Did you purchase a new CD at a store in 2014?

no but i purchased some vinyl at flea markets and record shops

i can't remember, but must've for family birthdays

Yes, 2'or 4

Well over 20 but a high proportion were about €3 each in Ukraine.

I predominantly buy used cds in brick + mortal stores, but I can count at least 15 new cds (does the cloakroom shop at Berghain count as a store?). Will probably buy a bunch more on boxing day (canadian black friday).

I think I may have bought exactly 10, which means I am not sure which option to tick.

(I don't want to think about what proportion of that involved Interpol albums.)

Over 20. I bought a lot this year.

A lot of that (new CDs/brick and mortar) was at HMV.

sorry - i guess the options should have been 11-20, and 21 or more.
surprised so many people are still buying CD's.

Yes. over 20, new releases at that. It may be less next year, as I'm no longer at walking distance from a range of decent stores.

do you cd-buyers also buy mp3's and/or vinyl?

Hmmm. Somewhere between 5-10. But I ordered more than that online.

Brio2: I also buy mp3s.

Something I'm noticing about new CDs in both chains and mom'n'pops: suddenly they're way more expensive.

yes, but mostly while traveling

(according to my records I've bought 32 CDs this year, but a lot of those were used, online, promos, etc. and I know for a fact that the number is off, so I put 1-10 to be conservative)

I do buy MP3 and vinyl, but CD purchases probably make up around 80% of my spending.

I don't buy vinyl. I buy mp3s sometimes. Most of what I buy comes from brick'n'mortar used CD shops, Amazon, and Profound Lore.

If shipping costs from the US weren't a crime against humanity, I might do other labels too.

4: I bought the new Coldplay, the new Tom Petty, the new Bob Seger, and the new Interpol, all at Target while shopping for other things.

I have bought loads of CDs this year (new and second hand), but perhaps only a dozen or so from a bricks and mortar shop. I love the fact that CDs are despised and unwanted and therefore so cheap. It means I can get new and second hand releases for next to nothing - and they sound fantastic on my stereo system. I go vinyl for the rest of my purchases. Still cannot get used to a purely digital (i.e. hard-drive or streaming) experience - I want to peruse shelves and "put a record/CD on".

Have prices declined on new and used CDs? They hadn't the last time I checked but it's been months.

I think this is the first year of my adult life that I've been able to answer that question with a "No."

Top category, but if you had said "for full price", well, hmmm..

Pretty sure this is my first new cd-free year too. Possibly 2013 too.

Does it matter if we bought the CD for ourselves or as a gift?

Ten to twenty. Sooner or later I'll buy an external hard drive and ween myself off new album sleeve smell.

Probably the first year I have bought any quantity of new CDs in a while - working in a new town, no turntable until recently and not much vinyl in the area, but with a CD player, so, out of boredom, bought some new stuff.

same here, had a bit of extra money this year so bought a few CD's (16 or so?) cos I like to have something to listen to while driving

I've moved to mostly online acquisition of CDs, but it's still my preferred format. I had to buy an lp+CD this year but it wasn't too expensive. Amazon is my main source, if I wait a couple of weeks after the release date I save almost half.

Mind, I almost always have heard these CDs before I own them.

No. I bought more physical music this year than I have done in years but not on cd. Some was bought from a shop though.

None until this current trip, but 3 this week.

I went to a record store once this year, shortly after my family's finances got back on track after a few rocky years and I vowed to get back in the habit of buying occasional CDs to listen to in the car. a couple months later, the CD player in my car stopped working. hopefully I'll get it fixed at some point and resume buying CDs but at the moment i have no motivation to get more.

answered 1-10 even though one of the 4 purchases I made that day was a 13-disc Little Feat box set.

I forgot that I also bought the new Eric Church album. It sucked really hard, so I blocked it out of my mind.

I still buy CD's, and I’ll still buy them until we get to the point where a digital album (usually 256 kbps) matches the utmost quality of a CD release. And really, even if we do hit that digital sweet-spot, I think I'd still buy an album on CD. For me it's always been the ultimate signifier of owning a piece of art, no matter how middle-brow it comes off as.

I think there was only 1 new CD I bought in a brick-and-mortar store this year. A few more I bought online. But I mostly buy MP3s.

Yep, well over 20.

I bought several dozen CDs this year, but only one as a new release from a brick-and-mortar store. tbh this is not unusual, I buy a lot via mailorder or Discogs/eBay. I probably bought a dozen used CDs from the same store (the one CD is the new Velvet Underground box set, so I guess that might count as six).

