CDs

[JimK]

Ditto... if they're in good condition, from Goodwill. Otherwise, Half Price Books is another resource.

Unless it's something specific, a 'greatest hits' from any group is a win, in my book.

Greatest Hits have always been on my Do-Not-Buy list.

 

[JimK]

I actually bought my current car, because it came with a CD player.

My current car, bought in 2020, no cd player. Does have USB ports...I have 1ea 128GB drive for Jazz & 1ea 128GB drive for Rock/R&B/Pop. Works pretty good, so far.

 

[Spidey2112]

Greatest Hits have always been on my Do-Not-Buy list.

I will check the box for, 'What Not To Buy Jim For Christmas' list, too.

 

[Jaygetsreal]

Lots of different perspectives. The most recent CD in my house is Sting's latest album The Bridge and I bought it on CD because it was a xmas present for my wife (big Sting fan) and I wanted her to have a wrapped present under the tree!
This story has a twist. When I went on Amazon in a rush to buy it mid-December I thought I was on the local Australian Amazon site. After buying it I saw it hade been dispatched from somewhere in mid-west USA and my heart sank. But incredibly Amazon delivered to Adelaide Australia in time for xmas. Thanks guys.
Great album too by the way.

 

[socialleper]

If people are still into physical media, CDs make the most sense. Portable, durable, universal.

I buy 90% on CD, even if I am buying Hi Res versions. If 24 bit isn't available I rip the CDs to FLAC files.

I wish my car had a CD and 1/8 jack. Android Auto is such a pain in the @$$.

 

[Alkali Ike]

What was old becomes new again. Vinyl. Cassettes. VHS. Eventually CDs.

 

[EddiePlaysBass]

My current car, bought in 2020, no cd player. Does have USB ports...I have 1ea 128GB drive for Jazz & 1ea 128GB drive for Rock/R&B/Pop. Works pretty good, so far.

Mine is only slightly older. It came down to two similar models by different brands, and ultimately the one WITH the cd player won

I think it also has a hard drive but I wouldn't know - never bothered to check how it works

 

[fretlessguy]

I still have not gone to downloading yet. I still buy CDs, but it is rare when I buy any more since most of the people I listen to are from the 70s and 80s and they are retired or dead, or will be retired soon. Strangely, my daughter is 18 and is going to vinyl, so I may go back to that. I will be buying my first turn table since the 70s, lol.

 

[Indiedog]

CDs for me whenever possible!!

 

[fhm555]

Admittedly this is probably more a personal thing -- i.e., the way *I* approach streaming services, versus anything inherent in streaming music per se -- but when I go to youtube et al and type in (just for example) Chick Corea's Now He Sings, Now He Sobs I am way more likely to then go and do something else while it's playing...cook dinner, surf the internet, balance my checkbook, etc. Whereas when I go to the shelves where the CDs are stored and pull out Now He Sings, Now He Sobs and put it in the CD player and press Play, I am far more likely to sit down in front of the speakers and listen. It's because the physical medium (CD or LP) is a token or talisman of the listening ritual.

Not sure about the listening ritual as outside of listening to learn, music has always been the thing i prefer in the background to allow me to not think about anything but the task at hand, so i’ve never really just made a date to listen, unless I was trying to dissect a tune to learn it. To that end, a playlist in my phone follows me from the workbench to the car to the kitchen when cooking, etc etc. i have a small good sounding bluetooth speaker i can easily move to wherever i’m working, and a jack in my dash to plug my phone into my vehicle’s sound system.
That said, I became familiar with the power and allure of rituals when I quit smoking so i can empathize, but music is such a big part of my life as a soundtrack to drown out the rabbit holes my OCD constantly tries to tempt me with.

 

[JimK]

I will check the box for, 'What Not To Buy Jim For Christmas' list, too.

OK...for the record, I recently bought my 1st & only abum by The Cult...their Greatest Hits.

 

[the harp unstrung]

It’s the tactile part of me…and it was driven Deep when albums were the only choice.

The act of ‘dropping the needle’ inferred a silent agreement.
I’m responsible for starting this thing…I should give it my attention.

I have a special seat out in the music room; a corner of the couch that’s been worn smooth by me ars.

I look for CDs at concerts…Remember ‘Concerts’?!
and at the thrift shops I visit.

Keep your eyes and your heart open and I assure you that you will find a prize toward the back of that rack! ✌

 

[MonetBass]

Indeed...

 

[Jeff Scott]

We need pics, now? I'll work on that.

 

[bobyoung53]

"According to Billboard, CD sales (remember those?) actually increased in sales for the first time since everyone you knew got their first iPod."


CD Sales Increased for the First Time Since 2004

I still buy them, still buy LP's and cassettes too, even reel to reel pre-recorded tapes if they're cheap (which is not often at all) and I like the band. I prefer the sound of reel to reel over everything else, then LP's, then CD's and some cassettes sound very good too, it's a crap shoot buying used cassettes though. I now buy cassettes from the 80's and newer. I prefer LP's but shipping out here is expensive. I feel each medium has its advantages and disadvantages.
The only streaming I ever do is Satellite radio and YouTube. I use YouTube as a tryout for albums I'm not sure of before I buy them. I get lots of ideas from YouTube too, I think it's very shortsighted of for example the Hendrix estate to keep Hendrix off of YouTube, the younger people are forgetting him and Hendrix sales have dropped off quite a bit.

 

[Indiedog]

We need pics, now? I'll work on that.

OK!!
I’ll play. Here are most of ‘em:

 

[the harp unstrung]

C’mon…fess up…

OK!!
I’ll play. Here are most of ‘em:

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Where ya hidin’ the
8-Tracks?!!

 

[JW56789]

Last time I bought a desk top computer for home, my IT supervisor at work advised me to pay the extra and get all the CD's of the software it was loaded with. 'That way', she noted, 'if something goes terribly wrong, you've got all of them to reload your computer'.

I look at music the same way. Downloads are the mercy of electronics, or losing the damn thing. With CD's, I have a physical object that I can never lose in a power surge or big stupid moment. I often wonder about folks with precious pictures on their phones who are going to look up 20 years from now and wonder where their kids' baby pictures went.

I grew up with 45's and LP's and have no use for the resurgent interest in them. I do not miss that hiss, pop, and scratches, and I'll gladly trade that 'vinyl warmth' for far more quiet and durable digital.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I often wonder about folks with precious pictures on their phones who are going to look up 20 years from now and wonder where their kids' baby pictures went.

There's going to be a HUGE hole in the photographic history books.

 

[JW56789]

There's going to be a HUGE hole in the photographic history books.

This is a very quiet, unspoken problem that is very quietly advancing.

I worked for a tech company where we were scanning and digitizing a library of books as old as 100+ years, and yet the concern of the professional librarians were that they were utterly sure if they kept the books in a carefully controlled environmental room, the books themselves could easily last another 100 years, but we could not guarantee that even with every fail-safe we could install in the digital version that the data would last anywhere near that long in digital storage.

Apply this to the unbelievably vast digital content that Uncle Sam or Amazon or even your local uitility maintains, this can be a bit unnerving. Not to mention kids growing up today won't have a terribly embarassing stack of pics of themselves when they were in Little League or in braces like we do.