Who Still Buys Cds?

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Gemini

Gemini

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Bottom line it's a digital world, if I'm lying then there wouldn't be 3 pages on here and going strong. The internet is the death of the music industry, period. For years they fucked us by selling Cd's at $25.00 + dollars breaking us off & end up with a handful of good music. Once sales slowed down, the industry quickly dropped their prices to $9.99, but fact of the matter is, it was too late. People found a new way to get over and got comfortable in getting that album early without leaving their home.

Hey, we can sit here and agree & disagree for days, but in the end, downloading music has taken over. Like some of you said, the quality is the main reason. Second, like Tay said about reading the credits. I'm one of them people as well, but we can find all that info online now a days. We all spend enough time on the Siccness reading though pages of drama at times in here, so reading the credits to a new release online is nothing.

And then there are those who feel they have to have the hard copy. I'm one of those too, but that album has to be a true classic for me to buy. I'm not gonna dish out bread for any album off top. I'm gonna screen your shit first.

In the very end of it all, those who still buy Cd's for reason being that they feel they need own the hard copy, or they're trying to keep the industry alive are truly in the minority in today's digital world.

Sorry Folks!
 
TAY CAPONE1

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WELL I TAKE THIS THREAD AS A POSITIVE BECUZ MORE PEOPLE CLAIM 2 BUY CD'S THAN DOWNLOAD DIGITALLY. MY SON SELLS VARIOUS CD'S AND MAKES ENOUGH MONEY 2 STAY OUT OF MY POCCET SO I APPRECIATE REAL CD BUYERS..AND IM NOT AGAINST DIGITAL DOWNLOAD EITHER. ITS A PERSONAL QUESTION....DIFFERENT STROKES 4 DIFFERENT FOLKS.
 
FatBlunts209

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im not gonna go buy killa tays new album in rasputins, but if killa tay was standing in front of rasputins selling his cd then i would just for the fact i met killa tay and bought his new cd off him personally. hand to hand sales will always be a constant and successful grind.
 
Gemini

Gemini

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Another thing I honestly think is killing the music sales is all the boasting. Those of you who work a 9 to 5 and still living at your mama's house it's cool. ...but to those who are on their own trying to make ends meet & spend that little extra cash on a new release, want some real quality.

If you spend your hard earned money on a Cd and you catch a video of the artist you just bought & he's on your screen making it rain (Hey! There's my $20 bucks! LOL!), drinking Ace of Spades Champagne, smoking shit, flossing jewels, driving a nice whip etc. And your renting, living from pay check to pay check? Yet, you pitched in for that house you watched on MTV Cribs LOL!

Take it how you want, it is what it is. There is nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of your labor, but don't rub it in the face of that people that got you there. The rap game needs to be more discrete. Rappers have messed it all up with wanting to show how much money they have. I dare say a lot look like idiots out there.
 
4thereal

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TAY CAPONE1 said:
THE EXCITEMENT OF BEING ABLE 2 READ THE INSERTS AND FIND OUT WHO PRODUCED THE MUSIC,AND SOMETIMES JUST 2 SEE AN ARTISTS' REAL NAME AND SHOUTOUTS ..LOL
I STILL HAVE A CD DECC IN THE CAR AND A 6 DISC CHANGER STEREO THAT SLAPS!!!...
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that's what i'm sayin. that's how i felt about a new tape droppin lol! i use to love that excitement of hittin up a store when somethin new dropped and hell, i would end up buyin that new album from someone and buyin some other shit that i didn't get a chance to get or just postin up at the record store period.

yea and its true, you can read the credits and all that off the computer nowadays but there's nothin like readin it straight from the cd you bought. cds i think will always be around, especially now thats the last and best form. people can say what they want about digital, it doesn't come close to knockin a cd. but i gotta say ipods are coo for the fact they hold so many songs. i like to take my cds and put them in there. but never will i buy a digital track tho.
 
Gemini

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4thereal said:
yea and its true, you can read the credits and all that off the computer nowadays but there's nothin like readin it straight from the cd you bought.
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True, but there was also a time and something about not knowing what songs were on that album until you went to the store, opened the package in front of the store and jumped in your car to play that tape / Cd.

Times have changed and some haven't accepted it yet, is what I'm saying.
 
LethaFace

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for me it's kind of a ceremony to listen to a rap album. I can't do it with a digital version. When I grab a hard copy I can sit down and relax, take out the inserts, enjoy the artwork (most probably a crispy clear graphics delivered by Photo Doctor), I can read who did the beat, I can simply hold in my hands something Ive paid for; not only I can hear it. What's more the quality of the music on hard copies is always better from a digitals. Plus you can play the cd anywhere you want. If you buy/download mp3's you'll be forced to burn a cd-r to play it anywhere else except for your computer.

So basically I can't imagine me buying digitals. I know that for the artists it is far way more profitable to release a "only digital" album, but I hope they'll eventually press a limited amount of hard copies.
 
