Why You Should Buy CDs NOW in 2024!

I used to belong to an audio forum. A guy said that he ripped all of his CDs to his computer and sold all of his CDs. His computer crashed and he lost everything. I'll bet he wished he had kept his CDs!

I own about 4,000 cds. Never getting rid of them. Made the mistake of selling over 6,500 vinyl albums in 1996.

When physical media is finally gone, the online providers will increase subscription costs dramatically as there will be no alternatives. CDs and other physical media are valuable!

I'm an independent musician about to release my first CD and Vinyl. I want to thank you all for buying physical media and supporting new artists 👏

Nothing quite like unwrapping a special release gatefold album. Digital will never replace the feeling of sitting down and pouring over the album art while listening to a new release of your favourite band.

I bought CDs all throughout high school, despite their decline in popularity (this was the early 2010s). I got made fun of for lugging around a portable CD player and 2 or 3 CDs, but I stubbornly stuck with the format. One of my favorite things to do at night before bed was picking out the CDs that I would take with me to school the next day. A decade later, I still buy CDs and will continue to buy them for as long as I can.

I recently started listening to my old CDs recently. Great sound quality with no threat of an advert suddenly interrupting

I'm about to turn 24 years old, and my CD collection is getting close to 500. All my college buddies joke that I'm singlehandedly keeping the CD industry alive lol. Always will be a champion of buying CDs!

I've bought about 400 CD's over the last 4 years. A lot of them are rare OOP first pressings from Japan and West Germany. I will never give up my physical media collections.

You hit the nail on the head. “Loosing sense of community. Keeping bricks and mortar stores open is vital

I recently found an entire box full of metal albums next to a dumpster and most of the bands i had never heard of... This resparked that love for listening to physical media and i am pretty thankful for that.

I've been collecting CDs for 30 years now. I have a collection nearing 4000. I'll never give them up. They're still the first format I go to for physical music purchases.

I’m not sure where you came from, but I’m glad you landed in my feed. I still buy cds, cassette, vinyl, even 8-tracks. I still have my mom’s Radio Shack 8-track player.

I love the fixation people have on vinyl, it lets us by CDs for one third the price.

I'm 42 and never stopped buying cds. I'm also very fortunate in that there is an incredible independent cd/Vinyl shop 10 minutes away from where I live. The store is pretty huge and has a seperate area for metal and underground bands. A lot of people say physical media is dead and yet every time I go there, the store is packed. The great thing about it is directly next to the store is Half Priced Books which carries tons of cds/vinyls for dirt cheap. What I do is buy a cd, rip it to my computer and sync it to one of my MP3 players. I use the cds as a backup in case they stop making mp3 players or my computer crashes. Also have a respectable amount of Vinyl which I started collecting right after high-school. Only buy Vinyl for bands I really love. Thing is, I don't have a Vinyl player and only buy the vinyls for the cover art as I display them. There's something special and tangible about holding an actual album in your hands, looking at the art and reading the liner notes. Something that is lost with a digital only collection.

Back in the day in NYC, there were two great spots... Tower Records on 66th and Broadway and HMV on Times Square!!! Loved and miss those places!!

It’s fun to dig into the old CD collection and find the ticket stubs from concerts attended in the jewel cases where I used to put them. The 1993 Pearl Jam live performance ticket stub with a $15.00 entry fee is always excellent to run into.

I own thousands of CD's ranging back to 1985. The problem with download is not only sound quality, it's also the availability of certain versions of songs. Some of the versions that I want to hear are just not available on streaming platform. I see albums disappear and never to show up again. I like to own my recordings and knowing that I have the version of songs that I want to hear.

I can't believe minidiscs didn't take off harder. Infinitely re-recordable, impossible to scratch, a MD player in your pocket was only about as big as a pack of smokes.

CDs will always resonate with me forever. I still have all my original underground hip hop CDs from the 90s and early 2000s. Being a late 90s/early 2000s kid. I can tell you much like crate digging for vinyls, I also love CD digging as well. There's a pure joy and mystery going to places like CD EXCHANGE, half price books and independent brick and mortar shops scouring through the cds. I collect most underground/ indie hip-hop artist. Remember there was no YouTube or streaming platforms back then, so the only thing I got to go off by was the cover of the cds. ESPECIALLY for underground artist. But there was always a shrill of excitement and uncertainty of what I was about to hear. Putting that CD into my car CD player would be a sonically incredible experience. Because there's no telling what I'm going to hear within a 12 track album .Could be gold, or could be dirt. Regardless that's why I loved buying cds. The sheer excitement of just cruising around town listening to something new.