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[Dinokill]

Buncha stuff. A lot from Amon Amarth, Iced Earth, and Dark Tranquillity.

I'll take them from you if you are going to throw them away

 

[Raptomex]

I do. I own a shit-ton more digital songs but I prefer to own physical things and I like the inserts.

 

[entremet]

CDs are digital....... I really hate when people call downloaded data digital, but not data on a disc.

...back on topic, I don't even use MP3 files anymore, just Spotify.

Don’t be a pendant lol.

You know what ppl mean.

 

[RoadHazard]

i didn't even own cd's when cd's where a thing.

This attitude is weird. Yeah, they're not as popular anymore, but been to a music store lately (which also aren't as plentiful, sure)? CDs everywhere. They're still a thing.

 

[Metalmarc]

Still buy CD's not as often as before because im running outta space

Also use spotify, sometimes googke play or amazon music too depending what offers are on

 

[Attack You]

This topic usually goes to shit on the Gaming side within a hundred posts. Surprised this is so civil.

 

[sasliquid]

I still buy CDs if possible, much nicer to own something especially if it's in cardboard packaging instead of plastic

 

[NotSelf]

I still have and buy CDs if it's a album I really like the last one I bought was Failure The Heart Is a Monster.

But I mainly buy CDs for nowadays is to sample it's fun taking a track and making something completely different out of it there's a record store that sells them used for $2 I also get them at the library I just rip the music into wav right there.

This is my little listening station inside the case there's a Grado SR225e which I sold and the CD player is a TECDP650 and that other thing is headphone amp from jds labs o2 I'm still using that.

 

[Kaiser Swayze]

I won't ever get rid of my CD's, and I still have a CD player in my car, so it's good to have some handy. That said, between Spotify and Amazon prime, I have moved on to the subscription model like many. For new releases from my absolute favorite artists, however, I'll still get physical copies.

 

[Gai Murakumo]

I do not have an MP3 jack for my car so yes I still have cd's for it.

 

[Deleted member 752119]

D: D: D: D: D: D:

Lol. I did the same with my DVDs (recycled cases/inserts and put in a binder) as well. . Probably kind of dumb to even keep those though as I have such a hard time stomaching watching things in SD. Not that I ever watch the movies I own anyway, as I rarely watch any of the 240ish Blurays I have that are still out on a rack and easily accessible....

I've mostly stopped buying and just grab things like Star Wars movies that I do rewatch periodically these days. I wish digital movies would catch up with MP3s in terms of being cheaper, easier to buy and keep downloaded and backed up, easy to rip ourselves from ones we own etc., but it will be a while with changing standards, huge file sizes etc.

 

[Various Artists]

I still buy CDs whenever there is a release I want vs iTunes unless I just want one song off an album. I also like popping in the CD from time to time to listen to on my high end home theater because it slightly higher quality.

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

For DVDs I also just place in large binders and store, but I throw the cases for the DVDs, too bulky to store. You can fit a lot of DVDs/BRs in a very small amount of space with binders. The only downside is sorting as you add to your collection. I've got four or five separate, sorted binders, representing different acquisition periods. The card catalog I'm thinking of building would make resorting into a single aggregate collection easier.

That's actually not a bad idea. I'd want to keep boxes for favorites (Simpsons & Futurama Season Sets, mainly) but I guess the rest of the cases can be recycled.

Hmm.

 

[Stencil]

I worked at the largest (new & used) music retailer in the midwest for about 6 years on and off, so I accumulated quite a lot of CDs. I realized pretty quick how worthless they were after ripping them, and luckily I was able to sell them back to my place of work.

I still have some rarer ones (game OSTs, Japanese imports, Dylan box sets) but mostly I'll pick up a new release I've wanted, rip it, and sell it back to my former employer, with a net loss of a few dollars at a time.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Funny story, I was over in Ireland doing a long drive to visit some of my wifes relatives. I went to the record store and bought a multipack cd thing to listen to. My rental car didn't have a cd player.

 

[F-Pina]

Still buy CDs.
RIP them to whatever format I need and listen from there.
Will never stop buying physical music as I really don't like this future where suddenly your music is not available because there is no internet. Or you can't listen to an album anymore because it was removed. Etc. etc.

 

[How About No]

I bought a Queen CD at a garage sale a few years ago.

I have yet to bother listening or even roping it cuz meeehhhhhh (even though it has song I haven't heard before)

 

[Thriftweed]

I have something like 700 CDs (mostly metal) and probably buy around 6 CDs a month. I have no desire to switch over to streaming services yet.

 

[Pillville]

Don’t be a pendant lol.

You know what ppl mean.

Yes, I know what they mean, and I know it's the wrong terminology, and it bugs me.

But not as much as when people write pendant when they mean pedant.....

 

[chromatic9]

Still listen to mine as I have a decent stereo system with floor standing speakers.

I should rip them all but how can I play through my amp to be on par to my posh Rotel CD player? I need something that I can rip wave files to that sits on my hifi stand with interconnects to my amp.

 

[Koren]

This attitude is weird. Yeah, they're not as popular anymore, but been to a music store lately (which also aren't as plentiful, sure)? CDs everywhere. They're still a thing.

Hasn't vynils been more populars in term if sales recently than digital downloads?


On topic, I do, I only buy CDs, even if I flac then right away. I value the object as much as the ccontent, even if I only listem to them digitally.

I wouldn't be surprised it's easier to import a CD than downloading an album on a foreign service...

 

[Koren]

Still listen to mine as I have a decent stereo system with floor standing speakers.

I should rip them all but how can I play through my amp to be on par to my posh Rotel CD player? I need something that I can rip wave files to that sits on my hifi stand with interconnects to my amp.

Definitively...

Devices that play digital data can use the exact same tech than CD players, the only difference is that you pay a lot in CD players to reduce the number of reading errors.

By ripping them with proper tools, you have strictly no error, so all the money go into the dac and amp.