thank you everyone for sharing your stories! I am reading all the comments but there are so many now that I can't respond to all of them but you are being seen!
hey brotha, i am 52 and a 80's cd collector fan n i still send out money orders for cds actually from private sellers from discogs or ebay and i burn cdr's too , sadly i have more of them than origs , i am having trouble getting headphones though to plug into my stereo and they are becoming harder to find that plays older cdr's not blutooth crap , tectnology sucks for me , i do not own a celly either nor have any social media except this channel , i am stuck in the 80's and i LOVE IT , talk soon bro > tom !
You know whats great about CDs? You pop it in and it just plays. You don't need the internet, or a password, or Wi-Fi. You just get uninterrupted music from beginning to end. And they come with booklets filled with lyrics and pictures. Usually.
@@DancingwithGhosts Streaming with me is limiting. The things I listen to are typically not available everywhere so I actually live by CDs. I use mostly streaming when entertaining. No vinyl though.
Same. I STILL use CDs, still have so, so many in my office, and yeah many more in boxes due to space. . And yes, I have a boatload of MP3s...which I burn onto recordable CDs and play them in my car, (that can thankfully play Mp3 CDs_ which has a 5 CD changer. So...hours of music when it comes to that. I simply refuse to pay for a silly subscription and stream music.
KW-ew7ll Thanks for the info! I never got into the vinyl craze so I have to ask, do these new vinyl records sound any better than the ones that were published in the early 20th century?
It's not just you. I'm an audio engineer and its way too much to get into but against all other methods, if your pickup has good speakers and a good amp you have the best sound quality of any of these methods period. People might not think it's cool, but fuk em.
@@megamanmarchek8293 I've read often that when buying vinyl, focus on albums released before the early eighties, when recordings were made using ANALOG instead of digital equipment, ANALOG has a richer, warmer and more natural sound. Digital means COMPRESSION which takes some natural sonics away from recordings! When listening to my 70's music, I can definitely hear the difference!
Japan is where the CD (and most physical media) market still thrives. The music industry there loves the idea of releasing limited special collector's edition autographed albums that can entice the otaku . They still operate Tower Records including a very prime location in Shibuya.
CDs are by far the best type of physical music, I don't care what anyone says. I'm glad that there are still a few stores where I live dedicated to physical media, CDs and DVDs and all.
I feel privileged to work at a record store currently because as of now people from all walks of life are coming in to buy tons of physical media. Gen alpha kids are buying DVDs and CDs brand new and used. Most customers buying this stuff talk about how they're sick of streaming and want to own the material so it's not taken away from them later by the company. While physical media is in a bad place right now, it's good to know there's a strong market still that's pushing to keep stores like mine alive and physical media as a whole so it's not lost to time.
I don't think physical media will ever completely go away. It will decline to a certain point and level off probably. There will always be some market for it especially vinyl. For me it's the artwork, the booklets that came with them, and the ability to actually own the music.
Yeah! I’m so sick of streaming. At times my internet service is down temporarily. That sucks!! I’ve watched from streaming services and the internet or the freaking internet service interrupts the viewing experience. Give me physical media back.
It's so sad when stores like Best Buy have completely given up on CD's. Something that was considered a technological marvel in the 80's is now just a worthless piece of plastic coated aluminum. 25 years ago, people would've thought we are out of our minds to have the vinyl record become our physical media of choice in 2024.
It's odd to think about how people are more into collecting vinyl than CDs, especially when you consider the fact that CDs are a lot more practical than vinyl, mainly due to their small, compact size and the existence of portable disc players and built in car players. There's also the fact that you can purchase some blank ones and burn some songs onto it at home using a computer and a disc drive (either internal or external), which is another bonus of the compact disc which vinyl lacks.
I never understood the fascination of the public with vinyl records. It takes too much space, plus in my opinion they don't sound as good as cds. Cds sounds crystal clear, vinyl sounds scratchy, and streaming sounds flat. Nothing beats the sounds of a good 💿.
