I play albums on CD in my CD player and also play them (silently) on Spotify so that they scrobble. Also that way I'm contributing the tiny amount of money on top of whatever they got from my CD purchase.
― if, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
22 new albums including two boxed sets - nearly all CDs, the only records I've bought new this year have been reissues of older stuff. I prefer buying vinyl but new releases can be too pricey a lot of the time.
It'd be 100+ if we were counting secondhand purchases, I've bought a lot of cheap old stuff on both CD and vinyl.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
I've pretty much given up with EOY singles / tracks lists, as who knows what's actually a single anymore, and they'd be a zillion songs long.
As for EOY albums, I keep all new purchases separate from the rest of the collection, as a very visual reminder / guide to what I've bought this year (both new stuff and back catalogue). I filter everything into the stacks on New Years Day; done this for a few years now, and much prefer it to keeping a list anywhere or trying to remember by going through everything. Also gives me a default 'what to listen to niow' pile for when I'm feeling indecisive.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
My digital collection gets a new folder every time I buy a bigger hard drive. I'm not sure what the logic to doing this is, other than it categorises it into new/old/very old. This does stop me going back and listening to stuff from a few years ago though, and I've found that the time I take listening to new music now far outweighs older stuff whereas before it would have been split pretty evenly.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
I play albums on CD in my CD player and also play them (silently) on Spotify so that they scrobble.
I have been known to do this, yes. Ahem.
In place of a physical listening pile, I have a "favourite 2012 albums" Spotify playlist and a matching spreadsheet, held on Dropbox and permanently open on the laptop. Neither distinguishes between owned and unowned. (Well, OK, there's colour coding on the spreadsheet. Let's not delve too deeply into my mania.) I do miss the visual artwork cues, but it's a more level playing field.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
There's one additional bit of insanity which MUST STOP: ripping purchased CDs to iTunes, when they're already on Spotify. An utterly pointless waste of time and disk space.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
Isn't Spotify streaming lower quality than CD rip?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
Depends how you rip your CDs.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
xps I guess you get better quality from a rip unless you have Spotify Premium.
― fish frosch (seandalai), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't think I'll ever get on board with Spotify.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
No, the "extreme" setting on the app equates to 320kpbs. Through a DAC, there's no discernible difference with the CD, let alone the rip.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
by a very long distance the least in a couple of decades - about 18 new CDs (inc doubles and triples) and a few music DVDs.
this has been mostly deliberate, because I still have things I bought in the '90s I've not listened to yet (have been gradually cutting down for five years on these grounds) and because I might be putting all my shit in storage for a year or so in 2013, and then finding a new place to live and unpacking it all again.
last night, at a gig, I bought an EP I've been wanting to buy for five years but have never seen a copy of before - that was the first purchase in three months.
― ┐(´ー｀)┌ (sic), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
Even though I've got rid of a lot of CDs over the past few years, I do like having a physical copy of the things I really like - I'm moving house in a month so there is the space factor but I like having objects if I'm attached to them and they're nice to look at. I bought an OOIOO CD recently which has really great artwork for example, I've also picked up some of those Miles Davis boxed sets used and they're so beautifully made, I don't mind shelling out extra for things like that.
Buying music digitally is great for singles though, I keep a work-in-progress playlist of my favourites for each year. I'd miss so much great new music if I only paid attention to albums.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
Zero. CDs and CD boxes are kind of horrible physical objects anyway, especially once you've had them for a while, and they don't display well, and the last few CDs I bought I ended up digitising straight away anyway. Never had a turntable.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 10:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
I still have trouble thinking of CDs as "physical music" rather than just another way of storing electronic data. Outside of vinyl, music just isn't a physical artefact.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
about twenty CD's, most recently Dwight Yoakam's latest. I don't ever rip the whole CD to my iPod though: at most six or so tracks.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
xpost Yeah, CDs seem like a really obscure format now - a halfway house that suits little purpose. Like you say, no longer a pleasing physical artefact nor a satisfactory digital format. I'm surprised you (as a dancist) never had a turntable Matt. Do you DJ at all? I tend to find that, for dance music, I get frustrated with listening to individual single tracks (too many long intros and outros) and end up mixing them together using Acid Pro for a more cohesive listen.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:06 (7 months ago) Permalink
Haven't bought any physical music this year but have probably spent about $1k on digital releases.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
Rockist!
xpost.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
Zero
Feeling kind of ashamed
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
Haha, rockist?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
Making your singles-based genre into 'cohesive' album-like units!
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
or dj sets as they're known by us hardcore rock fans
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
Most of the digital purchases I've made this year = impossible to find in shops and/or on CD
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:16 (7 months ago) Permalink
i guess expecting a dance fan to own vinyl decks is like expecting a rock fan to own guitars...
