If you want to get really technical about it...the CD itself is a lossy format. Anything digital is lossy...it's samples of the sound wave....not a true representation.   I also am against buying lossy files (though I occasionally do buy an exclusive b-side track or something if it was only...

If anyone finds a FLAC rip of the unmastered version, please PM me a link. I have the 192kbps mp3 version.   I've heard the vinyl versions, and while I prefer it to the CD version, I realize it's really the same damn master...just slightly warmer due to the vinyl source and result of the...

So I take it a FLAC version doesn't exist?

I agree with what everyone says here. However, I have been searching for 3 or 4 years and have been unable to find a lossless (FLAC) source of the unmastered Californication ANYWHERE. I do own the real abortion of a CD...love the music, but the mastering is atrocious. I have the 192kbps mp3s of...