For those of you who have quite a few CDs, but now nearly always download:
Will you bother trying now to sell off your existing CDs? Will you leave them as a record of 80s/90s to early 00s buying? Will you continuing buying CDs selectively alongside downloading, for reasons of completing certain artists or genres?
― paulhw, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
1. Oh, sure. I keep trying to reduce using the rule of 'if I get another CD I sell at least one back if not more.' It helps that I always get some credit at Amoeba, sometimes a surprising amount.
2. I guess? A lot of stuff that would serve as a very honest record is long since purged.
3. Yup, but via taking advantage of their nearly-flat value. Amoeba again is very good for this -- their clearance section is always stuffed with good finds amid the crud, I can pick up an armload for a song (almost literally in some cases).
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
1) Nope or at least not more than I ever did.
2) Uh not exactly.
3) I don't download very much and I still buy CDs and the occassional piece of vinyl.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
am getting it down to about 150 left which i guess i'll keep on shelves for a while before just donating them. they never get played once ripped.
― blueski, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I picture Ned strolling into Amoeba, reciting a few bars of "Englande" and the guys behind the counter just give him a shopping cart and say "go for it."
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Selling them all seems like a daunting and infuriating task, so I'll probably keep them, but only out of laziness.
― John Justen, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, i've got a few boxes of old stuff in the closet that i can't bear to sell for pennies, yet i'm sick of taking them somewhere to have them cherry pick a couple good ones and refuse the rest.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm keeping mine just in case a neutron bomb comes along and fries everyone's hard drives. (but, uh, not the cd players)
also, it's good to have cds around to loan to friends. it's easier than zipping up and uploading an entire album, and while sharing entire hard drives is in theory the best thing to do, it doesn't happen that often
i've never sold cds, so i won't be starting now.
― Billy Pilgrim, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i still buy cds.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
(a) Too much trouble. (b) I suppose, but they serve more of a function than that. (c) Yes.
While downloading is invariably simpler, quicker, cheaper, etc., I'm still a sucker for the tactile artifact. I like liner notes, lyrics, cover art, all that. I'll download stuff I'm curious about, but if I really like it, I'll still buy the disc.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd love to get rid of everything, but i'm just not good enough at backing shit up to trust it.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i wouldn't really part with them unless i had one of those fancy things that lets you use your mp3s on a good stereo, but it's like i just picked u a real nice old NAD cd player for only $30 off craigslist so why bother.
plus yeah like ned said it's gonna be sweet in the next few years, lots of crewsh older stuff for dirt cheap.
although...it is weird seems like some CDs are really picking up in value on ebay, out of print stuff...
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I don't see anything that indicates that rare CDs are any less valuable then they ever were.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I am keeping my cds because I want backups in case I have hard drive failure. Even with two hard drive copies of my music, I prefer to have the backup. Also, I may want to rip at a higher bitrate later once hd prices come down.
― Euler, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to keep my CD's in case I ever need to build a fortress of solitude out of them, Jor-El stylee
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
a) no, except for ones i get sick of. b) no c) i download tracks and sometimes albums, but if i really like what i'm hearing i'll buy it in CD or vinyl form. artwork, liner notes, etc.
i'll never say never though, because maybe someday in the distant future i'll sell everything and have it all digitized.
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm keeping my CDs.
I'm too lazy to sell and also I have a suspicion that some kind of new digital format will emerge (MP5?) that will make MP3s sound tinny and useless, and that I'll want to re-rip my CDs.
― Bob Six, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I still buy cds and vinyl. I will keep them all unless I needed the money. I barely download now, but like always, I still try to buy what I downloaded as long as I liked it.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
im continuing! cd's are beautiful
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
1. No, never. 2. I will keep them as the art objects/media that they are. 3. Until I can buy whole albums from iTunes or Amazon as .wav files, I will continue buying essential CDs.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
A lot of good reasons to hang onto CDs in this thread. I still enjoy cases and liner notes and having a good thing around to throw my disposable income at. In a lot of ways, I also find them easier to store and maintain than digital music, where you need at least two forms of backup and need to keep an organized file/folder structure together if you're going to find stuff easily. Finally, I still can hear the difference between reasonably good-quality CDs and mp3s, and with formats, storage methods, etc. changing frequently keeping CDs around seems like less of a long-term headache.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll still buy a lot, taking advantage of the lower cost and because I like having the little cardboard boxes from Caiman in the post to look forward to after returning from work.
