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CDs obsolete?

Kerb

Kerb

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When was the last time you bought a CD or even walked into a record store?

The past decade was one of the worst for the industry. In the beginning, there was Napster. Then came iTunes, which was introduced in 2001 and offered affordable pricing and easy accessibility. Face it, CDs aren't coming back.

Record stores are feeling the pinch. Most Virgin Megastores in the U.S. have shut down following declines in sales and revenues. In 2004, Tower Records entered bankruptcy and by 2006 most locations had closed.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108504/10-things-not-to-buy-in-2010

I buy alot of CDs. I don't want to download crappy MP3s. Some of us don't even have computers.

Don't stop selling CDs
 
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well, if they had good music out there I would buy a CD but the crap I hear on the radio is high school music and I have not attended high school for 35 years.

Other then that, I'm still waiting for the promise that CD's would cost less then records, have more music on them and sound better.
 
jsixis said:
well, if they had good music out there I would buy a CD but the crap I hear on the radio is high school music and I have not attended high school for 35 years.

Other then that, I'm still waiting for the promise that CD's would cost less then records, have more music on them and sound better.
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If you're judging the availability of new music based on what's on the radio, you're missing out on about 99.9% of what's being released today.
 
I was looking today at how cheap flash memory is. I dont know how much time data can survive on this kind of drives but mb we will see high resolution music files sold on flash drives since these media centers are all over the place now.
 
When was the last time you bought a CD or even walked into a record store?
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Just a couple of days ago and came out with 3 CDs.

As for buying CDs, I think I have purchased/ordered well over 20 CDs since the beginning of the year.

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Obsolescence isn't all that relevant. What's relevant is ubiquity of players and media. CDs aren't going anywhere anytime soon. But I've observed that it's a great time to pick up people's old CD collections off CL. :D
 
jsixis said:
well, if they had good music out there I would buy a CD but the crap I hear on the radio is high school music and I have not attended high school for 35 years.

Other then that, I'm still waiting for the promise that CD's would cost less then records, have more music on them and sound better.
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Most CDs I've bought over the past 15 or 20 years have at least 45 minutes on them. Many up around 50 minutes. In fact, the only CDs I seem to have with less music on them are digital versions of music originally released on vinyl.

Maybe it's time to find a new radio station.

Here in Detroit, we used to have a great station for music for grown-ups (WDET, in case you're wondering), but it changed its format a few years ago. They're supposed to have and HD radio station that plays music from their awesome collection, but I haven't bought an HD tuner.

At least WDET is bringing back some of that music they used to carry. But it was on WDET that I found things like Los Lobos, Michelle Shocked, Lucinda Williams, Thievery Corporation, Eno, David Byrne, Afro-Celt Sound System, Sue Foley... the list goes on and on...

Finding CDs that sound good is the same challenge as sounding vinyl that sounds good. In both formats, you have your normal distribution curve regarding the quality of the recording. I have some CDs that sound almost as good as SACD or DVD-A. Just like I have some regular vinyl that sounds almost as good as a MoFi half-speed re-mastered disk.
 
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