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[MuldeR]

Thanks for all the info. Quite interesting!

In your example jpg you attached, that "pressed" CD looks all the world to me like a Taiyo Yuden or other silver back CDR, I think I can see the laser burn even with the jpeg. Is there really a IFPI number on the matrix?

Maybe you are right. But the "silver" CD-Rs I saw before looked quite a bit different. Here's a close-up of the IFPI number:

So the really interesting question for me is, would a professionally printed and packaged CDR be something a collector would purchase? I was thinking of producing some Axiologys to see if there is any interest.

Personally, I am happy to already have all the Thanatopsis records on CD. But if I did not have them yet, I would certainly be interested!

I've also thought of selling a professionally  packaged USB thumb drive with all three Thanatopsis CDs plus some bonus stuff all in 24 bit files. Now if you want to listen to CDs as you say you like to, just burn your own, and when it wears out, burn another.

Sending the files over the Ocean on an USB stick, just to burn them on CD-R here, sounds a bit ridiculous, even to me. At that point I would probably just go with the download.

It's not like I'm totally against downloads