Are you going to buy the Rolling Stones SACDs?

Hybrid SACDs won't protect the record companies (and artists!) from pirating, unless the CD layer is copy-protected.

What will get the public buying is not reissues, but new material. When the next Britney Spears album comes out ONLY on hybrid SACD, then the medium will take off. But I don't expect that to happen for a long while, if ever.

I picked up 2 of my favorite Stones titles yesterday, "12X5" and "December's Children". I don't have a SACD player but played them on a Cary 306/200 CDP. I must admit that they sound much improved over the early 1986 cd pressings. I could hear more of the indivdual instruments especially Charlie Watt's drums and Keith Richard's guitar. At this point with over 8000 cds and lps I am not real interested in another format but I am curious how these 2 titles would sound on SACD player in my system.

The Rolling Stones??? I think that they should rename themselves "The Cash Cows"! Hey, "The Cash Cows" have done some great stuff, but Mick and the boys (geezers) have been irrelevant since the '80's. I forget the tour, but I had heard some concert excerpts, and without a studio and multiple takes, Mick has no voice! His monotone singing of "Shattered" reminded me of the William Shatner version of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"! And this was over 15 years ago! Most of the old and WAY past their prime rockers have sold out anyway (is anyone familiar with The Fools song "Sold Out"...it should be an anthem for old rockers!) Ever since Paul McCartney's tour in the late '80's, which was sponsored by MasterCard, and for which Sir Paul became a media shill, marketing and profits have replaced art, quality, and integrity. Hell, take a look at BIG NAME anti-establishment rock groups who have sold their "babies" to be used as music beds for commercials. The most greedy and money grubbing example must be that of the Clash. "London Calling" is now used for some crappy car (I think it's for the Ford Jaguar. However, this is appropriate, for the Jaguar itself is a pale ghost of it's former glory!) The Clash was a "take no prisoners" group that shredded every sacred establishment (cash) cow with their music. This was the group whose song "Death and Glory" screamed the lyrics,

"And every gimmick hungry yawp,
digging gold from rock and roll,
grabs his mike and tells us,
he'll die before he's sold.
But I believe in this,
and it's been tested by research,
he who f**ks nuns,
will later join the church."

How true, how prophetic, how sad!

Just bought hot rocks, this is the first sacd that I have bought for my newly aquired SCD-CE775. Listening through my Senn 575's it sounds good. I really have not listened to RS before so this is a good way to check both them and the SACD format out.

Some of your responses seem shrill, but so what. I have most of the 60s and early 70s stuff on vinyl; some of the early early 80s stuff on CD. The one I am most interested in is Metamorphosis. A compilation of their studio stuff that did not make it on their albums from the mid 60s to early 70s. I still thing their best song was from that album, Going Down. This album was never released on CD, and my album is about shot. Yes I am buying one CD/SACD.