An idea for an online music store?

AsSiMiLaTeD
AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
edited September 2009 in The Clubhouse
Maybe this already exists and I'm just missing it, but...

How about a music site like Amazon that sells both the retail CD and downloadable versions of an album, and when I buy the CD version of an album they go ahead and give me the downloadable version? Hell I'd even pay an extra couple bucks for it...

I mean, as soon as I get the CD in I'm just going to rip it to my hard drive anyway, why not just go ahead and give me that version? This way I can order a CD online and still be able to listen to the music now while I'm waiting on that to be delivered. It's not like I'm getting something for free, because I'm paying the higher price for the actual CD...
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,602
    edited September 2009
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    Maybe this already exists and I'm just missing it, but...

    How about a music site like Amazon that sells both the retail CD and downloadable versions of an album, and when I buy the CD version of an album they go ahead and give me the downloadable version? Hell I'd even pay an extra couple bucks for it...

    I mean, as soon as I get the CD in I'm just going to rip it to my hard drive anyway, why not just go ahead and give me that version? This way I can order a CD online and still be able to listen to the music now while I'm waiting on that to be delivered. It's not like I'm getting something for free, because I'm paying the higher price for the actual CD...

    Anymore, I think they would prefer you downloading your copy and
    not fuss with all that "shipping".
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2009
    I don't know that you'd have a large enough market of people who would pay extra for something they could do for free themselves. I mean, in your case all you're doing is saving yourself the 5 minutes of time, right?
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited September 2009
    it's really more about having instant access to music. There have been lots of times where I've wanted a CD and yet also wanted to listen to the music immediately. I don't want to pay for a lossy downloadable copy, I'd much rather pay a little extra and have the actual CD. However, I'd like to still listen to it immediately vs waiting a week for the CD to show up.

    Sure I can walk into a Best Buy and buy the disc, and often times that's what I do, but if a site like Amazon offered this I'd probably never walk into a store and buy another CD.

    It's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of life I suppose, and maybe I'm the only one who wants both (legal) instant access to my music and having it on a CD, was just a thought.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited September 2009
    HDtracks.com offers downloadable lossless music with PDF liner notes and all accompanying details. The download of one of their albums really does give you everything buying a CD does without the plastic case. Then you can just burn the CD yourself for CDP playback.
    Jake
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited September 2009
    Oooooorrrr...you could get off your butt, go down to the record store and just BUY THE DAMN ALBUM!
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    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited September 2009
    I have to drive 30 minutes to get to the closest store that sells music, and it's an FYE, which means their selection SUCKS. I usually end up downloading from BitTorrent, then buying the disc from an online retailer if I like it.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited September 2009
    Jstas wrote: »
    Oooooorrrr...you could get off your butt, go down to the record store and just BUY THE DAMN ALBUM!

    Assuming it is in stock.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited September 2009
    Gee thanks for the helpful input John, hadn't thought of that. Most of the music I listen to is not available in my local store so that isn't always an option for me.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited September 2009
    I believe Trent Reznor has done this before.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • rhulett
    rhulett Posts: 89
    edited September 2009
    ..or how about being able to download the cd in a lossless format that has NO compression, just the original studio master.
    Rob
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited September 2009
    B&W music online and NIN have both released downloads in 2000kbs+ FLAC and 4608kbps PCM, it doesn't get much better than that.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited September 2009
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    Maybe this already exists and I'm just missing it, but...

    How about a music site like Amazon that sells both the retail CD and downloadable versions of an album, and when I buy the CD version of an album they go ahead and give me the downloadable version? Hell I'd even pay an extra couple bucks for it...

    I mean, as soon as I get the CD in I'm just going to rip it to my hard drive anyway, why not just go ahead and give me that version? This way I can order a CD online and still be able to listen to the music now while I'm waiting on that to be delivered. It's not like I'm getting something for free, because I'm paying the higher price for the actual CD...

    No one does it because the copyright issues in your statement are immense and either being litigated or remain a matter of first impression no one wants to touch. It's easier to allow the consumer to break the law in the comfort of his home by making his own "back-up" than to come up with a contract that accommodates the multitude of parties in vertical privity with each other who are responsible for bringing music to the consumer.

    Right now, the industry knows pirating is the cost of doing business. Their current goal is find a more economical way to bring music to the market that results in less investment, less manufacturing, less middle-men and increased profit . . . a.k.a. Music Downloads, only.
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