What's stopping record companies from offering MP3 downloads with vinyl purchases?

I wasn’t laughing at you.

The laughing emoji was at your comment that “greed is very uncommon when it comes to the price of new records”

I’m happy to have a grown up discussion about this, but not if you’re going to sulk at comments.

 

Greed. They want the buyer to pay again for any digital files.

 

I s it perhaps because that few ever bother with them?

 

Well I don't stream. I don't like this 'music for rent' stuff.

 

Grown ups use words, not emojis.

Telling someone they are sulking is a gaslighting technique.


Do better.

 

Not even if it’s just remote access to the music that is on a record you physically own? You’d rather download a crappy-sounding mp3 than hear it at lossless quality?

 

Yeah, I don’t get this at all.

 

I don't own that much vinyl and most of it I already own it on CD (I can digitize them). Else, these are stuff with a Bandcamp download included (so in FLAC). Or stuff I recorded myself (in this case I even have the multitracks!).
I will listen to stuff on YT when I want to discover music, but when I like something, I buy the music.

 

Right, but the whole context of this thread assumes we are buying, on vinyl, and then there either is or is not an mp3 download included.

FLAC downloads are better, sure, but that is rarely what has been included with vinyl releases (from the labels, on a card included inside the record jacket), IME.

 

But I buy vinyl though!

That's major music companies for you! Independent artists do it better

 

I have an 15 years old dual core HP laptop with Linux Mint & Audacity on it for vinyl rips.
It's even simpler than when taping LP:s to Cassettes, you don't have to check for if/when the tape runs out and switch cassette sides..
You need a good turntable/pickup/needle for good results, in the end any 50€/$ crap turntable will do the job of course.
Just purchased the 5 first King Diamond vinyl on the beautifully done Metal Blade reissues from the original masters, they come with the download code, so I will be downloading those of course for completists sake.