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In this digital age, who still has CDs?

I buy cds at the swap meet if they are cheap enough. Some people still think they can get $5 for a used scratched up cd no way. Usually get some rap or hip hop music ones, sound quality when playing in car cannot be compared to other sources
 
Cipher Peon said:
I've been buying CDs of albums I REALLY want to keep for the rest of my life to display them. So far I have Paramore's latest album and the Suicide Squad soundtrack :o
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Nice! I was pretty surprised with how much I like After Laughter. Even though it's even more of a pop album compared to their pop punk days pre-2013, everything still sounds great. I have The Final RIOT! cd, going to try and get After Laughter soon along with the new The Birthday Massacre album.

I honestly don't think my buying habits are going to drop at all; if anything, as I start heading down the hifi rabbit hole, my consumption of them is only going to go up. I might even pick up some A/V gear and be able to play discs sans my computer. Should be fun.
 
I switched from buying CDs to buying vinyls now. They're much better for display and usually come with the digital code anyway.
 
I buy cds almost every time I go to Goodwill. Last run I wound up with Blackout, Illadelph Halflife, siamese dream, and College Dropout. $2 each, can't beat it.
 
I've been a big cd buyer since I was a young kid, where I would pick out a bunch in a catalog. Heck, I recently bought a 6 cd player from best buy to listen to more folk/ambient albums before bed.

I mostly listen to cds in my car which also has a 6 cd changer and the sound is fantastic.

I've sold a great deal of cds on amazon, eBay and discogs over the years and shipped to many different countries.

But yea, Spotify has really changed the way I see music since using it last year and I'm buying less cds because of it. I demo albums aometimes on Spotify which saves me some cash if the album is garbage. But nothing beats going into an album blind and it being a masterpiece.
 
Last year I started a vinyl collection and I own about 26 records so far. Its pretty fun going to a store to find that record I've been wanting to add to my collection.
I don't buy much CDs (I own about 12) but that's only because both my brothers own/buy lots of their own. I just take theirs and rip them to flac on my computer.
I don't use any streaming service either. I don't like the idea of them for some reason.
I guess I just like to own all my music files and not require the internet to listen to my music.
 
I bought Kendrick Lamar's newest album on CD.

I usually buy rap on CD, Techno/Ambient/House/anything else on Vinyl but mostly digital
 
Until somewhere offers an experience like iTunes but only for lossless files (and without the shit software), I will always continue to buy CD's as long as I can.
 
There's so much stuff you can't get digitally. Discogs is amazing for acquiring rare CDs, tapes and vinyl. Your favorite artists probably have quite a few b-sides and remixes you have never heard. I buy CDs and use EAC to rip flawless copies which I can then do whatever I like with.

A couple of my recent pickups:

De La Soul ‎– Art Official Intelligence (Instrumentals)
Various ‎– Reworked 3
Gang Starr ‎– You Know My Steez (UK Remixes)

I have a huge stack of vinyl I need to get around to transcribing. Unfortunately I haven't really had room to permanently set up a turntable.
 
I tried getting into vinyl, but playing them is too much of a hassle. CDs are perfect for me.

This is my latest CD purchase:

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vegohead said:
But nothing beats going into am album blind and it being a masterpiece.
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Yeah, for sure.
 
If I buy an album, it's always on CD. I prefer having the physical product if I'm spending money, feels like I'm not just buying insubstantial 'licensing rights' to something.

I don't buy many albums though, this year all I've bought is Texas and Jamiroquai.
 
I don't know if its because I'm older and used to CDs but I always buy a CD version of an album I found and like on Spotify. I feel like I can focus on it more if I put the disk in the car and let it play over a course of a week.

When I'm on Spotify its more fleeting. Listen to something and jump to the next thing.

Or sometimes I'll find an album like Between the Buried and Me's Colors in the used bin for cheap and buy it even though I couldn't get into it on Spotify. Ended up loving it once I absorbed it in the car.
 
Cd's and records just so I can play them on the hi-fi in the living room. I do rip the CDs and then put them on the phone. Who needs to buy digital.
 
I have a bunch of cds, mostly because of sentimental reasons but some because I can't get ahold of it anywhere else. Like best of blowfly:)
 
farmerboy said:
You. I like you.
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I never stop at tag sales, but I was looking for a bookcase for my kids room last weekend. So I stopped and found a Tascam and a Denon cassette deck. I bought them for $10 each. I think I'm going to have the Denon serviced and calibrated to transcribe my cassettes. It seems higher end than the Tascam.
 
Yep, my car is full of them. Last one I got was the new Dragonforce album a few weeks ago.

I'm very slowly starting to get a Vinyl collection going, but don't have a turntable yet. Hope to get one soon.

I stream off Spotify too. Guess it just depends on where I am.
 
Music CDs are the only thing I've gone digital on and that's mainly because of Spotify. Being able to go between albums and artists in a second is just too handy.

When it comes to movies and video games, I will almost always get a physical copy when they're available. I like owning physical media and obviously won't be swapping out video games and movies every 5 minutes.

If I'm too lazy to get up and swap a disc out once or twice in a night of gaming, that's a problem.
 