No but bought a lot of used vinyl.

yep at least 10-20

hence why i had to spend the other weekend reshelving cds to make room for my stack of acquired purchases :(

Way over 20.

Yes, somewhere between 50 and 70, all new, 40+ of them new releases and the rest back catalogue, probably 80% of them from brick and mortar shops.

Counted. 55 of which 38 are new releases.

Not yet. 10 or so second-hand from brick & mortar, 2 second-hand from Discogs, maybe one at a show - super-rare to see this now, though - 15 or so new online from brick & mortar with a web presence, or direct from artists' sites or representatives, or Amazon while I was in the US and could get free shipping. Won't vote until the year's over, though!

As above, not yet. Next month, I'll go to a store and buy one for someone as a Christmas present, just as I did in December last year, and the year before. I do occasionally buy CDs for myself from Amazon or eBay. It seems like a good idea at the time, because I've listened to a lot of songs by the artist on YouTube and have this urge to own a remastered edition with top sound quality, but when I get the CD I never listen to it. Probably because by that time I'm listening to something else on YouTube instead.

I, too, will buy one as a gift in the next three weeks (probably). And I bought the Snootie Wild EP a month or so ago at a store.

That may be my only new CD purchased at a store in 2014. Maybe one other I can't remember.

I'm pretty much down to buying only stuff that: 1) I don't get a promo for, 2) isn't available on vinyl and 3) I really want to hear. Snootie doesn't quite meet #3, but it was an impulse buy.

(Guilt-reduction note: I do try to buy vinyl of as much stuff that I get promo'd and like as I can possibly afford.)

I think the last time I did was 2010 but only because I had a gift card. I mostly stopped buying CDs after my whole collection (except for, miraculously, Star Time) was stolen in 2008.

I do buy vinyl occasionally tho.

The only CDs I've really been tempted to buy in that time are Black Up and Beyoncé.

Thesedays, some charity shops get brand new items, who knows where from or how.

25-30, I'm guessing. Mostly classic jazz or electronic stuff that I know I'm going to play from start to finish.

haven't bought physical in years. this year bought a few more digitals than prior to support indie/local artists

huh, not a one. i did buy used cds online for stuff that wasn't available digitally, but otherwise it was all spotify and amazon mp3s.

No. I think I have bought a vinyl record or two where they give you a CD copy with it instead of a download code, but not sure if that was from a shop or direct from label. Also not sure if that would count.

I buy vinyl and mp3s as regularly as I can afford (not very regularly b/c I am skint). I still buy CDs directly from a band at a gig if I want to support them (in this scenario they're cheap demo CDs, not full-priced albums).

i've bought a few new CDs but a lot of CD packaging seems to being getting generally shittier and more perfunctory than ever, so i'm being a bit fussier about what i shell out for. have bought a huge shit-tonne of vinyl though, maybe about 600 albums? mostly v cheap used classical music from charity shops so that has kind of filled my stupid craving for physical stuff

I sold a bunch of CDs the other day and got $3 back in total. I thiiiiiink I got ripped off but I just wanted those CDs out of my room.

Murgatroid, this is why at this point I'd almost rather give CDs I don't want to charity shops.

The store you sold to wasn't Half Price Books & Music, perchance?

I have never heard of that store.

It was sadly funny though, the guy blamed downloading for my low return and in my head, I made a sad face when I realized no one even downloads anymore, it's just Spotify

It's a chain in the Austin area notorious for giving very little for stuff and being notoriously "fuck you" if you try to get them to give even an inch.

Did they reject anything you wanted to sell?

When this happens I usually beg them to take it anyway, for free.

Rejected nothing, surprisingly enough, although he kept on asking what genre …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead are under, I think he asked me like three times, making sure I wasn't wrong that they aren't metal or something.

hahaha

I bought another CD today: Curtis Mayfield's Superfly soundtrack. $5 at Target.

No, but hey I got that U2 record on itunes.

One new CD this year (Beyoncé) and that was only because it was cheaper than buying it from iTunes. With everything else it's been either vinyl or download.

Yes, 1-10. it is getting less and less every single year. will never buy a download.

I bought a few CDs that were packaged inside some vinyl records. Does that count? I wasn't exactly purchasing them directly (and would have been okay if the records didn't contain them and had digital downloads instead).

CDs seem pointless to me now. I enjoy flacs and play them on my stereo through the nice DAC, or put on a record. Only time I play CDs is if I'm renting a car and it doesn't have aux inputs.

