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Does anyone still buy CD's?
| Another thing about digital purchases - if there's no physical release, and the artist or online service removes it, and then you lose your files somehow, unless they're popular, the music might be gone for good.
| Man, I wish. Most of my favourite bands are really hard to find in local stores. And local stores are getting harder to find.
| cds supposedly yield better quality so i still try to pick them up when i can
| OP here. I agree with both. I like local used stores for cheap CD's, but for new ones, I usually go with Amazon.
| I still buy cds, mostly for the shelf value, theres an appeal to having the physical item you don't get otherwise.
| I didn't know they still made CDs
| Of course! Having something more permanent than data will always be superior.
| I don't buy CDs for music but I still buy CDs for data storage. Call me old fashioned.
| >>259736
Got no Amazon here, fam. And our local equivalent doesn't have much in a way of legit music CDs
| I do. It's nice because sometimes they come with more than just the cd.
| >>260210 Definitely makes sense to go with digital then. I wonder how much longer CD's are gonna last, actually.
| >>261374 They're collectibles. They're the default physical audio format, cheaper than vinyl & far more practical than cassette tapes. Fans love to have physical merch & collectibles, means more to them than a file.
| I still buy CDs too. I just bought like 4 Slipknot CDs for a few bucks. Used but in good shape. When I receive a CD I immediately rip it in high quality for use on my pc with my good headphones. CDs are dirt cheap here in Germany. I also found Carpenter Brut's - Leather Teeth in a local bookstore. o.O That was kinda amazing. xD If I buy them online I mostly buy from the artist's website/preferred store.
| I will buy them if I have the money and if I can find them
| I love buying CD's and Vinyl. I recently bought a Queens Of The Stone Age Vinyl
| I don't own many if any CD's because I was always part of the digital age, but I'n going to start buying more CD's and burning mp3s I already have onto CD.
| I love collecting music formats. I have 3 boxes of cd's. And I might have to buy another box soon. And I just started collecting vinyls. And I also started collecting cassette tapes as well :D
| I still buy CDs.
I find they give Albums and their Artists more substance to who they are.
Evem for small artist I would, hell, I got a few rare soundtracks for the WipEout and Killibf Floor games.
| If there was anywhere to buy them, or if I had anything to play them on, I would. But I don't.
| It seems vinyl kind of retook the physical music market.
| >>261387 I wanted to get Carpenter Brut's newest album on CD, but shopping to the US is really expensive... maybe it'll eventually be on Amazon
| yes! but i often find myself ordering them 'cause none of my local stores carry my favorite artists. i just like having something i can display on a shelf, and i also feel the same about videogames. i enjoy having physical copies even though they may be going out of style ~
| >>264840 I would've never believed that it's available in our local bookstore, lol. I'm not french btw. Sadly this album is a little short. But it's worth every goddamn oenny I spent on it. <3
| I love to have CDs and vinyls, and I even have an Everly Brothers CD/vinyl collection. It just feels nice to have something physical to show to people, to say that you actually own some of an artist's work, rather than saying you grabbed it for free off of Spotify.
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| I know most people just stream music now, but I feel disconnected from it if I just stream it. Even with high quality digital downloads from places like Bandcamp, I still like having the actual physical CD or occasionally the vinyl. I do rip all my CD's at full quality and listen to them that way, but actually owning just feels "right" to me.
Just wondering if anyone else on here feels the same way.