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

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.

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.

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.