Who Still Buys Cds?

[0R0]

People still buy vinyl, and tapes were supposedly gonna kill that format. Actually, OG rap tapes go for a nice price depending on what tape it is. Collectors will collect. Maybe start printing less copies to match demand would be more profitable. I'm not too familiar with the charges for pressing and distributing tho, anyone have any thoughts on that?

 

[mudoloc_650]

you can always buy the digital, then burn it on a CD for PERSONAL USE, problem solved, or buy the CD put it into itunes and put it on the ipod

 

[savage]

Within the past several months, the majority of albums I bought were from ebay.com. I'm trying to get my No Limit Records collection back up after I got all my cd's jacked. I'm at 30+ No Limit albums now, and as most of you should know, the majority of No Limit albums can't be bought in stores anymore. The last c.d. I bought was, "Tech N9NE Collabos - The Gates Mixed Plate", at my local mom&pop shop. I want to get Bun B's Trill OG, but it's always sold out every time I try to get it(at that same mom&pop shop).

 

[Dirt E. Needlez]

the last CD I bought was a cassette

 

[BlessDaWizeguy]

last bay cd's I purchased were:
Dubee - "Furly Ghost"
Berner/Jacka - Drought Season 2"
Jacka/Lee Majors - "Gobots 2"


last non-bay cd's I purchased were:
Muggs vs ILL BiLL - "Kill Devil Hills"
PAZ - "Season of the Assassin"
MADLIB - Medicine Show: 7"
Jake.One/Freeway - "Stimulus"

 

[CHRISHOGGALYPSE]

I dl'd a cd yesterday and half of an ep. I ordered a used cd off amazon too. I rarely purchase new music anymore though cause most of the stuff out there sucks balls

 

[Home-E]

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.

iTunes files are 256 aacs now. I guarantee you'd fail in a blind abx test between a 256 variable bit rate aac and a 16 bit wav/aiff (cd quality). You also left out the fact that you can download albums in lossless formats which are every bit as good as the wav/aiffs that are on CDs.

 

[Artistic]

i still buy cds but really i only spend my money on cds that i know are worth it. like i buy k'naan's cds. i bought the damian marley nas. i recently picked up sellassie's new cd even though i had already heard most of it. what i like is conscious music with substance so thats what i buy. i download a lot of the other shit i don't give a fuck i won't lie. if you ain't saying anything of substance i don't feel anyway about dl'ing your shit. you should be flattered im even interested in listening to it. i don't care about being politically correct or whatever on this subject.

 

[Young Lou]

I can't help it!!!

I love going to the store on album release day. It's a hobby I've had since I got my license when I was 16. There's nothing like buying something I enjoy. It's mines. I'm old school wit it but it's no different than people who love to golf, smoke, drink or any other hobby. It's probably something I'll always do as long as they keep making cds.

 

[TAY CAPONE1]

U GET WHAT U PAY 4

personally i think free downloading is one of the reasons there are not any quality albums anymore...so while u boast about it...just know u reap what u sowe...u cant always blame the artists. no one likes working 4 free...lol.

 

[Artistic]

there still are quality albums.

 

[CHRISHOGGALYPSE]

personally i think free downloading is one of the reasons there are not any quality albums anymore...so while u boast about it...just know u reap what u sowe...u cant always blame the artists. no one likes working 4 free...lol.

I started free downloading because of wack cd's. I got tired of dropping $16 bucks per cd and getting 1-2 songs that I liked so I started to say F-U to the artist and dl'd their 2 songs I liked for free. If I found that it was a quality cd, I'd go pick it up

 

[RuffNRuggedThug]

i have no reason to buy a cd, shit is inconvenient as fuck, plus it costs money


no deal

 

[RuffNRuggedThug]

i have no reason to buy a cd, shit is inconvenient as fuck, plus it costs money


no deal

 

[DJxREMARKABLE]

^^^inconvenient? costs money?

how young are you?

EDIT: wait let me guess...you were born after 1995?

 

[RuffNRuggedThug]

^^^inconvenient? costs money?

how young are you?

EDIT: wait let me guess...you were born after 1995?

explain the correlation btwn age and appreciating convenience

 

[TAY CAPONE1]

ACTUALLY

there still are quality albums.