I keep the price stickers on my CDs, and it amazes me just how much I was paying for music in the 90s. £15 - £16 for some CDs was not unusual.
― Bob Six, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
ridic
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
its like 12 bux tops for me now. unless its brand new and too good
I'll continue keeping 100s of cds in a sock drawer which I occasionally pull out for a car ride. I wont sell them. But I oughta clean them all. I hate when a cd skips and I hate how I lost some of my cds even though I dont listen to any of my cds much. But I did lose Roxy Music - The Early Years and Tangerine Dream - Rubycon. I broke Thrakattak. And I can't remember what else at the moment. Kinda sucks. Kinda not.
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Those of you who sell off your CDs, someday your hard drive is gonna fail. If you're lucky, you'll have it backed up to another drive. But then that one could fail as you're trying to dump it to your new hard drive. Then I will point and laugh.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i hate that too, captain -- i'm actually making a list of CD's i have that are too scratched up/missing. i replace a few ever year
it's like i just realized how to properly take care of a cd.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Fastnbulbous accurate enough, which is why the CDs I sell back are the ones I never listen to, or have only heard once and thought, "Nice" and never went back to at all. Ergo, why keep 'em around?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I moved into a new place two months ago and never bothered taking my CDs out of their boxes. I have a few lying around that I've bought recently, but there's no real reason for me to have them out, since the majority are on my iTunes/iPod, anyway.
Back when I started to download albums, I told myself that if I really liked something I downloaded I'd buy it on CD. But then it just seemed silly to go to the trouble of buying it, only to put it on a shelf and forget about it as soon as it was out of its shrink wrap.
Now the albums I buy are the ones I simply can't find online. I don't use p2p, but I can find most major new indie releases on a couple of choice websites or through friends. So what I buy ends up being not necessarily indicative of what I'm really excited about. A lot of times this amounts to used CDs I stumble across and take a chance on.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Those of you who sell off your CDs, someday your hard drive is gonna fail. This is exactly right — CDs have become nothing more than backup.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.sevenoaksart.co.uk/images/record1.gif
― ian, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
1) nah, I'm the kind of person who saves everything 2) ??? 3) I never exclusively bought CDs, it was always a mix of vinyl, cassette (back in the day), or mp3 formats. I see no reason why this will change for me in the near future.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
1) too lazy really - and they're not worth that much anyway 2) never completely stopped buying vinyl, so it's not even an accurate record 3) I''ve bought maybe 6 cds this year and maybe 300 LPs (and some cassettes, second hand for the car)
― sonofstan, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I may want to rip at a higher bitrate later once hd prices come down.
yeah i thought about that. A couple weeks ago I embarked on digitizing my collection, starting with albums I didn't like that much; I ripped ~ 30 cds @ 320 which is fine for those but my main collection I'm probably gonna want to do in flac or whatever for posterity but i haven't done the math on what i'll need for space. I got 2 500G drives on black friday and I was gonna send one back but maybe I won't. than again i've been latched to rhapsody pretty hard lately and soon even the mp3s might be ancillary to how i'm listening to music. so much up in the air.
― tremendoid, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
soon as I'm satisfied with backing up, and keeping the habit, I'm selling all my CDs. I need the space and I need the money.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i've sold all of my cds. still buy vinyl, which i also sell sometimes. while it's impractical, it retains its value better (and escalates in value far more often) and is more 'fun'. sue me
― resolved, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
We still quite frequently pay $25-$35 AUD for some CD albums in this country. And they wonder why ppl use torrents.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
resolved, did you just rip your CDs into FLAC format and keep them on your hard drive or something?
― three handclaps, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i ripped the ones that deserved it to FLAC + mp3 (for ipod), most of them just to variable rate mp3. and then a lot i just sold without bothering.
― resolved, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Will you bother trying now to sell off your existing CDs?
maybe. next year I might be compelled to "monetize" my vinyl collection.
Will you leave them as a record of 80s/90s to early 00s buying?
hate to say it but after sitting there unplayed for awhile they just take up space.
