in the end, i just say - why not? 90% of the time i can find what i'm looking for in 320 or V0, so that's what i aim for. $100 gets you 1TB of drive space these days, that will will hold an insane amount of music, even at these high bitrates. so i figure i might as well get HQ stuff.
there still remains the issue of lossless rips though. i usually only grab flac of things i want to archive. the new beatles remasters, for example. or the new kraftwerk remasters. i also spent an embarrassing amount of time tracking down flac rips of what are generally accepted to be the best remasters and/or best pressings of pink floyd's studio albums. i have lots of drive space, my internet is disgustingly fast, and music is very easy to come by these days, so again - why not?
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