Do you still buy CDs?

[pr_capone]

I ask because I'm currently shopping for a new head unit for my car and noticed that they all still came with CD players.

Personally, I haven't purchased a music CD in over 5 years. With the advent of SD memory, bluetooth compatibility, and just plain being able to plug in an MP3 player via the aux port... it would seem that the CD is a dead technology.

So... do you still buy CDs or do you now purchase/get your music in a digital format.

Also, as a follow up question, if you do get your music digitally... do you still whip out the old CD book when you are in the car?

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

No, it's really not.

We buy A LOT of vinyl. I mean we buy vinyl the way most people buy MP3s. I'm very aware of the resurgence of albums on the market. A lot of mainstream top 40 acts are being released on vinyl.

But we're not talking about albums themselves. We're talking about album ART. Almost NONE of them contain art. They contain photos of the artists. Buy a Katy Perry album, it's basically a Playboy spread.

Lol, ok.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

Lol, ok.

So you're not willing to acknowledge that the albums in your photo are a decided minority?

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

So you're not willing to acknowledge that the albums in your photo are a decided minority?

The post you quoted from me said "they just may not be popular". I'm saying that album art is more prevalent than you think.

The issue I had with the interview was saying that kids today don't care about album art because they didn't grow up with it, which is absolutely false. Most non-mainstream music is listened to by kids.

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

The post you quoted from me said "they just may not be popular". I'm saying that album art is more prevalent than you think.

The issue I had with the interview was saying that kids today don't care about album art because they didn't grow up with it, which is absolutely false. Most non-mainstream music is listened to by kids.

Pretty sure he was talking about the mainstream and the majority though, don't you think? I mean, just looking at the Billboard Top 10 this week, I'm betting most of that is bought by people age 12-25. And I may be generalizing, but that stuff doesn't strike me as album art-oriented. A lot of it seems pretty disposable to me.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

The post you quoted from me said "they just may not be popular". I'm saying that album art is more prevalent than you think.

I have an issue with the word "prevalent" is all. In terms of just availability, yes there's a lot of albums with art out there. But in terms of the percentage of the whole, it isn't prevalent, it's just present.

That's why I carefully said "alive AND well". Album art is alive but it isn't "well". It's a very very small minority in a vinyl market dominated by sleeves that really amount to nothing more than album-sized posters of the artist. I suppose some people call a half-naked woman concealed with whipped cream "art" but I'm really talking about hand-drawn/painted stuff like I see in your photo. THAT is album "art".

Originally Posted by KCUnited

The issue I had with the interview was saying that kids today don't care about album art because they didn't grow up with it, which is absolutely false. Most non-mainstream music is listened to by kids.

I agree and disagree. A lot of non-mainstream music is being listened to by people between 18 and 30 (gotta figure out where I read that). I don't think it's being listened to predominantly by kids. In fact, in proportion mainstream music is outselling niche stuff 10:1, so again, in terms of raw numbers, there's a lot of eclectic music available but in terms of proportion, it's a very, very small segment of what is out there.