Will you continuing buying CDs selectively alongside downloading, for reasons of completing certain artists or genres?
Barely. I stream music on my computer, listen to old CDs less & less often. CDs/itunes I buy as gifts.
― m coleman, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
First off, CDs are still the primary way i listen to music, and I don't download very often.
1.) I'll hang onto my CDs for a long, long time, until they rot away (none of them have). I stopped selling back CDs a few years ago, because I tend to regret it later on. I used to regularly purge my collection of stuff if I hadn't played it in awhile, but there are too many CDs that I'm kicking myself now for selling then.
Plus, it always killed me when I tried to sell stuff that I knew was of really high musical quality or that someone would love to have, and the clerk would offer a pathetic couple of bucks (usually less!) for it. Most used stores never offer very much for CDs, and now when I think about it, the best offer I've ever received (about $3 for a CD, not common at all) is just not worth it to me. I'd rather hang on to the album, sorry, then take your 50 cents.
2. I'll keep my CDs as much more than just a record of this particular time, as they have fucking music on them!!
3. I'll probably buy CDs for quite a while. As others have mentioned, there are so many good finds on used CDs right now, it's great. So much stuff that I would never expect to find in used shops. It's only going to get better over the next few years, too.
― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Newbury Comics usually gives about $3 per CD.
― three handclaps, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
1) No - mainly because CDs are not worth much now, particularly when trying to trade them in at a record store.
2) Most of the CDs I listen to regularly have been ripped now, but I'll keep them as a backup and also because of the possibilty of ripping in higher quality formats/higher bitrates later.
3) I still buy CDs sometimes but nowhere near as often as I used to - I've gone from half a dozen a week in 2001 to a couple a month now. But if I see a box set at a cheap price I'll probably buy it.
― snoball, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never had a hard drive die on me ever before. Meanwhile in that time a lot of my records and CDs got damaged in a flood. Life's funneee.
― blueski, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder how homeowner's insurance would cover a hard drive filled with burned FLACs. Are you just screwed or could you reasonably claim the full value of replacing them on iTunes or whatever?
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i sold them on amazon btw, the run of the mill ones at least. you get a lot more money that way if you're prepared to go to spend an hour going packing/going to the post office every few days.
― resolved, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post but when your hd dies it's all gone. and the probability is much higher than all your cds being destroyed at once...
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
word. i'm still reeling from getting over £30 for a tatty Sasha & Digweed CD. xp
what is with you hd-failure doomsayers? you have to fuck a hd up pretty bad before the data on it is completely irretrievable.
― blueski, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh I'm just curious from an insurance standpoint. Like what if someone broke into your house and stole your HD. Can you only claim the HD or could you reasonably claim the cost of replacing the MP3s (I just talked to my boss-a former underwriter--and he's gonna find out for me)?
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
once i had a hd which seemed perfectly ok. but suddenly it crashed. it had been formatted a couple of megabytes too high. when i reached the limit it was all over.
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
When I was still growing up, several miles away (like a quick and easy 10 minute drive) there was an intersection with a Borders and Barnes & Noble, and if I couldn't find a new album at the library, I'd end up at either of those stores and listened to what I was looking for at one of their listening stations. Totally pointless now but before high-quality music streaming was a reality, it was awesome. Easily my favorite stores to visit, kind of amazing there used to be places like that all over the country and now they're pretty much gone. I think Fopp in the UK and maybe some stores in Japan are comparable, albeit without the books, magazines and the Starbucks inside.
― birdistheword, Monday, 29 April 2024 19:49 (four months ago) link
did anybody here ever order from cheap-cds.com (maybe without the dash) in the 90s? great prices, cheap shipping, extremely bare bones fast minimal user interface, black courier font formatted on white background
― brimstead, Monday, 29 April 2024 19:55 (four months ago) link
I might've but can't remember. I remember a lot of CD shops online like that in the '00s. My favorite was one in the UK that was my introduction to imports - it was surprisingly affordable to buy direct from them since the exchange rate was good and shipping rates were much cheaper then. (They eventually got bought out by HMV.)
