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I had made room for LPs on my tall bookshelf, carefully placing vinyl records along the cheap chipboard until the shelf bowed in the center and threatened to collapse. I didn't like this very much at all. I spent days away from home fearing that the shelf would give way. I'd come home from a long day in the office to find The Byrds and Henry Fiol, Herbie Hancock and Sam Beam, all in a jumbled mess of vinyl and plastic and wood and carpet. Yet, more LPs would soon arrive.

I had made room for vinyl LPs on my small bookshelf. It worked out alright, except that the shelf only went ten inches deep, leaving a good two inches of my poor, homeless LPs hanging off into open space. I could not continue to subject them to this sort of abuse. They would need a proper home, and soon.

The LP rack now stands in place of the small bookshelf. Books: Who needs them?

I have a column in today’s <I>Slate</I>, delving more deeply into the Monk at Town Hall concert that I’ve covered in this blog—and the whole concept, and risk, of jazz tributes.

<B>ARVO P&#196;RT <I>In Principio</I></B><BR>
<I>In Principio</I>, <I>La Sindone</I>, <I>Cecilia</I>, <I>vergine romana</I>, <I>Da Pacem Domine</I>, <I>Mein Weg</I>, <I>Fur Lennart in memoriam</I>.<BR>
T&#245;nu Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra<BR>
ECM New Series 2050 (CD). 2009. Manfred Eicher, prod.; Teije van Geest, Margho Kolar, engs. DDD. TT: 70:44<BR>
Performance *****<BR>
Sonics *****

This still young love affair with vinyl LPs has worked to introduce me to many musicians I had previously neglected.

Storing downloads is always a balance between fidelity and hard-drive space/costs. If you had to pick one, which of the following formats would you choose for your downloads?