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I haven't purchased the remastered Journey/Steve Perry albums that were released awhile back, but listened to soundbytes on itunes (I was very bored today!) I thought the soundbytes sounded extraordinary! Now, we all know that the purchased music on itunes is not the perfect quality you would get on the actual CD, but if you were to purchase a remastered CD (set aside recent events) would it still be worth buying the CDs from iTunes as opposed to buying the actual physical CD?

Not sure about the CD verses download question, but don't buy from itunes if you can help it! At least find a download site that allows for a higher bitrate than 128.
Not sure about Urge
Anyone know a better site?

A plug for the CDs though - they come with booklets full of photos! Not sure that's worth the extra dough for you, but I had to have them,

Carrie wrote:Not sure about the CD verses download question, but don't buy from itunes if you can help it! At least find a download site that allows for a higher bitrate than 128.
Not sure about Urge
Anyone know a better site?

A plug for the CDs though - they come with booklets full of photos! Not sure that's worth the extra dough for you, but I had to have them,

Another good thing about buying CD's is that you can rip them at as high of a bitrate as you want, and you'll always have the CD to rerip it if you ever need to.

Yeah most of the time what happens is that I buy the CD and wind up ripping the music so I can upload them to a drive at work so I can listen while I work..lol! I guess the biggest reason for me with digital downloads is that it's instant gratification so to speak. I don't have to get in my car, burn my gas and have to fight people in Walmart. Unfortunately for me, Walmart is the only place around here that I can buy CDs. Our freakin' music store in the mall shut down, and we have no Best Buy or Circuit City in town anymore. With that said, I often have to turn to the internet to buy the CDs I want, but then I have to wait for them to be shipped and so forth.

But I definitely agree about iTunes and sound quality. I haven't checked out Urge yet. I used to buy music from buymusic.com, but every now and then, I would have problems with the DRM and couldn't playback the track I had purchased. The rest of the online music download stores have crappy sound quality. I was impressed by the soundbytes of the remastered Journey releases, so that must mean that the actually remasters must have awesome sound quality.

Greg wrote:Yeah most of the time what happens is that I buy the CD and wind up ripping the music so I can upload them to a drive at work so I can listen while I work..lol! I guess the biggest reason for me with digital downloads is that it's instant gratification so to speak. I don't have to get in my car, burn my gas and have to fight people in Walmart. Unfortunately for me, Walmart is the only place around here that I can buy CDs. Our freakin' music store in the mall shut down, and we have no Best Buy or Circuit City in town anymore. With that said, I often have to turn to the internet to buy the CDs I want, but then I have to wait for them to be shipped and so forth.

But I definitely agree about iTunes and sound quality. I haven't checked out Urge yet. I used to buy music from buymusic.com, but every now and then, I would have problems with the DRM and couldn't playback the track I had purchased. The rest of the online music download stores have crappy sound quality. I was impressed by the soundbytes of the remastered Journey releases, so that must mean that the actually remasters must have awesome sound quality.

Well I go with even less instant gratification, I order them from the internet. You can usually get them cheaper even shipped, plus you don't have to go anywhere, they come right to you.

Rick wrote:

Greg wrote:Yeah most of the time what happens is that I buy the CD and wind up ripping the music so I can upload them to a drive at work so I can listen while I work..lol! I guess the biggest reason for me with digital downloads is that it's instant gratification so to speak. I don't have to get in my car, burn my gas and have to fight people in Walmart. Unfortunately for me, Walmart is the only place around here that I can buy CDs. Our freakin' music store in the mall shut down, and we have no Best Buy or Circuit City in town anymore. With that said, I often have to turn to the internet to buy the CDs I want, but then I have to wait for them to be shipped and so forth.

But I definitely agree about iTunes and sound quality. I haven't checked out Urge yet. I used to buy music from buymusic.com, but every now and then, I would have problems with the DRM and couldn't playback the track I had purchased. The rest of the online music download stores have crappy sound quality. I was impressed by the soundbytes of the remastered Journey releases, so that must mean that the actually remasters must have awesome sound quality.

Well I go with even less instant gratification, I order them from the internet. You can usually get them cheaper even shipped, plus you don't have to go anywhere, they come right to you.

Yeah that's true. What I really want are the Steve Perry remasters. I had downloaded One More Time from iTunes and that song is heart wrenching! I would love to be able to sing that song!!!

Greg wrote:Yeah that's true. What I really want are the Steve Perry remasters. I had downloaded One More Time from iTunes and that song is heart wrenching! I would love to be able to sing that song!!!

That's a good one. Right there with Anyway if you are going for heart wrenchers. I would like to be able to sing like that too...lol There's not another voice like that around. Very talented.

Greg wrote: ...I guess the biggest reason for me with digital downloads is that it's instant gratification so to speak....

ok, this is what you do (what control issues ? )
Find the best price and order them. Then while you're waiting, download a song or two to tide you over. (Make sure you download songs from the remastered CDs. I don't think ALL of them were remastered - some were just repackaged with extra songs and booklets)

Then you can compare the two yourself and let us know!!

(And you'll have the booklets... )

Rick wrote:

Greg wrote:Yeah that's true. What I really want are the Steve Perry remasters. I had downloaded One More Time from iTunes and that song is heart wrenching! I would love to be able to sing that song!!!

That's a good one. Right there with Anyway if you are going for heart wrenchers. I would like to be able to sing like that too...lol There's not another voice like that around. Very talented.

"When I, close my eyes. I Long to be there, one more time." You know, when you type these lyrics out, they seem so insignificant. But, you get a guy like Steve Perry to sing those lyrics, and it's the most beautiful thing you've ever heard. Kind of reminds me of how I feel occassionally about my ex.

Carrie wrote:

Greg wrote: ...I guess the biggest reason for me with digital downloads is that it's instant gratification so to speak....

ok, this is what you do (what control issues ? )
Find the best price and order them. Then while you're waiting, download a song or two to tide you over. (Make sure you download songs from the remastered CDs. I don't think ALL of them were remastered - some were just repackaged with extra songs and booklets)

Then you can compare the two yourself and let us know!!

(And you'll have the booklets... )

Hi! Well, I did download One More Time, but I'm not sure which computer I downloaded it to. (Computer programming geek here who can't keep up with all his files on his multiple computers! )

Greg wrote:"When I, close my eyes. I Long to be there, one more time." You know, when you type these lyrics out, they seem so insignificant. But, you get a guy like Steve Perry to sing those lyrics, and it's the most beautiful thing you've ever heard. Kind of reminds me of how I feel occassionally about my ex.

I don't know about your ex Greg but I know about One More Time. It's heart wrenching for sure.

Love One More Time, love singing along to it.

Greg wrote:

Rick wrote:

Greg wrote:Yeah that's true. What I really want are the Steve Perry remasters. I had downloaded One More Time from iTunes and that song is heart wrenching! I would love to be able to sing that song!!!

That's a good one. Right there with Anyway if you are going for heart wrenchers. I would like to be able to sing like that too...lol There's not another voice like that around. Very talented.

"When I, close my eyes. I Long to be there, one more time." You know, when you type these lyrics out, they seem so insignificant. But, you get a guy like Steve Perry to sing those lyrics, and it's the most beautiful thing you've ever heard. Kind of reminds me of how I feel occassionally about my ex.

Exactly, and the remastered solo cds are definately worth it. Love the extra songs, like the fun....Can't Stop.