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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jan 22, 2020 14:41:22 GMT -5
I haunt a couple of local second hand places that sell a lot of CDs -- mostly $1.99 each. For that price I'll pick up pretty much anything that looks interesting.
For anything new I'll still buy a CD if that's all that's available, but I usually check the artist's website to see if they have released vinyl and buy that. I just pre-ordered Robert Cray's latest on LP thanks to Peegoo's tip.
I have nothing against streaming but I also want to have at least a piece of plastic as proof of an exchange of currency.
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Post by Chris Greene on Jan 22, 2020 14:53:54 GMT -5
Just like with LPs, if I find something at a local thrift for a cheap enough price, I'll buy it. However, while it used to be pretty good pickings around here 10-15 years ago, scouts are all over the place, living the van life, etc. Hard to find things that aren't Mormon, Christmas, or religious singers.
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Post by Davywhizz on Jan 22, 2020 14:56:28 GMT -5
As of now, only if I can't find something on Spotify.
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Post by Chris Greene on Jan 22, 2020 15:02:39 GMT -5
There is no *new* CD I would buy. Those days are over just like LPs. No way I'd buy a new LP.
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jan 22, 2020 15:28:23 GMT -5
" No way I'd buy a new LP."
I just don't get that (ex)-Boss -- you just invested a hefty chunk of change in a nice new turntable. Why not treat it, and yourself, to something other than the records you've had lying around for half a century? Maybe start with "Waltz for Debby" which I know you like, do a little research to select one of the better re-presses, and see what your new table can do.
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Post by Chris Greene on Jan 22, 2020 15:57:21 GMT -5
I already own the album (and a few other Bill Evans albums) from the 80's Riverside pressings. Those records I've had "lying around" for 30-55 years are why I bought the new turntable. I have about 500 albums of which 300ish are really why I bought it. I don't need or want more material possessions in any event.
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 22, 2020 16:48:09 GMT -5
Not in a few years. I like stream fishing.
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jan 22, 2020 18:19:42 GMT -5
I hear what you're saying Chris, but it makes me sad.
You had a post in the old FDP about how LPs made you remember where you were and what you were doing at the time you bought them. They work just as well now.
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Post by jazzguy on Jan 22, 2020 19:03:09 GMT -5
I'll never go the streaming route just lps and cd's for me, thank you
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jan 23, 2020 11:06:46 GMT -5
"I'll never go the streaming route"
If you have an Amazon Prime account you are already paying for a limited streaming service. Why not use it to check out some new stuff -- it won't hurt anything.
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Post by jazzguy on Jan 23, 2020 13:08:53 GMT -5
"I'll never go the streaming route" If you have an Amazon Prime account you are already paying for a limited streaming service. Why not use it to check out some new stuff -- it won't hurt anything. no Prime account, I rarely shop @ Amazon, but thanks
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Post by Chris Greene on Jan 23, 2020 13:15:18 GMT -5
You can still try Pandora, Spotify, and almost any FM radio station streams live as well. Streaming has changed, in a very good way, how I listen to music a good part of the time. It doesn't replace CDs or LPs, it replaces radio.
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Post by LM on Jan 23, 2020 13:57:09 GMT -5
I tried downloading from iTunes but it’s too restrictive. It’s as if they still own the songs and let you borrow them. Ya can’t share them between devices, even though you paid for them.
So I went back to CDs.
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Post by jeffscott on Jan 23, 2020 15:43:15 GMT -5
I do.
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Post by LesTele on Jan 23, 2020 18:59:19 GMT -5
I still buy CDs. I sold my vinyl collection in 1980 when I went away to study. I bought cassettes for a few years and listened to the radio. From the mid 80’s I bought CDs.
I like to think that when I buy an artists CD they appreciate the fact that I stumped up. I use streaming services too, mainly to decide whether an album is worth buying. When my iPod was still working I listened to my music through that.
I like the ceremony of putting on a CD, sitting down and listening. I also like disappearing down a musical rabbit hole armed only with an IPad and Spotify or Amazon Music.
I was at a Celtic Connections gig (Yorkston/Thorne/Khan) in the East End of Glasgow last night and was not surprised to find that the product at the merch table was mostly vinyl - at £22 a pop!
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Post by dogspart2 on Jan 24, 2020 13:36:04 GMT -5
Yep..still addicted to physical media after all these years.
Lately have been on a Box Set jag..just love this stuff.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 24, 2020 15:53:38 GMT -5
Only buy whole CDs of really obscure groups when I can't find the content elsewhere in mp3 singles format. And even then, there has to be at least a few tunes I'll listen to more than once: no "one hit wonders".
Other than that, I generally just buy single songs, mostly from i-Tunes.
Still have a lot of LPs that I collected over many decades, but I should get rid of them. My kids won't want them after I croak and I almost never play them anymore.
