If the data is digital, and you can buy the writeable disks, you can always burn your own if you really want to back stuff up on a CD, no?

Sales of audio CDs Everything will effectively end in 2012

FTFY

People still buy music?

I can't say I remember the last time I bought a CD, nor have I ever paid a dime for a digital download.

I recently have been buying a lot of vinyl, and it seems to be making some sort of comeback. I appreciate the difference in sound over digital, and I love the physical interaction. It seems that you make better music decisions when actually having to go from album to album, rather than just having a random 20,000 song playlist.

I buy blank CD's and fill them with mixes of music that i actually like to put in my car.

Other then that, CD's are useless and just rot.

DVD's are going the same way with the proliferation of USB drives and SD cards over 4 GB.

/my spindle of blank CD-R's is going to rot before i use them all...

What's CD?

CheddarPants: If it's worth listening to, it will be released on vinyl.

Yeah, we know, the record companies have been making a big push to get people buying vinyl again for the last 5 years or so. Thanks for the arbitrarily timed and more or less irrelevant reminder, I guess.

//I wish I could get someone to pay me to shill for their corporate marketing objectives online, that'd be awesome.

I get music CDs as gifts sometimes.. I rip them to iTunes, and then they collect dust in my bedroom. That's it.

There's a few older albums that I only partially ripped years ago, due to old storage limitations, but I need to go back and get the remaining tracks sometime, if I can find the discs.

The Angry Hand of God: It seems that you make better music decisions when actually having to go from album to album, rather than just having a random 20,000 song playlist.

You do realize you can play entire albums on music players? You can even play the songs in order.

The Sony Mini Disc... The only innovative product I liked which didn't catch on/last. I even bought a player, still have it.

that1guy77: The Sony Mini Disc... The only innovative product I liked which didn't catch on/last. I even bought a player, still have it.

I had a changer in my car late high school/early college - its also when i stopped buying cds when i learned i could just put stuff on MDs.

lilplatinum: that1guy77: The Sony Mini Disc... The only innovative product I liked which didn't catch on/last. I even bought a player, still have it.

I had a changer in my car late high school/early college - its also when i stopped buying cds when i learned i could just put stuff on MDs.

A MD player? Or the MD changer? I almost bought a MD player for my car.

itazurakko: If the data is digital, and you can buy the writeable disks, you can always burn your own if you really want to back stuff up on a CD, no?

Yes, but it won't have the same warmth and space as the original digits.

The Angry Hand of God: I appreciate the difference in sound over digital, and I love the physical interaction.

It was those two things that made me cheer when CDs first came out.

that1guy77: A MD player? Or the MD changer? I almost bought a MD player for my car.

Was a 6 changer, I got a good deal on it although in retrospect I probably should have got a player since it was annoying on long road trips to stop and swap them out.

Audio CD sales end in 2012.....

With production to resume in 2022, due to hipster demand.

This "news" brought to you by a single website who read it on a blog with no confirmation whatsoever from anyone involved.

I just bought a CD yesterday. Found what I was looking for at Wal-Mart. Best of the Jackson 5: 20th Century Masters. Five bucks. Half the price of downloading it.

that1guy77: The Sony Mini Disc... The only innovative product I liked which didn't catch on/last. I even bought a player, still have it.

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so did I. One of the few times I bought a format that didn't go mainstream.

/Which sucks, because they were great little discs.

itazurakko: If the data is digital, and you can buy the writeable disks, you can always burn your own if you really want to back stuff up on a CD, no?

Word. I doubt blank CDs will stop being sold.

I love finding old records at garage/yard/barn/estate sales and digitizing them. I'm old with a house and ample storage space (large basement). Why not?

Just obtained 5,000 freebies from a guy who had to get rid of his, which doubled my collection. 4/5 of them are 78s. I'm combing through them like a gold rush miner panning for gold. It calms my nerves.

/One copy of ODJB's "Livery Stable Blues" and 4 copies of Tex Williams' "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!" so far...

What crap. What utter, utter crap.

The Angry Hand of God: I can't say I remember the last time I bought a CD, nor have I ever paid a dime for a digital download.

I recently have been buying a lot of vinyl, and it seems to be making some sort of comeback. I appreciate the difference in sound over digital, and I love the physical interaction. It seems that you make better music decisions when actually having to go from album to album, rather than just having a random 20,000 song playlist.

Me too. There is just something so satisfying about 'playing records' that digital formats just don't deliver.

RexTalionis: I still buy my music in wax tubes.



"Oh, ffff.... shat"

I picked up a free CD from a local radio station this summer and it was then I realized, this is the first CD I've held in years. I couldn't remember the last time I bought one.

So the Mayans were right? But instead of our world, it's the CD's world that's ending... got it! *whew*

Strange thing : each time I go to my parents, I pay a visit to the local Emmaus (equivalent to Goodwill), to browse for vynil records, especially classical musics. They also have a few CDs, but, I don't, it's not the same thing to me, holding an old vynil record or holding an old CD

And classical records were well taken care of by their former owners.

Jamieboy: There is just something so satisfying about 'playing records' that digital formats just don't deliver.

Yeah. Clicks, pops, and hiss.
I hated vinyl even what that was the best there was.

Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time I put CD in my car stereo. I just plug in my BlackBerry (I subscribed to Slacker Radio....not bad) or listen to satellite radio.
fark CD's. They took up too much space in my center console and I never listened to more than three songs per album anyway.

itazurakko: If the data is digital, and you can buy the writeable disks, you can always burn your own if you really want to back stuff up on a CD, no?

That'd be short-sighted. CD/DVD drives are going obsolete, as well. Best to back things up on pen drives if you want portability.

Ow My Balls: I love finding old records at garage/yard/barn/estate sales and digitizing them. I'm old with a house and ample storage space (large basement). Why not?

Just obtained 5,000 freebies from a guy who had to get rid of his, which doubled my collection. 4/5 of them are 78s. I'm combing through them like a gold rush miner panning for gold. It calms my nerves.

/One copy of ODJB's "Livery Stable Blues" and 4 copies of Tex Williams' "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!" so far...

you're doing a good thing. huge amounts of music are lost with each passing to a new media. a few years from know you can make good retirement coin at music cons & fairs, selling copies to aficionados.

i just realized the whole 'my CD's are antiques' thing weeks ago and having been disposing of them via eBay since then.

/old & not very 'quick' upstairs

and screw recording company labels for extreme greed too. an Elton John fan probably wore out 2 copies of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" on LP Vinyl plus bought another 2 as gifts way back when, at top dollar. Then it was purchased on Audio Cassette. and maybe it broke or was stolen and replaced. Then it was bought on CD. And they still charge top farking dollar the whole time. Making a boatload of millions is fun but when does the customer finally get a break? When? never, that's when.

/don't farking ask "who's elton john"

Excellent. This paves the way --

*KACHUNK*

-- for 8-track's return!