Do you still buy albums, DVDs, books?

Gimme A Pound

I can't remember the last time I bought a CD. I bought some records all right recently - the vinyl bandwagon. They are beautiful - so elegant looking, and got a great deal on a record player (with an mp3 port of course).

DVDs - years since I bought one, but I wouldn't get rid of my DVD player, and still throw one on from time to time (usually borrowed).

I was using the Kindle app for ages - just so handy to buy a book whenever the notion hits you. But I kept getting distracted by the internet so I've joined the library. The Kindle is great and convenient but I find I'm preferring the physical book now. Kindle novelty has worn off.

A newspaper or magazine - not in years and years.

Book shops and record shops are lovely places - I totally appreciate the digital formats and make much use of them, but I wouldn't like the old reliables to disappear.

Basq

Vinyl I buy... but everything else is digital.

endacl

Yep. Albums and books. CDs if I’m at the gig and the band are selling their own.

branie2

Books and Blu-Rays mostly

Arghus

I still buy books.

Your Face

I still buy Cds and books.
Years since Ive bought a DVD. I'll get a BluRay of a film if I really like it.

The vinyl craze is a bit mad because we always had old vinyl records at home so it wasn't a novelty for me.

8mv

Yes to all three. If I don't have the physical product it's like it's not really mine.

aaronjumper

Still buy books, very occasionally DVDs.
Albums no, sure most of the music is on Youtube now.

Vinyl & books, appreciate them all the more compared to the electronic format.

Beasty

Yes, yes and yes

Books will make a similar comeback to vinyl. Many will stick with the digital versions, but a lot of people will start to re-appreciate the quality of books, and my personal collection of signed limited editions will soar in value....

Gimme A Pound

This is quite surprising to me (in a good way) - I was expecting digital all the way. Even when Boards has an older demographic.

The professional camera is something which I guess won't die out (even if smartphones and tablets can produce great quality photos).

bassy

no no no to many other ways now of all those choices.

The Princess Bride

I use my library, but still buy books written by my favourite authors.
CDs- very very seldom buy any, occasionally a "Best of" collection for the car.
DVDs, hardly ever.

I am not a hoarder and I hate having things occupying space when I seldom need/use it.

AMKC

I will still buy the occasional DVD and a Blu-Ray if I really like the series or film. I do buy the occasional magazine still but not nearly as many as I used to buy say at the beginning of the century and the same with papers. Its very rare that I buy a paper now but I might pick the odd one up.
I have not bought CD's in a decade or two but then music these days is crap anyway so even if you could still buy them I properly would not. I do love listening to my CD's do with real proper music that you can actually sing too and dance too.

discobeaker

I buy all my music on vinyl now. I tried the Spotify thing but I don't like it. Today I was in a charity shop and found something I'd never seen before. Fawlty Towers on Laserdisc. For afew euros,I had to buy it for the novelty factor. I've no way of playing it but I do enjoy owning these weird, obsolete formats

Relikk

I don't buy any of those formats digitally as I prefer to have physical copies. Mainly it's because I don't trust the same streaming or digital distribution platforms to be around for more than a finite period of time to keep providing me with what I've purchased on them, and then there's licencing and rights issues that can arise, resulting in the possible removal from the platform. Balls to that. Physical copies ensure that I can watch, read and listen to anything I want, when I want.

oneilla

discobeaker wrote: »

I buy all my music on vinyl now. I tried the Spotify thing but I don't like it. Today I was in a charity shop and found something I'd never seen before. Fawlty Towers on Laserdisc. For afew euros,I had to buy it for the novelty factor. I've no way of playing it but I do enjoy owning these weird, obsolete formats

That's quite the find as Laserdiscs never took off here (or Europe generally). There's still a bit of an online community of collectors of LD.

discobeaker

oneilla wrote: »

That's quite the find as Laserdiscs never took off here (or Europe generally). There's still a bit of an online community of collectors of LD.

I vaguely remember Laserdisc as a kid but never watched one but I couldn't pass up on buying it just for the simple reason it looks so cool. It's like a DVD for Giants 😂

I was googling about lazerdisc and,as you say,there seems to be a community out there who collect them.

Will post up a picture of it tomorrow if anyone wants to see my find.

Rubberchikken

i still have my first and only record player. its 44 years old and cost 10 schillings. still working too.
have a lot of vinyl (records). occasionally i think ill sell them then i change my mind:)

dont buy vinyl any more. nor books. or cds.
its all audiobooks,and spotify here now. dont know whether thats sad or just change*sigh*

oneilla

discobeaker wrote: »

I vaguely remember Laserdisc as a kid but never watched one but I couldn't pass up on buying it just for the simple reason it looks so cool. It's like a DVD for Giants ��

I was googling about lazerdisc and,as you say,there seems to be a community out there who collect them.