I still buy them for bands I really love. Then I immediately rip them and upload them to Google Play Music, so I don't actually listen to the CDs (except maybe once right after getting it). I just enjoy having a physical music collection, and I also like supporting bands I love. I also have a Play Music Premium subscription, but I could never fully rely on that. Partly because I like having my own music library, but also because not everything I listen to is on these services, and stuff may disappear at any moment. If you're a very casual listener who mainly listens to what's hot that's maybe fine, but for me it's not. So the alternative would be to just buy digital downloads I guess, but in that case I'd much rather just buy the CD and rip it. Like, I have all albums Dream Theater has released to this point on CD (and several on vinyl), am I just going to stop now? Nah.

Android18a said:
If I buy an album, it's always on CD. I prefer having the physical product if I'm spending money, feels like I'm not just buying insubstantial 'licensing rights' to something.
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Yep, this too. Buying a CD feels more "real" than buying a download. I'm actually getting something tangible for my money.

ZeoVGM said:
Music CDs are the only thing I've gone digital on and that's mainly because of Spotify. Being able to go between albums and artists in a second is just too handy.
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I can still do that, while still having my physical collection as a back-up. The combination of my own uploaded library and Google's on-demand selection, all available in the same app or site, is excellent.
 
I go to concerts, quite often too so.Last CD i bought was foo fighters wasting light. Great album but i rarely listened to the cd but instead streamed it. More convinient.
 
I still buy them. Although I only buy albums from a little set of favourite bands and musicians. From time to time I download an album on iTunes too, especially if it's not easily available on disk (or I just buy the one number I want), but I don't like the idea of just buying the license and not being able to redownload is something goes wrong. (Though maybe that changed now?)
 
To be honest, I feel too young for CDs and I'm in my 30s. Of course I grew up with people who collected CDs and I had my moments of knowing only CDs in my childhood, but MP3s were a thing by the time I was 12.

Gutek said:
Wow - a whole thread of people that don't know that CDs are, in fact, digital.
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Sure, but we live in a world where people discuss whether it's best to buy video games physically or digitally. :P
 
I proudly still have and buy them. F*ck the digital age (yeah I know CD's are digital themselves lol). Btw is there any chance CD's will get a renaissance surge like vinyl these days?
 
Waldo Lydecker said:
I proudly still have and buy them. F*ck the digital age (yeah I know CD's are digital themselves lol). Btw is there any chance CD's will get a renaissance surge like vinyl these days?
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I don't think it will ever be like vinyl, with its hipster appeal of sounding "better than digital". We all know a lossless rip of a CD is identical.

But I do think CDs could stop being regarded as pure garbage monetarily and regain their collectible status.
 
I buy vinyl for the bands I'm really into and CD's for most of the other bands. CD's I rip myself for listening on the road and I kind of expect a download code with the vinyl, so you have the best of both worlds (yes vinyl sounds better than CD :p ).


makingmusic476 said:
Yeah, you can buy and easily download music to your PC with Google Play.

And you can store it locally on your phone via the Google Music app so it's not constantly streaming (same with music on their subscription service). Bit more convenient than moving it from your PC.

Amazon's good too.
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Thanks!! I was looking for a place I could just download the MP3's, so I can play them through my own player instead of Spotify or iTunes! Amazon music doesn't work in The Netherlands and some CD's can be hard to find.
 
I have around 3000 stashed in a storage unit in the states (with a similar number of vinyls).
Haven't touched any of them since I ripped them about 6 years ago, I don't even get much use of my ripped versions of them.

I should get around to toss/sell/give them away at some point.
Waldo Lydecker said:
Btw is there any chance CD's will get a renaissance surge like vinyl these days?
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I really don't see it happening. As other people said, you can't really pull that "warm sound" bullshit like you do with vinyls, and the packaging is just garbage (seriously, the jewel case is the worst shit ever). And if ever there was a rare album that is not available on any of the digital stores/streaming services, you can bet your ass it will find its way to youtube and pirate sites in no time if it ever get really popular for some weird reason.
 
Waldo Lydecker said:
I proudly still have and buy them. F*ck the digital age (yeah I know CD's are digital themselves lol). Btw is there any chance CD's will get a renaissance surge like vinyl these days?
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Can't see it happening. The vinyl experience is something you can't exactly replicate.. whereas a CD is pretty much the same as listening 'digitally'.
 
I have plenty but I don't have them for any collection purpose, just because it's usually cheaper for me to rip them in FLAC from the cd rather than buy lossless online.
 
Kurita said:
A significant amount of artists I listen to don't have digital releases
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The reverse is also true sadly. Lot of artists I listen to don't have physical releases, which means I'm unlikely to buy their music.

Chichikov said:
and the packaging is just garbage (seriously, the jewel case is the worst shit ever).
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Yeah, they suck. I think around 20% of all my cases are damaged in some way, and not because I'm not careful with em either.
 
me.

Lots of it actually. Digital music isn't widespread in my country at least in the form that you actually pay for.

That's why I settle for physical CDs.
 
Nobody sells CD s for the genre I like where I live
So whenever I am traveling I check out the music stores and pick a couple of CDs. Like a souvenir
 
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