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
Kind of a no brainier
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
40-60, mostly vinyl, mostly catalogue. Fewer CDs than I used to because I tend to preview albums on Spotify and download the best tracks. If an album's consistently good I'll still buy the CD or vinyl though. Because, in terms of music-buying generations, I am old.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
20-40 - a good chunk of that was two raids on the classical section of Academy Records. I am kind of into CDs right now because listening to them on the boombox in the kitchen or in the room I use as my office is a real pleasure to me
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:24 (7 months ago) Permalink
I'd have DJ sets as analogous to gigs rather than albums...
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
father of three with no spare cash! probably only bought cds/7"s of friends' bands this year, so 2-6 maybe?
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
I'd have DJ sets as analogous to gigs rather than albums...― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:29 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:29 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nah, because dance fans listen to a lot more DJ mixes than rock fans listen to recordings of live gigs. The majority of dance singles are pretty much designed to be mixed together - I don't have the time or patience to listen to a 2 minute intro beat with gaps between the tracks when I'm listening to house music for example. Plus a lot of people I know who used to play out now spend their time DJing in their bedrooms just for the pleasure of enjoying music.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
no idea but i'd guesstimate about 250 12" singles, 100 albums, 50 7" singles and 0 cds.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:41 (7 months ago) Permalink
52 12"s2 10"s3 cds
― suare, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
All new vinyl should come with a digital download as standard these days. It's ridiculous to think that many don't.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:45 (7 months ago) Permalink
about half of that new and half used from discogs
― suare, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
it's not always possible. i run a label and sometimes the artist wants to do digital themselves or if it's a reissue the digital rights belong to someone else. xp
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
I bought close to 300 CD's this year; including a couple of very rare and expensive ones. That medium is still on its way out - with no turning point yet in sight -, causing that even some of the most mundane titles are out-of-print and changing hands for inane prices. I felt that if I ever wanted to bring my want-list back to zero (for the time being), I'd better do it now than latter.
I embrace downloads. I see the appeal of not having to hunt for a physical copy of an item; you can download anything you like for a mere 8.99 anywhere you find yourself with internet access. But as long as an artist offers me the option of buying a physical product, I gladly oblige. For me an album is (still) a package deal: it should come with artwork and liner notes that are given just as much thought by the artist as the actual sounds itself. And even if I don't play CD's as often as I used to, I still rather have them as my backup than an extra hard drive or files in the cloud.
Although I was born and raised with vinyl, that medium just never appealed to me much.
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
20-40
10-15 LPs a few singles, some cassettes, cd-rs and a floppy disk.
LPs get listened to and looked after. CDs go in the kitchen and usually get given away if someone likes the band. Dunno what to do with the floppy disk.
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 11:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
What on earth did you buy on a floppy disk?
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
mixes aren't analogous to gigs
― suare, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:06 (7 months ago) Permalink
telescopes "backing band" self released thing
http://vimeo.com/42470242
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
ha that's the first time i've heard it, bit of a les rallizes denudes feel, nice
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
Hot fad of 2013: releasing your new single exclusively on floppy disk
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
I'm releasing my next song on a player-piano roll. Digitize THIS!
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
I'm gonna release a single on a parchment scroll.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
I did some counting a couple of weeks back and I've bought 50 records in the last twelve months, I think most of that this calendar year, but then it's probably 75% second hand. I'm another one who's come to feel that CD is a fairly pointless format (maybe it'll have more of a point when its held in low enough regard that it all becomes incredibly cheap), though the really bad aspect of that is that I'm not yet of the mindset that digital music is something ~real~ enough to spend money on. I see a lot of live music but can no longer pretend to myself that that makes up for all of my thieving.
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
xp: that's Beck's model these days.
― how's life, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
(maybe it'll have more of a point when its held in low enough regard that it all becomes incredibly cheap)
I'm always slightly baffled that shops (HMV) / labels etc seem to have responded to a decline of interest in CDs by pricing back catalogue stuff at £16+ a lot of the time. Who on earth is going to buy that? Seems absolutely stupid beyond belief.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
iPhone doesn't scrobble either these days. At least mine hasn't for at least a year. I do like Last.FM but it has so many flaws that it doesn't work as well as it should. It would be great to make it that bit less buggy and more communal.
I'm more inclined to blame Apple for this than Last.FM tbh.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
CD's already seem to be incredibly cheap, at least I can't get more than a couple of quid on Ebay for stuff that used to be fairly sought after. It's rare that anything goes for more than that. Although to be fair, once something does go over £2 it usually ends up going for £10-20. There doesn't seem to be much inbetween.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 12:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
Didn't see this to vote.
I guess about 300 used LPs, maybe 20 new ones, and the same amount of singles. A few freebie CDs. No non-physical purchases and a few downloads for work purposes.
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
Gescom released an MD-only release, but that was over ten years ago now. I used to love MD when I had one - really good for making mixtapes and really easy to use.
Yup, I really loved having my MD recorder to make mixes, especially for parties. Just pop in a new MD when needed. The only commerical album I bought on MD was Rage Against the Machine's Evil Empire, I bought it when I bought my MD player/recorder and it was the only one the store had in its limited selection that was even close to be interesting to me.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:24 (7 months ago) Permalink