I buy approximately 3 CDs a year.
I have never bought music for download.
The end.
:smack: I bought that many today.
:dubious: How so?
I’ve done both, CDs and iTunes. Mostly I’ll want to buy the entire album, and Amazon typically sells them for $10, the same as iTunes, with free shipping. Since I have to write them to CD anyway to play them in my car it is more convenient to just order the CD from Amazon. And the CD looks nicer too!
Downloads exclusively making sure I back up the music to a 2nd hard drive in case of disaster (2100 tracks would be a pain to replace).
I only buy DRM-free music however, which eliminates ITunes.
I buy CDs, as I do not trust spinning disks of metal.
And every sound card I have ever had self-destructed.
That, too.
Exactly. I have a bunch of CDs but only one or two songs on each are good songs. I love technology, I only wish I’d been born about 20 years after I actually was (I’m 49), so I could take full advantage of the technology that’s bound to come our way over the next 50+ years!
I try to buy the CD is at all possible, and then copy the tracks from them. However, that is a waste for CDs with only one or two good songs on them–those I download.
Just 2 days ago, my 2nd hard drive died on my computer. poof 40GB of music turned into aluminum slag. I hadn’t backed up for a couple of years and I know I’ve lost some good stuff
Back up those files!
It’s been a couple months since I’ve bought a physical CD and that was off of Half.com and the CD was $1. I usually use iTunes and just signed up for eMusic this past weekend as I couldn’t find what I wanted on iTunes. eMusic is going to be happy new home as the deal is pretty good (75 songs a month for $20) and it actually had the music I was looking for. (I couldn’t find Ferron, Jack Sheldon, Dawn Tyler Watson, and Martha’s Trouble on iTunes).
I think I’m going to do a back-up this weekend as this thread has made me realize I oughta.
CDs preferentially, though I do some downloading. As others have said, if you own the CD, you own the music. No risk of losing your download to a disk crash (yeah I know, backups are the key and we do do that).
I like getting the liner notes, which most downloaded music does not have - some iTunes albums include a PDF of the liner notes, but that’s the exception rather than the rule.
Unless it’s massively less expensive to buy the download than to buy the disk, of course, but most are just a couple dollars more for the CD rather than the download (and with Amazon Prime shipping is “free”). Every now and then, the CD is quite a lot more at Amazon and I’ll download. Or I’m trying out a new artist’s stuff and don’t care if I get the liner notes.
I guess I’ll be the lone voice for subscription music. For the price of one CD per month, I get all I want. If the hard disk dies, I just download the tracks again. It’s great if you like to try new music, you can download entire albums from unknown artists for no additional cost. Plus, I can access and stream my music and playlists from any computer, and load the music on a mp3 player.
This from a guy who has hundreds of old CD’s that I never listen to anymore. The price of those CD’s would pay my subscription fee for years.
Oh yeah, 160 or 192 kpbs files. Decent to good quality.
I’m starting to resent the idea of having to store the CD and case. It’s just going on the ipod anyway. But sometimes older albums are cheaper to buy on half.com on CD, so I still do that sometimes.
Email me.
Let’s make a deal. 