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Welcome to “Question of the Week,” a (sometimes) weekly debate amongst the MetalSucks staff regarding a recent hot button issue.

This week’s query comes from an e-mail sent to us by reader Jaziel Ocampo. We thought it was such an intriguing issue, so we passed it along to our writers:

“I still buy and collect vinyl records and prefer them over buying a cd but they rarely have an access code to obtain a digital copy of the album. Do I have the right to download the album without paying for it since I already paid minimally twice the price for the record on vinyl?”

The MS staff’s answers after the jump.

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In a well-written but typically sour-old-fart-ish rant about the audio quality of CDs vs. vinyl, industry pundit Bob Lefsetz made perhaps one of the best comparisons ever:

I felt the [CD]. But it wasn’t warm. It was a silicone tit, not the real thing. Real boobs sag. The girls think we hate this. Along with stretchmarks and that roll of fat around their middle. Whereas this makes girls real. They’re built with a higher percentage of body fat. They’re made to give birth, to nurture. Who’d want to sleep with a ten year old boy? A STARVING ten year old boy?

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