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Are you going to buy the Rolling Stones SACDs?

I've preordered a few already. I suspect that the recordings, despite remastering, will be far less than what SACD is capable of reproducing. But it is exciting to see a large block of music from major artists come out in the new format, and that's why I'm buying. What do you think the major labels (especially Sony, that controls vast numbers of recordings AND manufactures SACD equipment) are waiting for? Seems logical to me that getting more software out would speed sales of the electronics and interest more of the general public in the new format. Releasing SACDs would also immediately protect the record companies from copyright infringement, at least until someone manufactures an SACD burner.
thsalmon
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geoffkait
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they are hybrids, right? if so, I will buy some...
twl
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I would buy them if I was more of a Stones fan, but they never really got me going. I like some of their songs, so maybe a "Best Of" SACD might interest me.
tacs
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They need time to get everyone worked up so we will want to buy them, but first they have to hype aging boomers into thinking that SACD is worth buying the same old recordings twice and three times. Give me a break folks, we already went through this game with CD. And once again, twenty years later, it's like we were born yesterday. Sony is in it for the profit, their strategy of getting us to feel 'deprived' by delaying software is perfectly consistent with good marketing techniques and will work well once the software is released.
Remastering to sound decent on current equipment (that is, cheap SACD players) takes time and money, and Sony needs you to repay that effort, no matter now misguided. It's exploitative (the waning rock groups are more than happy to take your money again and again too, of course). You want the stones? Break out your cassettes and 8 tracks and vinyl, and at the last resort, your CDs. Or tape a copy from someone. Much cheaper! And perfectly consistent with the quality of the sonics involved.
Remember when rock and roll was protest music? Now it's a parlor game for baby boomers sporting fat wallets, who are experiencing a delayed reaction to the sixties.
-Tom
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