@@felipehernandez-pedroza8288i like CDs better too mainly because of lack of pops and clicks. But you are wrong about sound. Vinyl can reproduce much wider frequency range than CD. Most of that range average human can't hear but the very existence of those frequencies makes sound richer on appropriate audiophile gear
Lots of underground artists are requesting CDs at least for a limited time these days, I've been doing my part burning them for the younger kids I know like my older sisters did for me. I think if any of the older physical media has the opportunity for a large scale retail comeback, it's discs bc they're pretty cheap and the more expensive ones are very efficient
Thank u I don’t care about new technology we can be in the year 2029 and ima keep buying cds 💿 and supporting them and the artist I had never stream ever in my life 🤘🤘🤘📀📀📀🎧🎧💿🎧🎧🎧🎧 cds forever ♾️
@@PraveenSrJ01 u mean cds 💿 will always be around That phrase is getting old 😭🤣🤣😂😅 No one buys cds 🤣🤣😂only streamers say that Real music lovers still buy them
The problem is that the 'new' analogue machinery (Crosley for vinyl, Tanashin for cassettes) is total garbage. Wht reintroduce an old form of media if there's no quality gear to play it back on?
There is still a large market for CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays, it's just the labels are trying to force obsolescence to funnel people into streaming. Look at all the major music acts whose documentaries/live films are ONLY available on streaming platforms now rather than physical media. The upshot to this is there are some high quality bootlegs that are available almost immediately to cater to the folks who wish to OWN the film rather than rent it in a sense through streaming. High quality "fan-made" blu-rays and DVDs of The Beatles Let it Be, Billy Joel's 100th MSG Concert and the new Beach Boys documentary are out there, and ALL have hours of bonuses on them - just like best DVDs and blu-rays used to. Make no mistake, not being able to easily find physical media in stores in 2024 is by design. There is still a large market out there for this stuff, but since streaming generates a constant stream of revenue for the labels (as opposed to a disc which you buy once and have it forever), so that's where they are pushing folks towards in 2024.
"There is still a large market for CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays, it's just the labels are trying to force obsolescence to funnel people into streaming." nailed it. 100%. well said, thanks!
Good question, once their physical media section shrunk down to barely anything of interest, I lost interest in the store. Best Buy sucks now, because of this.
@@AaronC143 I’d literally go there once a week to look over all the new releases and check for good deals on the rest. Now there’s no reason to go there what so ever.
Fun fact: my local Walmart and Target have taken to stocking kpop albums. That shit is wild to me. To be fair, kpop fans are insane and happily blow $20-40 on each album and they sell out pretty quickly so I guess it's a no brainer. But considering I'm from a medium sized south Texas town and most the other CDs stocked are 80s fodder or Tejano, it's.... certainly a wild thing to experience.
My Walmart also still has an overstock of American Idol Season ...20? 21? Something like that CDs that have been there since... at least 2018. They ain't going anywhere I don't think.
You have Tejano? The central TX Wal marts don't stock it. Up here in Central TX the stores have NOW its 90's! The best of Seether, and Morgan Wallen. Crazy stuff
I feel like putting on a vinyl record forces you to actually absorb the music at a more conscious level. Especially if you have great speakers hooked up to your turntable
So does a cassette tape, or a video of a full album whilst closing the other tabs The real problem is that anybody nowadays can produce their own Albums, so the selection is huge, and much of it is neither new nor innovative
I love that you showed how it is now. I'm 65 years old and have been collecting vinyl since I was 6 years old--true. My Mom was a huge record collector, and she got them for me as well. I have the 1st 4 Beatles albums that came out still in my collection, all in good shape. I have collecting records all along, but of course it didn't stop me from getting CDs for other music and DVDs for all the movies I've obtained...😳 I'm a book collector as well...I do have a small room with book cases for the books, DVDs and Cds...the vinyls (my Mom's and mine now) have their own record cabinets. It is sad to see how things are in the stores now...I go thru Amazon to find most what I get now. It's much easier. Thank you.
