CD format abandoned in 2012?

Slartibartfast wrote: Intruder wrote: Call me a geezer but stumbling upon a used copy of the first Juicy Lucy CD for $1.50 is a thrill that can't be replicated on a computer.  Just last week my local Half Price Books store had a clearance sale....it was like a clambake!  I picked up 70 CDs, some new, for less than $70!  Got some off the wall stuff but also some flat out classics....and all in excellent to new condition.  There's something about spending a few hours in a groovy shop with like-minded individuals listening and browsing.  This is a hobby I've had since I was in my early teens and still something I look forward to every week. I find this kind of weird.  CDs may be going into a kind of LP phase.

don't give up-- buy CDs!  Old, new, bad, good, rare, common, strawberry, chocolate, who cares.. buy those ones you know you need but've been putting off.  Buy CDs for Christmas presents.  We'll show the capitalist record industry scum who's in charge.  It's us.  I think.  Yes it's us, we give them money so it must be us.

And when you get discouraged just think of one word:  Blu-ray





Edited by Atavachron - November 18 2011 at 21:29

It'd be a shame to see CDs die out. I understand the reasons why record labels would want to go all digital, but I just don't think a download of an album can be compared to actually owning a physical copy. Sure, digital albums have been a godsend for me at times, when a CD version of an album is impossible/difficult to find, but I never really feel like I actually own the album when it's just a few files on my hard drive. I look at my dad's collection of CD sleeves that he's had signed at gigs over the years and it's a sad thought knowing that this sort of thing will (likely) be impossible in the near future. 

If anyone wants to bet for the CD format being abandoned in 2012, I suddenly feel like a gambling man.