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

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.

are you out of town until the 10th?
--how's life

What the fuck? I mean home from work

And he meant "it'll only stop being a thread when the poll closes" I suspect. Which it wont, but voting will have stopped. It'll *always* be a thread. (Insert philosophical caveats about the perpetuity of data here.)

Zero this year. Fewer than 10 over the last five years.

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.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 15:07 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

See I don't really agree with this, y'know? With an iPod you're provided with no context, no background, no temporal or tangible reference point or incite into what you're about to hear. It will very much depend on the kind of music you're listening to, but I think a physical format can add a certain amount of value on a psychological level. It's like going grocery shopping and everything's in identical vacuum-sealed packets with "ROCKET SALAD", "RUMP STEAK", "JELLY BABIES" printed on the front. We know that it's food, but we can't tell whether it will appeal at all once it's out of that packet. There's no intrigue or impetus to eat beyond "I like steak. I will buy it for sustenance".

iPhone users complaining about lack of last.fm scrobbling: I recommend telling the computer app to ignore your phone, then install CloudScrob. Not real-time, but you just pop open the app occasionally and it scrobbles direct from your phone.

What the fuck? I mean home from work

― wood grain, chestnut / cody, CHESNUTT (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:09 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

then it will still be a thread.

I do miss the experience of buying a new album, especially a new release that you've never heard, and ripping off the shrink wrap, opening the gatefold, flipping through the booklet, admiring the artwork, having the lyrics at hand, etc.

huffing the ink

I've been doing that with the Mute box set that was released sometime in the last couple years. Rewarding.

I love huffing at the ink. Remember Pre-Millennium Tension by Tricky being particularly pongy.

I mostly remember it from cassettes, which to be honest was probably mostly the smell of the trapped plastic. The first time I noticed a great smell from a CD was Blackalicious' Nia.

pretty sure a fair portion of my CD/book/magazine-buying habits have to do with tactile experiences that aren't necessarily related to the medium

Elucidate, please?

xpost: My iPhone always scrobbles fine from the Spotify app. Have never needed to use iTunes for iPhone playback.

I sometimes get suckered into buying the physical version of things for additional video content etc and guess how often I actually end up watching the bonus DVDs?

Trying to remember the last time I watched one, not entirely sure that I ever even have

I nearly bought The Drift on vinyl the other day, mostly because I've been a bit obsessed with it lately, but also because listening to it as a digital file feels like trying to trap a demon in a matchbox. I wanted to stare at that dark soupy cover for hours, pull out the black hole from within and hear it as analogue. But then came to my senses and realised playing this outloud within earshot of anyone who isn't expecting it would be trolling on a fundamental level.

With an iPod you're provided with no context, no background, no temporal or tangible reference point or incite into what you're about to hear

love vinyl but its not a bad thing to hear w no context

no interest in cds, dvds, packaging, booklets or any of that

I mean, the artistic medium. Presumably records are for audio, magazines are for words, etc

hard part for me is remembering what exactly happened this year. It's definitely the year I bought a used copy of the beasties' 2CD on a stoop, but is this the year I bought a used record of Paul Revere & The Raiders' Something/Happening while killing time before a wedding in New Orleans? and what about that night i was drunk by a dollar bin, was that 2011?

Gonna go with 2-6.

I can only agree to some extent with the whole "who cares, it's the music that counts" attitude, indeed I used to be a lot more supportive of this train of thought, but I'm really starting to feel exhausted by it. I'm really starting to feel like a big part of my enjoyment of music is influenced by factors other than the simple clinical appreciation of sound.