The CD Thread: Still Listen On Disc, Don't Stream

[E.H. Ruddock]

I've broken out what CDs I have left and have been enjoying listening to them lately. I got rid of a bulk of my collection a while ago, but held on to many of my favorite artists. Recently while browsing vinyl, I shopped the store's used CD collection and found a lot of good stuff that was much more affordable. I've really toned down my vinyl buying lately, even the used stuff is so expensive now. Anyone else still listen to these shiny little discs, or have you just moved to streaming?

My most recent purchase was a copy of this for $4 last weekend.

[VinylGuy]

i still have all my cds but i dont buy them anymore. I did buy the Dead Man Walking soundtrack because of the dvd and i would get some PJ boots for sure. Maybe ill start to look for them like you did.

And fuck those boots are great.

[wease]

I still listen to CDs sometimes. I don’t stream at all. I still have 2-3 mp3 players and my iPhone is loaded with tunes. So that’s where most of my listening comes from.

[Buby]

Oh boy, I also parted ways with my CD collection about 6 months ago, but kept most of my PJ stuff and absolute faves as long as the condition was mint.
Kinda hard because not all music I want to own gets a vinyl release.
Great prices even on Amazon these days. This year while browsing I added Lazaretto for $3.95.

[dad]

I purged my CD collection about ten years ago save for the PJ bootlegs I have. I don't have a dedicated CD player, but I'm sure I could find one for a decent price. I do miss playing them.

[Simple Torture]

I don’t know if I have any devices besides my Xbox that can even play CDs (and I’m not even 100% sure it can). But I do have a huge box of them somewhere.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I don’t know if I have any devices besides my Xbox that can even play CDs (and I’m not even 100% sure it can). But I do have a huge box of them somewhere.

give them to me

[Kevin Davis]

Anyone else still listen to these shiny little discs, or have you just moved to streaming?

I do stream, and occasionally download, and more occasionally play vinyl, but I still listen primarily to (and still buy) CD's. I've just always liked them. With streaming I am so tempted to skip around, and much quicker to turn off things that don't excite me right away (which is my issue, not the format's, but still). Vinyl seems expensive and unreliable. CD's just feel like the right mid-point for me, though I am sure that is down to having grown up with them.

[bart]

I’ll occasionally listen to my old cds on my Blu-ray player but haven’t bought a new one since probably 2013. Doubt I’ll buy a new release physically ever again. Vinyl for modern releases is mostly an expensive game of pretend since everything is recorded and/or mastered digitally anyway

[Simple Torture]

I don’t know if I have any devices besides my Xbox that can even play CDs (and I’m not even 100% sure it can). But I do have a huge box of them somewhere.

give them to me

My Pearl Jam bootlegs were already starting to degrade in 2010, I can’t imagine what they look like now.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[LoathedVermin72]

This thread is pissing me off

wait until you find out that I do all of my at-home music listening via my phone over a Bluetooth speaker

[Buby]

This thread is pissing me off

wait until you find out that I do all of my at-home music listening via my phone over a Bluetooth speaker

Don't we all? I mean, at least that's my morning "on the go" routine.
Shuffle the mp3 library from my phone to the bluetooth speaker.

[dad]

this is probably making trag dizzy.

[Buby]

this is probably making trag dizzy.

When I'm feeling hoity-toity, I run to the turntable, put on a movie soundtrack like Guardians of the Galaxy, and pair the turntable with the bluetooth speaker.

[tragabigzanda]

[Kalevi]

85% CD, 10 percent vinyl (amps are broken now though so this is higher in good times, maybe 10% more), 3 % download, 2 % youtube

[spike]

I haven’t had a way to listen to a CD for years even if I wanted to.

[Higgs]

I haven’t had a way to listen to a CD for years even if I wanted to.

Pick up the CD case and study it while you listen to the album on Spotify?

[Happy Trees]

It's funny how people forget that vinyl was declared passé in 1985 (for legit reasons), but everyone was told to throw them away and a lot of people did.

Now it's the opposite. Vinyl is cool and sounds warm and analog, and CD's are passé. Nothing going on there. Yes, Pearl Jam bought into this bullshit, and then proceeded to press vinyl from shitty CD masterings as if they knew what was going on, as people play them on their half-ass setups and jag themselves into infinity.

Informed scrutiny reveals that vinyl is easy to make in small runs and then majorly overcharge for, and they can put it in CD box sets as filler whether you like it or not to double the price, which most people will gladly pay. "Record Store Day" is also an ironic way to brainwash people into accepting this while picking their pockets at the expense of rare, desirable music that isn't made available digitally.

And as a digital platform, streaming and downloading has no manufacturing costs and record companies get most of the revenue because older recording artists have no clauses or overlooked the future and cannot collect the royalties they deserve.

But get with the times, Grandpa.