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Post by Husker77 on Jan 24, 2020 22:29:27 GMT -5
I will buy CDs as long as I can because I want to hold something in my hands for my money. I subscribe to Spotify and there is quite a legacy catalogue, but it has huge unforgivable holes in what should be available for the monthly subscription price.
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Post by Think Floyd on Jan 27, 2020 6:48:08 GMT -5
I still buy CDs. And, I occasionally listen to my cassettes. To me, listening to music is an "experience", the same as it was back in my youth. It seems to me that to today's youth, music is just background noise while they stare at their smartphones. The internet is great... I can go on Youtube and listen to stuff that was never on CD or cassette, and stuff that is no longer available on any physical medium. But, that's as far as I'll go; I can say with almost absolute certainty that I will never own an Ipod or whatever it is that people use to play music these days. I'm old-school all the way, and proud of it. I don't even own a cellphone. (Although, I should get a cellphone, but it definitely WON'T be used for playing music!)
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Post by insanecooker on Jan 27, 2020 21:23:45 GMT -5
I buy the vinyl. If it doesn’t exist, I may very rarely buy the cassette.
This is all for new music. For the dark ages (mid- to late-90s) I may buy used CDs if that’s the only good format out there, but quite frankly I tend to just use streaming for those.
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Post by ProzaKc on Jan 28, 2020 20:12:14 GMT -5
I still by them on occasion. Lately I have bought CD's remastered by Steven Wilson. He's been remastering Yes,Tull and King Crimson CD's in 5.1 DVD's which sound amazing on my home system. So guilty as charged.
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Post by bluzcat on Jan 29, 2020 7:35:47 GMT -5
I just bought two last week. My car doesn’t have Bluetooth or usb so cds are still the best way to listen there, which is where most of my listening is these days. At home I’ll YouTube things as they hit me, or have fun with the obscure stuff I didn’t know was out there.
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Post by digiboy on Jan 29, 2020 8:02:48 GMT -5
I stopped buying them for a long time, have well over 1,000. I didn't feel the need once Mp3's, Youtube, etc, became so easily accessible. In the past couple years I find I miss the concept of a complete album with printed artwork and info. So I've kinda gone back to buying CD's when I really want a particular release, but that's far less often than when I was buying them before.
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Post by jazzguy on Jan 29, 2020 10:31:29 GMT -5
bought 4 in the last couple days
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Jan 29, 2020 16:03:21 GMT -5
Just bought this one a couple days ago. She played cello on Gilmours's "Live at the Royal Festival Hall" back in 2001.
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Post by LesTele on Jan 29, 2020 20:53:34 GMT -5
From yesterday’s Guardian. The environmental impact of vinyl. They seem to be concentrating on a Thai PVC producer. I’m sure American and European producers are different It mentions the environmental impact of server farms and CDs too. Keep music live then? Not amplified and played on instruments made from recycled components. Good grief!
Vinyl May Be Bad For The Planet
Edited for clarity
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Post by Chris Greene on Jan 29, 2020 22:34:20 GMT -5
Everything is bad for the planet according to which group you're hearing from. I remember the Guardian from when it was the Manchester Guardian and they used a lot of trees to print that rag (we were required to subscribe to that paper in one of my college classes back in the 70's).
That said, I don't buy new records, CDs or much of anything but food. I hate used food...
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Post by LesTele on Jan 29, 2020 22:52:08 GMT -5
“I remember the Guardian from when it was the Manchester Guardian and they used a lot of trees to print that rag” Good grief. The paper changed it’s name in 1959. I couldn’t read until 1967. Regardless of political leaning, The Guardian is a paper of record in the UK. I linked the article because I have become a wee bit fed up with the ‘born again’ vinyl converts and the youngsters who refer to records as ‘vinyls’ - I detect an air of smugness and wouldn’t be at all surprised if most of them were vegan. My irritation is not rational at all but surely that’s allowed. I can call you surely? Edit because I messed up the quote. It’s still messed up but it’s visible immediately below the quote box.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jan 30, 2020 10:38:55 GMT -5
I do, but only in two situations:
1) It's a band that I love and I already have all of their CD's and they release a new one, to keep my set complete, and
2) For my daughter, because I was reluctant to give her access to music streaming when she was younger, AND because I don't allow her to be on her devices non-stop, and when you give her a device to play music, that usually devolves into doing other stuff, and now she's just hanging out on her phone again. CD's prevent that. Also, she seems to like having/collecting them (mostly Broadway soundtracks).
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Post by matryx81 on Jan 30, 2020 21:55:49 GMT -5
You can still try Pandora, Spotify, and almost any FM radio station streams live as well. Streaming has changed, in a very good way, how I listen to music a good part of the time. It doesn't replace CDs or LPs, it replaces radio. While I don't do much streaming, I agree with the rest of it. CDs let me decide exactly what I want to listen to. I still buy CDs and still burn them!
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