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#4244236 - 03/29/16 11:00 AM How do you buy your music?  
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How many of you still buy music on physical media and how many of you have gone purely digital/streaming?

As for me I have a ton of CD's still (over 100 titles) but the frequency at which I've been buying CD's has slowed to a trickle. I think I've bought maybe two or three CD's in the past 2 years.


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#4244267 - 03/29/16 01:15 PM Re: How do you buy your music? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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CD's although, considering just going back to vinyl, it's apparently enough of a thing again that dang Barnes and Noble has a whole section of them, not that I would ever buy any from them ever.

I haven't gotten a lot of CD's lately, but there isn't exactly much I want that I don't already have, mostly it's just replacing what has been lost and/or scratched too badly

#4244271 - 03/29/16 01:29 PM Re: How do you buy your music? [Re: Mudcat]  
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Originally Posted By: Mudcat

but there isn't exactly much I want that I don't already have, mostly it's just replacing what has been lost and/or scratched too badly


This has also been the case with me. Actually the majority of my CD purchases over the past 5 years have been movie and tv show soundtracks.


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#4244275 - 03/29/16 01:43 PM Re: How do you buy your music? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Well most of my slow down in music also coincided with my kids jamming every bit of spare change into the cd player in the car, and since i can't just take the cd player out, i'd have to take out the entire center console to attempt to fix it, I just have gone without.

#4244306 - 03/29/16 03:04 PM Re: How do you buy your music? [Re: Mudcat]  
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Originally Posted By: Mudcat
Well most of my slow down in music also coincided with my kids jamming every bit of spare change into the cd player in the car, and since i can't just take the cd player out, i'd have to take out the entire center console to attempt to fix it, I just have gone without.


It'a amazing how many kids do that. It's seems like that happens to a lot of people. For the last few years I have found a lot of good CD's at garage sales. I have been turned off of buying music on line. Years ago I was buying 99 cent songs off of the legal Napster site. One day they sent an e-mail saying they were being sold to Rhapsody and that I needed to convert my files to MP3s. Well, I screwed up and didn't get it done in time. Now Rhapsody wants me to pay again in order to make the songs playable. My mistake, but from now on I want a damn hard copy.

#4244420 - 03/29/16 06:52 PM Re: How do you buy your music? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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For the last several years, I've been solely using Amazon\online for all of my music. I think I went 100% digital once I had my second CD folder stolen back in early 2000's.

For myself the convenience is 10x better than with physical data. I don't even remember the last time I used a CD player lol, I will never go back.

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#4244524 - 03/29/16 11:31 PM Re: How do you buy your music? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Spotify. Who knows what other ways of listening to music will come to us in the future, but for now I sure like the idea of having a huge collection of music available to me anytime anywhere.


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#4244658 - 03/30/16 01:31 PM Re: How do you buy your music? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I pretty much already have all that I want to listen to, but if I come across an interesting CD in a bargain bin, I might buy it. First thing I do is burn it to a lossless format (original quality) and then store the disc away. From my lossless library I make MP3s.

I always try first for a physical CD if available, for the packaging and quality, but it only gets used once for burning digitally.



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#4245767 - 04/02/16 02:46 PM Re: How do you buy your music? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I buy an a average of one CD a year now. I used to buy 10-15 a year, but not much is catching my attention anymore. I burn a lot of them onto my PC and I just bought a 10 year old Jeep Grand Cherokee with a 6 disc CD changer so now I have something to do with them again...lol.

Other than that I don't really buy music. I have Sirius/XM for my Jeep TJ, and I listen to Pandora where I can listen to the style of music I want at any time.


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#4245987 - 04/03/16 08:47 AM Re: How do you buy your music? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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iTunes - which I then also upload to my android Play Music.

Haven't bought a physical CD in years.


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