How many times do I have to buy Abbey Road?

Factual Questions
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I believe it is perfectly legal for you to “upgrade” your music/software by copying it from one format to another, provided you do so for your own personal use. Examples:

[ul][li]Copying an LP or CD to cassette to listen to it in your car.[/li][li]Copying an LP onto CD in order to play it on more modern stereos.[/li][li]Copying a VHS video onto DVD in order to play it on a DVD system.[/li][li]Ripping a CD onto your computer, listening there, burning mix CDs.[/li][/ul]

But, I’m not a lawyer - someone please clarify.

The only reason you would have to buy the album again is if the quality difference matters to you. I’ve got a ton of LPs, and many of them are just not worth buying on CD, but they’re worth burning onto CD from the vinyl. For music I care more about, I’ll upgrade.

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How many times do I have to buy Abbey Road?

As many times as it takes, man. As many times as it takes.

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I’ve now listened to the DVD-A of American Beauty on the speakers (as in not headphones). The sound is incredibly open, detailed and lifelike. I’m definitely listening to the stereo mix (I’m not sure I was earlier) as contrasted with the surround sound. This is really, really good. But you must decide for yourself.

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Just buy it once an copy it to minidisc.

You are set :smiley: