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

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.

New CDs, bought from a shop: 33.
New CDs, bought online: 14.
New CDs, bought at gig: 3.
Back catalogue CDs, bought from a shop: 6.

New vinyl 7"s - 7, including 2 from a shop.
New vinyl 12"/10" - 5, including 4 from a shop.
No vinyl LPs, no second hand purchases in any format.

iTunes: 7 new EPs, 5 new tracks, 7 old tracks
Bandcamp (paid for): 3 albums, 1 track

Well over 20 CDs but fewer than 2013. A fair bit of vinyl. I hardly ever buy anything digitally; 'mbv' was the last thing. Got a laptop now so streaming a lot more than ever before.

I haven't really worked out yet what my approach will be if I like something enough having heard it on Spotify to want to buy it.

Shop/online ratio for CD purchases = about 50:50

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.

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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.