Do you still buy CDs?

[MookJong]

Not any more, I think the last one was Rob Dougan's album.

 

[Brando]

Yes, I never download music.

I just like owning the cds and for £4-6 delivered from Amazon affiliates it works out cheaper than itunes.. Hardly any effort to add them to my lib from there. If a cd is copy protected I make a point of not buying.

 

[apatia77]

- I don't buy CDs, I prefer to get my music through other means


but if i was going to pay for the music i want i would deffo buy cds, buying music online is as expensive as cds (almost), and itunes = fail,

 

[memyselfandi]

I tend to buy CDs because most of the music I want are not available from iTunes etc .... I do get the odd thing from iTunes if its there but most of the stuff on my iPod is originally from CDs ...

 

[Van Hellseek]

Being into Japanese music, buying CD's isn't always practical (not to mention that they usually cost almost twice as much because of importing).

 

[superplay]

I still buy CDS, rip them to my media centre and then store m.

 

[milkinc13]

still buy CD's as I can do what i want with the songs without DRM saying I can't

 

[Lysander]

Being into Japanese music, buying CD's isn't always practical (not to mention that they usually cost almost twice as much because of importing).

So do you use iTunes or another similar medium?

 

[stude1983]

i personally favour cd's i like to have the physcal object and artwork which shows a little more of the creative side of the artist and i know you can download them with pdf artwork like 'saul williams - rise and liberation of niggy tardust' but it just doesnt feel the same.

so yeah i buy cd's quite regularly.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Buy CD, rip in some lossless format, store CD.

 

[rare]

I still buy loads of cd's, I much prefer having them than buying a MP3. I feel cheated without a nice case and little book. Plus I buy a lot of big CD sets and some of them are really well presented to the extent you could never get with a download.

 

[Faceman]

I only buy music on cd, as i could not bring myself to pay for low quality versions

 

[thecremeegg]

Nope as they're stupidly overpriced for what they are. Unlike a car or something where the costs of manufacturing are pretty high in comparision to the retail price, CDs only require the artist to sing once, and then printing the CD costs bout 10p.
If albums were the price of a single so around £3 then i'd consider it.

From tomorrow i'll just use this site: http://www.qtrax.com

 

[Alibaba99]

I don't have an illegal music on my PC, as I said I have it as AIFF on my Mac and have the iTunes setting to set it re-encode to 128KB when I put it on my iPod.

I have nice decent hifi my Mac runs through I would rather have it as high a quality as I can.

Rich

You do have illegal music on your hard disk. Until the law is changed it is still illegal in the UK to make copies of CDs.

As to getting music I still buy CDs (occasionally download stuff to see if I like it but generally take a flier on an album anyway) plus the odd bit of vinyl.

 

[nin9abadga]

yeah i do, bought loads in the last few weeks mostly replacing stuff i used to have on tape or have lost over the years. i then burn them all on my pc.

 

["andy"]

i buy cds but buy allot of mp3s too , mainly tracks that are otherwise only available on vinyl

 

[Jotun]

Nope as they're stupidly overpriced for what they are. Unlike a car or something where the costs of manufacturing are pretty high in comparision to the retail price, CDs only require the artist to sing once, and then printing the CD costs bout 10p.
If albums were the price of a single so around £3 then i'd consider it.

From tomorrow i'll just use this site: http://www.qtrax.com

Don't forget the costs of the recording equipment, technicians, instruments, advertising and promotion and a lot of time can be spent writing just one track, and also for a lot of musicians, the thousands of hours of practicing an instrument.

Not really overpriced at all IMO, granted the physical CD costs hardly anything of the total, but its not like the artist has only done 5 minutes of work and not spent any money in the process. But since they cost the same I go for CDs

[offtopic]Good to see another rabid In Flames fan. [/offtopic]

Probably the best band in the world, ever!

 

[Fusion]

Yes. Sound quality is great, and I like having a physical, tangible package and substrate for my dosh. I don't like todays disposable culture, and appetite for the latest over-hyped trends. We should be moving upwards in the audio world as in video with the introduction of higher resolution formats. DVD-Audio and SACD are at the audiophile end of things, but CD can still sound amazing. It's not so much that MP3 is lacking- well encoded files do match CD very closely. It's the fact that people listen to music on cheap, tinny in-ear headphones and on mobiles. We are moving lower and lower down the scale, especially when combined with heavily over-compressed modern music releases.

Give me vinyl anyday!

 

[Hxc]

People who use £5 ipod headphones on thier £160 player baffle me. I seriously don't understand how you can put up with their misrepresentation of the music :/

 

[Hellsmk2]

I used to buy around 5-6 CD's a week up until around 2003. Since then I haven't bought a single CD. I'm more interested in the music than having a few bits of plastic and an inlay card.

I can't see myself ever buying another CD. You can get such high quality files online, back them up much more easily and at a fraction of the cost.