CD format abandoned in 2012?

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

Henry Plainview wrote: Catcher10 wrote: Nope......browsing Amazon using a web browser will never take the place of actually browsing down the aisles of a record store and flipping album sleeves in a bin. I will never understand why some people are so attached to wasting their time.

jammun wrote: Youse guys are getting me all teary-eyed  I used to live about three blocks from the local Tower Records. I used to love just hanging out in there, looking at the new releases, checking my funds to see what I could afford, then maybe picking up some Zappa or some Wall Of Voodoo or Miles Davis or for that matter the latest single by The Pretenders. This was all vinyl, of course. I think that maybe possibly around 1986 they may have had a small CD section, or perhaps not. It was not a concern because I had no CD player, nor the $ to afford one. About the closest one can get to that experience now (and it's a pale imitation) is browsing Amazon.

I like albums and CDs. I like the tactile nature of album sleeves and reading liner notes. It's like owning a piece of the band in a sense. I don't particularly like the idea of downloading whole albums from the ether, but I do find it handy to download single songs when the rest of an album is not something I care for. I'll keep buying CDs, used or otherwise, because I don't like the perceived lack of ownership involved in merely downloading (I have heard there are ownership and transfer difficulties with books on Kindle and Nook, for instance).

Of course the major labels will switch to download only as quickly as possible.
No cost at all for any sort of packaging and especially artwork! Accountants' wet dream.


Edited by npjnpj - November 11 2011 at 07:31

^ Well I agree....Tower was awesome!!! I remember the big room they had sectioned off from everything else, which was the Classical section......Only the distinguished people went in there.....I did once and everyone stared at me So I ran out....