Will post up a picture of it tomorrow if anyone wants to see my find.

Please do. And let us know where you found it. Whee there was one LD there were likely others (although could've been someone clearing out random bits n bobs found in a rental closet).

Laserdisc was coveted by some videophiles pre-HD/blu-ray as they did not have the compression found on DVD. Many early DVDs were ports of Laserdisc releases including the extra/special features.

I buy books.. that's about it..

The whole hipster vinyl trend is funny..
It's pretty much the only way the industry could get people to keep paying for music..

"It's the expense and inconvenience I like.."

Irish Guitarist

I buy CDs all the time. I have absolutely no interest in the likes of Spotify nor do I have any interest in listening to music anywhere other than at home. Most of the CDs I buy are secondhand. Not just because they're cheaper but because most CDs made in the last 15 years sound like shit and physically hurt my ears. I'll sometimes pay more money for an old version of a CD rather than buy a new one with loads of bonus tracks.

I've bought loads of records online but not for a while. The last time was about a year and a half ago. The majority are secondhand but I've bought a small few brand new ones. For the most part I'm not very interested in new records. The new ones I bought were a few 7" singles by Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds and a few from this site that were going cheap because the covers were slightly damaged - http://www.gizehrecords.com/

I don't buy many DVDs. The few I've bought in the last couple of years were box sets of Mr. Robot and Blindspot because I don't have Sky anymore.

I'm not a big reader so don't really buy books. I did buy The Satanic Verses to see what it was about but I haven't read it yet and don't know if I will.

Irish Guitarist

One of the most recent CDs I bought. A Japanese copy of Nevermind. I haven't listened to it yet (due to having ear problems I have to see a doctor about and temporarily having to avoid wearing headphones) but I know it's mastered slightly differently than the American version.

endacl

Your Face wrote: »

The vinyl craze is a bit mad because we always had old vinyl records at home so it wasn't a novelty for me.

It has upsides and downsides. I’ve been buying my music on records since the 80s. Never stopped. Also bought CDs, but only when they were the only option. The upside is the range of stuff available now, and the quality of the pressing. Practically everything gets an LP release, and usually on 180g discs. The downside is the price. They’ve not gone south in the same way as CD prices have, because of all the knobs buying *shudders* ... ‘vinyls’. Especially true of the second hand market. Even 10 years ago you’d pick up the odd gem, in great nick, and expect to pay no more than a fiver. Dem days is gone.

Just waiting for some hipster bellend to post about listening to his music on ‘polycarbonates’, rather than ‘CDs’...

Gimme A Pound

Deleted User wrote: »

I buy books.. that's about it..

The whole hipster vinyl trend is funny..
It's pretty much the only way the industry could get people to keep paying for music..

"It's the expense and inconvenience I like.."

Well I don't give a shyte about "hipster" whatever (barely know what that is - its criteria seems to change by the day) and I did have some records and a cheap record player in the 90s when I was a teen (just a phase though) but they are so commonplace now, I find myself seduced by record shops. They're so lovely to browse in. But yes, records are that bit too expensive - not a frequent purchase.

Gimme A Pound

endacl wrote: »

Just waiting for some hipster bellend to post about listening to his music on ‘polycarbonates’, rather than ‘CDs’...

Oh well I'm more of a cylinder or 78 or reel-to-reel kinda person for my collection of '30s ukulele music. :cool:

endacl

Daniela Juicy Turtledove wrote: »

Oh well I'm more of a cylinder or 78 or reel-to-reel kinda person for my collection of '30s ukulele music. :cool:

I just bang on a hollow log.

Gimme A Pound

There was an attempt to bring back cassettes. That's just being an arsehole.

Remember the heartbreak those damn things caused when they'd stretch or tangle, and not even a pencil could save them.

Your Face

endacl wrote: »

I just bang on a hollow log.

Careful now

mvl

... still buying records/cds/books.
For example, kindle doesn't do it for me at all, I have to feel/smell the book, not only read it. When it has scribbles on it, or coffee stains, a book might tell an extra story when opened later.

Daniela Juicy Turtledove wrote: »

There was an attempt to bring back cassettes. That's just being an arsehole.
Remember the heartbreak those damn things caused when they'd stretch or tangle, and not even a pencil could save them.

