Since this is OT, what the hell. The last audio CD I bought prior to yesterday was the Smashing Pumpkins Double CD, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, in Oct. 1995. Ever since then it was strictly Mp3s. Well, yesterday I finally broke down and bought another CD.
It was the Jay-Z / Linkin Park album, Collision Course. My justification was that it included a DVD as well. All 6 songs are killer IMO, I actually didn’t mind spending $15 for the set.
How about everyone else, do you still buy CDs?
My Mp3 collection hovers near 100GB, but only 40 or so are really organized (because I paid for them).
I still only buy audio CD and then do the ripping myself. This does two things for me. I have a backup (the original CD) and I control the quality of the ripped MP3.
I do occasionally buy singles via iTunes or other MP3 services but only if this is a case where I wouldn’t waste money on the CD.
I have 300 CD’s ripped onto my network drive so I can listen to them on my AudioTron in the living room, sync them to my iPod for the car and listen to them on any PC in the house.
But I still like knowing the original is safely put away in the boxes I have set up for them. I have actually thought about putting the whole collection in a safe deposit box since 300 CD’s is worth at least $3000 if the house burns down.
[quote author=“AndyMac”]But I still like knowing the original is safely put away in the boxes I have set up for them. I have actually thought about putting the whole collection in a safe deposit box since 300 CD’s is worth at least $3000 if the house burns down.
You can extend your home owners insurance to include your collection if you desire. My computers are covered seperately ($15K) for around $120 a year…I figured for about $10 a month I can have peace of mind.
I get tons of free CDs through work, but I still buy a lot of the things. I have pretty non-mainstream tastes, so I’m not likely to find tracks I like at major download stores, sites or Kazaa. :|
[quote author=“Mighty Matt”]I would like to buy cds but I just don’t have the money (poor student… I know cue the violins!)
Same with dvds, clothes, nice food, gadgets….
lol yeh . I like to buy concert dvds tho. I get to buy them so cheap at the virgin sale. Real nice ones. Pink floyd, RATM, Delerium.
You can extend your home owners insurance to include your collection if you desire. My computers are covered seperately ($15K) for around $120 a year…I figured for about $10 a month I can have peace of mind.
I already have the computers covered but hadn’t thought about the DVD/CD collection. I can’t backup the DVD’s like I can the CD’s so I am sort of hosed there if the house burns down and I have at least 300 of them as well.
My sister-in-law’s house burned down in April and they had a heck of a time getting the insurance company to pay for the DVD collection since they had trouble scraping up proof of purchase, etc.
I will have to call insurance guy and ask what kind of proof I need for the CD’s and the DVDs.
I usually purchase new releases from a small number of favorite artists. I’ll sometimes buy a CD if it’s not one of the one-hit garbage CD’s and has a reasonable selection of good tracks or anthogogies and best-of if they fill my collection and are priced right. I’ll download odds and ends that are safely tucked away on vinyl that I’m too lazy to rip myself.
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I will have to call insurance guy and ask what kind of proof I need for the CD’s and the DVDs.
The way it works with my company is that they take my word for the collection. At any time they can come inspect. If I dont have what I claim, it’s fraud, I go to jail.
To be real safe, I would take Pictures/Movies and place them in a remote location (bank, neighbor, etc).
[quote author=“tifosiv122”]Since this is OT, what the hell. The last audio CD I bought prior to yesterday was the Smashing Pumpkins Double CD, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, in Oct. 1995. Ever since then it was strictly Mp3s. Well, yesterday I finally broke down and bought another CD.
It was the Jay-Z / Linkin Park album, Collision Course. My justification was that it included a DVD as well. All 6 songs are killer IMO, I actually didn’t mind spending $15 for the set.
How about everyone else, do you still buy CDs?
My Mp3 collection hovers near 100GB, but only 40 or so are really organized (because I paid for them).
