How many of you still buy CD's and/or music in digital format?

I listened to an interesting story this morning on the radio about how more and more consumers are getting their music mostly via streaming services like Pandora and Spotify.

All Pandora all the time.

I've bought all the Shinedown disks, still buy disks here and there. If only a few good songs I'll just purchase through Itunes.

I do. Even back in the Napster/ Morpheus/ whatever else heydeys of the early 2000's, I'd often download a few songs from a band to see if I liked them or not, then buy the album anyway (usually on CD). Started getting more into digital downloads in the mid 2000's, first iTunes, and them Amazon music (DRM free for the win), and now I'm finding myself going back to buying CD's whenever possible, as quality of most MP3 downloads, especially with the varying bitrate on the Amazon site, isn't really acceptable to me.

But then again, I'm the guy who will listen to all of a band's albums, end to end, instead of just picking and choosing a few songs here and there over and over again.

CDs and a few Amazon MP3s, all loaded into iTunes. I already have all that I want to listen to, but if something new comes along that I want (or something I've forgotten), my first choice is to buy the CD.

For example, our Walmart didn't have the new Pink Floyd, going to check back today.

Vinyls & CDs all the time.

Why?

Because I own a phyiscal copy, that is mine.
I paid for it, I own it.

Not renting some watered down licensed copy of the music.

The only exception is old video game music.
Which is typically downloaded

I think the collective attention span of society has decreased or something because I know a lot of people who told me that they can't just listen to an entire album from beginning to end because it bores them and because they need variety.

So get it from Amazon or Target or Best Buy or any of a dozen other places. Why must you buy it at Smellmart?

I like buying CDs on Amazon for the Autorip. No worrying about whether my software or CDROM will screw it up when ripping. I've got several "bad" MP3s from when the CDROM drive decided to shift gears mid-track and leave glitches in the file. The problem is I never can recall later which ones were bad to try and re-rip!

As for streaming, I only stream my own stuff that's on Amazon's cloud. Pandora and Spotify are just another kind of radio. If I could have them in my car without paying for it, sure. But I only listen to the radio in the car and only when there aren't commercials on. As soon as the ads start, hit the CD button!




The Jedi Master

Pandora. I never cared enough to buy CDs or through iTunes, not sure what I'd even do with em other than load up Audiosurf

I think it also has to do with the fact that radio playlists have gotten shorter and shorter, with those fewer songs being repeated more and more frequently. I distinctly remember it not being that way growing up.

Did you not listen to any music before 2000?




The Jedi Master

I was born in 1990 old man, any music I got through my lifetime was through a radio or from friends

Remember that Peally was born when you and I were in HIGH SCHOOL.

A fact I take sick pleasure in rubbing in

Heh heh. I'm lucky to even have a Walmart so convenient (only a 20 min. drive). I guess the dwindling CD section at Walmart reminds me of days past and going into a real music store, old habits die hard for me. But this habit will be die soon enough, they now have more CDs in the $5.00 bins than on the shelf (another reason I'm checking out their music).

The closest Best Buy is about an hours drive into Baton Rouge, oh how I miss the days of CompUSA and Circuit City.

Gave up buying CD`s years ago, all digital now, all mp3 and use Itunes for 90% of all music
and movie purchases. Will occasionally buy a Blu-Ray movie at Walmart.

I listen to Pandora and Spotify, and if I hear something I like then I buy it digital. It's rare to find any new bands that are good so I like to support them


True, we listen to XM/Serius in our work truck and even they will repeat the same songs over and over. Now it's to the point where we don't even want to listen to the radio at all because we're sick of hearing the same crap on repeat. Regular FM radio is just as bad (and with more commercials)

...and here I thought I was one of the site babies...

I find it interesting that you still found most of your music via radio- I know that for me, most new artists and albums I've discovered since even being in high school was via the internet- because growing up, I couldn't afford simultaneous subscriptions to Blender, Rolling Stone, and Filter.

Oh, and going to lots and lots of shows at tiny venues in college towns.

Amazon MP3 gets at least $20 of every paycheck.

And I love Half-Price Books' used CD section.

Occasionally buy from iTunes or Amazon when something new interests me.