Think this is still on; and I can see potential, something to do with ppl reconnecting to their youth.

Nigel Fairservice

The last time I bought a CD was in 2007. Haven't bought a DVD in nearly as many years. I'm happy to use streaming services and my own digital copies of music and movies. I bought a kindle a few years ago but I never took to it so I still buy books regularly. I'm half tempted to buy a new kindle just for convenience when travelling. I'm away at the moment and lugging a hardback around the place with me. I'd love if when you bought a book you got a code for a free or discounted digital copy of the book like you do with some DVDs these days.

JPCN1

I still buy a lot of books. Hard to find a home for them after reading though as charity shops don't seem to take them anymore.

Church on Tuesday

Still buy CD's/Vinyl. As someone else said earlier I have to have the physical copy to feel full ownership.

CD's tend to bought online these days often going cheap and I buy the odd vinyl esp if it's a special edition thing.

My MP3 player packed it in a few months ago and I hate listening to music on my phone, so I'm actually using a CD walkman right now when I go to bed before sleep

Still buy books but mostly second hand and I'll buy the odd DVD from CEX from time to time. Stream when and where I can.

JohnnyFlash

Still buy books, and have recently started using the library again. Great service.

Buy the odd vinyl, but they are expensive, so only albums I really love.

I've started using a rotary phone again..

Sounds more analog..

Plopsu

Still buy all three. Hate reading from screens, so I really prefer books. I tend to view CDs as my hardcopy since I rip them as soon as I buy them.

murpho999

Digital all the way, cheaper, more convenient and accessable and is the way of the future.

Couldn't be arsed having loads of discs around.

Are all these people with CDs still walking around with discmans on their hips and a bad of cds?

Widdershins

Just books , never bought the others . I need books because I don't bring any device out with me and at home I don't want to sit in front of the laptop or carry it around /outside. I do like being able to buy and read books straight away on the kindle app.

endacl

murpho999 wrote: »

Digital all the way, cheaper, more convenient and accessable and is the way of the future.

Couldn't be arsed having loads of discs around.

Are all these people with CDs still walking around with discmans on their hips and a bad of cds?

I never got used to headphones. Have a really good pair of B&Ws, but only ever use them on flights, watching a movie. My music listening is still done sitting in a chair in front of an awesome pair of speakers being driven by 1930’s vacuum tube technology.

Stab*City

Jesus with everyone buying all this vinyl i wonder why its still a struggling format..

theteal

I have noticed a sizable Disney DVD collection developing in my TV unit of late. I thought I had got rid of all those old dust collectors. There's a server full of video files on the network, 3D movies and all.

Anyway, what do I know, I just pay for and configure everything. . . .

LordBasil

I still buy CDs, I like having a physical copy, building a collection, having the booklet and so on. Suppose I'm old fashioned.

GLaDOS

Just books, don't like reading off of a screen.

Chapters 2nd hand section is a wonderful place to lose an hour.

TheValeyard

Albums, DVDs, no. Unless very rare collectables.


Books. Yes. Forever. I will never stop buying good books.

Yes: DVD's, about 2 dozen, - I have the ability to play Blu Ray DVD's too but I only own one Blu Ray movie - Devil's Double.



Books: Recently bought Virtual & Augmented Reality for Dummies paperback the other day.

Books although mostly on kindle, occasionally still softback or hardback

TheIrishGrover

I rarely buy Blu-Rays/4K - I have about 80 Blu-Rays and two 4K discs. I buy some books but usually special editions (I have signed and numbered editions of His Dark Material trilogy, Lyra's Oxford, Once Upon A Time In The North and Book of Dust part 1).

I had about 400 DVDs that I never watched. Brought them into work for charity. Made about 1200 quid for Aware so I was happy.

Gimme A Pound

Stab*City wrote: »

Jesus with everyone buying all this vinyl i wonder why its still a struggling format..

Sales are up though.

The Real Ramona

I still buy cds and books.

With music, I tend to forget I have it if I've just downloaded it rather than buying an actual cd. I love looking through the cd booklets too. Nerd alert.

discobeaker

oneilla wrote: »

Please do. And let us know where you found it. Whee there was one LD there were likely others (although could've been someone clearing out random bits n bobs found in a rental closet).

Laserdisc was coveted by some videophiles pre-HD/blu-ray as they did not have the compression found on DVD. Many early DVDs were ports of Laserdisc releases including the extra/special features.

Sorry for the late reply,here is a pic of said lazerdisc.

Patty Hearst

Vinyl, Books and Blu-ray