2022 subscriber gift: Achtung Baby 30 Live

[ascender_RS]

If only I could listen to them...

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[wolbersu2]

Originally Posted by Spun2U

I want vinyl. They can keep their CD.

Glad it is cd!

[DeVaul]

Originally Posted by wolbersu2

Glad it is cd!

(kidding)

[dan_smee]

Serious question - where do people play cds these days? Mine will stay in plastic never to be used because the only place I can play it is on my PS3 that I kept in case I ever need to watch something on dvd or blu ray (and that hasn’t happened for at least 2 years). I’d be interested to know, because I’ve complained about these things not being on vinyl for a few years, but surely cds are even more useless to most people in 2022? If you can’t play vinyl, you can sell it for a profit in a few years?

[mikal]

Originally Posted by dan_smee

Serious question - where do people play cds these days? Mine will stay in plastic never to be used because the only place I can play it is on my PS3 that I kept in case I ever need to watch something on dvd or blu ray (and that hasn’t happened for at least 2 years). I’d be interested to know, because I’ve complained about these things not being on vinyl for a few years, but surely cds are even more useless to most people in 2022? If you can’t play vinyl, you can sell it for a profit in a few years?

I bought a $20 cd drive for my MacBook about a year ago only for cases like this where I need to rip a CD and upload it to my Apple Music library. Otherwise no use for CD's.

[bono_212]

Here I am late to the party because I only just had to re-subscribe. What an awful, awful subscription "gift".

As others have said...thanks for the paperweight, I guess. Maybe I'll use it as a coaster.

[lazarus]

Originally Posted by dan_smee

Serious question - where do people play cds these days? Mine will stay in plastic never to be used because the only place I can play it is on my PS3 that I kept in case I ever need to watch something on dvd or blu ray (and that hasn’t happened for at least 2 years). I’d be interested to know, because I’ve complained about these things not being on vinyl for a few years, but surely cds are even more useless to most people in 2022? If you can’t play vinyl, you can sell it for a profit in a few years?

I play them in my car, which is primarily where I’ve listened to music for the last 30+ years.

[dan_smee]

Fair enough - might be a grossly blind statement of privilege but I assume most people somehow connect phones to car systems rather than cd drives (if their car even has one) these days.

[Hewson]

I also have a CD player in my car. Was kind of surprised it had one (2016), I expect next car won't.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

When I take my time machine back to the year 2000, these CDs are a life saver

[U2girl]

Originally Posted by dan_smee

Great version of wild horses btw. Outro was quite intense. Seemingly a lot of thought went into selecting versions

Could do with an earlier version of MW and One. Otherwise this is ok. Also my money was on So cruel from FTSD so...

[dan_smee]

Originally Posted by U2girl

Could do with an earlier version of MW and One. Otherwise this is ok. Also my money was on So cruel from FTSD so...

I suppose we should listen to it before judging?

[mikal]

Originally Posted by dan_smee

I suppose we should listen to it before judging?

The version of MW is good. I watched it on YouTube, I think the gripe more has to do with structure. The slide solo at the end is epic and we'd rather have a version with that solo on it.

[phanan]

I still have and love CDs. I have a nice system in my basement and still enjoy opening up a new release, laying back, and combing through the booklet and reading the lyrics for the first time.

[lightmyway91]

I started collecting u2 vinyl only a couple of years ago but cd is still my preference which I’ve been collecting most of my life. I don’t listen to either too often but I find cd’s a much better back up than vinyl in case anything was to go wrong with the digital files which is how I listen to music most of the time. Only a couple of years ago my laptop completely broke down and I was relieved to be able to take cd’s like u22 and from the ground up and burn them to my iTunes from my new laptop.

[lightmyway91]

Can already listen to mysterious ways, it’s on u22. Mysterious ways and zoo station very lazy choices.

[kingofsorrow]

a couple of these versions have been previously released

[DeVaul]

They’re Lazy

[mikal]

To be fair, I don’t think the band actually has a sit down meeting to listen to every live version for a fan gift. They have other things going on and most likely delegate this task and have very little to no involvement on these fan gifts.

[lightmyway91]

I think it’s probably partly left to others to do some picking and choosing to begin with but I can’t imagine the band would let any of their music be released without giving it the all clear even if it’s just at the final stage giving the songs a quick listen. Wouldn’t be surprised if Edge alone took that task upon himself. Maybe different versions of zoo station and mysterious ways were picked which weren’t given the all clear and the easy solution was to say let’s go with stuff that’s already out there. Cedarwood road oddly was from the paris show on the SOI live disc on a subscriber set with every other song on that disc being previously unreleased and it wouldn’t surprise me again if a different version was chosen that they weren’t happy with and they chose a quick and easy replacement.