Justin

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WHEN LIL WAYNE SOLD OVER A MILLION CDS IN HIS FIRST WEEK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RECESSION THAT PROVED THAT PEOPLE STILL BUY THE PHYSICAL CD SO THE PROOF IN IS THE PUDDING
 
savage

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I will always buy cd's. I always buy all of Three 6 Mafia's albums no matter what. I don't care if it sucks to most of you, I'll still buy it. I'll buy DJ Quik's, Dr. Dre's, and Master P's (if they ever release anything any time soon). I buy all of Tech N9NE's new shit, and some artists shit on his lable. Other than that, I'll wait to hear about it first, to see if it's tight or not. I've bought plenty of albums I thought were going to be tight that ended up not impressing me.

I don't download albums, though. I'm not rich as fuck, but then again I'm not a cheap bastard. 15-20 bucks ain't nothin. I just want quality music.
 
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I still buy CDs. Buy a cd from your favorite major label artist then buy it on iTunes. Burn your copy from iTunes and play the two in your car (not some 25 cent iPod headphones) and you will hear the difference. That drop in quality, that thinner sound that you get from the iTunes album is apart of the reason the Monster Beats by Dre headphones are doing so well. They add the warmth and bottom that is missing with this digital album era. It also allows artist and labels to cut corners, because they know that when the music is being consumed via the shitty speakers on computers, telephones and earbuds the need for quality mixing and mastering is lowered and thus sonic quality starts to fall by the waste side.
 
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Gemini said:
Another thing I honestly think is killing the music sales is all the boasting. Those of you who work a 9 to 5 and still living at your mama's house it's cool. ...but to those who are on their own trying to make ends meet & spend that little extra cash on a new release, want some real quality.

If you spend your hard earned money on a Cd and you catch a video of the artist you just bought & he's on your screen making it rain (Hey! There's my $20 bucks! LOL!), drinking Ace of Spades Champagne, smoking shit, flossing jewels, driving a nice whip etc. And your renting, living from pay check to pay check? Yet, you pitched in for that house you watched on MTV Cribs LOL!

Take it how you want, it is what it is. There is nothing wrong with enjoying the fruits of your labor, but don't rub it in the face of that people that got you there. The rap game needs to be more discrete. Rappers have messed it all up with wanting to show how much money they have. I dare say a lot look like idiots out there.
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LOL, you're taking it too serious bruh. You're buying the CD because you like the music (beats, lyrics, their flow, how it sounds in your car). I could care less if they're flossin' and all that, as long as they put out good music, I'll buy the CD from the store. I don't like "brag rap" music though like them cash money cats.
 
Gemini

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Tony said:
LOL, you're taking it too serious bruh. You're buying the CD because you like the music (beats, lyrics, their flow, how it sounds in your car). I could care less if they're flossin' and all that, as long as they put out good music, I'll buy the CD from the store. I don't like "brag rap" music though like them cash money cats.
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Not really, it's just stuff I heard people say while I interviewed them for my documentary.

The serious thing about it is, the pirates stealing music, movies etc. and the industry is dying for both major & independents.
 
Gemini

Gemini

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I'll be real and say I don't believe a lot of you in here. This is the internet, so you can say whatever you want and say you buy Cd's. I know for a fact most of you, if not all of you download movies & music.

And if you claim you don't, you still buy bootleg movies from the paisa posted in front of the Liq, so you already causing harm & not supporting as you should.

It's not personal, just my opinion from the things I see.
 
TAY CAPONE1

TAY CAPONE1

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@GEMINI..IM AN ARTIST AND A LABEL OWNER.I STILL BUY CD'S..JUST BOUGHT 5 ON MY WAY 2 WHERE IM AT. MAYBE WHAT U SEE IS A VISION IN A SMALL BOX AND WE ARE LIVING IN A COUNTRY COMPOSED OF 50 STATES...AND A WORLD WITH MORE COUNTRIES THAN WE CAN COUNT. I GET FAN MAIL FROM OVERSEAS...THEY WANT 2 BUY MY CD'S. I GOT FRIENDS OUT ON THE BLOCC RIGHT NOW...THEY BUY CD'S FROM ME OR MY SON. I MAY DOWNLOAD A SONG I LIKE BUT I HAVE NEVER DOWNLOADED AN ALBUM AND DEFINITELY HAVE NEVER DOWNLOADED A MOVIE...DOES THAT MAKE ME A WEIRDO????????
NAW,NOT REALLY. THAT JUST MAKES ME DIFFERENT THAN U. THIS THREAD MADE ME HAPPY 2 DO WHAT I DO AND KNOW SOME PEOPLE APPRECIATE IT. SOME OF US ARE SET IN OUR WAYS AND COULD GIVE A FLYING FUCC ABOUT WHAT THE MEDIA SAYS OR WHATS POPULAR AT THE MOMENT. I DONT LIKE 2 CLUTTER UP MY COMPUTER WITH MUSIC FILES. I DONT DOWNLOAD. WHY IS THAT SO HARD 2 BELIEVE???
 
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