Some info from someone in Gen Z who started buying CDs in 2019- First, Best Buy stopped selling CDs in 2019. I bought some Green Day and Linkin Park albums when they were trying to clean out their remaining stock. Second, the only chain in my area that has a good number of CDs is actually… Barnes and Noble? The one near me has half CDs and half vinyl (which actually reflects US sales numbers) and has a small section of $5 CDs with a lot of great modern classics. The prices are decent, highly suggest them. It’s a lot of mainstream stuff, but you’ll occasionally find something obscure, and it’s typically discounted.
toys R us in canada this year, started selling, cd's, records, and dvds, it's actually a huge part of the store too now edit, it's also not just top 40,. i saw all of pantera's albums in there
I’ve been buying CDs since 1985. Used to buy a ton every payday. It mainly slowed down because the greedy record labels kept raising prices as the costs to make CDs went down. I still refuse to pay more than $15 for a single album. In Sacramento, where Tower Records was born, it’s now an absolute wasteland for media shopping. Barnes and Noble is the only store with a worthwhile selection, and prices aren’t competitive. For 5 years now, ever since we lost our last real media store, I’ve had to mail order most stuff which I hate doing. Had a package get stolen outside my apartment recently. We don’t have FYE left here but sad that they have such a pitiful selection now, you’d think they’d try harder to keep it alive. Best Buy helped put a lot of stores out of business by selling popular titles at a loss, since they’ve now dropped media altogether I hope they go out of business.
I remember buying music in a music store without knowing what it was going to sound like. The mystery could be very exciting when you discover something you really like
I still love my cds. I end up getting them from Amazon these days and they have plenty. As someone who actually grew up with vinyl when it was widely distributed, I appreciate cds. Records always skip and having to flip it over after 5 songs is annoying. I still like them but more for the look than anything. I have a large cd selection and always adding to it. FYI flea markets tend to have plenty for sale.
CDs are still available in places around me like walmart, target, barnes & noble, local record store. They can also be bought online at amazon, ebay, discogs, bandcamp, artist/record label webstores.
@@RobertQuant I haven't seen any edited CDs lately. I think they did away with edited versions. Walmart has now been selling them uncensored. I bought Beyonce's "Renaissance" CD there back in 2022, that album sucked. It has way too much profanity and vulger lyrics.
@@RobertQuant Well, I'm not seeing any with the new ones. Heck, I haven't seen an edited CD of Olivia Rodrigo's "GUTS" on CD. So, I had to get it uncensored.
Vinyl is so expensive these days. Here in the UK we have a shop called HMV and some of the vinyl can cost upwards of £50! It's ridiculous. Best to buy from charity shops or independent record shops. Cool video anyway my dude!
New Vinyl is expensive, yes. In the States it can be upwards of $30+. I'd imagine that £50 are for imports from the states? Either way, always buying used whether it's from Thrift Stores or local spots these days bc I'm a cheapskate. I even have a series on my channel where I review my thrift store finds
keep in mind vinyl is also very expensive to print, so the artist who is putting out the vinyl is taking it on the chin with cost that's why they have to charge so much. There are much less vinyl pressing facilities than there used to be
@@viralmedianetwork415 Sorry to say, but even used records are starting to get ridiculously expensive in some cases, particularly those commonly known albums by big name Legacy acts like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, Stones, Floyd and so forth. For example, it's become the norm to find a beat-to-hell USED copy of Micheal Jackson's "Thriller" for $20 or more. I've even seen open-shrink copies with the hype stickers intact marked up to $75, even with the record in deplorable condition - and people are stupid enough to PAY THAT MUCH for it! No joke! And we're talking about an album that isn't rare, collectible or hard to find, either. But something that was pressed in the millions!
@@DancingwithGhosts Hardly the truth, since new vinyl pressing plants are opening on a regular basis in an effort to curb the bottle-necking. And, as any amount of proper research will reveal, the cost of manufacturing records has NOT gone up as exponentially as we've been led to believe post-pandemic. Nope. What it's come down to at this point in time is nothing more than good-old fashioned corporate major label greed. Go figure: When a single new LP should still be comfortably priced at around $25 (many still are, in fact) and labels like Universal Music Group are charging $35-$40 and up for their new releases, even those on 1xLP (far more than other labels), it becomes LAUGHABLE. Especially when you consider that big accounts like the majors typically get the cheapest available bulk rates on everything from packaging to pressing, along with priority status at the front of the line - while indie artists and smaller labels who kept the pressing plants alive through their darkest days are basically getting screwed. And because they know people will pay what they think it's worth, these majors keep raising the prices of new release and reissue LP's higher and higher PAST the point of inflation. Not to mention needless color variants sparking FOMO, which the majors are also taking advantage of in typically unscrupulous fashion. Most people with an actual conscience in the vinyl community can agree that this overall approach is 100% UNSUSTAINABLE and could soon put vinyl back on the same path to slow obsolescence that CD's have occupied in the past several years. In fact, it's safe to say that history is repeating itself; For in the late 90's, if you recall, the majors began overpricing the hell out of CD's and forcing bands to fill 78 minutes of a single disc with music, even if they had only one or two good songs and the rest were crap. Naturally, at the damn of the new millennium, people started pushing back on this greed. Enter Napster, with iTunes following not far behind. Suffice to say, the big labels are only on track to shoot themselves in the foot all over again! Once the vinyl bubble eventually bursts - and it will - you can bet that's what's gonna happen! Anyway, apologies for veering so far off topic. Great video, BTW!
I went in an independent shop recently as I had just purchased a vintage JVC turntable. Vinyl was the same as ebay prices for 2nd hand records, some were going for £45 even! I decided buying a turntable wasn't a great idea, stick to CDs from now on. Can get 6-7 CDs for that price.
Some questions come to mind: 1 Do any CDs have value? About once a year I'll hear about people who can't live without those old "West German Produced" CDs because they're so much clearer and more dynamic than the ones that got pressed afterward, once everyone was stamping them out. Or then again, sometimes it's just cool to own something that was made within shouting distance of the Berlin wall once upon a time. Sure hope there's something to it because I've got a bunch of 'em from Madonna to Dire Straits to the Rolling Stones (theirs is one of those dreaded greatest hits though - still, gotta love Hot Rocks!) 2 Please explain the vinyl comeback to me! The whole reason it was supposed to be over was that the compact discs would replace them. Remember? The better dynamic range, no hiss, pops or distortion of any kind. That was supposed to be a good thing, right? So what gives now, this many years later? I need to understand why it's the compact disc that's the annoying holdover and not the inferior LP's and 45s. Hey, do they still have 45s? Remember those? I saw a bunch of albums there but not one 45 rpm cut.
Vinyl might in theory have a warmer sound than a CD. At least that is the reputation it has. Some early CD recordings were harsh sounding, but that was before the engineers figured out how to make it sound good. As for me, I was never able to get beyond the noise floor of vinyl. What good is a marginally warmer sound if you have snap crackle and pop along with rumble? The biggest weakness I see in CD is that it is standardized on computer technology from about 1977. Today, we could have much higher sampling rates and bit depth which might improve the sound. Of course, new digital formats wouldn't be compatible with old players, though new players could easily be made compatible with old disks.
If you have a collection of metal cd's, of any sub-genre, sell them if they're taking up space. I made a nice chunk of change selling mine, way more than I spent on them.
I have bought cd's of the first pressings as they always sound better than the later "remasteres" that bricks everything. Though some of those Black Sabbath remasters actually sound good as they didn't brick it.
The market for old school metal first pressing CDs is wild. I was into collecting them for a while but didn't acquire much. Got a lot of cool ones from Japan for dirt cheap, probably would have cost an arm and leg if bought in the states.
The annoying part is that, while we've gotten convenience down pat, we're losing the intangible stuff that made shopping brick and mortars so interesting. I've lost count of how many CDs I picked up because a name grabbed my attention or a cover looked interesting. You can't do that online - or at least I'm not sure what the online equivalent of browsing a used rack might be. You either need to know about something already or get a specific recommendation and it's far less fun than just randomly finding treasure. The vinyl resurgence would be great for it, but most of what you see at anything other than niche stores is the same top 40 and/or "classic" albums. Great if you've lived under a rock most of your life, not so much if you're looking for something off the beaten path. Can be nice to thrift as a CD fan though. It's like tales people tell of looking for vinyl in the '90s when everyone was offloading their shit for pennies. Same deal now, but with CDs.
I still buy CDs quite a bit. Some of them are meant as collector's items, while some admittedly, I burn, and usually don't play them again. However, I want a physical piece of media in my hands. I don't want to stream all of my music, as if I don't pay for the streaming service, I won't have it available for my listening pleasure when not on the internet. Currently, I use UA-cam music, as it allows me to listen to albums I'll be it with ads, and if I find I like it enough, I will purchase it. I will never let physical media die. Plus, if you see your favorite artist, you can have them sign this piece of physical media, which you can't do if only you stream the album.
@manifestationsofasort why? If you collect CDs now, they are really cheap because they aren't popular. Look at vinyl, once they became popular their prices skyrocketed.
I'm thankful that my local library has a great selection of CDs from all genre. All you need is a library card. And if you want to keep the song, burn it onto your MP3 play list. That way you don't have to concern yourself with going store-hopping to see where a CD is located of an album that you only care about one or two songs. Modern cars don't even have CD players in their stereos; so it's essentially obsolete outside of just nostalgia purposes and collection. And as far as collectors are concerned here's a wake-up call that would save you from being disappointed: Those $1.00 CDs that you're finding in the bargain basement bin at your local F.Y.E. or similar store WON'T be gaining any more value than it already has. 20 years from now you might be able to make a profit of an extra dollar if you sell it on eBay. Buying CDs in the value bin is NOT an investment. Again, if it's only for nostalgic purposes, that I'll understand.
Starting listening to and buying cds again after about ten years of spotify use. They sound so much better on my hifi system than streaming. The record store I grew up with still exists but they have about 20 cds and the rest is vinyl.
@@DancingwithGhosts well, I prefer the album format, I like little ritual of putting it in and looking through the booklet, and it's got arguably the best sound quality. I usually just stream some vapor list on youtube when I'm working.
Last CD I remember getting super excited to get was Slipknot Iowa on release day. Had my mom drive me to The Wherehouse and they had a whole basket right next the register. Those were the days.
9:30 Really just depends where you live. Online I have to buy CDs for $5 - $10 each, but irl I haven't spent more than $5 in years on a CD. I find good stuff all the time too. Usually I end up spending 50 cents to $2 per CD, unless I buy new ones from Walmart where I'll spend $3 - $7, but it's very rarely I'll do that considering it's all remasters and reissues of big albums I likely already have. There's this one mall that has a flea market once a month and this guy in there sells the best variety of CDs I've ever seen for only $2 each, or $1 - $1.75 if you buy in bulk. Oh and btw, I'm 15 and only grew up with CDs until I was around 7, so I'm not doing this to be hip or nostalgic, rather doing it because I have a passion for music and like to physically own my albums. I also buy records, although not as much because it's hard to spend less than $10 on an album anymore. Sorry for the long ass paragraph lol, and I enjoyed the video.
This was my first time viewing your content, and I absolutely loved it! I’m 52, so I started out life with vinyl and 8 track tapes as a kid, then graduated to cassette tapes not long after. But when CD’s really took off, I was hooked! I remember ordering the 12 CD’s for a penny from Columbia house, I talked most of my relatives into ordering my pick of CD’s as well. After a year or so, I had hundreds of CD’s! I lost most of my collection in a divorce years ago, but I just started trying to collect some of my favorites a couple years ago. Nothing beats the sound, quality and nostalgia of CD’s. I look forward to seeing more of your videos 👍🏼
I dont know why most Auto-Makers dont include a CD player when theyre so small, simple, and convenient. Car companies are so worried about being the most advanced they leave out common sense accessories like a CD playerwhich takes up little room on a dashboard
Strangely enough, the US sales numbers are roughly equal for CDs and vinyl so far this year, after a few years of vinyl outselling CDs. And in many other countries (eg. UK, Australia), CDs still outsell vinyl by a significant margin.
CD shopping is alive and well in Japan... we brought back 100 discs from visiting 7 Tower Records stores, and with the weak yen this year, it was a killer haul.
It's funny, I was kind of one of those "only analog is real" types years ago, until the vinyl resurgance really started to take off. In the past decade or so, I've really grown to like CDs again as well. They're far more economical if you're a physical media type, and some times flipping vinyl (especially 7"s and 45s) is tedious, especially if you're gaming or something. I also like collecting CD discographies of old punk, metal, grindcore, etc bands with the Artists whole run on it, especially if there's some good (hopefully not too hard to read) liner notes included. Of course, I am a metal fan in his mid 40s, so CD collecting is practically required. I proudly wear an onion on my bullet belt, as it was the style at the time.
i started collecting CDs again and i've used eBay and Amazon. there is a record store near me that sells vinyl and CDs though. i think they sell cassettes as well
I used to be able to buy CD's at everywhere from Media Play (RIP) to Meijers grocery store. Now most have totally gotten rid of their physical music section and if you do find a store that sells them still it's one or two small racks with just a few current titles sprinkled with a few hits packages from legacy artists. Thankfully I have Amazon and Ebay to buy new CDs from every week. I currently have 11,000 CDs and will never give up on them.
Same here I’m surprised a lot of people Don’t know About Aomeba records in Hollywood that’s the biggest music store 🏬 that sells cds 💿 records movies posters t shirts and everything A lot of people must not be from Los Angeles 🤦♀️🤦♀️😂😂😂🤦♀️😂😂😅
At my local record store in Ohio he still has a lot of CDs. Also just coming from a 2 week vacation in Japan, Tower Records has a LOT of CDs. Japan still loves their CDs
I used to buy a ton of CDs when I was a teenager in the 00s and now I have a storage box full of a couple hundred CDs that I don't even open anymore. That's not including two big CD wallets full of burned CDs. There are a couple of albums I have that pretty much don't exist online and were only ever released in CD format so I'm glad I have them. I still buy a CD maybe once or twice a year these days but it's usually at a show or directly from an indie artist's merch store that I want to support. Where I'm from (Dublin, Ireland) they still seem easy to find with a couple of stores still having large selections of them but there has definitely been a major push toward vinyl.
The same thing has happened to the science and mathematics sections of book stores. Back in the 70's and 80's you could find a whole eighth of a bookstore just for science and mathematics books, then down to onw row in the 2000's, now, if they even have one, it's usually filled with light-weight X for dummies books. Damn clouds !
My buddy bought a brand new truck in 2022 and it blew my mind that it didnt come with a cd player. i havent bought a new car since 2009 so i didnt realize that that was even a thing.
So. True. I bought a new car a few months ago. One of the first things I noticed is that it's missing the cd player. I was like, what? Streaming is convenient, but nothing beats the sound of 💿. I still owe my old car from 2010. I has cd player. Can't wait to f
@@felipehernandez-pedroza8288 Classic case of big business deciding for themselves what the masses want instead of actually giving them what they want. I’m currently looking for a new(er) car and there is not a cat in hell’s chance I will be buying one without a CD player.
U guys know that Amazon know sells cd transports for new cars they like $60 dollars buy worth it to install in ur new cars and u can finally play ur cds 💿 on that system 🤘🤘🤘📀📀💿🎧🎧🎧
That is one of the main reasons I do not want a new car. The other reasons include I don't want a car with any kind of connection to anything capable of controlling it or tracking it. I have an extensive CD collection, mostly classical, which people tend to listen to for years if not decades.
I’m very lucky to have one of world’s best record stores in the country right near my house, with such a complete collection of anything new or old. You can find literally whatever you like there on any format
I was born in 81' and will NEVER EVER have a f**king Spotify account. I still buy CDs and blurays and 4ks. Only a chump would rely on the internet and streaming corporations for their art.
Agree 100%. I wanna listen to my music, play my video games and watch my movies and shows offline. Once we start relying on the internet to run all our entertainment needs 24/7, we're in a real desperate and sad situation as a human race. We should NOT be forced to have the internet run our lives.
Convenience. I own over 1000 cds and have a small but growing collection of vinyl. I used to haul five huge 300 cd booklets around. They are still heavy. Then my mom got me an IPOD. I put all my cds on them. Then streaming came. Streaming makes it easy. I was born in 86. I have a Spotify account. Everything I own is on there. I don't have to carry everything around. I can listen to my favorite songs anywhere without having to carry tons of cds. I make playlist on Spotify. Its one of my favorite hobbies. I make Playlist with over 1000 songs on them. I have over 200 playlist based on different sub genres, most favorites, who my audience is, hits, holidays, and other different factors. Streaming is my main art. It's cheap. For $12 a month, I can do all that. I still buy albums of my most favorite artist, but other bands, Nah I'll just listen to them on Spotify. There is too much music in the world and not enough money to buy them all. That's why streaming works for me.