― birdistheword, Monday, 29 April 2024 20:23 (four months ago) link
RIP CDbaby
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 29 April 2024 20:29 (four months ago) link
anecdotally, my local record store has been selling more CDs lately than they have in decades...
as someone who loves buying vinyl, it's really disheartening to walk into almost every record store now and see nothing i want to buy for the money they're asking. it's akin to the baseball card boom circa the late '80s/early '90s, when the new cards for suddenly hot-shit players were going for $50 apiece, and sports card dealers were starting to only deal w/collector scum or price speculating newbies. i'm not saying you won't get more bang for your buck from a Lana Del Rey record vs a David Justice rookie card, but i feel like it's making a lot of people quit the game in the same way, what you get from the hobby isn't worth the cost anymore. and therefore CDs are the cheap and frequently higher quality path to hearing so much music.
however i've got rules, there are some things i'm always and forever buying on vinyl.
― omar little, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:16 (four months ago) link
used vinyl in many stores isn't worth the trouble, but new stuff from indie labels still falls somewhere from $14 to the low twenties, so that's what I buy (and used CDs, where they have them). I don't touch the (mostly major label) new stuff that's over $30 for a single lp.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:28 (four months ago) link
I listen to vinyl because I like the way 50s and 60s records sound on vinyl.
The new stuff scares me, though. I saw a Kiss hits record at WalMart for 30 bucks. I wouldn't sit through an entire Kiss record on vinyl, CD or anything. I'm a singles/ mixes person.
― Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Monday, 29 April 2024 21:30 (four months ago) link
I buy a decent number of CDs these days, and it feels funny that the reasons are the exact same ones I started buying some vinyl in the 90s. It's a cheap way to access stuff that's non-available or stupidly expensive on streaming/vinyl. (It'd be cheaper and easier to do a digital archive, I know, but I worry if I started I'd have the urge to stockpile every last thing I'd ever liked, and that's not what I want. I want to patronize stores and find things I care about and have them sitting out reminding me they exist.) Instead of old vinyl in the bottom bin costing 10-20% of what a new CD did, now the old CDs down there cost a tenth of what new vinyl does. Instead of records opening up a world of 60s/70s albums that never really hit any other format (exotica! forgotten funk!), now CDs open up something similar for the 90s/00s (IDM compilations! forgotten experimental!). Even the process of looking through used CDs in a store feels like looking at records used to, where everything's basically just a few dollars and you never know what treasure you'll find -- whereas over in the vinyl bins the excitement of finding something fun tends to be immediately deflated by looking at the price. I still buy both, but if I want something for listening purposes and the record is $50, I would absolutely rather take ten $5 CDs, I'm ... not not an idiot, but still
― ን (nabisco), Monday, 29 April 2024 21:32 (four months ago) link
Just went to give the +/- 180 CDs to the book shop with the vinyl-only music section, but the owner wasn't there at the moment. Will try again tomorrow.
But as a CD nerd, I'm excited that I'm going to roughly double their selection, and instantly giving them a whole quite decent CD selection, preparing for the coming Gen Z music geeks who dig CDs because vinyl has become a stupid expensive gimmick as per posts above...
― Soundslike, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:40 (four months ago) link
My Target sells the Swift stuff that omar little mentioned plus a few archival vinyl things like Abbey Road, The Dark Side of the Moon, and, of course, Rumours (maybe the most popular of all).
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2024 21:41 (four months ago) link
i'm glad i live somewhere where used vinyl is still affordable! all my pals who have stores have awesome prices. well, byron has crazy prices but he's selling crazy stuff. even he has really great used CD prices and even bargains in his new arrivals. i sell a lot of CDs. in my store and online. i've been lucky to have a good source for the last couple of years. i feel like i've always sold a lot of used CDs and i've been around for 15 years. new vinyl. yeah, what are you gonna do? just support labels and bands you like online. buy their vinyl on bandcamp or on their websites. that way they get all the money.
― scott seward, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:50 (four months ago) link
if I want something for listening purposes and the record is $50, I would absolutely rather take ten $5 CDs
NABISCO OTM
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 29 April 2024 21:51 (four months ago) link
Isn't a lot of stuff that's on Criterion in the US on some other imprint, like Arrow, in the UK?― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 29 April 2024 18:58 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 29 April 2024 18:58 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
BFI release a good bit of it.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Monday, 29 April 2024 21:52 (four months ago) link
Arrow do great sales a couple of times a year, too. In fact I picked up a few things in their Easter sale a few weeks ago.
