Originally Posted by
Philles/Motown Gary
For mike_su: I agree with you 100%, Mike. In fact, when it was announced that The Supremes’ "Funny Girl" would not be issued on CD, but, rather, only as a lesser-quality download, I protested loudly on The Second Disc’s bulletin board, as did several other disgruntled Motown fans who were equally upset. But, as fate would have it, I eventually broke down and purchased it for fear that I may not get another chance. And, you know, I’ve gotta admit, The Supremes' "Funny Girl" download sounds pretty damned impressive, as do all of Motown's other recent releases that I’ve been reluctantly purchasing. As far as the act of downloading goes, I know how to purchase each download from Amazon and that’s about it. Technically challenged, I have to employ the help of my neighbor/friend to download them and burn each title to CD on my PC for me [[and, even he, who is technically computer-literate, has trouble making it work at times.) Next, and this is where the real fun begins: I have to manually create a CD cover [[which is a 5" x 5" Text Box the same size as a CD jewel box) on my word processor for each downloaded CD title that I’ve purchased. After choosing the appropriate color for the Text Box border [[which will the overall color of the album cover), I type a track list for each one of the newly-purchased downloads along with a photo of each album cover. Then, after printing the CD covers and the corresponding album-cover photos, I have to cut them all out with scissors and use double-sided tape to fasten the album-cover picture to the corresponding CD cover with track list. Finally, after handwriting/labeling each newly-burnt CD with Artist's name and CD title, I insert each newly-created CD and matching cover into individual, clear, see-through, soft plastic CD view packs like DJ’s use to hold each of their CD’s. The final result is fairly attractive, but it makes for a hell of a lot of extra work. And, after all is said and done, there is still no booklet and no liner notes nor photos and graphics to enjoy. But, what can I say? To me, for Motown, it’s worth it. The ONLY improvement I’ve found is that, with downloads, Motown is able to release huge batches at a time compared to just a few CD’s titles per month. That alone almost makes up for it – almost! - Gary
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