physical media

you own nothing you stream

[fizzmead]

one of the best albums of the 2010s

[neoshowa]

[waste-yourself]

just bought a bunch of Grateful Dead bootlegs, ‘65-92, only $40 for all of it, a fuckin steal

[ourladyofomega]

📸 source: Kill Rock Stars (FB)

[wizardpotions]

saw this exact post but about DVDs by not-a-space-alien and felt the need to check something

if i handed you a VHS tape right now would you have access to a device with the means to play it

yes

no

im not sure

Voting ended onAug 24, 2024

[wizardpotions]

please reblog for sample size as i fear i attract other VHS enjoyers too much

[robotpussy]

i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to remain

[robotpussy]

the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical media along with piracy is more important than ever.

[rottenbrainstuff]

I thought this wasn’t true, because how could it be true? How could one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.

I am surprised and depressed to learn it’s 100% true, according to google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles, but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv shows if you want to count those, but even included, it’s still less)

Now I’m even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental stores.

[siphersaysstuff]

BONUS: They weren't beholden to Who Owns What IP Right Now. They got videos from everyone. You didn't have to pay separately for the rights to rent from the Disney Shelves and the WB Shelves and bler bler bler, and they only STOPPED having those movies when the tapes broke or someone never returned 'em.

[pepperoni-oni]

friendly reminder that your local library will have lots of physical media and if they don't have what you're looking for you can most likely ask them to purchase it or order it from another library through interlibrary loan

[bogappreciation]

Shoutout to Scarecrow Video- they have over 148,000 titles, most of which you can rent by mail. Rentals have been down in the last few years so they're asking for support!

[adaine]

the death of dvds is so fucked. what about bonus features

[preacherscainnibal]

love these layouts for old tvs

[fizzmead]

one of the all time greats

[orchidscurse]

Soundtrack from Twin Peaks, music composed by Angelo Badalamenti (1990)

[fizzmead]

in our cassette era

[fizzmead]

felt like a good day to take this cd on a lil drive! an underrated one in the bts canon, imo!!

[enki2]

[weaselle]

[rneliflua]

not to be pretentious, but a lot of stuff you guys complain is being ruined by capitalism/the algorithm/whatever can be solved by consuming something else than the most basic mainstream stuff that's thrown in your lap. "songs nowadays are getting shorter to fit entire tiktoks and it's ruining music" have you tried listening to something else than Spotify's Top 100 my dude? "fanfiction-to-publishing pipeline is churning out mediocre books and it's ruining literature" have you tried reading something outside the NYT bestseller list my dude? This is not a post about how algorithm based industries give visibility to the lowest common denominator art at the expense of actually creative and meaningful art that struggles to make itself known, which is a valid discussion for another time, this is about people actively not giving this kind of art their visibility because they won't get out of their way to discover stuff outside the mainstream radar and prefer to be passively fed what to consume while bitching that is not up to their tastes.

[r2x2]

[fizzmead]

Regler #1 - on loan from good friend of the blog Alan Browne (IG @alan_browne_)

one of the wildest records we've heard. first side is a blistering, extended blast beat with layers of noise and oscillation. second side is the exact opposite - sparse, quiet. a lesson in duality.

[fizzmead]

We sailed away on a winter's day

With fate as malleable as clay

Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender