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    Posted: December 15 2017 at 05:24
Anyone out here still buy CD's ? 

I'm thinking of releasing an album next year on CD. All my stuff has been digital downloads before. The Great Listening Public out there don't seem to value digital downloads, to be honest. Or they sit back and wait for free releases (it'll be a long wait, I'd done enough of them recently).

Vinyl releases would involve a £1200 / $1600 outlay, so let's forget that one, but CD duplication is much cheaper. So I quite fancy doing a double gatefold CD release with fancy artwork. 

Is there a buying market out there, I wonder ? ;-) 

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I still buy them - over a hundred of them a year, looking at the last few years.
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I buy both on CD and vinyl, although from Bandcamp I mostly buy on CD. I bought some download only albums on Bandcamp but I never even downloaded them Embarrassed

How does the CD duplication fare compared with replication in terms of quality? I'd like to make a few copies of my album, which isn't feasible with replication.
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Lately I took the FLAC road (last 4 years, I would say) - so my option for downloads is not only to get rid of the shipping costs but above all to circumvent the need to rip/catalogue/backup the files from CDs (and the thought that I'm paying directly as possible to the artist).
CD quality is guarenteed and more and more frequently even in HIRES
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Replication in the UK seems to come in for larger runs, ie. over 500 copies. Which ain't going to happen, in my case. ;-)

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Cds only for me.
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Call me old fashioned but I still like to have something tangible like a CD. If it's a download only it tends to get saved away on my PC and then I forget I've got it.


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While I'm a slave to my iTunes library via my iPod Classic - any new releases I buy as CDs - and then get the free download as well or download it from the CD on the PC. I like having something solid to look at - especially lyrics and artwork. I also enjoy putting the CD in the car stereo, as an alternative to Planet Rock on the DAB radio or the iPod through the Aux line. Bands need supporting financially and while I might listen to music for free to see if I like it, I feel a duty to buy anything I do like (as I would have done for vinyl in my early days). I don't buy vinyl or even play my old records that way - but it is nice to see the revival amongst younger listeners.
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Originally posted by Quinino Quinino wrote:

Lately I took the FLAC road (last 4 years, I would say) - so my option for downloads is not only to get rid of the shipping costs but above all to circumvent the need to rip/catalogue/backup the files from CDs (and the thought that I'm paying directly as possible to the artist).
CD quality is guarenteed and more and more frequently even in HIRES

Digital downloads are much cheaper and instant.....  I have around 5000 cd's in my collection.   That's too many, plus the clutter!!Big smile  

The downloads are cheaper,  plus you don't have the shipping costs Smile

Also I'm an old git,  so my eyes are not as they used to be.  I cannot read the booklet on a cd or even a medicine instruction on a tablet bottle Big smile
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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

I still buy them - over a hundred of them a year, looking at the last few years.
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Yes, but I mostly buy them used and rarely pay more than what I know I would get selling them. Similarly I never pay for a download because a download has zero resale value.
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Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Cds only for me.

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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Call me old fashioned but I still like to have something tangible like a CD. If it's a download only it tends to get saved away on my PC and then I forget I've got it.

Pretty much what I was going to say. I had several moves after a divorce, remarriage, relocation, etc.; my CDs stayed in boxes and I started doing more digital purchases. Now I have them out on shelves and went on a huge CD buying binge. I walk into the office to look upon them with a little Smeagol voice speaking in my head. 

That being said, new discs tend to get pulled out of the case and put into a player just once to be ripped into my digital library and put back. I will review the liners periodically.

Also, the resurgence of vinyl is not a bandwagon I will ever jump on. Unless I become a billionaire and want to line a wall of a room in my mansion with cover art.

And the cassette resurgence is beyond absurd. It wasn't the worst listening/playing format, but it was close.


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I think there are 6 years from my latest cd buying. Bought over 40 vinyls this year, but it seems my vinyl buyings will be just a second hand vinyls in the future, because those coloured limited editions what I want are harder and harder to get. For example John Fogerty´s first vinyl versions of Blue Moon Swamp in blue colour vinyl is sold only New York´s bookstore!
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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

And the cassette resurgence is beyond absurd.
I know! When I mention this to friends my age (the age when as a kid getting into music you were totally reliant on cassettes) they refuse to believe it is a thing.
Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

It wasn't the worst listening/playing format, but it was close.
Wax cylinder?

Edited by Mascodagama - December 16 2017 at 03:19
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I am that generation when it was very common to records vinyls to cassette. Really just hadn´t got enough money to buy all the vinyls I wanted. In the eighties cassettes qualities become quite good, the difference between vinyl and good quality cassette wasn´t big. I still got those cassettes, listen them sometimes and they still sound as good as before. But anyway haven´t got any interest to buy new cassettes these days, I know some artists release music only in cassette format.
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^Initial quality wasn't the issue. Wear was the big problem.

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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

^Initial quality wasn't the issue. Wear was the big problem.
And tape players that would eat your cassette, leaving you to vainly try to wind ten feet of mangled tape back in using a biro to rotate the spool.

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Also, the quality of pre-recorded cassettes you would buy was very variable and often extremely poor, bordering on unlistenable.
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To the OP: same answer as I've given you on the thread you opened on Prog Ears

Yes, I'm still a CD buyer - I just opened this morning a parcel containing three boxset that include some 29 CDs and three DVD alltogether and bought two more in a B&M record store yesterday.

BTW, don't bother with vinyl on my account, and the best way to shut yourself from moi (litl'ol'me) is to do a vinyl-only release.

I can still buy the odd vinyl, but in 99% of the case, it's a used/second hand one.





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