Do you think cd's are dying out?

to me it is. I am less likely to buy a cd then I was before. Two reasons.. price and the fact that I have been let down on cds before. I mean I remember buying a cd because of one song and finding out the rest suck horribly. Now I can sample that cd and find out it all sucks and not bother to get it. Itunes sells that song for 1 dollar. Itunes will sell that cd for 10 dollars. I am speaking of a legal sense, I know people will say that you can get it free if you download it or whatever but from a legal standpoint, cd's are dying for me.

cds are for squares

[SilverSpoon]

I don't think so. There are many people who would still rather buy a CD than download everything.

The bitrate of downloaded music isn't high enough whether you download it legally or illegally. Even Apple iTMS has their songs as 128 kbps AAC files. I compress them as 192 kbps AAC. So I won't buy something of low quality. I'd rather have a CD to rip at any bit-rate I want.

Also, I buy the CDs that I like. I don't buy the ones I dislike, so I rarely buy anything horrid. Downloading songs illegally has allowed me to buy more CDs than ever. Go figure, RIAA. :rolleyes:

cd's are dead. period.

4 me cds r defenitly not dead
Of course it's easier 2 download 3 songs u like and pay nothing But:1 Quality [though maybe tomorrow we will be able 2 download wav.1,5mbps] 2 what if u liked 2 listen 2 the music in the car or in any other place outside computer - u'd have to make cd or asmthing like this yourself
I don't see really big danger 4 cds during next 5-10 years

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[ April 20, 2005, 11:47 AM: Message edited by: JUST 2 BE WITH U ]

abstract must be the exception, most of the people i know that do illegal downloading do not buy cd's

[Sk8er gurl]

hmm, i don't know. most of my friends burn most of their cds so i don't know if that counts. i usually download music if i only want 1 song or if i can't get the cd here, otherwise i'll buy it

I don't have any cds that contains only one[two-three] song i like
I don't know any bands that have only one[two-three] good song - song i like
It seems u've got very very fastidious taste - 2 every one who downloads 1-2 songs of artist

[solo1]

SACDs dont play on a machine.

Originally posted by SilverSpoon:
I don't think so. There are many people who would still rather buy a CD than download everything.

Yep. Plus, I dunnot have a computer at home. I stll prefer CDs.

[Coprophagia]

The only time i download is when i found a band and i want to hear there stuff before getting a cd or there are songs you cant get on cd and have to download them, i love my cd collection

i'm not saying you don't burn your own cds. I am saying that as far as buying a 15 dollar cd with 12 songs, what is the likelyhood that you are still doing that? I'd believe you are not buying as much cds as you might have before the downloading age came ;p

[Phobos]

I agree with trinex $15 dollar cd with only tweleve songs nah, I rather sample them and if the sogs are good I will buy it.

[Coprophagia]

i change the stickers around on the cd cases at JB so i normaly pay $15 to $20, alot of metal bands dont have 12 songs on there albums so i have gotten used to that

[Habib]

cds won't die out - at least not the format. regarding the seld pieces there will be only a slight drop.

[Cat]

I don't think so... I mean, I've never bought as many CD's as I do now...

I, like many have said, download the CDs first and if I like them I buy them. I'd rather buy CDs than buy more hard drive space or another ipod. Even though in the long run I'd probably save more money. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

CD's, and yeah especially sacds, sound a zillion times better than anything since vinyl. My ipod really absolutely can't cope with anything not pop.

i just download illegal music and sell it to my friends in school so cds are in for them i get free songs for itunes from soda so i only download singles or ask my bro to find it and download it and i dont need cd players i got my ipod