Do you feel like buying CD's is a waste of money?

81

CD's are a great cheap backup for digital music.

theserialthrilla

ok am i the only person who does not have an ipod.

Yellow Ledbelly

theserialthrilla wrote:

ok am i the only person who does not have an ipod.

I don't either

yellowporch

I love buying cds, everything about them, they sound better in my car, than my ipod does, i love looking at the cd art work, and what the cd looks like, and when i import them to my ipod for when im on the go, its all organized. plus i just feel like its nice to buy them and listen to them all the way through from start to finish :geek:

theyre fun to look through in the store too.
i cds

eeriepadave

FenwayFaithful wrote:

tybird wrote:

Nope

+1

+2

pandora

no support your favorite bands and buy their piece of art

chadwick

theserialthrilla wrote:

ok am i the only person who does not have an ipod.

i do not nor have i ever owned an ipod.
couldn't even tell ya how one works.

chadwick

pandora wrote:

no support your favorite bands and buy their piece of art

truer words have never been spoken.

chadwick

yellowporch wrote:

I love buying cds, everything about them, they sound better in my car, than my ipod does, i love looking at the cd art work, and what the cd looks like, and when i import them to my ipod for when im on the go, its all organized. plus i just feel like its nice to buy them and listen to them all the way through from start to finish :geek:

theyre fun to look through in the store too.
i cds

yep.
shopping for cd's is a good time.

Enkidu

norm wrote:

when downloading started i thought it was great because of it's convenience...but what happened was downloading removed a major part of music for me which is holding the disc, reading the liner notes etc...it's just not the same on an ipod or computer...but i do love my ipod but i also love my growing vinyl collection too

I agree with Norm. (Why do I almost always agree with Norm?)

But I also get weirdly paranoid about my iTunes library and iPod like suppose somebody steals them or Apple gets some weirdass virus and my whole music library gets wiped out. Yes I have an external hard drive, but sometimes they go all wacky too, right? I know I sound paranoid.

Thoughts_Arrive

theserialthrilla wrote:

ok am i the only person who does not have an ipod.

Nope.
I am loyal to Sony mp3 walkmans
Never had an iPod.

keeponrockin

Going to a CD store is half the fun!

Thoughts_Arrive

keeponrockin wrote:

Going to a CD store is half the fun!

There's something about buying album that makes me excited, happy, and cheers me up.
It is like a female shoe shopping.
Ah well we all have vices.

chiquimonkey

and think of this way, no code is an awesome album. and look how the packaging for it just made it even more incredible....part of the joy of a new PJ album for me is bringing it home and pouring thru all the artwork and lyrics. no code was by far the most fun with the polaroids!

Starfall

In a word, no. I want the best quality audio possible. Compressed audio files, like MP3s, will never equal CDs as far as sound quality.
Admittedly, I love my iPhone and I have a really good headset to go with it, but I can't rip my CDs to Apple Lossless because I don't have enough disk space. However, because I want high quality audio, I rip my music to 256kbps VBR AAC to balance sound quality with file size. Very few venues will sell audio at that bitrate. Even iTunes typically will have 256k, but not VBR.

helplessdancer

100% no

norm

Enkidu wrote:

norm wrote:

when downloading started i thought it was great because of it's convenience...but what happened was downloading removed a major part of music for me which is holding the disc, reading the liner notes etc...it's just not the same on an ipod or computer...but i do love my ipod but i also love my growing vinyl collection too

I agree with Norm. (Why do I almost always agree with Norm?)

because you're wise beyond your years

Ledbetterman10

I buy Pearl Jam. I bought The Beatles re-masters. With a couple of the other bands that I really like (QOTSA, Metallica, White Stripes), I'll buy it if I downloaded it and liked it. But otherwise, I haven't really bought CDs since torrents came about.

CHANGEinWAVES

keeponrockin wrote:

I need something physical.

same...

81

Ipods are great for long road trips. it was the catalyst for me buying mine. it's no fun driving down the highway and flipping cd's every hour.

no, i agree that cd's sound better than ipods, you mitigate some of that sound loss by ripping your cd's at a higher than standard bit rate. there is a big difference between 256 and the 1000 that i use.