This album has an amazing recording! It sounds so vibrant, so colorful, like im in the studio.
A big bravo to Paolo for making this amazing album!

Is your name Jonas? Thanks for all you've shown us.

Now I have the soundtrack for the Digimon movie going through my head, guess it's time to break out that CD again.

This is what I meant when I said I was “going digital”.

here we go again

I figured that's kinda implied in the 'rare' part, but yeah agree. Always support as much as you can.

I figure masterings are entirely fair game if you own a copy of the album in another form. Eg I've got a bunch of MFSL, Audio Fidelity, AM+ and SHM-CDs that have great mastering of particular albums that I'd never have been able to afford as physical purchases due to their rarity and 'audiophile' collector status IRL. I have no doubt that the musicians and engineers involved would be glad their work is being enjoyed, rather than unobtainable.

Rare CDs that are in-print nowadays generally don't have any tracks (or masterings) that you can't get via a separate release or digital purchase for a more reasonable price, because modern artists mostly live or die by digital stream popularity.

For out of print works, or artists long passed. Sure. But do what you can to support current and independent artists as much as you can.

I saw walkmans and cassette tapes in the store yesterday. I was shocked.

I just wanna add that if anyone wants to pay a bunch of money for rare CDs to access the music: you needn't.

There are bit-perfect rips all over torrent sites and soulseek, and you can even verify they're bit-perfect with tools like CUETools.

Yippie, I am hip again!

I never stopped buying CDs

Hey look, people like owning things and not licensing a digital rental

A fun chap that went trash IMO. The review is biased by me.

Great one! Though the album is not remotely obscure, it definitely feels like an underrated gem!

A stormy day today and time to listen Duffy.

personally i shop for new stuff at my local record store in the local bands and used section then outside of that i often pirate music to see how i like it and then build a list of cds to buy of records i like and then rank them by priority and buy them progressively as i acquire the money

Amazing album with a very beautiful artwork.

CD1 is fire!

Ahh cassette tape mixes, good times, that's back another 5-10years! I can hear the satisfying clicking on and off of the mechanism still of my old deck!

I'm sure pretty much everyone who listens to music has heard one of their songs. But doesn't remember.

Orgy, Manson, and Static-X. Takes me back to my high school days. Plus I've heard of MSI, but don't think I'm familiar with any of their stuff.

Mindless Self Indulgence 🤘

I got really obsessed with making my own playlists and recording them to cassettes, a year ago. So I just HAD to have one. It's very nice 👍

Static-X - takes me back a few years. Not a big fan but did see them live & remember having a good head-bang session to them! Said hi to them after the show too.

That deck though, haven't seen buttons like that it in even longer!

It's not a new album.