Buying CD's
 

Do you?

Yes.

I don't own an MP3 player.

Some times

Why?

Only if its a artist im a fan of just to help'em out n i like to let cds play thru in my whip

Why not? I used to buy 50-plus a year. Now I buy probably 10 or so. So far this year, I've bought:

Kanye West, Yeezus
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
My Bloody Valentine, m b v
Chance the Rapper, Acid Rap
The National, Trouble Will Find Me
Prodigy and Alchemist, Albert Einstein
Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels
Deafheaven, Sunbather
Jason Isbell, Southeastern
Jay Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail
Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience

I might buy Earl Sweatshirt's Doris.

It's nice that I now can easily listen to an album before buying it, but I like both the completeness of owning albums and supporting the artists I enjoy.

Rappers/musicians make money off of touring. I'm surprised they still make CD's.

Why not? Because you could have saved $150 by downloading them for free.

The only way I can run phone/ MP3 thru my stereo is one of those cassette adapters.. I usually just make cruise CDs with those discs that can hold like 60 songs/ have CDs from Newbury Comics

I suppose. I'm not that broke that $150 a year is a big deal, though. I like owning the CDs. At this point, I have so many that it's partially a completist thing. I own every album by dozens of artists. I'm going to keep that up for most of them.

Collector. Yeah. I used to be that way. Had hundreds. Then all the cases got fucked up during a move. It's a novelty and aesthetic. Maybe I'm so hallow because I've untethered myself from all those things. I live in an apartment with a couch, a table, a bed, a TV and the stand it sits on. I own one bowl, spoon, fork, plate and shoe. Who needs two shoes? People are spoiled. I wear my one sock on my shoeless foot.

It's a much more utilitarian collection than posters or baseball cards.

I miss my 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. card. I used to pull it out of the cardboard box I had my plastic sleeved cards in and just stare at it. Reading the stats on the back, and the description of this young up and coming prospect over and over. He had an afro back then.

ur strange

I buy blank CD's

Nah. If I buy, I buy off iTunes. It was very relieving and liberating when my cd collection got jacked. I hate having things, I try to have as little as possible.

Never.

Their use to be magic in buying a cd/cassette not knowing what to expect, having the store clerk remove that ungodly plastic security monstrosity as you salivate anticipating ripping the celophane off and listening to it for the first time, actually interested in reading the linear notes and looking thru the mini synopsis they usually printed inside

Sometimes their was extreme disappointment, maybe a song or two you really liked usually singles mixed with a big pile of nothing, other times you were satisfied finding a handful of strong listenable tracks and then their was the diamonds in the rough the ones that gave you chills, the ones were you found that track that you had to listen to again before you could move on and the rest of the cd was similar quality but their was always that one non single song that you felt more and it made you feel like Christopher Columbus like you discovered it and you wanted to tell the rest of the world about it

I miss the way music was ... yes I own an I everything ... and I legally dl all my music but even there you can preview every song ... just some of that magic is gone for me ... I do still buy certain cds from certain artists to rekindle some of that dull magic but itunes makes it so enticing because they almost always offer exclusive bonus tracks ... sadly enough cd stores get smaller and instead of expanding their shelves with new artist they add more accessories t shirts memorabilia candy collectibles etc etc

last CD i bought was probably around 2008

im trying to remember what it was..




idk. long time

I remember that jAy cd where he was like if you like me right now you going thru the credits or some shit like that I love tapes still got around 250 I also buy CDs still I remember used to join the clubs like bmg n shit to get 6 CDs for the price of 1 lol

I think the last cd i bought was watch the throne

Taking tapes and cds out of the equation makes it lose some of its allure

Their was never a unified release day ( tuesday ) rarely a commercial promoting a release, a lot of artist had silent releases or you actually had to get off your ass go to a sam goody or your local record store and ask or look at some of the promo posters they had on the walls around the store, fingered through cds and tapes and randomly picking something that looked interesting was part of the fun ... I understand it has always been a business and businesses grow but it kind of took the fun out of it when it became to easy

I won't even front I copped redman dare iz a dark side tape cause the cover looked crazy and the track names sounded cool ... I was a kid who saved his lunch money every week to cop a new tape or handful of cassette singlea

Same thing happened n once the collection was gone I said fuck it n started dlin

now I don't even dl I just play Pandora or peep new releases via datpiff n sht... Streamed

but @God Of War bmg n there was another one too, we're the sht... I'd get so hype when that sht came in the mail lol

How old are you Metts?

Vinyl people sang the same song when they got replaced. Still swearing it sounds better.

I miss CD's because when you paid money for you you tried to get value out of it. I'd listen to shit I didn't love because I had just paid money for it. CD's had value. I've downloaded 100 albums I've probably never even listened to. I want to, I just don't have the free time, and most (if any) of this shit isn't kid friendly. Plus, CD's would force you to keep it on repeat. It was in my CD player and I didn't have 20 other CD's with me. It was in my car, and yea, I had 10 other CD's in my backseat, but THIS shit was new. That's when certain CD's represent a time period in your life, because you kept listening to it. It's changed the landscape of producing music, too. Artists have to grab your attention, and they've adapted. Which is why I love independent music, because a lot of the times you can tell they're doing it because they want to. There's a lot of reasons to miss the way music was in the '90s. At the same time, if not for Napster, I never would have heard of half the people I listen to. I heard one, and it would lead me to another. There wasn't this laundry list of websites promoting people. It was still word of mouth, but via MP3. MP3's have been marketed now. Independent artists learned to market their independence. Money ruins everything.

When I was younger there was an urban clothing store that sold mixtapes (actual cassettes) from the hip hop connection... That sht was dope af too

columbia house my dude lol

@dull boy ... I'm 32

And I don't think the whole independent thing is true ... alot of artist stay independent now because of the internet and its capabilities, record companies fold left and right now because they aren't the only option. .. people forget master p dropped all his cds independent on his own label had in house producers cut cost on cd cases and had a very wide distribution shipment ... today's tech just allows anyone to upload and take a shot which is very cool but at the same time a slap in the face to older groups like the ramones who had to play dirt clubs for years to get a buzz

The quality difference between cassette and cd is evident now but when they first came t was more the luxury of skipping to a certain track but as a kid I still got cassettes cause cds were in the 30 $ range and for some strange reason a compact disc wouldn't fit into my walkman .. I'd only get cds with like bday/xmas money maybe some allowance here and there ... but early 90s they price dropped add by mid 90s were very affordable esp on sale

Old vinyl heads like that semi grainy natural sound ccause they think its pure the way an artist intended

man i refused to go to cd's , when my tape broke i could tape that shit back together and walah it was like new again never been able to do that with a cd lol

@God Of War u pour coke on the cd lol

and ya @columbia house

n peep ya pms

Their was a lot of coke on cds in the 80s @Rawn

Did anyone else take shitty CDs and throw them at friends as hard as possible to see who could leave the biggest welt?

We used those metal baseball cards they had out at one point. Then someone would always end up crying and bleeding.

Shit a cd would slice someone for real ...

But why waste it ... you could of took it to a record and tape traders and recouped a few bucks ... or trade it to someone in school for another album or some shit

I did that plenty. I've probably bought more than 700 CDs and currently own 400. Of those 300 I don't have anymore, probably 50 were lost or borrowed and never returned, 200 were resold and 50 were not accepted because they had a scratch. Those mostly were the ones we did that with.

Last cd I bought was Jay-Z - American Gangster.

Quite some time ago.