By the by, 4K Blu-rays are region-free, which makes collecting a whole lot easier.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 29 April 2024 21:58 (four months ago) link
did anybody here ever order from cheap-cds.com (maybe without the dash) in the 90s?
I bought a lot of CDs from that site, one of the first online stores I ever used
― Brad C., Monday, 29 April 2024 21:59 (four months ago) link
I'm really trying to stock up on a lot of electronic music I like before they're no longer available anywhere. Nabisco otm about that genre, there are so many compilations and DJ mixes which have zero presence in the world except on used cds, if you're lucky enough to find them, or maybe a YouTube video upload, which may or may not stay up there forever.
― omar little, Monday, 29 April 2024 22:16 (four months ago) link
Pulled me up short to think back and realise that the only physical CD I’ve bought in the last 2 years was a small/local thing from a shop in Tokyo, March 2023. I haven’t been 12 months without buying a CD since 1987.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 29 April 2024 22:34 (four months ago) link
One upshot about expensive vinyl is that it’s made it easier to buy nice gifts for people. There was a long stretch where getting music for anyone I know wasn’t going to be met with an enthusiastic response, but now I can just buy a brand-new reissue of an album they like that they otherwise coveted but didn’t want to splurge on.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:57 (four months ago) link
just to give you an idea of the allovertheplaceness of what i sell online when it comes to CDs. these are some from this week. all $10 and under except for the KLF which was $35.
Ken Nordine - Colors: A Sensuous Listening Experience
Jontavious Willis - Spectacular Class
Catherine Russell - Inside This Heart Of Mine
Adrian Belew - Op Zop Too Wah
Roberta Flack - First Take
Stratovarius - Elements Pt.2
Meredith Monk - Turtle Dreams
Bob Martin - Midwest Farm Disaster
The KLF - Chill Out
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:24 (four months ago) link
Turtle Dreams is so good, almost as good as Dolmen Music
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:38 (four months ago) link
That Ken Nordine is classic!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:40 (four months ago) link
I went to the local used record store yesterday to patch some holes in my Reprise-era Sinatra, and I had the choice between a VG vinyl copy of September of My Years for $20 or used CDs of September of My Years, That's Life, Sinatra-Basie, and It Might as Well Be Swing for a grand total of $13. I went with the 4 CDs.
― o. nate, Monday, 6 May 2024 15:12 (three months ago) link
September of my years for $20!
I kind of thought Frank was one of the reliable holdouts as far as cheap vinyl, him and emmylou and Poco and Stephen stills or Graham Nash or stills and Nash
― omar little, Monday, 6 May 2024 15:16 (three months ago) link
*crosby and Nash!
― omar little, Monday, 6 May 2024 15:17 (three months ago) link
Yeah, I'm no longer shocked to see that kind of stuff for $20, it's par for the course now at my local record store. They have a copy of Fleetwood Mac Rumours on the wall for $50! I mean its in great condition, but those used to be always under $10.
― o. nate, Monday, 6 May 2024 15:18 (three months ago) link
Rumours will always be a dollar bin record in my mind
― Slim is an Alien, Monday, 6 May 2024 15:24 (three months ago) link
I sell Rumours for $20. that has been my set price for the last 5 years or so. Tapestry I sell for $10. they have to be VERY clean though. but what the hell things change. you know? people still come in and think ECM jazz records are going to be a dollar. I have to tell them that it is not 1992. ELO prices have gone up. I have noticed. Out Of The Blue can be $20 now.
People don't want Tusk for $20 though. which is SAD. its worth its weight in gold.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:18 (three months ago) link
i thought the Rumours frenzy would have gone away by now but it really hasn't. i could sell a hundred copies a year if i had a hundred. i still stop myself from buying new copies wholesale for $20 though. i don't know why. i could totally sell a new copy for $30. just feels wrong...