Erik
CDs? NEVAR! It’s fast approaching 25+ for a SINGLE CD now. I used to download madly off Kazaa and the like, until I realized, the people i D/Led from often never had any real ‘file info’ aside from the title, making my organization a little less than brilliant. Now, I usually borrow CD collections from friends (400+ at a time, takes about 4 or 5 days of nonstop burning) to burn, or just download the .ISO off of BitTorrent or UCSD’s DirectConnect hub.
I buy CD’s here and there depending on whether or not A) i have the money to waste and B) I like almost all the songs on it. Last one I bought was… 5 mnths ago, Breaking Benjamin, We Are Not Alone. Great band… had an “inspired” song put onto the Halo 2 cause they were big fans… .
My MP3 collection is around 5GB but I lost a lot of my downloaded songs, somehow :xeno: ... i think i had them one my older desktop when I reformated its hard drive and had only synced about half of it with my old Dell… what a waste of precius summer time.. :cry:
[quote author=“Mighty Matt”]I would like to buy cds but I just don’t have the money (poor student… I know cue the violins!)
Same with dvds, clothes, nice food, gadgets….
Nice food? I could live off of Hot Pockets, chips and juice (yea… i said juice… I’ve always preferred juice over soda :mrgreen: )
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My last AUDIO cd was delerium chimera.
Delerium is based in the UK right? Ive heard a few of their songs… liked a remix of “After All” I downloaded off of MP3.com a year or two back… pretty good band for those into a neo-techno happening thing
Well… I am a recording artist. I make money off royalties of sold records. Of course, I made a very respectable amount in the very early 90’s, before there was any large scale downloading going on. But now I end up making more because I am not the featured artist, meaning I don’t have to pay back an advance through extortionist royalties. Now I work behind the scenes, getting producer or composer points and make a bundle before the featured artist sees any money (since he has to pay back his advance with pennies from each record sold). And unless you go double platinum (typical major release), these artists are not even breaking even on this advance. The record company, however, has made a killing before even a quarter of the advance is paid off, since they get the largest chunk from album sales. The artist has always been the loser, unless he writes his own material, since composer/producer royalties do not apply against the record company advance, in any case.
Back to the topic: as I work in the music industry, I have not bought a cd in… a few decades! I get them for free.
[quote author=“babahi”]Well… I am a recording artist. I make money off royalties of sold records. Of course, I made a very respectable amount in the very early 90’s, before there was any large scale downloading going on. But now I end up making more because I am not the featured artist, meaning I don’t have to pay back an advance through extortionist royalties. Now I work behind the scenes, getting producer or composer points and make a bundle before the featured artist sees any money (since he has to pay back his advance with pennies from each record sold). And unless you go double platinum (typical major release), these artists are not even breaking even on this advance. The record company, however, has made a killing before even a quarter of the advance is paid off, since they get the largest chunk from album sales. The artist has always been the loser, unless he writes his own material, since composer/producer royalties do not apply against the record company advance, in any case.
Back to the topic: as I work in the music industry, I have not bought a cd in… a few decades! I get them for free.
Doh, you’re right. I should have known better. I should have said…“You’re supporting the record label, producers and the distributors! And ensuring the artist gets his 70 cents.” :wink:
[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]Doh, you’re right. I should have known better. I should have said…“You’re supporting the record label, producers and the distributors! And ensuring the artist gets his 70 cents.” :wink:
It’s not even that much, unless you’re a guaranteed million-seller.
Another fact deserving a nasty look: remember how, when CD’s first came out that they were so much more expensive than tapes? Record companies cited increased manufacturing costs as the reason, which was true then. Now, even after retooling, it costs a fraction of the tape price to make a cd. Yet the prices are still sky high. And the artists see nothing of that increase, it only gets pocketed by the record companies. This kind of greediness is one of several reason why downloading has gotten so popular, rather than buying CD’s at inflated prices. CD’s are also not a premium format, they are pretty much the only format available today. This means consumers must pay premium prices or they can go download. All I can say about that kind of business practice is “duh!”
However 2 majors even reduced their prices significantly in the past year, due to this manufacturing costs issue. It’s a pretty good start…
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