I Bought Two CDs Yesterday

[YankeeFan]

I can't remember the last time I bought a CD -- it's been years. I was at Target and they were impulse buys.

"Raising Sand" -- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

"Live from Madison Square Garden" -- Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Not counting kids CDs, I don't think I've bought one in five years...

 

[93Devil]

I hate to tell you this, Yankee, but all the kids are starting to buy albums again.

 

[imjustagirl]

The Plant-Krauss album is awesome.

 

[forever_town]

I keep hitching on the trigger finger to buy a DVD.

And it's Live in Chicago by Stevie Nicks. Still haven't bought it yet.

 

[YankeeFan]

The Plant-Krauss album is awesome.

I'd only heard about it, but hadn't actually heard it.

Listening to it now. Liking it a lot.

I've got to leave in a minute, going to have to bring it with me in the car.

 

[Huggy]

The Clapton-Winwood CD is great too.

 

[mustangj17]

I haven't bought a C.D. in about four years. I also don't have an Ipod. But I listen to music all day.

 

[JackReacher]

I hate to tell you this, Yankee, but all the kids are starting to buy albums again.

Yeah?

 

[Huggy]

Up until last month I couldn't remember the last time I'd been in a record store, let along bought a CD. A few weeks back I was at the HMV at the mall with Huggy Jr. who was looking for a movie to take in the car for our roadie to Florida. Never looked at the CDs, got him a movie and bought two books.

 

[93Devil]

I hate to tell you this, Yankee, but all the kids are starting to buy albums again.

Yeah?

http://www.kansan.com/stories/2009/jul/21/vinyl/

I saw a handful of them on an end display at Best Buy this week. They were mostly greatest hits types of things, but supposedly Green Day is recording or re-releasing their entire catalogue on vinyl.

I guess they do sound better.

 

[Bubbler]

I still buy CDs. I just like the idea of having it in my hand instead of being one computer crash away from losing it, though I've downloaded some albums too.

 

[JackReacher]

iPod > vinyl, CD, cassette, 8-track, etc....

 

[Bubbler]

iPod > vinyl, CD, cassette, 8-track, etc....

Until it inevitably conks out.

 

[finishthehat]

Old fogey confession: I just cannot get into iPod -- the music sounds too tinny or something (I'm no expert, this is just a feeling I get). Also hate earbuds.

So I still buy CDs, mostly from Amazon. But I not only recently went into an independent record shop looking for a particular CD, I went ahead and had the guy order it because it wasn't in stock, and then went back a couple of days later to buy it.

It felt absolutely 1974-ish.

 

[93Devil]

I have heard that it depends what you want from your music.

If you want to walk around all day with headphones or play it in your car or on your computer, an Ipod is better because of the convenience.

If you have a four-figure music system in your house, I have heard vinyl is the way to go.

It's something about the binary code on a cd only being able to duplicate only so many sounds.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question487.htm

 

[YGBFKM]

Vinyl is becoming the hip thing, but I was at a concert recently and the band's albums were going for $20, $25. No thanks.

 

[JackReacher]

Vinyl is becoming the hip thing, but I was at a concert recently and the band's albums were going for $20, $25. No thanks.

Bingo.

$9 albums in iTunes > $25 vinyl.

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

Cheap Trick's latest is available on 8-Track!

 

[Trey Beamon]

I still buy the occasional CD -- maybe about two a month -- as an impulse buy or if something is not available on iTunes/Amazon.

Don't know about you, but I like seeing the physical product (liner notes, CD, even the annoyingly hard-to-open packaging) from time to time.