A physical thing I think you are forced to have a relationship with. When I owned one, I found myself browsing my collection on my iPod almost more than doing actual listening.
I don't do that with my vinyl records because they present physical limitations that 1's and 0's do not. I usually listen more than browsing. Others like the art and just physical ownership too and I don't disagree with that either. On top of all that, 1's and 0's are fundamentally different than a record groove, and digital sounds different. MHO... On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Jussi Lehtonen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Tristan Watkins wrote: > >> Is it that the package itself is 100% essential? > > In my opinion the physical package sometimes delivers additional value. But > similar kind of thing can be accomplished with the digital releases as well. > One option is to create easter eggs in the files - or to the web page > distributing them (some people might mistake them as viruses, but I think > it's nowadays called viral marketing... :) UR's Codebreaker contained a kind > of easter egg, but I haven't heard or seen anything of the kind since. > > Any thoughts? > > > Jussi Lehtonen > > "Metaprogram yourself." >
