How much physical music (CDs, vinyl, minidiscs, cases ingles, whatever) have you bought so far this year?

Kind of a no brainier

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.

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

I'd have DJ sets as analogous to gigs rather than albums...

father of three with no spare cash! probably only bought cds/7"s of friends' bands this year, so 2-6 maybe?

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

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.

no idea but i'd guesstimate about 250 12" singles, 100 albums, 50 7" singles and 0 cds.

52 12"s
2 10"s
3 cds

All new vinyl should come with a digital download as standard these days. It's ridiculous to think that many don't.

about half of that new and half used from discogs

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

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.

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.

What on earth did you buy on a floppy disk?

mixes aren't analogous to gigs

telescopes "backing band" self released thing

http://vimeo.com/42470242

ha that's the first time i've heard it, bit of a les rallizes denudes feel, nice

Hot fad of 2013: releasing your new single exclusively on floppy disk

I'm releasing my next song on a player-piano roll. Digitize THIS!

I'm gonna release a single on a parchment scroll.

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.

xp: that's Beck's model these days.

(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.

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.

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.

yeah, in 2008 I was shifting over 2/3 of my stuff for at least 99c, with rare or odd things going for $30-50. Now out of every 60 things I list, maybe nine will go for 99c (even eg unreleased promo-only double albums) and one or two will get a frenzied bidding war up to $6-9.

feel like there's still a fairly massive middle ground of ppl blithely buying CDs but because they don't sit on the internet and talk about it, their existence tends to get forgotten

feel like there's still a fairly massive middle ground of ppl blithely buying CDs but because they don't sit on the internet and talk about it, their existence tends to get forgotten

qft

People responding here, and on twitter, are much more likely to be web-savvy enough to be Spotify users etc.

One, via a kickstarter thing for a friend. And I actually asked them not to send me the CD, since it was on Spotify, but they did it anyway. Everything else has been Spotify this year.

Good god a lot, like 200+

I buy loads of $.01 - $10 used rap CDs off amazon wherein the artist doesnt get any money, does that count?

Kinda with Whiney, I'm well over a hundred but that's thanks to endless Amoeba clearance trawls in the dollar bin.

I lost interest when my entire collection of metal CDs were stolen back in 2000 or something (all bought with two thirds of my high school money) but last night I was thinking of getting the swans, scott walker, GY!BE and the mark fell disc so, it's going to be four by the end of 2012.

buying digital feels silly, like paying for air. won't do it anymore.

I'm pretty sure the answer is zero. Everything has been digital -- emusic, Amazon, iTunes. I actually just unpacked all my CDs after a recent move, and they were the last thing I got around to unpacking because apart from keeping a few in the car I never listen to them. I don't even have a CD player in the house, just speakers that hook up to my laptop or iphone. Funny how quickly that change happened, without me really planning or intending it.

I washed the dishes last night and listened to the CD reissue/remaster of a free Big KRIT mixtape on my discman which I purchased with money

I've bought no CDs, LPs, or other physical releases this year

last CD i bought was my friend's band's album at their show about a year ago

Probably around 120-130 physical pieces of music for me, with roughly 85% vinyl vs. 15% CDs. I go record shopping at least once a week, and I consider my trips to the used LP stores in the area as part of the hobby; it's the "effort" that gets "rewarded" when I plop down in front of my stereo. (I don't actually think of it in those explicit/rigid terms, but when I've dabbled in downloading it's felt as if something is missing from the whole experience.) If I buy a new release on vinyl and it doesn't come with a download, I do justify it to myself to download it for free if I really want it on my iPod.

"collecting" digital music is boring as fuck

it is isn't it.

It doesn't really compute for me... I didn't see the stipulation upthread about no used music before I posted, so that brings me down quite a bit--cuts my total down to more like 30 or so.

If we're not counting used music I can prolly figure this out when I get home if this is still a thread

are you out of town until the 10th?

"Collecting" anything for the sake of it is boring as all hell imo; buying music, listening to it, and loving it, is fantastic though. And for me the nicest, most satisfying way of doing it is via CD. Sod being a data entry temp for my own hobby.

If we're not talking used or digital purchases...dunno, five, maybe? Ten?

"Collecting" anything for the sake of it is boring as all hell imo; buying music, listening to it, and loving it, is fantastic though. And for me the nicest, most satisfying way of doing it is via CD.

This!

xxpost to nick - i think that's what Whiney is saying. Collecting digital music can sometimes feel a bit like adding to an endless database - one more line on the list of folders. There's nothing to show for it. No "Yay, check out this awesome record I just got hold of". If you go round a friend's house you bring an ipod or iphone with you and there's this sort of "can I play you this new thing I downloaded?" and there's this grudging "Yeah go ahead, plug her in" thing, and then you sit there listening to the opening bars of the first track with no visual or tangible reference to whatever's emitting from the speakers, just you and your mate waiting for the payback; your friend probably hoping it'll end soon so she can put her player back where it belongs etc...

On the other hand: If you've got a big digital library, it's a lot of fun to put together playlists for parties. GF and I are doing this for our hauswarming this weekend, and we're starting by each putting together about 3 hrs worth, which we'll then mesh and sequence. Would obviously be possible with physical media, but a lot more work.

If yr friend wasn't interested in the music she wouldn't have been had it come in a box with a little booklet either.