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Did you purchase a new CD at a store in 2014? [Started by Brio2 in November 2014, last updated 17 minutes ago by everyday sheeple (Michael B) on I Love Music] 70 new answers POLL closes: January 01 (in 1 month)

why did you spend about a week researching double-edged shaving gear/techniques

I hate having facial hair & I've never been able to get a close shave with electric/cartridge razors

but I can't bring myself to invest in ~$75 of old-timey shaving gear even thought it might pay off in the long run

fwiw I bought 11 new CDs at brick-and-mortar stores in 2014

I went to a store and bought some CDs today

(just thought you guys should know)

how did it ~feel~?

I felt like a fuddy-duddy.

all these college-aged kids were hanging out in the CD section strictly for tel lulz ("oh my god, the Jonas Brothers! I loved them so much when I was like 12" "I honestly can't remember the last time I bought a CD") while I was all alone in the jazz corner scowling at RVG editions for 15 minutes. I should really only shop for music on weekday afternoons when the only other patrons are crusty old men like myself.

thank you for your concern.

there must be plenty of college kids who never bought a cd

there must be plenty of college kids for whom CDs are more dorky and old-mannish than vinyl (or even cassettes)

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy) wrote this on thread D'Angelo - Black Messiah (2014) on board I Love Music on 15-Dec-2014

Walked into a record shop and bought this on cd earlier.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy) wrote this on thread Caribou / Manitoba (Dan Snaith) - Classic or Dud? on board I Love Music on 07-Oct-2014

Opening this up from a CD through big speakers and it sounds absolutely amazing, which is obviously no surprise.

i buy used cds now for the same reason i bought vinyl in the 90s -- better bargains

otm

my purchases this weekend:

-Jerry Reed greatest hits CD (used): $5.99
-Porter Wagoner greatest hits CD (new): $6.99
-Aiwa Cross Trainer portable CD player (manufactured in June 1999): $6.99
-CueCat (probably unused): $1.99
-3 used paperbacks @ $0.50 apiece and 1 for $1.00

the CDs are birthday gifts for my grandfather, but the discman and CueCat are worrying symptoms of premature retrofetishization

I'm even contemplating re-purchasing certain things on CD that I've already bought FLAC downloads of, just so I have some kind of permanent, tangible copy of that music that will stick around even in the event of catastrophic data loss or some other calamity.

CD's disintegrate quick. If you have a CD from the 80s you will know about this. Old CD's go quiet.

― Arctic Noon Auk, Thursday, April 23, 2015 9:31 AM (4 hours ago)

xp What do you mean "disintegrate?" You mean oxidize? Peel? Are rendered useless?

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Thursday, April 23, 2015 9:37 AM (4 hours ago)

Yes, and they get quieter, no matter how loud you set your speakers.

― Arctic Noon Auk, Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:20 AM (3 hours ago)

in high school my cds were often eaten by a strange tropical fungus but that seems to have ceased, probably due to better practices on either the manufacturers' parts or mine.

I bought a used copy of Global Communication's 76:14 for $1.50 (£0.97) last week. 'wow, you're really breaking the bank with this one', said the cashier. I didn't laugh.

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What is that recent popular rap song where the dude sounds like he has down syndrome
He is talking slow and he references clothing, sex and possibly drug use. I'm not sure if he has a speech impediment or not, but he sounds slightly retarded.

edit: It is not krispy kreme

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Hmmm. How do asians and aborigines fir into your theory?
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I bought some CDs today

― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Sunday, December 27, 2015 8:34 PM (0 seconds ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyb89KyWcoE

http://i.imgur.com/zkMGQcV.png

Bull Moose Music HAUL (3/24/17):

Steve Roach - Structures From Silence ($1.48)
->an original West German pressing!!! gonna go brag about it on forums.stevehoffman.tv probably

Amanda Petrusich - Do Not Sell At Any Price ($0.50)
->kinda pricy, but I feel a special connection to the author because she writes p4k reviews and she may have even posted on ilm a few times (so fucking awful that the search function is still down and I can't verify this):