NOT MANY...I KNOW MOST OF THE ARTISTS IN THE AREAS I LIVE IN OR GO WORK IN...NONE HAVE MAJOR DEALS...WHICH MEANS...THEY ARE PART OF INDEPENDENT RECORD COMPANIES WITH NO BUDGETS...JUST HARD EARNED MONEY 2 SPEND ON TRYING 2 SATISFY CUSTOMERS.
ONCE RECORD SALES WENT DOWN...SO DID SPENDING COSTS 4 RECORD LABELS...SOME PEOPLE DONT EVEN MIX AND MASTER THEIR PROJECTS ANYMORE CUZ ITS NOT WORTH IT. SO THERE ARE DEFINITELY PROS AND CONS 2 DIGITAL SALES AND DOWNLOADING. THE QUALITY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AND I THINK THATS SOMETHING WE HAVE 2 ACCEPT.
IN THE 90'S..THE MAJORITY OF BAY AREA MUSIC WAS TOP SHELF EVEN IF THEY DIDNT HAVE DEALS YET. NOW ITS JUST CRABS IN A BUCCET. NO DEALS..AND THE AVERAGE FAN WHO DIDNT GROW UP HAVING 2 PAY MONEY 4 CD'S IS LOOKING 4 A QUICC COME UP.
THATS WHY MUSIC SUCCS.....THATS WHY WHEN HISTORY IS TOLD 2 PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE...YOU GUYS HAVE ARTISTS LIKE LIL B., PEOPLE NAME WAKA FLOCKA..AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF SUCCA MC'S WITH NO EDUCATION OF THE GAME OR LIFE...JUST WACC ASS RAPPERS MAKING MUSIC AND KILLIN THE GAME. AND I BLAME THEM JUST AS MUCH AS I BLAME THE RUTHLESS DOWNLOADERS WHO HAVE NO RESPECT 4 ARTISTS IN THE FIRST PLACE CUZ THEY HAVE BEEN FED THE BULLSHIT SIDE OF MUSIC.
NEVERTHELESS, IM GOING 2 PUSH MY MOVEMENT AND STICC WITH MY PLAN.
PEOPLE SAY WE ARE STUCC IN THE PAST BUT I SAY......
I REMEMBER WHEN MUSIC WAS PRIDEFUL...AND MUSICIANS AND RAPPERS HAD "REAL" FANS WHO WOULD SUPPORT THEM CUZ WE HELP CHANGE THEIR LIVES AND HELP THEM MAKE IT THRU ROUGH TIMES....THIS NEW JACC MOVEMENT WITH NO RESPECT 4 THE PAST OR PEOPLE WHO HAD 2 WORK HARD 2 MAKE THE GAME WHAT IT IS 2DAY...IS A MAJOR PART OF THE PROBLEM.
I KNOW I WILL GET NEGATIVE FEEDBACC 4 MY OPINIONS BUT I THINK ITS REALLY SOMETHING THAT NEEDS 2 BE ADDRESSED AND THOUGHT ABOUT.100

 

[DJxREMARKABLE]

explain the correlation btwn age and appreciating convenience

have you ever owned vinyl records or cassette tapes when you were younger? i just dont understand how cd's are "inconvenient" for you thats all. Vinyl records and cassette tapes use to cost me over $10 for an album which is the same price as a cd these days. so im not sure why you think cd's costs too much now when back then a person had to work about 2-3 hours just so he could afford to buy a tape/record.

and if you ever had to sit and wait to rewind/fast forward to a song on a cassette tape then you would learn to appreciate how convenient cd's are.

 

[poranamo3rd]

If the album is well worth it, then i wouldn't mind supporting the artist/group every here and there(when moneys not tight). Gotta support your artists sometimes.

 

[RuffNRuggedThug]

have you ever owned vinyl records or cassette tapes when you were younger? i just dont understand how cd's are "inconvenient" for you thats all. Vinyl records and cassette tapes use to cost me over $10 for an album which is the same price as a cd these days. so im not sure why you think cd's costs too much now when back then a person had to work about 2-3 hours just so he could afford to buy a tape/record.

and if you ever had to sit and wait to rewind/fast forward to a song on a cassette tape then you would learn to appreciate how convenient cd's are.

yeah i owned tapes and prolly more cd's than u brotha

racks and racks got dropped on cd's. plus i was in all the cd clubs. that was then tho dog, i've moved on. i wasnt buyin hella cd's back then because i got off on "supporting the artists" or any shit like that, it was just the only way there was to get music besides tapin shit off the radio


in 2010 playin a cd is just not convenient when i got a 32 gig iphone and 2 ipods full of downloaded shit and shit i bought off itunes ready to go. i got a 10 disc changer in my whip that aint even been touched in a year and a half easily.

all those miniscule audio differences btwn a cd and a digital copy that u gotta damn near be a sound engineer to even notice dont justify me drivin to a store, waitin in line, and payin 15, 20 dollars for some shit i may or may not even like.

if u speakin relatively then yeah a cd is convenient as fuck compared to a tape, as is a tape compared to vinyl, but im like 6, 7 years removed from buyin CD's retail so that shit is a fading memory G

do u tho mane