40% of Brits can't remember the last time they bought a CD - study

[Firky]

Bought a Ska compilation from ASDA for a fiver - triple CD, but I really bought it for one song, one of the greatest tunes ever written or sung:

 

[Firky]

Oh and I buy everything Radiohead release, both here and the Japanese versions, CD1/CD2 singles etc. If they (Radiohead) press it, I buy it. I even have all their stuff vinyl but don't have anything to play it on.


Got a couple of EPs by them worth a couple of hundred quid too 8)

 

[Gingerman]

Whats a CD ?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I still buy CDs, tapes, vinyl. Occasionally pay for an mp3 if there is a particular track I want.

I find that having music around the place as objects means that I actually listen to it rather than just have it filed away on a computer.

Ditto if I actually pay for it.

I bought two CDs last week, one absurdly cheap off Amazon (£1.26 including p&p!) and one off the group.

Also got given a bunch of Miles Davis CDs for my birthday last month. Getting an mp3 as present would be really shit.

 

[magneze]

I still buy CDs occasionally.

 

[Jimathon]

I bought an old Jeffrey Lewis album in late June. And the new Magnetic Fields album on vinyl. I keep buying vinyl to force myself to get a record player. Hasn't worked yet.

I'm wasting my life.

 

[Voley]

I bought a CD of the Pixies gig I went to at Brixton Academy but only because it would've been hard to track down on the net otherwise. Before that? No idea. 'Hail To The Thief' by Radiohead, possibly .

 

[plurker]

I buy cds often still, and scour for charity-shop vinyl. Last bought cds on sat just gone, 4 total: dub colossus 'addis thru the looking glass', futureheads 'rant', the cure 'staring at the see' and goth-trad's 'new epoch'

I've never paid for digital music, only got d/ls of mates' mixes etc.

 

[Ranbay]

bought 100 blanks about a year ago, still have 87 left.

 

[Orang Utan]

I just listen to podcasts and mixes these days. I don't even have a CD player

 

[_angel_]

I just listen to podcasts and mixes these days. I don't even have a CD player

you're part of the problem

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

So is this where we start to get 'CD-purists' who like to get all superior about their insistence on an out of date technology?

 

[el-ahrairah]

i bought a cd last week from discogs, but only because it wasn't available on vinyl.

 

[Orang Utan]

you're part of the problem

What problem?

 

[_angel_]

So is this where we start to get 'CD-purists' who like to get all superior about their insistence on an out of date technology?

CDs are actually not all that good tbh but I'd rather have a physical thing than just relying on technology/ virtual/ cyber stuff.

 

[belboid]

CDs are actually not all that good tbh but I'd rather have a physical thing than just relying on technology/ virtual/ cyber stuff.

Absolutely. I've downloaded fucking thousands of albums (many of which I already own), and I've completely lost where the hell many of them are (on one of those DVD's, but which?). I could fill a dozen ipods, or any external hard drive. If it's worth keeping, it's worth buying 'properly' and putting it somewhere where it will turn up again.

 

[Reno]

I bought the last album by MEN on CD off Amazon about half a year ago, because there was not other way to get hold of it. I can't remember the last time I bought a CD in an actual shop.

I've sold a lot of my CDs and it's all on my HD and on back ups. I don't have a lot of storage space and I'm not that particular about sound quality, so I'm happy having most of it on my PC and iPod.

 

[_angel_]

Absolutely. I've downloaded fucking thousands of albums (many of which I already own), and I've completely lost where the hell many of them are (on one of those DVD's, but which?). I could fill a dozen ipods, or any external hard drive. If it's worth keeping, it's worth buying 'properly' and putting it somewhere where it will turn up again.

Having said that I have bought a certain album twice (two diff versions) loaded it onto the computer, had the computer wipe it off and then not be able to find the *two* copies. How the fuck did that happen!

 

[Wilf]

Nostalgia alert:

I've never been a purist about the sound quality of vynyl, cds or downloads, but it's the physical thing I need. When cds came out I thought they were shitty sminky pinky things, nothing like proper sleeve art, don't age over time like the album cover with the red wins stain etc. Still don't like them, nasty little plastic boxes, but better than downloads. I just feel so fuckin' cheated paying 10 or 20 quid (or even nothing ) for something that just appears on a menu.

You'll probably guess that I prefer modernity, things that exist and putting jumpers down for goalposts.

 

[plurker]

So is this where we start to get 'CD-purists' who like to get all superior about their insistence on an out of date technology?

my hifi equipment is not of sufficient calibre for me to be able to hear the loss in sound delivered by MP3, but having had a hard drive containing an entire festival's worth of recordings stolen, I prefer to keep physical CDs - they're not worth owt so don't get robbed

 

[_angel_]

Nostalgia alert:

I've never been a purist about the sound quality of vynyl, cds or downloads, but it's the physical thing I need. When cds came out I thought they were shitty sminky pinky things, nothing like proper sleeve art, don't age over time like the album cover with the red wins stain etc. Still don't like them, nasty little plastic boxes, but better than downloads. I just feel so fuckin' cheated paying 10 or 20 quid (or even nothing ) for something that just appears on a menu.

it depends if it's a digi pack or a jewel case. Digi packs can look really really rough believe me and jewel cases are a pain because they just fall apart as soon as you look at them!

 

[geminisnake]

I bought a cd when I went to Glasgow to meet with (wayward) bob but I can't remember when that was, possibly within the last month. I like it, pipes and drums

 

[SpookyFrank]

I don't buy many these days, but I did just get a copy of Martha Argerich's recording of Chopin's preludes.

I used to buy fuckloads of them, but since the only decent record shop in town went bust shopping for music has become a far less enjoyable experience.

One good thing about CD's is that, being physical objects, it is possible to lose or misplace one and then find it at a random moment in the future when you've all but forgotten it existed. You then put your little piece of buried treasure on the stereo and remember when you used to listen to it ages ago...

My MP3s live in a big folder called 'music' which I scroll through regularly to pick something to listen to. The novelty and physicality having gone from listening to records, I probably listen to less music overrall despite having access to far more of the stuff than I used to.

 

[krtek a houby]

Bought a box set the other week, The Classical Experience. Shelled out loads for the cassettes years ago and they're all chewy now, nice to have it on CD.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I buy them if I see something interesting in charity or second hand shops. Otherwise, if I'm paying, I just buy online in FLAC and/or MP3. My digital backup procedures are way more secure than having a physical CD around.

 

[skyscraper101]

There's just nothing nice about CDs. The cases crack, they skip, they have piddly artwork that's no fun to look at. Everything that's fun about vinyl, the large sleeve art, the smell of the vinyl, watching the record spin round, the audio fidelity, DJing and spinning and scratching. All gone. CD decks don't cut it for me anymore. The only time I buy CDs now is if I can't find them on Spotify, or torrents, and most likely its only available on eBay. As soon as it's bought its ripped. I can't remember what the last one I bought was.

Spotify has changed everything for me. Apart from the minor irritation of some select bands not being on it, and my fear that it's starting to get a little bloaty with their 'apps' and that, it's pretty much 95% everything I could want. I barely even use iTunes these days as it's a massive resource hog, and wants you to manually update every other day. It used to be a nice neat little player, now its just a pain in the arse to use. When I DJ, I use serato scratch, I carry two controller vinyls around, my slipmats, needles, laptop, and cans, and it all fits in a light bag.

 

[Quartz]

I haven't purchased a music CD in years. Of course, until last year, I was too skint.