Todays younger generation views music like fast food. I'll take a wham burger and two fries and, yeah, one of them mp3's.

I buy vinyl and maybe a cd but must admit to using Pandora when doing graphic work on the pc. But for serious listening it is always an LP.

That's because they listen to boring music that all sounds the same.

That's because they listen to boring music that all sounds the same. [/quote]

This is the truth.

Got out of the habit of buying CDs a few years ago when I lived in a shared house and simply didn't have the space for the ones I'd already accumulated. They were all ripped anyway, and I bought any new stuff from play.com as 192kb/s mp3s. Obviously far from audiophile quality, but at least free of any DRM.

These days however I'm a fully paid-up convert to google play music. Joined while it was still in beta so am only paying �8/month and the catalogue (while apparently not quite as extensive as spotify) is hard to find gaps in. Big fan of the suggestions/explore/shared playlist stuff as well. Convenience of having it available absolutely everywhere, particularly with a chromecast connected to the AV receiver, is hard to beat.


One thing I will confess I do miss about physical media is buying a new album in a shop (especially on the occasions when other people were buying the same thing) and then the anticipation of waiting to get home until you could listen to it. Putting a record on for the first time having never heard it before had a tactile effect that can't be repeated with downloaded or streamed music.

I still get albums but by most of my stuff is ripped from existing music collection into MP3 format for my 160GB iPod (close to full). I don't mind streaming services but I like to control what I listen to when I want to listen to it.

I buy complete albums, from Amazon MP3.

I still buy music. Mostly CDs. Sometimes MP3 format on Amazon if something isn't published anymore. I was still buying cassettes into 2003-2004 until Walmart stopped carrying them. I'll still get cassettes and records at Goodwill from time to time.

Some of my latest were Ian Tyson albums on CD.

No. All of my music is direct from the net, all HD for video, and then converted to mp3 for usb or other devices.

This is the truth. [/quote]

Yawn..blanket statement.

Well, if it doesn't all sound the same why would they say they need a variety to keep from getting bored?

Yawn..blanket statement. [/quote]

Well what I mean to say is mostly directed toward popular music. They are over produced and *sound* the same. Songs may be different, but the production follows a strict money making formula of overly compressed, drab sounding music. There are a lot of really superior sounding stuff out there, but you've never heard of them because they don't follow a generic popular music formula, so go unnoticed. Today's Indie music isn't even really Indie anymore. Just basically pop music by guys in plaid shirts and skinny jeans.

I don't think it all sounds the same.

I just think it all sounds horrible.



The Jedi Master

we have some good local talent and I often buy their CD's when we see them live. I have about all the vinyl and cd's I will ever need, mostly 60-70's.

SiriusXM Satellite in car, and on all devices. I use free version of Google Play Music as well.

I bought $70 worth of old vinyl records last weekend, does that count? I'd wager a good number of them haven't been played since before I was born over 35 years ago...

I haven't bought a CD since 2002? Never purchased music in a digital format before.

I find back in my album buying days that i'd listen to the whole cassette front to back more than once. First run several songs would stand out while others i knew i'd end up fast forwarding though eventually.

Example that i can thing of right now....ZZ Top Eliminator. My favorite album of all time. Songs like TV Dinner and several others i just can't stand.....hardly boring

I buy CD's through Amazon and get the autorip mp3's immediately. I don't trust DRM music. I avoid Apple's little snares at all cost.

If you mean in physical form, no. But iTunes has an asterisk by my name in their quarterly reports.

I have yet to scratch a digital flie.

You can make your own digital files of any physical copies.



The Jedi Master

No, I meant if you buy music in ANY format. I started the thread because it seems that more and more people I know don't buy music at all anymore. They just stream everything off of Pandora or Spotify. So I was curious to see how many people on SimHQ were the same way.