My ipod has a few songs that don't sound as good as the original CD version (for which my lawyer reminds me I paid full retail price and have kept the receipts), but I think that's because they're compressed. If I uncompressed them, I'd get a lot fewer of them on there. On the whole, they sound ok, but then again, so does a cassette through ear phones.
I'm with Richard here. The 'industry' is just missing a fabulous new opportunity that newspapers don't seem to be missing. Idiots. :roll eyes:
Here's a funny sidebar, when the 'story' broke on our local news, the 'reporter' walked slowly towards the camera in a room surrounded by racks of CDs. I thought it looked familiar and yes, it was a local reseller of books, magazines, CDs, videos etc (you know the places where you clear out your cupboards and they give you a couple of quid and everyone's happy). Not exactly the best place to illustrate the underlying complexeties of the story I would have thought.