$99.99 - or $149.99
using the usual exchange rate that would be...£99.99 or £149.99 ?
Thumping rockers AC/DC have been remastered for iTunes putting the seminal rocknroll tracks in a digital music store for the first time. AC/DC music has never been sold digitally before record label Columbia cut a deal with Apple, and now all 16 albums are on the store plus two specially packaged digital collections. Apple …
Unless they've decided to break with the norm for this one release, they're not lossless. iTunes purchases are 256kbit AAC variable bitrate without DRM.
My "online" music purchases consist of online CD purchases that I rip to lossless audio... I also convert these to 192k MP3 VBR to listen on my phone or in the car. I've never paid good money for compressed downloads (and that doesn't mean that I've just taken them for nothing, btw...)
Still got the vinyl copies of Powerage, Let There be Rock, If you want blood (you got it) [probably one of the finest live albums ever], and Highway to Hell.
Sod the remasters heavily compressed and quantised, I'm sticking to 70s rock the way it should be - analog.
And, there's hardly a click or a pop or whirr on these records, even after being played for 30 years.
... and it's so much nicer travelling to london on horseback and why bother with electricity - bah humbug. Some people are 'romantic' about analog / vinyl records - why not just record the vinyl version using a lossless 'digital' format instead then play it back through your valve amp ;)
Vinyl sounds a million times better than MP3s, assuming you have a kick ass hifi, awesome pickups, your vinyl is kept perfectly upright in a non humid environment with very little temperature fluctuation, there's no dust around, the floor is stable, you've shaved the cat and don't mind flipping over the LP after 22 minutes…
Personally, I can't tell a difference between CD and high bitrate OGG. Spotify streams me 320kb/s OGG, works for me.
@noodles: Scott definitely had something to his voice that made him stand out. I love his work but got bored of AC/DC pretty quickly into Johnsons career. It is a personal preference but the songs didnt seem to have the sleazy rocker sound that made "the jack" and "whole lotta rosie" (or pretty much the whole highway to hell album). Not saying that Brian isnt talented.
And I will weigh into the vinyl debate that MP3 and cd is much easier to transport but the sound of a vinyl record does make a difference. I am always on the lookout to pick up more and have always had a record player.
"No, it most certainly has been sold on CD. I assume they really meant "sold as digital downloads" before."
Yes, we- including the original poster- know that's what was meant, it just doesn't make it any less annoying or wrong. Considering that one of the main selling points of the CD was that it was DIGITAL F*****G AUDIO, it's rather grating that everyone assumes that digital = download and vice versa.
I prefer Brian Johnson vocals as well. Back in Black is my favourite of theres
Second time I saw them they were blown off stage by their support act.
1st rule of rock.
NEVER have Van Halen as a support act, especially when playing a mix of their first album and 1984.