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

Around 80% of of my purchases are for stuff that I've liked on Spotify.

      1 7" + digital bandcamp
      1 7" + digital gig
      7 cd amazon
      2 cd amazon marketplace
      3 cd bandcamp
      3 cd jumble sale
      1 cd fopp
      2 cd freebie
      8 cd gig
      2 cd hmv
      4 cd magazines (wired, mojo)
      3 cd unknown
      1 digital amazon
      4 digital bandcamp
      7 digital boomkat

7-10 so far, which includes cds bought with magazines, but tbf i only bought the magazines for the cds. one of those 'cds' was a 5 cd box though. and i usually pick up 3 or 4 when home for christmas.

additionally / conversely, i have bought 16 dvds and dvd box sets from amazon / amazon market place. in the same period and probably half a dozen or 10 more in fopp / hmv.

I like the explanatory notes up top. "You" = "person posting."

I bought a few catalog CDs for $4.99 at the Sunrise in Cloverdale Mall. I think they're all MCA, and there were a number of early-'70s Fleetwood Mac LPs. 10-20, probably.

man I think I'll keep a register like koogs did in 2015. I mailorder a lot, should be fun

Where's the option for "I tried but the clerks were too busy yakking with each other to actually try to sell something"?

Well over 20 here. My local indie store doesn't bother with major or major-distributed stuff anymore, so if my travels don't take me to a bigger indie (e.g. Princeton RX/Vintage Vinyl in NJ) I'll mail order from Amoeba -- they ship free within the US and one weekend a month they're 15% off everything. Use ImportCDs.com for the occasional import that I can't find from the aforementioned places.

i purchased one new cd in a store this year. i basically only did so b/c i was returning an eminem cd someone bought for me for my birthday lol.

i gave up counting once i got to 100.
most have been charity shop/bargain bin purchases, the rest head/hmv, and amazon.
eg. got the BLONDES 2cd set for 1p at fopp the other day !
i asked the bloke behind the counter if it was a misprint.
nope.
they genuinely were selling off stuff for 1p.
love the fact people are handing over their cd collections to charity shops cos its now regarded as a shit format.

Probably ~150 or so. Physical media forever.

Yeah to carry on from what Mark said, I did get a lot of secondhand CD's. It's amazing what you can pick up. I got a copy of The Rapture's "echoes" for 2 euros at my local petrol station last week!

God, I miss the MVEs in london where you can always find new, relatively newly released cds for under 5 pounds. Never figured out how that quite works.

I found the new T. Swift and Machine Head today in a used shop. I don't get it, do people buy, hate, sell immediately?

I did, even not counting buying Owen Pallett's at his show.

There were some CDs in the co-op but i didnt buy one

God, I miss the MVEs in london where you can always find new, relatively newly released cds for under 5 pounds. Never figured out how that quite works.

Promos traded in.

I found the new T. Swift and Machine Head today in a used shop. I don't get it, do people buy, hate, sell immediately?

last week i picked up the expanded edition of the tony bennett/lady gaga album.

i mean, it was a week after release and already in a charity shop !

would love to know the story of that, as surely the receipt was still valid ..

got that kendrick lamar album in a charity shop a few months after its release

xpost: I figured as much, but this includes sealed stuff, as well as stuff without your typical line over the barcode or hole in the corner.

1 cd (Beyoncé s/t) and two records (danny brown's OLD, david bowie's STATION TO STATION.) that's it

I found the new T. Swift and Machine Head today in a used shop. I don't get it, do people buy, hate, sell immediately?

― jmm, Saturday, November 29, 2014 4:31 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more likely buy, rip, sell immediately

Industry promos are often sealed yet marked as promos with as little as a marker line through the barcode.

Where's jmm from?

20 / month

actually only a half to three-fourths of that is new

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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