music Does anyone buy albums anymore?

[Omega Centauri 317]

I feel like there are few people who actually purchase full albums anymore, and usually just pick a few songs from an album on iTunes or something.

 

While I can see various reasons to do this, I feel like you're cheating yourself if you do.

 

There's a reason the artist put all those songs in the album, and by only getting a few songs from it, you're not getting the full experience the artist indended, sometimes the songs are related to each other, or connected, as in the outro of a track will lead into the next one. A song may not sound that good at a first glance, but then when you actually sit down and listen to it, you may be suprised.

 

Now I do understand some albums are just mediocre and there's legitimately only one or two good songs on them, but still.
 

I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't get to experience the joy of walking out of the cd store with your new album, tearing off the plastic in the parking lot, and excitedly listening to it on the drive home; or admiring your shelf full of albums that you've built up over the years.

 

EDIT: CDs and records also give better audio quality than digital music, and they're much more versatile, you could just rip the CD onto your computer and do what you will with the digital files like anything else, but there are times when digital music may not be an option, for example: My car doesn't have a place to hook up your phone, (Hell, that thing's so old it has a cassette player built in) so I'm limited to CDs.

 

Also, I listen to Rock and Heavy Metal, if that means anything.

Edited July 31, 2014 by Omega Centauri

[galaxysquid 2,122]

I buy CDs and virtually bought music.

 

I mostly listen to Electronic/Dubstep/Trap stuff.

 

I'm also into Indie/Indie-pop artists. ^^

Edited July 31, 2014 by PrincessWubsy~

[Lunatic Cake 1,618]

1 year ago on my trip to england I bought 2 Avenged Sevenfold Albums, I felt so badass. I really cherish them, you can't get them around where I live and when I found them in a random electronics store I was like: ERMAHGOSH YES.

 

Albums have a certain value for everybody. Because you have an actual copy you can feel the excitement when holding them in your hands when buying them. For me specifically it was a great experience as I connect my trip to england with it.

[Windseeker 546]

I guess it's because CDs are becoming obsolete, I been told the same thing every time one complains about having to download a massive single player game from Steam.

 

The day of CD players are long behind us, instead digital mp3 players have taken their place.

Edited July 31, 2014 by Windseeker

[pinkiepartypie 779]

I love buying cds, ill put it on dvd player and blast the music

[Digit 321]

I still like once every 3 or 4 months run into the city to a vinyl shop and get some old stuff. I think vinyl still has the purist sound.

Edited July 31, 2014 by Digit

[XxConfusedUnicornxX 834]

I've only bought 4 albums. The rest of the albums in my ITunes library are torrent downloads Free music!

[repsol rave 2,963]

i buy digital albums, tough not always. anyway, if i buy something, i always buy the intire album.

 

i mostly listen to hardEDM, like 99% of the time, tough i can enjoy some chillstep or dubstep too sometimes.

[~StatesTheOblivious~ 1,795]

I used to to use iTunes more often, but I got tired of it. And even though I mostly listen to music on the radio or on YouTube, I still prefer to buy CDs, if I buy albums.

 

For the same reason I buy games, books and movies as physical copies in the store as well.

 

I want to "own" them. I want to have them in my shelves, as a proof that I bought them, that they are... well, there. As objects that show my interests when someone enters my room and as something that fills my room, which would be just a lot more empty without them. As objects that are not just ones and zeroes on the hard drive of my computer, but as copies that I cannot lose, unless they get damaged, sold or given away by me, or when I actually, well, lose them.

[Ezio Auditore 702]

There's less emphasis on it now, but in the past, artists used to go to a lot of trouble organizing which songs came in which order on their albums. An album was meant to be a whole experience.

[jjj 46]

I buy vinyl records, not sure if that counts.

[Tigerpop198 696]

Nah, I don't buy CD's no more. My favourite genre is punk rock, and I tend to stream music from a computer or ipod.

[Washougal_Otaku 1,020]

I will occasionally buy a CD, but I am very picky about my music.  As a result, I make very few purchases.  I will buy a single track here and there IF it's from an album I used to have and can't find the cassette tapes.  I think I only have about 30 CDs...

[Hovershy 3,815]

I usually just buy my music digitally. My only Cd's are Tool albums because you can't buy their music digitally. 

[baltoist 303]

No because we can listen to whatever on Youtube.

[Guest90210 3,569]

I purchase albums, albeit sparingly. I like ripping open that plastic wrapping, cracking open the case, and popping the CD into the player to give it a spin. Problem is, I'm constantly short (sometimes literally empty) on funds, so I have to reserve my album buys on whatever I've been listening to most recently.

Edited August 1, 2014 by Rivendare

[RippedOffMattress 314]

I buy music through CD's, vinyls and digitally at times. I don't usually have to buy much though since I have a premium Spotify account and can listen to just about anything on it on my phone.

 

Still though, I love getting physical copies of great music! Especially vinyls that have free mp3 download codes!

[Gone Airbourne 21,977]

I still love buying CDs thats just me though and I am all for supporting a band I really like.

[hippybrone 1]

nope, i rather just buy a single.. most albums only have very few good songs anyways!

[Delirium 208]

I used to download most of my music off of iTunes but I now buy CD's instead and try to avoid downloading. I usually import them onto iTunes and listen to them on there, however, when I import them, I import them using the 'Apple Lossless Encoder' setting because I think that is supposed to keep the quality of the CD.

 

A lot of times when I'm home alone I listen to the CD's on the speaker system.

 

I hope to buy the albums I had downloaded again but on CD.

Edited August 1, 2014 by Stars Die

[Sir Hugsalot 9,355]

When there is phyical copy availible - I buy a CD, if possible a special/signed etc edition (Falkenbach - Asa <333 )

 

If not - then I get it on the internet (I listen to some barely known bands and there is no way I could buy their albums anywhere ) 

 

In general - yeah, it is so comfortable to buy music online on iTunes etc, but holding a jewelcase, a CD, a book with lyrics, having a signed copy. No digital download will replace it to me. And I hope that there will never come the day when physical copies will not be released anymore, it would be so sad to me

[Evilshy 5,091]

If you only have a few songs by a on artist, you're not a true fan. </hipster>

 

But really, you miss out on a lot of great stuff only getting singles.

[Prince Golden Lotus 166]

I just recently bought a CD, but usually I buy whatever free Aviators stuff I can, and some stuff I don't actually BUY, I just download using stuff.  But I am still a fan for that either way.

[Red Cedar 1,408]

I prefer buying albums on CD because I have had far too much experience with computers failing on me that I am paranoid about losing material. (I lost an early type of E-book with DRM protecting it because when the hard drive needed to be reformatted and the OS reinstalled I was unaware of backing up the little piece of code I had purchased that made the file readable. I pirated the next copy I downloaded of that one.) If my hard drive gets completely borked, I still have a physical CD with no moving parts that I can put in another player and hear the music. I also have good CD ripping software to make MP3s at any quality I want for portability.

 

That said, I often buy used CDs. Cheaper, especially considering the eternal problem of only getting a few songs you really like off an album.

[Scootaloodle 1,623]

I buy all three formats, vinyl, CDs and MP3s and I mainly dig House, Disco, Jazz-Funk type genres: although I only buy CD to rip into MP3s and then stick the CD in a draw and it never sees the light of day again.

 

I’m much nicer to my Vinyl as it’s my collecting thing.

 

But I do a mixture of getting the whole album, and cherry picking that one song I like etc online, and whatever.