Well, it depends if they are singles or an actual project work. For example Tori Amos' "Welcome to Sunny Florida" is more than worth the money, as is Radiohead's "The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time" (although less a music video and more a tv show it still contains a great deal of music and video). I wouldn't buy singles as music videos, I never do, I never buy singles either. In my book one tune is not a career of talented music making and to buy them (even from decent artists) merely perpetuates the notion that the less talented can make a mint with little or no effort. Most artists of any note make an album because it is more than the sum of the parts, buy just a single and you may be taking them out of context and doing their music an injustice.
Getting off track, soooo anyhow... If you mean concert music video, then I would definitely say they are worth it, especially if you only know the artist through studio work, live versions of songs can often be liberated and full of the energy a studio can limit.
As to just hearing the audio, just minimise your screen. If you mean extracting the music from the DVD and converting it to audio, one way would be to record it into a program like Sound Forge, but that may have legal implications so I couldn't possibly comment on that.
Originally posted by Starrmanwould probably only be legal issues if you were to then distribute the recording.
If you mean extracting the music from the DVD and converting it to audio, one way would be to record it into a program like Sound Forge, but that may have legal implications so I couldn't possibly comment on that.
Hexstatics latest album 'Masterview' is released as an AV album - the idea being that the DVD version has the videos to the tracks which are part of the songs. This works for some but not all, but is worth a look.