Anyone here still buy physical CD's?

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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    I do both but I download a lot, feel no guilt and will buy stuff from a band if I download their stuff and like it. Fact is, I wouldn't have heard half of the incredible music I have if I didn't download illegally. Can't afford to buy it all. The way I see it is, the well-known and therefore rich artists can't complain and the smallers ones who deserve my money would rather I heard and enjoyed their music without paying and might go out of my way to find their rare releases and see their gigs in the future than just never bother listening to them because I don't want to shell out £20 on an imported CD that was only pressed 500 times. I know if it was my music I'd feel that way.
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Blank CD's count as physical, right?:p
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  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    ........Dowloading is BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRIIINNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!



    There's nothing like having the artwork, skimming through the booklet as you hear the songs for the first time.....
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  • AndySlash
    AndySlash Posts: 3,287
    I just bought Portishead and The Roots yesterday. So yes, I still buy CDs. I have a whole wall filled with them, so might as well not stop now.
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,016
    i buy CDs only when its my favorite artist/group or i ive heard the artwork for an album is awesome.
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  • clarefromscotland
    clarefromscotland Posts: 154
    Yes - but I'm old. :) I like the physical artefact, though I'm still nostalgic for vinyl.

    I get a lot of things sent to me for review though so "buy" often doesn't come into it. I do dl stuff from iTunes but usualy just when I want a single track from something. Otherwise I just dl boots and so on.
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  • strummers
    strummers Posts: 2,611
    Can honestly say I've never downloaded anything illegally and rarely download anything at all if possible (with the exception of the last lot of PJ Flac boots!).

    Much prefer to have the physical entity and take in the experience of opening it up and seeing the artwork for the first time.

    Honestly hope downloads don't result in the extinction of the physical manifestations!
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  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    I just got a new mp3 player and I downloaded 1 song for 99 cents from amazon and bought two Toad the Wet sprocket cds used from amazon.com (and maybe half.com) and put the songs on there.

    I'll keep buying cds. I could lose my mp3 player or my computer could crash.
    I play cds in my car still (I'm ancient!)

    I've got alot of cds and movies. It does make my spare room cluttered though.

    speaking of cds, every morning this week, I played brian vander ark's resurrection cd. I love 90 percent of it. So relaxing when I'm in a hurry.
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  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    Yellow Ledbelly wrote:
    I think for me buying cds is enjoying standing there in front of shelves full of cds looking for what I want.....a full cd shelf is a wonderful sight to me
    it's so true. looking at cd and vinyl collections make me happy. :) the possibilities seem endless when they are all lined up.

    and as everyone said...the best is opening a new cd, reading the whole booklet, absorbing the lyrics... i hope these things never become obsolete.
  • Mojopin
    Mojopin Posts: 216
    I'll always buy it if I feel its worthy of being in my library. And by library, I mean physical library. Of course I load everything into iTunes as well, but I like the physical representation.

    If it all ends up going digital only in the future, I'll be burning every single thing I have to d/l to disc and then putting it in my physical collection.

    Guess I'm old fashioned in that way...

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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I still like having the physical copy, so I buy everything!
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  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    nfanel wrote:
    :) the possibilities seem endless when they are all lined up.
    Exactly...I know I've got something in there that will perfectly fit whatever mood I am in at that moment, no matter what I want to hear or need to hear at that time. Having the actual cd just feels more personal to me as compared to a download burned on some plain, stupid looking blue cd.
    I too hope we are never limited only to purchasing digital music, although I have no large problem with it and have never really found the sound to be that terrible as compared to the cds. It just wouldn't be the same though
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,081
    Where the hell are you guys buying CD's for 20 bucks?

    The price I pay ranges from 6.99 - 14.99...the average price is usually 9.99-11.99

    I've never payed any higher, probably since 1999.

    You guys really can't give 10 bucks to a band, record store, or record label that you support?
  • Hawkshore
    Hawkshore Posts: 2,185
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I still like having the physical copy, so I buy everything!


    Same here ....... plus I find more musicians and record companies are smartening up by reducing prices on cds and including more bonuses.
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  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    If I download it's usally to give something a try or to tide me over til I can get the cd. I love to read the liner notes and look at the art work.

    I think the cd helps to put value on the music. I'd just delete mp3's if I got bored and then d/load another time, but I would never throw a cd out.
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  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    I buy everything I can on vinyl and wait for CD's I want to appear in a used CD bin. That being said I will partake in leaks and I'll download something early if I don't have the cash when it goes on sale.
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  • deadmosquito
    deadmosquito Posts: 729
    i only buy CDs. i will not pay for digital music unless it is the only way to get it. i shouldn't have to pay for something that i do not possess a tangible copy of (IMO). blank CDs are soulless to me and i never use them. i am proud of my cd collection and even enjoy looking at it (as weird as that makes me sound). do i pirate music? of course. but if i genuinely like it enough to keep it on my computer i usually get around to buying the physical disc as well.
  • U2rocks
    U2rocks Posts: 89
    I definitely still buy cd's. I figure I have about 600 of them so it's a stupid time to stop. Not much worthwhile nowadays anyway except for older artists.....Pearl Jam included of course!!!


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  • deadmosquito
    deadmosquito Posts: 729
    soclose wrote:
    The artwork issue is interesting.

    When I was 15 I probably spent hours looking the artwork in my Pearl Jam CD's, but 10 years later I quickly flip through my new booklets and put the case away for months or even years at a time. Most of my listening time is spent surfing the internet, working or relaxing in the dark at night, so there aren't many opportunities to read lyrics and look at artwork.

    I miss those days when I'd sit by the CD player listening to the same album 2 or 3 times in a row, examining the packaging.:)


    you know, i think about that all the time too. those times were so magical.
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    Yep. In fact, I haven't bought a PJ bootleg since 03 when they stopped making physical bootlegs. Other than the Gorge of course. I like being able to hold something in my hand and look at the cover work and read liner notes.
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