Does anyone actually buy music anymore?

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  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    I will always buy music. I like going into shops and discovering good music. I do download songs off limewire but I don't download albums.
  • I download some songs, and when I have money, I buy it!

    I love the Original Albums... the cover-art is nice! and the CD desing!

    I want buy Led Zeppelin IV this month! :P
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  • Maarten
    Maarten Posts: 12
    I'm still buying records! (Every PJ record of course, for example)
    One of the goals in my life is owning évery Neil Young record he has ever recorded... Right now I have only 14 records so that's still a long way to go, but it's worth it!
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  • MCG
    MCG Posts: 780
    I buy the records of bands I like. Most times if I've never heard something and I'm not too sure about it I will download it, then if I like it I will buy the record. No sense giving $20 to a band for a cd you hate. If anything all that downloading does is allows me to preview potential purchases.
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  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    I still buy CD's because I refuse to pay good money for MP3's. I can make my own MP3's with CD's. Plus, I like the artwork whenever a band bothers to make it interesting :)
  • I will never stop buying cd's and vinyl, my girlfriend thinks I have an addiction, when i take the wrapping off a new disc the first thing I do is smell it, nothing like the smell of a new disc, does anybody else do this?
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  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    I legally download more than I do purchase the physical copy. Rarely is artwork that interesting to where I would look at it more than once.

    besides, finding room to store CD's is becoming a pain in my ass.
  • obble
    obble Posts: 49
    Remember than your computer will peter out and die one day, CD's will stay with you forever. I generally download songs that lead me into buying CD's.
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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,554
    Absolutely...love browsing at Newbury Comics, love having the actual cd and art, love the quality of sound vs my iPod.

    As a matter of fact, today's run was:

    Twilight Singers - "Blackberry Belle"
    Rainer Maria - "Catastrophe Keeps Us Together"
    Queensryche - "Operation: Mindcrime II"

    I'm afraid to listen to O:M II...could wind up with some serious buyer's remorse.
  • dCowboyPJ
    dCowboyPJ Posts: 479
    I buy all my music. I buy cds all the time. I buy way to many actually. I hate having just a downloaded copy of an album.
  • Alessiana
    Alessiana Posts: 329
    i buy cds. i love cds. i'd much rather have a cd then a file. if the file is all i have then ok, but i love my cds.
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    After getting a cd burner, I went about 2 years without buying one cd, then I would buy a cd not very often, 3 or 4 a year maybe, and about a year ago I started buying again, now I buy 3-4 albums a month.........mostly ones that I wanted to own after burning, stuff I know I would want, and rarely a new album
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  • I do. Just bought two yesterday.
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    I have turntables though so I actually get way more vinyl records than cds........but they are all used ones that I get for no more than a dollar most of the time
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • pjamdude69
    pjamdude69 Posts: 174
    I buy CD's all the time.. Just got Binaural, Vitalogy and No Code last night- got ALL my CD's ripped off a couple years ago, and slowly but surely getting all the PJ studio stuff re-purchased. Finally completed it by getting those last three. Been subsisting on boots, burned stuff, Benaroya, etc, etc. Finally figured fuck it, it's goddamn time to finish off the collection.

    Been pickin up old school rock CD's lately too- all the old Van Halen (the first four), AC/DC (Bon Scott stuff), Best of the Who, etc.. I prefer stuff I already know rocks. If it's a new band, I may check out some of those 30 second snippets that were mentioned above, just to get a taste... Or even check out a particular bands' website....

    Buying, seeing, touching, feeling, reading liner notes, all good things about purchasing a CD..
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  • pjfan020
    pjfan020 Posts: 426
    I don't like downloading music really. There's a place by me called "rolling stones" that sells cd's really cheap. A cd will usually cost me 7.99 as opposed to itunes and paying ten bucks. I too like looking at my cd rack and seeing all of those cases stacked up. I rip a lot of them onto my computer, but i don't want to go out and spend a couple hundred bucks on an ipod. Cd's are better to me. I'll ocassionaly go out and pick up records too. I've got about a good twenty records of classic rock stuff and a couple pj. Fuck digital music.
    "Tonight we're just gonna play you some good old American Rock and Roll." tom petty-7-15-05
  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,981
    even flow? wrote:
    I still buy vinyl and cds. I don't own a computer. So that is that.

    How do you get 10,000+ posts and not own a computer?

    I sense a scam. Or possibly a scam-ola! :D
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  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    Eraserhead wrote:
    How do you get 10,000+ posts and not own a computer?

    I sense a scam. Or possibly a scam-ola! :D


    Work allows me seven hours of play and one hour of work. ;) No night or weekend posts for this PJ fan.



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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    even flow? wrote:
    Work allows me seven hours of play and one hour of work. ;) No night or weekend posts for this PJ fan.

    I didn't know you worked in my building.

    :D

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  • Deeve
    Deeve Posts: 122
    Anything that I like I will buy the CD.

    I havent downloaded much in the last couple of years but anything I did download and liked I would buy. I have about 350 cds right now. Buy about 2 a month I would estimate.

    I do however buy a ton of used ones. There is a great store in the area that has an online wishlist that checks stock in all the other locations. Get stuff transferred locally or mailed to you. Prices are about 1/2 of a new disc.

    http://www.beatgoeson.com

    They always have a ton of the 2000 bootlegs. :)
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