Nordenstam, 'And She Closed her Eyes'
Nico, 'Chelsea Girl'
Goldfrapp, 'Black Cherry'
Nick Drake, all three, actually
the Delgados, 'Hate'
Duran Duran, 'Greatest'
The La's
Low, 'Trust'
Galaxie 500, 'This Is Our Music'
Club 8, 'The Friend I Once Had'
Traffic, 'The Low spark of High Heeled Boys'
14 Iced Bears, 'In The Beginning'

It's really important to me to have a 'proper' copy, just for completism's sake.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 8 December 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup. I checked it out from my local library(!), burned a copy, loved it, so I bought it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 8 December 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I was introduced to Yo La Tengo's 'Painful' by a tape someone gave me years ago. I bought the CD and its still the only Yo La tengo record I like.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Eno's Here Cum (heh) The Warm Jets. I had a burned copy for YEARS, though I didn't listen much to it. Now I have the real thing and, apart from playing it a million times the first few times, I don't listen to it much anymore.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I always view a burned or cassette copy of an album (or downloaded tracks) as merely temporary fix. If I like the album, I have to buy it, and I generally prefer new instead of used copies; I'm paranoid that if I don't buy albums from artists I like, they'll stop putting them out eventually.

Some examples--
"Souvlaki" by Slowdive
"It Still Moves" by My Morning Jacket
"Everyone who pretended to like me is gone" by the Walkmen (slightly disappointing, actually)

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was still taping, I regularly bought the CD if I came across it for a nice price. Burned CD's and mp3's are fine with me, although I might make the odd exception, for instance for old Iron Maiden albums...

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The three Shellac albums.
Apetite for Destruction.
The Real Thing.
Boomania.

― mei (mei), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm always buying stuff that I've downloaded. I feel like a cheating whore otherwise. Examples being History de Melodie Nelson (or however its spelt) BY Serge Gainsborg. Oh, and "Loveless" - I bought that after deciding that it was the best sounding hoover in the world.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 8 December 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Kevin Ayers and the Whole World - Shooting At The Moon (thank you Doorag)
David Bowie - Low
Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Joy Division - Substance
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express/The Man-Machine
Mansun - Six
Stereolab - Switched On
XTC - Fossil Fuel

Then there are the out-of-print albums which I must retain dubbed copies of, when I know I'll probably never be able to buy them (Introducing Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, for example).

― Schwingung (Damian), Monday, 8 December 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought hundreds of CD's I already had on tape/cdr/mp3, from Autechre to Iron Maiden to In The Nursery to Ol' Dirty Bastard to Immortal. And: all the Venom albums (OK, the first four).

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 8 December 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Loads, I'm kind of in that actual-copy fetish mood; Gang of Four's Entertainment! comes to mind, same with Grandaddy's Sumday and Elbow's Cast of Thousands.

I like to think of downloading stuff as a way of sorting the wheat from the chaff before I buy a load of records, thus saving me both a) potential disappointment and b) money.

― person#0 (person#0), Monday, 8 December 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

AMMMusic-AMM

― direct_program, Monday, 8 December 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't mind having cassette copies of an album, but if i really like something then a cdr won't do. i have to get the real thing. probably has something to do with wrong-headed fetishizing of outdated formats, but a burned cd just seems weird and phony and wrong to me.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"I like to think of downloading stuff as a way of sorting the wheat from the chaff before I buy a load of records, thus saving me both a) potential disappointment and b) money."

person#0 OTM. But I generally wait until I can get it at a price I'm willing to pay, which is more often than not second-hand.

― syntaxfree, Monday, 8 December 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

> probably has something to do with wrong-headed fetishizing of outdated formats

Uh, what about the notion that if you love an album and regularly listen to it, you should give some money to the people who wrote and recorded it?

― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Fugazi - 'In on the Kill Taker'

I bought this on a skiing holiday in Bulgaria, where you could buy dodgy pirate tapes for a couple of quid in the hotels and at the bottom of the slopes. I loved it and have subsequently bought their entire catalogue. The same cannot be said for Metallica, Sepultura, or Sick of it All.

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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