Will CDs be valuable in 2040?

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Poll Closing Date: Sunday, 1 January 2040 00:00 (in 13 years)

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You know what would make a good ILM poll, if I knew how to do that? The topic 'Will CDs be valuable in 2040?' and a set of poll options preciting the price of the average vintage CD. then set the poll closing date for 1 January 2040.

― moley, Tuesday, 23 December, 2008 1:11 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Less than €5
€5 - €10
€10 - €20
€20- €50
More than €50


sonderangerbots and loops (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:30 (seventeen years ago)

How much is a € worth?

everybody in this club gettin' tipsy mothra (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:30 (seventeen years ago)

the whole point of a poll predicting the future is kind of negated by allowing people to vote right up until that future moment arrives, even if it wasn't set in some ridiculously far off point in time.

burt_stanton like my daddy (some dude), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:32 (seventeen years ago)

Great, I'll have to make a note to ensure I come back and check the results when I'm 65.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:32 (seventeen years ago)

They will!

Stock up now to ensure your retirement!

milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:34 (seventeen years ago)

unix epoch time flips over before this poll closes
oh well

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:35 (seventeen years ago)

Euros are the most reliable currency for predicting so far ahead. The other options on the table were
of course the yen and the rupee.

moley, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:39 (seventeen years ago)

'CDs just have more warmth than 3-d surround sound telepathic sound implants'

redmond, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:40 (seventeen years ago)

i have decided to read this funny looking € symbol as "emos".

so, 10-20 €'s ought to be about right.

VISION QUEST TO KNOCK YOU UP (John Justen), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:42 (seventeen years ago)

€trash

i predict less than 5

sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:44 (seventeen years ago)

lol @ 3879238729834 'mericans not having a clue what € is

sonderangerbots and loops (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:47 (seventeen years ago)

1 U.S. dollar = about 0.7 Euros

moley, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:49 (seventeen years ago)

Average price of a vintage record = ?
Average price of a vintage 8-track = ?

(Z S) (Z S), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

You'll have to patch together some drives and car batteries that will play the discs Mad Max style.

james k polk, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

Average price of a vintage record = ?
Average price of a vintage 8-track = ?

― (Z S) (Z S),

This is the nub of the issue. Unplayed popular vinyl from the 60's usually goes for more than €15 a slab. Rare or obscure unplayed vinyl from the same era goes for twice that or more. I have rarely played 50's vinyl of electronic and musique concrete artists that I've seen go for more than €150 a slab. One of my own 15 yr old 12" releases goes for over €100 a slab on Ebay. 8 track cassettes, on the other hand, are not terribly valuable, I'm guessing, played or unplayed. Which way will the CD go?

moley, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

8 track cassettes were horrible, though.

What constitutes a slab?

John Justen Timberlake (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 03:43 (seventeen years ago)

24 beers mate.

moley, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 03:44 (seventeen years ago)

Or a piece of vinyl. I thought you were 'down' with the 'lingo' of the 'kids'.

moley, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 03:45 (seventeen years ago)

Hah, I had this image of a 100-pack of your record going for €100.

John Justen Timberlake (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 03:55 (seventeen years ago)

CDs just have more warmth than 3-d surround sound telepathic sound implants

I googled this and only ilx came up. Maybe it's quoted from Trouser Press or something.

bamcquern, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 10:19 (seventeen years ago)

Unplayed popular vinyl from the 60's usually goes for more than €15 a slab.

Whoa, yeah!

Unplayed popular vinyl from the sixties (first pressings, etc) (Beatles, Who, Hendrix, etc) goes for high prices. It has to be absolutely mint though.

Mark G, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 10:27 (seventeen years ago)

Probably 20-50. Portable CD players are increasing in sales again, because people find it less practical having to "record" their iPods themselves, and the CD will never die.

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 11:46 (seventeen years ago)

people find it less practical having to "record" their iPods themselves

What??

chelives1986: i am currently giving captain lorax cunnilingus (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 11:49 (seventeen years ago)

Wait are you just being Geir again?

chelives1986: i am currently giving captain lorax cunnilingus (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 11:49 (seventeen years ago)

Hey hey, my my... Geir's CDs will never die.

Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

In 2040, €50 will just about pay for your daily hoverbus fare, so >€50.

Trackpants Tree, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

Inflation alone will make €10 in 2008 worth about €35 by 2040.

Maltodextrin, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:35 (seventeen years ago)

It'll depend on whether vintage CDs are still playable, I'd reckon.

eatandoph, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

Anything with the word "vintage" attached to it is automatically valuable. So, yes, in the year 2040 you will be able to step into a boutique somewhere and shove scads of nose-money at the vintage CD of your choice. Old CDs, on the other hand, will be worth nothing.

Bored American Aerospace Defense Command (BORAD) (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Melodic music will skyrocket in value once it reasserts its dominance in the critical and public spheres. Hold onto those Wings, Crowded House, and Eggstone CDs, and they'll be worth €100 apiece in another 30 years.

You'll be lucky to get even €1 for a whole pile of James Brown CDs, though I'm sure they'll make great body armor once the 3rd World War hits ;)

arular (unregistered), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

Autumn Almanac was wondering in the mong thread whether it would make a difference if the CDs were in their original jewel cases or not?

moley, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:22 (seventeen years ago)

arular, have you met Geir?

moley, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

Geir Jenssen???

Jewel cases are pretty important nowadays, aren't they? A lot of the time you'll see an OOP CD generally selling for $15-$20 on Amazon, but there'll be one seller offering a "like new copy, only been played once; CD only - no jewel case or insert" for less than $5.

Of course if you have the front and back inserts, it's pretty easy to slip them into a new jewel case and fool the consumer, or even print fake inserts yourself if you're savvy enough. Forging an elaborate vinyl gatefold sleeve is a much harder task.

arular (unregistered), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

I are Captain Obvious.

arular (unregistered), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:36 (seventeen years ago)

Forging an elaborate vinyl gatefold sleeve is a much harder task.

― arular

It's really only the gluing that's hard. Once you've got the gluing down, the rest is a walk.

Bored American Aerospace Defense Command (BORAD) (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:39 (seventeen years ago)

It's because postage is cheaper if you supply the Jewel case yourself.

Mark G, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

I are Captain Obvious.

― arular (unregistered)

And I am Captain Rather Slow On The Uptake.

moley, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

It's because postage is cheaper if you supply the Jewel case yourself.

Am I also a little slow in the head for not understanding this? I mean, isn't the CD likely to weigh about the same whether it's in the original case or in a new case supplied by the seller? The absence of the booklet isn't going to make that much of a difference as far as postage is concerned.

arular (unregistered), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

Older CDs had these really solid cases that cost more to ship than the newer jewel cases you get in bulk at the computer store. When you held one of those old ones in your hand you felt like you were really holding something.

james k polk, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 01:10 (seventeen years ago)

ah, gotcha

arular (unregistered), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 01:13 (seventeen years ago)


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