#21

I thought about doing a similar thread the other day! My main birthday present is going to be a CD/DVD storage unit and I’m so so so excited to have one unit for all my CDs in alphabetical order.

Will share some of my recent buys in a bit (although sadly I can’t say some of them were that cheap). I am really sad when Bandcamp stuff isn’t available as a CD and Doja Cat’s Hot Pink is inexplicably only available in CD format in Japan, although if you’re willing to pay Jeff Bezos £24 for it you can get it in the UK. When I have everything I need for my flat, I will almost certainly buy it :grimacing:

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#22

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My cd purchases this year so far. Not finding the new CDs to be particularly cheap at the moment though. Especially as I try to be a bit more conscious of where I buy them from and avoid Amazon if possible.

Babybird - a new release of unreleased lo-fi songs. Bandcamp, £12
Loney dear - new album via Normanrecords, £11.49
The Notwist - new album from Normanrecords, but most Morr Music albums seem a bit pricey, £12.53
CEO - old album that’s not on Spotify, and I loved his album after this one, on sale at Norman for £3.15
Soap&skin - a couple of years old, but I had bought it on vinyl at the time, Norman, bargain price of £3.99 so would be rude to not buy it.

I think I mostly just get CDs of older bands that I love and already have a collection of CDs by, and so I want to continue that collection. Other artists I seem to mostly just buy downloads for now, seeing as I don’t actually play my CDs. Unless they have some amazing packaging or its limited edition or something like that.

#23

Might flog all my nu metal CDs to the 90s obsessed goldsmiths students up the road

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#24

I got rid of all my cds just before the bottom fell out of the cd market (I mean I was still only get a tiny fraction of what I spent on about 900 albums) because it seemed so pointless to buy a cd, put it on iTunes and then have a bit of plastic cluttering up the place. Not sure if I did the right thing.

Flogged all my vinyl too and most of it was unplayed and from pretty limited runs (some of it was my brother’s old, slightly battered punk stuff). Kind of wish I’d kept the vinyl and not just because I didn’t really get much for it. But realistically it would just be taking up space and not being played.

Now given in to streaming and I’m not a fan. Can’t swim against the tide forever, I guess.

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#25

Don’t do it mate, you’ll never forgive yourself. That collection belongs in a museum if anything

#26

I’ve never stopped buying CDs as I can’t afford a decent record player and my car has a CD player. Tend to buy a lot of albums from Bandcamp and burn them to CD. Might start making my own album covers for storage.

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#27

Not one but TWO copies of the Murderdolls debut

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#28

I’d… better not take a photo of all the CDs I’ve bought so far in 2021 or I might realise I have a problem or something. I have the same Baby Bird album and I haven’t actually gotten round to listening to it yet…

#29

Tend to either buy CDs if I really like an album, or it’s not on Spotify. This year, got the Dry Cleaning album, a Silver Sun EP and the first Imperial Teen album (which I have on cassette from 20 odd years ago, but no working tape player).

Love streaming for being able to hear so much without commitment, but still a nicer experience putting a CD on the hi-fi, I find.

Contemplating getting some CD wallets for the bulk of my collection though, take up loads of space.

#30

Think this is one point I struggle with tbh.
When I started buying records in the early 00s the vinyl was usually the same price if not actually cheaper than the CD at the time.
New 7"s were all a quid or at a push £2 for fancy gatefold 7s.
This was when vinyl sales were at their nadir.
If anything I would think with the surge in popularity of vinyl that the economy of scale should be in full force now really as even indie labels would be pressing in higher quantities now.
Also I get that in 15/20 years the cost of an LP may go up due to inflation but I’m baffles as to how a 7" can have 15x its cost price in the same time.
I think the capacity issues are maybe not helping and also manufacturing costs and label greed will not have helped.

#31

Feel like the standard price for a new CD has drifted back above a tenner again which is disappointing

#32

I am 100% blaming Brexit in the UK. Feels like everything has slowly crept up about 20-25% more expensive since 2016. I know it massively affected import prices even before we officially left the EU.

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#33

I’ve got the Pet Shop Boys singles comp on at the moment, I absolutely wouldn’t have had the patience to stick with a Spotify playlist of their stuff because the pull of other stuff is too great.

Disappointingly the disc doesn’t come with ‘Go West’ which I love

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#34

I’ve never felt the need to stop buying CDs. They cost a couple of quid more than the download, so I have the CD for the big stereo (CD/amp/speakers cost £550 over 20 years ago, still good as new), and I digitise them for being on the move. I really don’t get vinyl fetishism. Costs a fortune, takes up all the space and yes they sometimes look great… but then you file them on the shelf. You’re not just staring at them all day.

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#35

What do people think is a fair price for a CD? I’m not sure I know. Personally, I have stopped buying them, but still pay anything between £5 and £30 for a download from Bandcamp or the artists website and don’t really have a problem with paying what an artist wants to charge.

I did this. Big fan. No longer have a CD player but it’s nice to flip through the wallets sometimes and remind yourself of things you’ve not played in ages. It’s a completely different way of browsing music and I do quite miss it.

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#36

What do you do with the boxes?

#37

Weird isn’t as they are one of those products where, in the UK at least, the cost can often seem really random. New or newish releases often £4-6 on Amazon, old stuff in supermarkets for a few quid, then randomly other releases will be £15-20.

In Italy most cds are not much cheaper than vinyl - €20 to €25

Personally think €10 for the download, €15 for cd and €20 for vinyl is fine.

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#38

Put them in the recycling bin.

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#39

Yeah, I think that’s about right. Although I am ok with forking out a bit more for smaller artists - feel like they’re more reliant on it, and it’s possibly helping them make more music in the future.

Seems to have become a bit of a ‘thing’ in indie hip hop - lots of artists charging $30-40 for a release, some pricing well over $100. Although I do wonder how much they actually make from that.

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#40

Anything under a tenner really, feels pretty standard but it’s creeping up a couple of quid lately

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