Rich
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Post by Rich on Jun 5, 2009 22:28:36 GMT
I used to love my cds, but lately I can hardly ever be bothered to plug in the HiFi as it's much easier to plug my laptop or my ipod into my goodish pc speakers , so my cds are just turning into piles of plastic and gathering dust. There are a few albums I want to buy at the moment and I'm thinking the unthinkable and wondering if there's really any point getting the physical copies.
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Are you still buying music cds or have you gone download only?
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 6, 2009 9:33:25 GMT
Only buy a CD once in a blue moon, mostly for space reasons.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 6, 2009 14:34:27 GMT
Jonathan's broken my Amp and I haven't the cash to fix it/replace it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2009 14:45:29 GMT
I've got a whacking great load of CD's. I used to listen to them on average one per day but since I started to log into the net two years ago I've kind of neglected them over my Ipod and Youtube. I still listen to them occasionally but no where near as often as I used to.
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Post by Cullen on Jun 7, 2009 0:55:56 GMT
I still buy CDs but haven't listened to any I've bought for the last 5 years in a CD player. Buy 'em, rip 'em, put them in the CD rack forever. I still think CD are better value than downloads because you have the phyiscal product which you can sell on, and can often pick up CDs in sales. Digital downloads for albums are coming down in price and are becoming DRM free so I may change my habits in the future.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 7, 2009 9:57:26 GMT
I rarely download music either. I'm more for using internet radio.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2009 10:06:44 GMT
Internet radio isn't something I've dabbled in. I spend much of my time watching music channels on Sky Digital when I'm away from my computer.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 7, 2009 10:26:53 GMT
I almost always have internet radio running in the background when I'm surfing the net.
-Ralph
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Rich
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Post by Rich on Jun 7, 2009 11:04:47 GMT
I like internet radio, it's a great way to find new music, but I still think that a good album is a more enjoyable and immersive experience than listening to 12 good songs by 12 different bands.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2009 14:37:19 GMT
I might give internet radio a go at some point. What's the best station to listen to?
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Post by Kingoji on Jun 7, 2009 17:47:13 GMT
I buy the CD's only of artists I wish to support, or have been supporting for a long time.
Then I rip them to my computer and and put them away where they'll probably only ever get used again if I need to replace my computer library for some reason.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 7, 2009 18:11:25 GMT
I might give internet radio a go at some point. What's the best station to listen to? The BBC has plenty of decent stations through the iPlayer. When I fancy something different from somewhere else in the world, I just do a random google search and see where I end up! -Ralph |
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Post by Rich on Jun 7, 2009 20:42:07 GMT
last.fm is probably the best known internet radio station, and is pretty good. If you like indie / alternative then xfm have finally got a decent radio player, which means that their one remaining good show, John Kennedy's X-posure, can finally be listened to without having to sit up all night.
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Post by Hero on Jun 7, 2009 22:23:31 GMT
I buy mp3 music from Amazon but also still into CDs. I like having a large data library of music and like having a physical collection of music too if that makes any sense.
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Post by grahamthomson on Jun 8, 2009 8:15:49 GMT
I stopped buying CDs about eight years ago. I ripped all the ones I have, and they've been sat collecting dust ever since. In fact, they're up in my parents' attic along with all my cassettes and vinyl (remember them!?!). I do use iTunes a fair bit nowadays.
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Jun 8, 2009 15:02:23 GMT
I'm still happily collecting CDs - I don't get as many as I used to (used to average a new album every week) but I still have around 300 albums on the shelves in my bedroom and Christ knows how many albums / singles / Eps / promos under the bed in the spare room. I'm currently expanding my Miles Davis back catalogue, in anyone's interested...
Mx
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Post by jameso on Jun 9, 2009 0:16:50 GMT
I'm one of those buy a cd, rip it to mp3 player, file the cd away and never use it again people. I haven't used a cd player to listen to music for yonks.
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Post by Dave on Jun 10, 2009 10:58:28 GMT
I might get the odd track as a download but for albums I tend to buy CD's because they're not that much more expensive and you get a physical copy as well - even though I really don't have the space for them. That said download prices are coming down, 7Digital usually have new albums for a fiver and Amazon often have deals on so things could change.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2009 22:34:36 GMT
I stopped buying singles a while ago - not just because there isn't a shop locally where I can buy them from (Woolworths was my only local outlet) but also because I don't really keep up to date on today's music. My favourite genres of music are all in the past and there was a time when I used to laugh at my father for him always saying to me that today's music is rubbish and the music of his youth was the greatest. Not any more. I can see where he is coming from now because I'd much prefer music from my youth than today's music.
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