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Are there still devoted CD buyers here? I know that may be a weird question but I'd like to know. I still buy physical CDs. We have this AWESOME cd store (The Sound Garden - www.cdjoint.com) here in Baltimore.

For me I like putting out the money and actually having something physical to touch. I buy limited things on iTunes, usually what I can not get physical. Buying music online irritates me because I feel like I get nothing for the price. For some it is connivance buying online and I get that. For me though it is just different.

Also I like a lot of artist from other countries that do not release CDs in the states and their music is not available via iTunes so I need to buy them CDs physically.
 
I do prefer to buy CDs. I love to browse the booklets. I like to take the CD off the shelf, put it in the player, watch it disappear and wait a moment for the music to start :-).

Yes, I have HDD connected to my CD player so that I can play all the mp3 files without effort. Quality is reasonable since it uses the same DAC as CD. But these albums on HDD are kind of anonymous. Not really the same thing as physical CD.
 
Yeah i agree 100%.I love to buy cd's due to i love to get the booklets and stuff.I do still buy alot from itunes,but even if i do i still go out and buy the cd's lol
 
Hey which part of Baltimore do you live at? I just moved here and i stay in Nottingham/White Marsh.The reason i ask would love to go to the music store you listed
 
I love the physicality of cds. Also books. I love playing touchy-feely with the things I buy and I too, feel somewhat underwhelmed with the mp3 experience. Glad to know others are of like-mind!
 
As a music obsessive I get my music through a variety of sources including buying CD's, mostly through Amazon.com, but sometimes I can't wait to get something asap so I'll trek to some physical store and buy them on the Tuesday release dates. In the last several months I bought the latest CD releases from Arcade Fire, Linkin Park, Kings of Leon, Interpol, and others in stores. Alas there are very few good record stores in New York outside Manhattan anymore, they have all evaporated in the wake of the retail giants like Wal-Mart, Target & Best Buy. When I lived in the City it wasn't a big deal to buy music from a number of neat independent record stores but now that I live in the suburbs going to those stores is a chore. I have bought and downloaded music on iTunes and other places (and yes I have uhm "found" free music too) but I always feel like I'm getting an inferior product that way, so I try to stick to CD's.

I also get what you guys are saying about actually handling the product. The whole ritual of removing the celophane and the protective tape from the jewel case, the tactile feel of that thin plastic in your hand, sliding it into the CD player...yikes, I sound like I'm describing sex LOL.
 
Since I refuse to buy any i-crap product or mp3 player, I much prefer CDs. It feels like a lot more intimate experience, listening to a CD and following along to the lyrics, to the musician's notes and thank you's than downloading a song from the Internet. There's still art in CD packaging which is another reason as well. Anyway, I'm perfectly content with my CD player walkman.
 
GPK1984 said:
Hey which part of Baltimore do you live at? I just moved here and i stay in Nottingham/White Marsh.The reason i ask would love to go to the music store you listed
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To everyone else:

Thank you! I am glad I am not the only one.
 
I still used CDs up to a three years ago, until finally getting an iPod. I actually prefer the downloading method because I can pick each song I want. I generally don't like entire albums by artists.
 
Does anyone else buy used CDs? I'll usually buy them on Amazon for a couple bucks which is a lot cheaper than buying the album on Itunes.
 
Fe-Rod said:
Does anyone else buy used CDs? I'll usually buy them on Amazon for a couple bucks which is a lot cheaper than buying the album on Itunes.
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Used discs are the best way to go!! CDs/DVDs/Blu-Rays/etc. Why pay full price?? Even Wal Mart/Target/Best Buy can't compete with eBay/Amazon used or slightly used. "New" discs?? No way. Odds are, if you live near/in a big city, there's a used disc store near you. I want the "Back to the Future" trilogy on BD. $49.99 at BB/Trgt/Wal. Um, no thanks. I'll wait until someone gets tired of it and wants to drop it on eBay/Amazon.

Actually, I can't remember the last time I bought a physical CD...???
 
I bought the new Interpol CD a few weeks ago. It was $10. I didn't think it'd be good enough for the more expensive vinyl. And I didn't have internet at the time to download it illegally.

