Do you download/buy your own music?

karaokeman

Just remembered seeing a thread a while back on the death of the CD being sometime this year. I thought it would be interesting to set up a poll here.

Do you download music or purchase physical copies?

Personally I stopped buying CD's maybe a couple of months ago and started downloading albums, although I was long against it. At the end of the day I feel like I support a band more when I see them live, so I though it wouldn't hurt to start downloading.

SilverScreen

I do both. While I download a lot of music I still pick up CDs at low prices from various stores and from online as well. You can find a good selection of CDs on Amazon for next to nothing. CDs and other physical formats have always been a promotional tool for the artists anyway so I don't think they're really going to lose out. The record companies and the retailers are because they get nearly all of the money. I'd rather buy a ticket for a gig or donate money directly to artists to support them.

GoldenTickets

I buy CDs and I'll keep buying them as long as they are in production and there is equipment available to play them on. I decided to commit to one format last year and picked CD over vinyl as I just prefer CDs. So I sold my LPs and my turntable and bought a seperate CD player (to go with the amp and speakers I already had) and a bunch of new CDs in their place.

I know that the consensus these days seems to be that CDs are a dying / dead medium and most people would say I'm wasting my money, but I want to stick with a physical format and for the next couple of years CDs are going to be extremely cheap and readily available. If they get scarce after that ebay will always provide a steady supply, and the less demand there is for them the better it will be for building my collection. If I was to go with vinyl now I'd get a lot less music for my money (the audiophile thing doesn't bother me), and vinyl is no more stable a medium than CD (i.e. if the demand dips for vinyl they could disappear just as easily as CDs).

Because I grew up buying cassettes and then CDs (and briefly vinyl), I'll always want a physical item when I buy music. I never got into downloading and I doubt I will at this stage, so for me CD just makes the most sense. I'm not big into new music either, so most of the music I will ever want has already been issued on CD and I can just pick it up as I go along.

lordgoat

Neither.

Stream and buy Vinyl.

ItsAWindUp

Just buy CD and occasionally vinyl. Feel quite sentimental about the physical product, I still remember the day I bought the Screamadelica, I never heard anything like it before.

megtyler

buy CDs and download

matrim

Where's the option for buy in digital format?

I now get all my music in digital format and it's probably a 70 / 30 split in favour of illegal downloads or streaming.

I buy when it's something I really like or a smaller band that I want to support. But if it's something that I'm not that pushed on I'll get it via other means.

VenomousFish

I never download music, legally or illegally. I just like for my music to be something I can hold.

Kold

I download almost all of my music. A lot gets deleted. If I want a hard copy then I go out and buy it.

lockyjpl

I don't use Itunes, so can anyone please tell me the best sites to download music legally, thanks:)

matrim

I generally use www.7digital.com

Freddie59

karaokeman wrote: »

Just remembered seeing a thread a while back on the death of the CD being sometime this year. I thought it would be interesting to set up a poll here.

Do you download music or purchase physical copies?

Personally I stopped buying CD's maybe a couple of months ago and started downloading albums, although I was long against it. At the end of the day I feel like I support a band more when I see them live, so I though it wouldn't hurt to start downloading.

CDs were still outselling downloads by two to one in the UK last year.

I buy from iTunes, with the exception of Now! albums, which I purchase locally.

rcaz

VenomousFish wrote: »

I never download music, legally or illegally. I just like for my music to be something I can hold.

I like for my music to be something I can listen to :pac:

It doesn't really bother me. I buy most stuff on CD, I like buying vinyl but I don't often get to sit down in front of the turntable and listen (too loud at night, when I do most of my listening), so stuff I get on vinyl usually ends up less-listened to. I really like the ritual of putting on a record though, so I try to get as much vinyl time as I can. Most listening is off my laptop in my room, with headphones.

I don't download 'cause I don't have a credit card. But when I do get one I'll start doing that a lot more. I get emails from a few online shops and keep cursing myself for not having one. For example...