― scott seward, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:20 (three months ago) link
a profit is not without honor, they say
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Monday, 6 May 2024 16:24 (three months ago) link
I hate digisleeves, I almost don’t even want to bother buying a cd released this way
― brimstead, Monday, 6 May 2024 19:34 (three months ago) link
specifically the small ass ones with no gatefold
― brimstead, Monday, 6 May 2024 19:35 (three months ago) link
ditto. as someone who typically stores CDs on a bookshelf, my policy is no spine, no sale
of course, the artist or label gets the last laugh because if I want it bad enough I'll just buy a vinyl copy at 3x the price instead
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 6 May 2024 19:37 (three months ago) link
― scott seward,
I read on Medium a few years ago a record store owner claim that he could pay his rent on how many copies he sells of Rumours monthly.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 May 2024 19:46 (three months ago) link
I think someone said it here before but Rumours is a great barometer record for a store. If it's $20 and in nice shape you can generally extrapolate that the store itself will be reasonable on the whole. And yeah, we sell them within 24hrs of putting them out, easily, without fail. But, like scott said, it's a bummer that the Rumours tide has not lifted Tusk at all. Perfect album, just sits and sits.
― fasmackhead, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 13:49 (three months ago) link
The new Jessica Pratt CD is particularly disappointing, not only one of the thinnest digisleeves I've ever seen but the CD itself was thin too! Borderline CDR. Going to think twice about buying a CD from Mexican Summer in the near future.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 13:52 (three months ago) link
I thought this piece a touching analysis of the Fleetwood Mac phenomenon:
https://slate.com/culture/2024/04/fleetwood-mac-stevie-nicks-rumours-taylor-swift-stereophonic-daisy-jones.html
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 13:53 (three months ago) link
Old man question here: what’s the deal with all of the odd sized packaging for what I assume is k-pop cds? There’s a section of this at Barnes & Noble and Target, and all of the random sizes stress me out, as a person that wants uniform packaging.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:00 (three months ago) link
the digisleeve thing really needs to end
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:56 (three months ago) link
I like them. They are more like vinyl lp packaging. Lighter and less bulky than jewel boxes or digipaks. no plastic to break and clog landfills. I hate when the spindle breaks in a digipak and it won't hold a CD.The spines are legible if they are not packed too tight.I prefer when there's an inner sleeve as well so sometimes I add a paper sleeves.
― bryan, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 16:51 (three months ago) link
if it’s a nice mofi miniLP style digisleeve sure, yes, but no the other kind just give off cheap “random friend’s vanity project” vibes to me and the CDs get scratched because they’re too small to fit any inner sleeves inside.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 17:02 (three months ago) link
go past his blahblahblah to 9:54 when he puts the needle down. sounds awesome! i do have really nice speakers in my bedroom though. but still. sounds awesome. i'm convinced that's a $2,000 turntable with $368,000 worth of gold on it though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBCnoVlFLDY
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 04:29 (three months ago) link
i'm gonna throw away my records and just make CDrs of youtube videos. sounds way better than Spotify. don't know about Tidal.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 04:30 (three months ago) link
Wow. I can't believe how obviously the quality of the LP and system come through on a YouTube video. The soundstage was instantly there and everything is smooth and lush..Thank you for the experience.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 05:14 (three months ago) link
Whooooffff! Superb sound, easily noticeable even on YouTube. Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't heard it. All the high detail but no sibilance, weighty and detailed lows. Best I've ever heard and I'm a SD fan. Excellent review.
my barometer for used vinyl had been (until lets dance jumped up several years back) the 80s bowie records.
my new one is randy newman.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 05:46 (three months ago) link
obviously this is the best comment:
"GEEEEEZ! Porcaro is da epitome of perfection punch and subtle nuance dynamics and leads the energy like driving the song like a bus steady as she goes"
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 12:07 (three months ago) link
or maybe this is:
"i like your humor, greetings from switzerland"
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 12:09 (three months ago) link
i don't know how all the audiophile/classic rock dweebery hasn't killed my enjoyment for steely dan. they must be unkillable. i can talk about SD here on ilx and NOWHERE else. like, the very idea of a real life discussion fills me with fear, loathing, dread, hate, etc. even on social media. they are an asshat magnet for sure. and i do feel for the people who hate them. people probably should hate them.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 12:21 (three months ago) link
Same, the fucking virus of awful Steely Dan internet meme joke crap hasn’t diminished my love either
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 13:52 (three months ago) link