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  1. While I mostly agree with the rest of your post, I believe you slip up there. There is NO WAY that the trillions of CDs ever sold worldwide become suddenly obsolete. No way, dude.
  2. Even if compact discs fall off the radar for a while, they'd make some sort of a comback like vinyl records did after about 10 years of being unpopular.
  3. Originally posted by pleasegone:[..]


    I am quite tempted to come up with another lame joke about the stupid corny remix names U2 continue to come up with, but just don't have the energy to do so. I hope they would just quit remixing songs, and if they have to release singles, put some outtakes or demo versions to make the single really worth buying.


    I'm OK with some remixes as I quite enjot them and even more OK with no more "jokes" haha
  4. Nope, it will happen eventually. They reckon that CDs could potentially become obsolete within the next couple of years. If not, within 5-10 years.

    CDs will still be sold of course, but only the old ones that no one has bought yet. Record labels will stop producing them and only sell albums as digital downloads.

    It will be a sad day, I tell you.
  5. Originally posted by RUMMY:Even if compact discs fall off the radar for a while, they'd make some sort of a comback like vinyl records did after about 10 years of being unpopular.

    Well, maybe. Vinyl records are nostalgic, yes, but people use them for the immense sound quality that comes out of them. Apparently vinyl records are on the rise again, but are only slowly rising. CDs are dropping massively (as are digital downloads as a matter of fact) and are making way for illegal downloads, unfortunately.

    I cannot see CDs coming back after going obsolete, I just can't. Unless there is some kind of boycott by artists and fans or something.
  6. I see your point, Kieran.

    I guess only certain people will buy vinyl records (relatively hardcore audiophiles) and people, like me, who like something to actually hold on to. These people are around but I doubt they'll ever become the majority.

    As for CD's,they are "nostalgic" to me and whenever I make a mix, I always copy it to CD. I like the fact that I can create/print unique cover art to go with it and also that it "forces" me to pick the best of the best tracks to fit into an approximetely 80-minute time period.

    For the record, I almost ALWAYS make my CD mixes as close to 80 minutes as possible. Yes, I'm talking to YOU creators of U22.
  7. Obviously veering here, but I used to have an attatchment to CDs, and when I finally sort of realized that they would be gone at some point in time (at least in terms of being able to go pick up a new CD at a store by a new artist) I was pretty upset, but now I don't really care. CDs are more expensive, they're a pain in the ass to store and move, and they're even more of a pain to deal with in terms of playing them. You need to open cases, take out the CD, yadda yadda yadda. Now all you need is an auxillary cord an your ipod and you're set with all of your music at the click of a button. As I said, for a long time I was attatched to music in a physical format, but at some point I had an epiphany and realized that the part that I'm really attatched to is the music and the artist, neither of which are limited to a physical medium. Out with the old in with the new!

    That being said, my girlfriend has already stated that as soon as we move out (which is sooner than later) one of the first things we're buying is a record player. Oh brother!
  8. I honestly think the reason they kept it at 22 is because they wanted it to give it as close to a show format as possible.

    And regarding to the previous comment about them needing to hit it out of the park, have you even listened to any of the tracks? The quality is well beyond what anybody could hope to acquire from a fan source. To have 22 songs of that quality is definitely hitting it way out of the park.
  9. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Obviously veering here, but I used to have an attatchment to CDs, and when I finally sort of realized that they would be gone at some point in time (at least in terms of being able to go pick up a new CD at a store by a new artist) I was pretty upset, but now I don't really care. CDs are more expensive, they're a pain in the ass to store and move, and they're even more of a pain to deal with in terms of playing them. You need to open cases, take out the CD, yadda yadda yadda. Now all you need is an auxillary cord an your ipod and you're set with all of your music at the click of a button. As I said, for a long time I was attatched to music in a physical format, but at some point I had an epiphany and realized that the part that I'm really attatched to is the music and the artist, neither of which are limited to a physical medium. Out with the old in with the new!

    That being said, my girlfriend has already stated that as soon as we move out (which is sooner than later) one of the first things we're buying is a record player. Oh brother!

    Vinyl is much more fun than CDs CDs are cheaper than iTunes if you buy from the right places. And I like to have my stuff in lossless, which is usually hard to get online (all this is if you buy music).
  10. Also, a video for One Tree Hill is up.



    If you ask me, there are no versions of One Tree Hill out there of anywhere near this quality.
  12. Originally posted by ahn1991:I honestly think the reason they kept it at 22 is because they wanted it to give it as close to a show format as possible.

    And regarding to the previous comment about them needing to hit it out of the park, have you even listened to any of the tracks? The quality is well beyond what anybody could hope to acquire from a fan source. To have 22 songs of that quality is definitely hitting it way out of the park.

    You may be right but, unfortunately, the name "U22" just works better than anything else. I'm sure we'd all love U32 (could be written as U2^5) or something like it but it just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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