But for the most part, I haven't purchased CD's regularly for 3-4 years now. I've switched to vinyl for few reasons. Vinyl records aren't going away and continue to hold resale value. I don't see this changing. My local record stores stopped taking used CD's long ago, but they take pretty much any vinyl record. Also I just have so many boxes full of CD's and jewel cases, and they just look so cheap, probably because they are. It's nice to be able to just throw it in my mac and copy it to my itunes, but most new vinyls come with downloadable copies and I can always find it online for free anyway if I want it on my ipod that badly.

Also I just enjoy going to a record store and browsing. CD sections are getting smaller and smaller, less to browse. Some bands anymore don't even release music on CD's, but almost always on vinyl, in my taste anyway. I guess if you like LeAnn Rimes or something than I'm sure your experience is different.
Plus, I don't listen to half the shit I download, and certainly not entire albums. Without the vinyl record, an album may as well not exist anymore. I enjoy the process of relaxing and listening to the effort put into album's production as it was intended.
After years and years of CD purchasing, and them being pretty much outdated, I still just want that physical artifact. Something to hold, to value and collect, for something I'm fond of to exist more than digitally, maybe even to pass on to someone who may enjoy it as I have.
I typically download everything I listen to, but if I love it, I add it to my list of records to buy. I don't purchase nearly as much music as I did back when I bought CD's. I'm too poor for that right now. So I guess when I do, it's even more exciting and makes the process that much more special.
 
I still buy CD's (mostly used) because I like collecting cd's and like others have said I like having the physical product in my hands.
 
arpeggi said:
My local record stores stopped taking used CD's long ago, but they take pretty much any vinyl record. Also I just enjoy going to a record store and browsing. CD sections are getting smaller and smaller, less to browse. I don't purchase nearly as much music as I did back when I bought CD's. I'm too poor for that right now. So I guess when I do, it's even more exciting and makes the process that much more special.
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The real shame is how much I used to love stores like Tower and Virgin Megastore here in Chicago! Seriously, it was like heaven for me to browse through the various sections/departments; you never knew what you were going to find! Yeah, the CD sections at BB/Trgt/Wlmrt are a joke. It seems so antiquated now. I still enjoy seeing new release info, even though I may not rush out to get whatever it is. Whatever happened to "real box sets"...??? Everyone used to release one; now no one does.
 
MJEH89 said:
The real shame is how much I used to love stores like Tower and Virgin Megastore here in Chicago! Seriously, it was like heaven for me to browse through the various sections/departments; you never knew what you were going to find! Yeah, the CD sections at BB/Trgt/Wlmrt are a joke. It seems so antiquated now. I still enjoy seeing new release info, even though I may not rush out to get whatever it is. Whatever happened to "real box sets"...??? Everyone used to release one; now no one does.
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I miss those 2 stores in particular here in New York as well. The Virgin Megastore in Times Square was my favorite large store for a long time, I could spend hours in there just listening to music or perusing their voluminous CD sections.

The FYE stores Iv'e been to are halfway decent but I always have trouble getting something new if I don't make it to one the first few days a new CD is out, they seem to order very few and are in perpetual back order status. Their used CD section is pretty decent though. For me Best Buy is the best of the big box stores when it comes to finding/buying CD's, but thats really not saying much. The sales staff is friendly and fairly knowledgeable and they have a good stock of stuff on hand. But as mediocre as they, WM or Target are, at least they are better than Circuit City was, that place was a nightmare to try to find a CD in (U2? sure, look in the letter "B" section) or talk to the sales staff, they were the DMV of retail...good riddance to them.

Before the advent of MP3's, napster, file sharing, torrents, limewire, iTunes, etc etc, Small record/CD stores were the absolute best places to find music. Just to be able to chat with enthusiastic salespeople who were every bit as much into music as you were was just such a treat. Like small businesses of all kinds they are pretty much extinct now thanks to the big box stores, especially WM. There are still a handful in Manhattan but you pretty much have to trek downtown in and around the Village, NYU areas to find any great ones.
 
I need to hold the physical body of work in my hands. The packaging, artwork, and design are just as important to me as the music. And you can't get that with digital downloads. There's a magic that you get when you buy a physical CD that is very rare anywhere else.
 
I can't imagine myself not buying cd's I agree with what's been said that I need the physically of holding the cd, booklet etc
 
I stopped buying CD's two years ago. I almost bought The Fame Monster, but decided against it. I also thought about buying Interpol's latest CD, but decided not to because I wasn't so thrilled with the packaging on Our Love To Admire.

CD's take up a little bit of space and I'm planning on moving sometime next year, so if I can have less stuff that's a plus for me.
 
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