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Going with "over 20" Not sure on the actual #, but I do know I bought at least 10 new things at real record stores, and somewhat more at chain store "$5 or less" bins (although not as much of either as I did last year). I just started my second year on Amazon Prime, which has become my main intake for online purchasing. That sneaky AC/DC complete catalog for $5 sale they did was my first significant music download purchase (been buying tv shows from Itunes for a few years now). Most surprisingly, this is probably the first year since the late '90s wherein I didn't buy anything on vinyl. I don't have a turntable up at the moment, and it seems like used bargains are fewer and farther between. OTOH, I really haven't sought any out this year (didn't go to any record shows, barely hit any flea markets or antique shops or garage sales...) or have recently been of a mind to do any "rainy day" purchasing.

72

On average, at least one CD a week, but I work at a record store and get new CDs at cost.

Echoing some of the sentiments above, I still like CDs, and I like that used ones can now be had for pennies on the dollar. I'm probably not representative, though. I mean, I'm a relic. I primarily use iTunes to burn mix CDs for the car, and I've been sorta looking around for a CD display shelf.

Still prefer vinyl, but when new vinyl is like $32, there's no contest here, I'm afraid, especially since I don't really give a shit about digital downloads. If I'm going to drop >$25 on an LP, it better be a rare jazz record or something, not, like, the new Cloud Nothings or something.

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Not yet. 10 or so second-hand from brick & mortar, 2 second-hand from Discogs, maybe one at a show - super-rare to see this now, though - 15 or so new online from brick & mortar with a web presence, or direct from artists' sites or representatives, or Amazon while I was in the US and could get free shipping. Won't vote until the year's over, though!

nope

fuck compaction

No. Bought a few online though. Real stores are just too expensive.

10 - 20 (almost entirely from Sounds of the Universe in London in 2014).
With digital, I buy flacs via Bandcamp which I subsequently burn to cd. I have a decent hifi set up so cd's still work for me.

n

only downloads

Bought a shit-ton of vinyl, but very few CDs. Lessee... 3 Jute Gyte CD-Rs bought offa bandcamp. And 1 Skull Fist CD bought at a store.

Just over 20. Many more used CDs, and significantly more new and used vinyl. I plan to start paying for streaming in 2015.

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Nope!

wow ..

I just surpassed the 20 mark last week. I'm curious, though, how many of the 104 people bought used cds, or cds online.

nope, useless garbage plastic

It's very rare that any of my CD's get anywhere near my CD player nowadays, if I do get my CD's out it's to convert 'em to files to put on my phone, portable mp3 player or my computer. There was once a time when I was buying a ridiculous amount of CD's per week, but over the last five years or so I've been increasingly using mp3 (or similar) as my primary format.

If I buy CD's or vinyl, it tends to be used and they end up getting converted.

Oh, and I use Spotify a lot too.

i didn't buy anything, except an itunes download of 'black messiah'

I basically only buy CDs if 1. they aren't on Spotify or 2. they seem obscure enough that they're likely to slip from major streaming services at some point and 3. I feel like I'll desperately need to hear them at some future point in my life. I bought two CDs last year, one from Amazon and one from eBay, both used.

Wow. These results are...disappointing.

had the fortune to visit the Squidco store in Wilmington, NC.. that was a treat. they've got their inventory in a front room, arranged on broad shelves, library-like. they're primarily a mail order business, but you can purchase items in the store. dunno if that counts.

vinyl prices are ridiculous, and you can still play CDs in a car. don't have a smartphone, and don't really use Spotify. mp3/flac/wav or whatever is viable/cheap/instant, but a strictly digital format is less desirable. cheap SanDisk player for 'on the go' shit. I traded in some old discs for a new CD copy of Syro, and found a used/promo copy of pom pom at a local shop. otherwise, Amazon is usually cheap as fuck. also have had good experiences ordering directly from labels online.

I buy vast numbers of classical CDs online but there aren't many shops around selling things at reasonable prices.

With pop, i'm not convinced that everything is going to be available to stream forever so i want anything that i like in either a DL or physical format.

Wow. These results are...disappointing.

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Thursday, January 1, 2015 5:04 PM (Yesterday)

Yeah, but my answer would have been very different were the OP not constructed to exclude vinyl. While I purchased only one CD, I bought a lot of records in 2014, many of them new and from stores.

I bought some as gifts. Didn't vote though.

why not run a Did you purchase any new VINYL at a store in 2014? poll

Bought a few new CDs in 2014 but all were online. Spent probably close to $1k on vinyl from local stores though.

nope, useless garbage plastic

― The Reverend, Thursday, January 1, 2015 5:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol at the idea of people buying records because they're... useful.