Poll: Do you still buy cd's ?

[patente101]

I buy some CD's but I have to say I never actually listen to them through a stereo the first thing I do is rip them onto the computer then stick on my MP3. seems a lil' pointless are you the same are do you actually listen to your CD and have to keep swapping them?

Well, I mostly listen to my iPod, but at home I prefer CD's than listening on my computer. Another aspect to consider is the song sequencing, which is kind of lost with mp3 players. Most of the time an album isn't just a bunch of songs thrown together, a good album has got to have something holding its songs together.

 

[Goenitz]

Buying music is for suckers, except the Red Hot Chili Peppers.... or the Beastie Boys.... or... no thats about it.

 

[patente101]

I do both, but recently was reccomended Last.fm on teh internetz! It seems to have all of the music on the planet to be streamed and it will play you reccomendations which helps me hear about awesome music I might otherwise not hear.

Last.fm is great, although it's not perfect. I discovered a lot of great bands through it, Azure Ray, Oingo Boingo, Karie Kahimi... Lately though, I have been listening to some real internet radio. I just love kroq.com, I'm a sucker for the eighties

 

[SteinFaust]

to avoid having a Party Van show up outside my house tonight, i picked "i like cds". you "i like torrents" guys are suckers! *hides behind desk*

 

[Edable Giraffe]

i always buy CDs, i rarely ever download. I prefer to have a hard copy to look at and also i have a high quality audio system that trumps my computers 2:1 speakers

 

[SteinFaust]

i really only buy cd's of groups i:
a)like alot and actually think downloads will hurt their sales, therefore causing no more *band name here* for SteinFaust :'(
b)can't find via download, and have to buy from a specialty site- i.e., for game OSTs

 

[Drmortuss]

I used to love my CD collection but after a while I had acquired a nicely sized collection and it became more of a hassle to keep up with all of them so I converted to using downloads. I now have a huge music collection on my computer that I would never be able to have if I had stuck with CDs... Still buy some every now and again if I love the artist/band/whatever.

 

[DeadlyFred]

@Drmortuss : I don't disagree, as I have a fairly large and unnavigable collection of CDs myself but I can just as easily buy a CD and digitize it as I can pay money for someone else to do it for me.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Hey Joe is a fish

 

[Fineldar]

...I have gazillions [yes that many] CDs and I love the sacuraty...

I know a guy who has a large bathroom, completely filled with classic rock CD's.

 

[Sylic]

I feel like cds are useless.. nobody carries huge cd players anymore and usually if your at a house playing music its either on off a computer or someone connected thier ipod to a speaker set. It just doesn't seem worth throwing 10-15 dollars on anymore, I'm fine with 320 bps quality.

 

[Nechti_Visara]

I tend to download a lot, specifically if it's a song I've heard on the radio and I've never heard anything else by the band, or if it's a song that is off a CD that I know for a fact it will be difficult to find in the United States, much less in my small town. My way of deciding whether or not to buy a CD is simply this: if I like a minimum of two songs on the CD (or have a previous CD from the same band) and have to have the CD on the instant, I'll download it, usually from iTunes. But if I can wait for a bit, I'll buy the CD instead.

To be perfectly honest, I don't actually like downloading CDs very much. It feels like I'm cheating, or something. But like I said, if I have no hope of finding any CDs by the band at all in my town, then I'll download it, since I don't usually have the patience for Amazon.

(All those examples are Japanese CDs. My dad has the patience for Amazon, and he's the one who passes all the Nightwish, Wintersun, Opeth, Ensiferum, etc. on to me. Nightwish less so, since Dark Passion Play was actually at our local Target)

 

[Fatalis67]

I use iTunes for my music. FIrst of all, I can do it from home, it's often cheaper than buying the CD, I can buy only the songs I like, and it reccomends new artists. Also, I listen to underground Brutal Death Metal / Metalcore , which about 2% of record stores stock.

But like every product Apple has ever made, the DRM and the actual iTunes software are humongous piles of semen and stale cookies. When I boot up iTunes, it demands that I install Safari and import all my music, at which point I deny it and the 2-3 confirmation dialogs. It seems that after this, it gets mad at me and displays it's angst by flooding my computer with an unexplained level of iLag.

In all, if I don't get it free, I get it off iTunes then use a cracked version of Soundtaxi to remove the protection. I highly reccomend soundtaxi to anyone, it is fast and has no quality loss at all, (provided you set the output quality to high), and dispenses good ol' MP3s

 

[Kikosemmek]

I download and buy digitally. I do burn CD's, however, for use in my car and giving out LiveCD's.

 

[DeadlyFred]

I feel like cds are useless.. nobody carries huge cd players anymore and usually if your at a house playing music its either on off a computer or someone connected thier ipod to a speaker set. It just doesn't seem worth throwing 10-15 dollars on anymore, I'm fine with 320 bps quality.

No one's saying you have to be against anything mp3 related to like CDs. I use an MP3 player at work, myself. I also hook it up to my 360 when I want something good to listen to in-game. I also somewhat lol at the fact that you call CD players "huge". I do sit around playing music off my computer much of the times, but its usually coming off a CD and going through a cord into my A/V receiver and coming out some decent speakers.

If a band's not worth spending money on they must not be worth listening to, in my opinion. I appreciate bands that can make music which doesn't give me fits of blind rage at the state of mediocrity so prevalent in music these days; those people ought to be rewarded.