#21

I’ve just got used to ditching CDs don’t force me to start streaming rather than downloading. Not a fan of this notion.

#22

Surprised to see so much loyalty here to vinyl. I am probably one of the oldest members here (born 1949), and of course all my early listening was on vinyl, but I have never felt any loyalty to it, not since CDs became available.

I do miss the full size covers of the ones with good artwork, but it’s not that big a deal for me. In the early days of CDs many of the CD reissues of vinyl albums were severely lacking in the presentation department, but these days many musicians have woken up to the fact that their fans expect better and are putting out CDs presented in an attractive and interesting package. As for that canard about vinyl giving a better reproduction of the original sound, that MAY be true the first couple of times the disc is played (not all audiophiles are even convinced of this), but it’s certainly not the case after a few playings. Add to that the need for careful storage and cleaning, the pain of transporting them, and the fact that you need a dedicated device (a turntable) to hear them, I have no desire to go back to vinyl.

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#23

I got rid of all my CDs. My CD player stopped working and my new iMac didn’t have a CD drive. I have tons of vinyl which I started buying when I was 12 onwards. I prefer putting a record on a turntable to putting a CD into a slot. I don’t know why. It just feels more right to me. I stream on my computer while working. I listen to downloads on my phone while on the bus/train.

#24

Do you have all your CDs ripped or are you dependent on them being available on streaming?

#25

I ripped the songs that I wanted to keep for listening to while travelling via my phone and put the ones which are on 45 rpm singles onto my Discogs wants list.

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#26

Just stream

#27

Heh fair enough, different things work for different people. I think the whole “vinyl sounds better than cd” thing is problematic because there are so many different factors that can affect it :how good is your needle, how often do you change it, what kind of cd player and amp are you using? I know that, for me on my set up, the turntable sounds much better than streaming and cds, but not everyone will have that experience or whatever.

#28

Listen via my iPhone to MP3’s on it rather than stream.
Listen via iTunes on my MacBook.
Listen via Compact Disc.
Listen via Spotify (free) on my MacBook.
Listen via vinyl.
Listen via cassette.

In that order.

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#29

I do think the Compact Disc is due a renaissance and believe me I have aways disliked that medium. The sound quality on CD is however fantastic and these things go, nostalgia wise - generationally. Plus more and more CD’s are being released in a more attractive format such as mimicking the actual vinyl release with card sleeves, etc. If the clickity cases go I’ll collect more and find myself looking more at CD’s than vinyl in record shops due to cost, plus they go for next to nothing in charity shops and I’d always pick up a £1 CD of say Nevermind as it’s criminal to leave it there at that price even if it’s just to give it away.

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#30

I have to say that I DJ quite a bit, in bars, clubs and gigs. And I prefer to do that with seven inch vinyl singles. So that does affect the way that I buy music. Listening to music while working or while at home is a different thing - I often listen to podcasts, but that’s with the intention and desire to hear things that are new to me.

#31

I don’t stream. Download and Vinyl for me. Streaming will only take off when data packages aren’t as restrictive. Plus if I want to listen to a bootleg I can’t get it on a streaming service.

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#32

Bit of a mixture. Mostly everything I buy is on CD, then MP3/download if that’s the only way to get it. Got a few tapes kicking about and some vinyl which I’m slowly building on.

Not really keen on streaming, use free Spotify sparingly, but I’d rather not as I found I wasn’t really listening to anything properly and it was just…a bit shit? Didn’t absorb anything properly, it was too easy if that makes sense. Plus, never feels like I “own” anything or support the artist properly.

I like the idea of a collection. One of my best mates has loads and loads of CDs and I was round his last week for a few beers and we spent all evening just talking about his collection, listening to stuff, having a dance, claiming Clutch were the “best band ever” and it was brilliant. Couldn’t do that with Spotify. Well, I mean, you could, but it would be fucking soulless.

I do love bandcamp though, it’s the best.

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#33

This is a good regime which I guess I also follow.

One exception though - I buy Drag City stuff cause it’s STILL not on the ol’ Spotify.

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#34

Yep. I love going into my record collection room and just looking through, pulling out singles etc. Also with many of them, because they are physical objects I can remember the ‘story’ behind them. The shop, gig whatever I bought it.

I have always listened to dance music and went clubbing a lot in the 90s. So basically the 12 inch is the tool for this. Mind you, the DJs I know don’t miss carrying around hundreds of them and are happy to DJ from MP3s these days.

#35

DJing from MP3s? A while back this club I was at had two DJs, me and one other. The other one was ended early by the promoter because the sound was terrible - she was playing MP3s. I took over and played my vinyl and, he told me later, she went to the sound engineer after one or two of my tracks and complained to him: “What have you done to make him sound better?!”

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#36

Or at least some kind of stylus based tablet

#37

They may be MP3, or WAVs, I dunno. But digital anyway. I assume they are decent quality as they are out regularly. I am being sloppy with my terminology.

#38

I also end up buying a disproportionate amount of drag city stuff because of absence on Spotify/emusic. I assume it works for them as a business model
(as in they bring in more money not being on Spotify) but I guess you have to have a pretty strong roster (and big balls) to do that.

I think it’s them that don’t (or at least didn’t) put download cards in woth the vinyl (which is just ridiculous obviously).

#39

download a fair bit, to listen on my mp3 player
nice to have the spontaneity that spotify allows though
also buy cds quite a lot but not as much as i used to now they rarely seem to come with proper lyrics booklets :frowning:

#40

Streaming first by miles, then records and very, very occasionally a CD. Haven’t listened to a download in years.