it's kinda cool how vinyl DOES indeed sound better. especially when something is recorded analog. Then it's just insane. Too bad they don't do that anymore. Brian Wilson's Smile album out in 2004 had the producer specially record also in analog for the vinyl. it's so good.

too bad they wear down. but the sound is so much deeper, i love it. That's why this shift to too much digital sucks cause sound is getting more compressed.

That's just a mastering issue with the CDs though, especially with Oasis releases, which are traditionally and consistently brickwalled to within an inch of their lives. I'm not a massive fan of digital only releases, certainly in lossy formats, but a few years down the line we should be offered FLAC options at the very least. But vinyl-only releases annoy me more, it's totally at odds with modern music listening, which is more on-the-move. The fact that we've still got crappy vinyl rips of the two b-sides proves that needledropping is a fine art, it needs to be done with high end equipment and mint condition, high quality vinyl. You have a crappy analog setup, you're fucked before you've started. At least with a digital CD>FLAC file, the source material is more consistent. Plus converting to portable format is so much easier without losing anything in the conversion. Sons of the Stage is being released on the DVD version of the album, so we'll have a digital release of that, I'm praying and hoping the two other b-sides get a digital release or are one of the Japanese bonus tracks.

Well, hopefully if the info on the following page is correct, looks like we'll have digital copies of at least two of the b-sides. Google translate job though:

www.sonymusicshop.jp/m/item/itemShw.php?site=S&ima=4346&cd=SICP000003048

14. Sons of the Stage
15. World Outside My Room

Shame track 14 isn't 'Two Of A Kind' though, as you've pointed out Sons is on the DVD. How accurate do you think this info is Mono?