[kgturner]

eBay man. i probably buy 80% of my cd's used off of eBay. i usually pay $3-$7 per disc just depending on the title and how bad i happen to want it while i'm bidding. there's only a handful of artists who i'd actually pay for a brand new cd on the day of release. i get them in, rip them to my hard drive, and store them in a large rubbermaid container under my bed, never to be seen again.

and i'm totally with you on the "lossless albums should be cheaper" discussion.

kevin t

[Rclark]

No I have mine in a glorious large anachronistic rack against the wall. It looks quite nice, the collection that is.

And yeah, I first checked out the pay-for-download situation years ago. It was 128kb mp3 and a photo of the cover. I thought, you people must be out of your minds, and continued to buy cd's.

[Rclark]

Case in point, today in my mail came the album "Heliocentric" by the metal band "The Ocean." The inside of the album is a beautifully crisp detail of the universe and the constellations, and each song's lyrics comes on a seperate textured cardboard square with an amazingly detailed  Davinci-esque style painting on the backside of each.

Can't download that.

[JRace]

It is too bad more artists do not include such great artwork.
Makes one want to purchase the actual CD.

Tool is another band that has figured that out.

[kenreau]

Not sure if you are on iTunes?  If you are, I can recommend TuneUp.  It's a little spendy at $29 but was the only thing I found worked in cleaning up, tagging and transcoding my 500GBs of digital music files. 

None I've found are perfect, but it matches them ~90% of the time.