http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/fuel-festivals-and-cd-sales/ News at the speed of Bluegrass! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:52:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/fuel-festivals-and-cd-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-54973 guit30 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:44:42 +0000 http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/fuel-festivals-and-cd-sales/#comment-54973 I can't blame driving and distances for declining CD sales, more likely, cheap mp3s, which, really if the listener would wise up, they do not sound very good. Mp3s are at their best, compressed to the hilt versions of CDs and songs, not meant for listening, but for sampling. You are not helping your enjoyment of music by listening to something that you can e-mail to someone and download on a mp3 player to your song list from your computer. I would never imagine music would come to this when I was was listening to hi quality LPs 20 years ago Jim Moulton I can’t blame driving and distances for declining CD sales, more likely, cheap mp3s, which, really if the listener would wise up, they do not sound very good. Mp3s are at their best, compressed to the hilt versions of CDs and songs, not meant for listening, but for sampling. You are not helping your enjoyment of music by listening to something that you can e-mail to someone and download on a mp3 player to your song list from your computer.
I would never imagine music would come to this when I was was listening to hi quality LPs 20 years ago
Jim Moulton

]]> http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/fuel-festivals-and-cd-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-53925 TedLehmann Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:38:44 +0000 http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/fuel-festivals-and-cd-sales/#comment-53925 While we are attending, to our surprise, more festivals this summer, we're finding it difficult to find good lineups in the second rank festivals in Florida for the coming winter. Several festivals we might have attended, since we're going to go down there anyway, either haven't posted lineups yet or appear to have cancelled their winter event. We have responded by booking more time in state parks and hoping to find local or regional jams in central Florida and south Georgia. - Ted Lehmann While we are attending, to our surprise, more festivals this summer, we’re finding it difficult to find good lineups in the second rank festivals in Florida for the coming winter. Several festivals we might have attended, since we’re going to go down there anyway, either haven’t posted lineups yet or appear to have cancelled their winter event. We have responded by booking more time in state parks and hoping to find local or regional jams in central Florida and south Georgia. – Ted Lehmann

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