No, not at all. Like strawberries you are best to get them as soon after picking as possible. Buying cherries and strawberries out of local season always means you are compromising in some way (either through quality - the variety is grown for robustness rather than taste, or through price - the best ones cost a fortune)
I prefer to wait until they are ready locally and then tuck in cheaply.
If cherries doubled in price, I’d bitch. But still buy them.
If bananas doubled in price, assuming it caught my eye, I’d buy cherries instead.
Not only that, there is a major difference from bananas: cherries must be picked ripe (or nearly so) and so are much more delicate and easily damaged before reaching the consumer.
Bananas are mostly picked green, shipped that way, and stored (sometimes for lengthy periods) in produce warehouse lockers still green. Then, through control of the temperature & atmosphere in the locker, the bananas are triggered to ripen just before they are delivered to stores, and then must be sold & used within a few days.
Apparently, being picked green & stored that way for a while before being ripened does not affect the taste of bananas. Or that’s the ‘banana’ taste consumers are used too – most will never taste a freshly-picked, tree-ripened banana. (I don’t know if that taste is different.)
This year, I finally figured out I was fairly secure financially. If I saw cherries, I bought them. The biggest bag they had. And I didn’t care about the price one bit as I sat down and ate the entire bag in a sitting. (Yes, interesting things happen to your digestion when you eat 2# of cherries at one sitting… but it was worth it)
It is.
I’ve only had fresh picked ones a few times, but they were much sweeter, with a stronger flavour and a nicer texture- though some may well have been a different variety to the normal cavendish, as they weren’t from commercial farms (one bunch was actually from my Mum’s banana plant in the greenhouse, in Northern England).
I’m not normally much of a fan of plain bananas, I tend to mostly use them for cooking, but fresh picked ripe ones are lovely.
Ok so not only is the process of picking cherries awesome, but it’s also pretty awesome that a Doper recently made a video on the subject and the need for such a video came up! Good work! 
Presumably, some consumers are willing to pay more for a fresh picked lovely ripe banana. Interesting how some fruits occupy the premium, freshly shipped niche (cherry) and some occupy the low-end, longer shelf-life niche (bananas, apples).
I made a pie with canned tart cherries a few months back. Damn thing cost me $20. Yummy, though.
Most grocery stores I see carry Oregon brand canned cherries: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ps9DFmiJL._SY300_.jpg
I’ve purchased frozen tart cherries in central IL. And I’ve seen store-brand cans here and there, but not recently.
I usually only see fresh tart cherries in the stores for ~1 week each summer.
Pardon the bump, but interested parties might like to know that I acquired Kroger brand cherries in Charlottesville over the weekend. I forget the price. Pretty sure it was <$1.50/can. I might have cleared the shelf.
Cavendishes by now have become very genetically shallow so they’d be at risk of being wiped out catastrophically by a blight. But at the same time they’re stupendously productive, easy to grow, and can survive shipment much better than most other varieties.
Around these here parts we’ve got the univerisity Ag departments keeping up the different varieties just in case. THEN the banana-deprived denizens of the upper latitudes will have to PAY!!! 
