This is a debate I always ponder about, and I thought it would be interesting to see what others think about it.
When it comes to purchasing music, I find myself purchasing physical CD's still. I like collecting music and I like owning the tangible product. It's also very rewarding to take an album to a live show, meet your favorite artist afterwards, and have him/her/them sign your CD. I enjoy leafing through the linear notes, looking at the pictures, and enjoying the other benefits that come with real albums like posters and stickers.
However, the truth is my CD collection really just takes up space. All I do when I purchase a new CD is rip it to my computer, look through the notes, and shelf it. I don't listen to the CD ever again unless I'm driving in my car. Moreover, digital albums are surprisingly cheap on stores like Amazon. Often, you can snag a brand new album for $4.99 vs the minimum $9.99 to buy the CD. It seems much more financially responsible to buy a digital copy of album and then burn it to a CD if I ever want to use it in a CD player rather than buy a physical CD that I rarely use. Not only that, but if I switched to digital I could sell all my CD's, which would reclaim space and some extra money.
Still, in light of this, I still find myself collecting CD's. I try to buy used as much as possible to keep costs down, but I won't let that prevent me from buying albums new.
My friend had an interesting approach to the situation. He told me that he buys all his music digitally except for albums he knows he's going to listen over and over. Classic albums like London Calling by the Clash and Stand! by Sly and the Family Stone. For these significant albums, he buys vinyl - because as most audiophiles say - Vinyl is the best way to go. I thought about this approach, but was unsure if I was really willing to repurchase albums that I already own on vinyl. Also, I don't know if I could decide which albums got the vinyl treatment and would probably end up upgrading everything to vinyl
. Still,it was an interesting take on the situation as opposed to do one or another.
So I'll open the discussion to others. What do you buy? Do you prefer one to another? Would you go purely digital? Or is there a significant reason why you want to stick to CD's and Vinyl? Or do you have an interesting solution?
It seems like every day we are getting closer to digital distribution that I wonder is it even worth fighting.
When it comes to purchasing music, I find myself purchasing physical CD's still. I like collecting music and I like owning the tangible product. It's also very rewarding to take an album to a live show, meet your favorite artist afterwards, and have him/her/them sign your CD. I enjoy leafing through the linear notes, looking at the pictures, and enjoying the other benefits that come with real albums like posters and stickers.
However, the truth is my CD collection really just takes up space. All I do when I purchase a new CD is rip it to my computer, look through the notes, and shelf it. I don't listen to the CD ever again unless I'm driving in my car. Moreover, digital albums are surprisingly cheap on stores like Amazon. Often, you can snag a brand new album for $4.99 vs the minimum $9.99 to buy the CD. It seems much more financially responsible to buy a digital copy of album and then burn it to a CD if I ever want to use it in a CD player rather than buy a physical CD that I rarely use. Not only that, but if I switched to digital I could sell all my CD's, which would reclaim space and some extra money.
Still, in light of this, I still find myself collecting CD's. I try to buy used as much as possible to keep costs down, but I won't let that prevent me from buying albums new.
My friend had an interesting approach to the situation. He told me that he buys all his music digitally except for albums he knows he's going to listen over and over. Classic albums like London Calling by the Clash and Stand! by Sly and the Family Stone. For these significant albums, he buys vinyl - because as most audiophiles say - Vinyl is the best way to go. I thought about this approach, but was unsure if I was really willing to repurchase albums that I already own on vinyl. Also, I don't know if I could decide which albums got the vinyl treatment and would probably end up upgrading everything to vinyl
. Still,it was an interesting take on the situation as opposed to do one or another.So I'll open the discussion to others. What do you buy? Do you prefer one to another? Would you go purely digital? Or is there a significant reason why you want to stick to CD's and Vinyl? Or do you have an interesting solution?
It seems like every day we are getting closer to digital distribution that I wonder is it even worth fighting.
. I spend a lot of time listening to music, mainly classical and sometimes jazz and it's really nice to take a CD, open it, put it into the player and read booklet... And now the cons 
. Yes, they take some space. But everything take some space, books, even razors. And I like music so why could i bother with it? Some people talks about the price of CDs. All what I can say is if you want, you can find CDs cheaper and buy them without any big heartaches. And yes, vinyl is better. But now I don't have enough money to see the difference. So maybe later 
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