I agree completely.... Even though I'm fifteen myself.
Mp3 is perfect to store all my music conveniently, but I would never pay for music in Mp3 format - especially if it's below 320Kbps and if it has restrictions as to use. CDs may be lossy in themselves, and I do own a few LPs, but again, a record deck is even more of an inconvenience to me.
Imagine having hundreds of pounds worth of music on your hard drive, and then your HDD breaks irrecoverably. I don't know what the circumstances are exactly any more with iTunes, considering you have accounts and such, but imagine you'd used up the limit on how many PCs you could play music on or whatever. You're going to have to buy it all again, even though you rightfully own it already.
Now don't anyone try and argue about this - if it was on CD you would have to try pretty damn hard to kill a few hundred pounds worth of discs at once!
The quality of it annoys me too. I once saw an iTunes advert saying 'CD quality' - when in reality it's about ten or eleven times lower. On tinny monitor speakers I doubt it would make a difference - same story if it was coming out of your mobile phone - but out of good speakers, you honestly can hear the difference. What's the point in music being recorded at full quality just for it to be diminished and distorted?
And, as a final point, with physical media, you always get awesome artwork!:-D
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I agree completely.... Even though I'm fifteen myself. Mp3 is perfect to store all my music conveniently, but I would never pay for music in Mp3 format - especially if it's below 320Kbps and if it has restrictions as to use. CDs may be lossy in themselves, and I do own a few LPs, but again, a record deck is even more of an inconvenience to me. Imagine having hundreds of pounds worth of music on your hard drive, and then your HDD breaks irrecoverably. I don't know what the circumstances are exactly any more with iTunes, considering you have accounts and such, but imagine you'd used up the limit on how many PCs you could play music on or whatever. You're going to have to buy it all again, even though you rightfully own it already. Now don't anyone try and argue about this - if it was on CD you would have to try pretty damn hard to kill a few hundred pounds worth of discs at once! The quality of it annoys me too. I once saw an iTunes advert saying 'CD quality' - when in reality it's about ten or eleven times lower. On tinny monitor speakers I doubt it would make a difference - same story if it was coming out of your mobile phone - but out of good speakers, you honestly can hear the difference. What's the point in music being recorded at full quality just for it to be diminished and distorted? And, as a final point, with physical media, you always get awesome artwork! :-D