Why You Should Collect CDs in 2024

I still buy cds, I never quit. Mostly because I like having physical media. I don't want to rely on the internet.

I used to have a bunch of cds. I ended up ripping them all to my PC in lossless format. Then started just downloading albums digitally. But the last couple years, I’ve gone back to buying the CD and ripping in lossless again. They are essentially the same price as the digital version, but better quality.

Couldn't agree more. I have 500-600 CDs. I don't trust any online streaming services. Like you say, them can remove songs at any time. Buying MP3 leave you at the mercy of the medium you copy them too and even then you are limited to the number of times you can copy, leaving you unable to play on all you machines. Storing things on the cloud is like letting an unknown neighbor keep you whole music collection for you. One day you wake up and they have disappeared. I buy the CD, burn it to a HD with a backup in case of failure. Even if both drives fail, I still have the CD as an original source. I think a lot of young people will be really pissed one day when they realize they don't have their favorite songs to stream anymore and it will happen. Young people think the world is permanent since they haven't lived in it long enough to see that things always go away eventually. Protect your music. If you have the CD, you have it forever. FOR SURE !!

I just crossed the 800 mark with my collection. I never abandoned physical media.

CDs forever📀

I have bought a couple a month for the last 20 or so years. The problem is that new releases that I actually want are few and far between.

I never stopped buying cds since they debuted. I just bought a couple this week alone.

I still buy physical music and mostly on cd. They are affordable and sound good. My cd collection is now almost to 5000.

CDs are still a better sound quality than these streaming services which will most likely never get to the CD quality. I love collecting & listening to them. There's so much in CDs that there isn't in streaming such as ownership, tangibility, convenience, beautiful artwork, signed copies, no ads or internet, no removal/editing of songs etc. The prices are still cheap, same with good portable cd players on amazon.

The limiting factor in quality isn't the cd or stream; it is the original source.

I bought a new Panasonic Stereo for Lana del Rey and Greta Van Fleet 😂 ... i conected my Phone via 3,5.mm and played the same song from Spotify and the CD and the CD has much more depthness ! That really suprised me ! Especially over headphones! I conected my Sennheiser and the sound was so much richer and deeper with the CD its nuts

Great video.....I'll NEVER rent music or movies

Hey its Balok!

Vinyl, CD, whatever. Collect a tangible copy of the album.

Great video! I agree with everything you said. My CD shelves are getting close to 1,500 albums of selective purchases across jazz, punk, blues, rock and hip hop. I am still buying new and used CDs regularly and don't see myself stopping.

The very first CD I bought was in 1987 when that CD was first released to replace my vinyl album of Floyd's Obscured By Clouds. To hear that album without any hiss or pops or crackles was fuckin' amazing. I still have it, I still buy CD's and I still have all the vinyl albums and CD's I have bought over the years.

There was an uptick in 2005 around the price of certain limited edition cds when they went out of print. In my corner, soul music on cd was worth about double once copies dried up. This is pre-cd era music reissued in limited batches but available for a number of years. Some get repressed while others didn't. Labels that are collectible include Sundazed, Rhino-handmade, Hipo-select, Wounded Bird, Spy, Edsel, Raven, Right Stuff, Sequel, Ambassador, Ace, Bear Family, etc. Japanese imports and almost any jazz album with 4-6 players sells well. Cds on the charts in the 90's-2005 like REM were common and will hardly ever command more than $3-5 if that. Cd singles and deluxe reissues with bonus content is where the gains will be as it has limited content. Vinyl albums from the mid to late 70's are very common in number and don't command as much as desired titles outside of that era.

Collect them all the time i never stop CDs and Vinyl , get the same album/songs on both.

Some cds, I've found, are really expensive. Such as those out of print and Japanese pressings.

Physical media is the best way