{"id":319,"date":"2007-09-09T20:33:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2007-10-12T16:18:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T15:18:27","slug":"cds-cheaper-than-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/09\/cds-cheaper-than-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"CDs cheaper than Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright\" src='\/blog\/wp-content\/ituneplay.jpg' alt='CDs cheaper than Download?' \/>I went looking on iTunes for an old album I used to have on tape, and sure enough &#8211; there it was for \u00c2\u00a37.90. Hmmm a bit pricey, so I looked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play.com\">play.com<\/a> and there it was for only \u00c2\u00a34.99.<\/p>\n<p>So for almost three quid less, you get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a real CD in a case with professionally printed cover notes. For iTunes, add the cost of a case, CD and printer ink;<\/li>\n<li>no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/DRM\/guide\/\">crippling DRM<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>full bitrate recording instead of high compression;<\/li>\n<li>you can still rip the CD onto your iPod;<\/li>\n<li>if you get fed up of it (or wasn&#8217;t to your taste) you can still sell it on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most CDs are available from play.com and cdwow.com for around \u00c2\u00a37.99, so even at that price it&#8217;s still better to get the CD.<\/p>\n<p>So what, apart from satisfying your impatience, is the attraction of downloading music?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went looking on iTunes for an old album I used to have on tape, and sure enough &#8211; there it was for \u00c2\u00a37.90. Hmmm a bit pricey, so I looked on play.com and there it was for only \u00c2\u00a34.99. So for almost three quid less, you get: a real CD in a case with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,38,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}