Streaming is rental 😅😅😅😅 if u like it so much good for u but u will never own the music and the sound quality sucks 😅😅😅 it’s just a file ok a cheap cell phone
@RobertQuant I already own 1000 cds. Don't need anymore. I dont care about owning the music. Its about making the best playlist and enjoying it. And Not wasting money on something I don't like. New music comes out every week. Streaming is the best way to find new music without having to buy it first. CDs are $20 each. If I put 1000 bands on a playlist and decide to buy an album for each band I like, that's $20,000 that i dont have. Streaming is cheaper.
I very rarely buy music CDs these days as I can't afford them but I still make my own CDs and get just about everything for nothing from the net and burn it to a CD-R recordable, that way I still own something physical and it still counts as my own playlist. It's cheaper to buy blank CDs and rip your own playlists on them then to actually buy store bought CDs. If they wanna keep the music CD media alive then they need to lower the prices, somehow paying $25 dollars for one complete album over spending the same money on a pack of 50 blank CD-Rs is not worth it.
This was a really good video and very eye-opening. I used to have a circuit city in the plaza that I would work at and walk over there on my lunch hour and go through the new CDs that came out for that week and always come back to my store with a bag full of stuff, and then he always go to store was Best Buy. I just spend hours in there with my friends looking through DVDs and CDs. Very depressing now because you have streaming services but they’re not the same as the physical copies, and I always liked popping in a CD and just hit play now with download you have to wait maybe go through three or four commercials before you get to a song that you like, I wish I could go back to the 80s where it was fun and enjoyable, and it seemed like people were a lot happier. Take care of my friend good video
i notice one thing over here in Germany: people like me mostly do not got to local shops anymore, because you almost find anything there - it`s the same situation in every shop as it was recently uploaded and to bee seen in one of your "short"-clips - those who collect CDs order them via internet. Thank God i have a very cool 2nd hand-music shop in my town - CDs but also Vinyl in a very good quality, so you dive in there and feel like Alice in Wonderland.
I’ll continue to say this! . There are a lot that still clamor for physical media such as myself & as long as they’re is that group of people . it will not completely die off . I don’t care about this digital media crap . I love my physical media!
It's so hard to take sometimes. I remember how everything was physical in like 2007 and now everything is digital almost. I can't believe people are okay with not actually owning anything. It's so odd to me.
There are no Fyes in New York City anymore. But I use to go to The Wiz, Tower Records, Disc O mat, Sam Goody, HMV, and J&R Music World as well as a few smaller music stores. It depended on what area of the city or New Jersey I was in. I really liked going to Tower Records. When they had 3 locations in Manhattan I was at all of them buying CD's.
I remembered back in the 2010’s buying cds at target since they would never ID you for explicit cds. Got Yeezus and Born Sinner the same day. One day I would try to buy Long Live A$AP at a Fred Meyer. The ID verification popped up on the screen but the cashier was like a couple years older than me and bypassed it. I still have those cds and feel nostalgic when ever I see em
We had Cocunuts still at my mall (before ot got razed amd it's an outdoor shopping center. Boo on that). But it was an aweome store to find mice box sets or really onscure stuff. Misfits boxed set, goth band Nosferatu. They even had a huge release book of street date titles. Asked to find Stabbing Westward Darkest Days right when it come out (dated Gen X here). Not even in the book and cashier had no idea who they were. Anyway, miss just browsing titles endlessly and buying some random thing cause it was in your hands and you were like, "f it I'm buying this one." Ah good times. Also, anyone remember when walmart used to sell live fish, or waa that a fever dream?
ya.. i'm sure IF a new best buy store opens up it will be half the size.. now that they dont have to make all that room for those racks of physical media
I worked at FYE in college, right before Spotify exploded. Getting to be around all of that music and CDs was definitely one of my favorite jobs I've ever had. I miss those stores.
Things certainly have changed. I started collecting records in the late 1980s. I found them at thrift stores, used record stores, and a few chain stores. Not long afterward, I added CDs to the collection. Over time, it grew to the point of becoming completely unwieldy. Just over ten years ago, I moved to a new city with a far more expensive real estate market, so I had to purge a lot of that stuff. I no longer have vinyl records or a turntable for them. I still have some shellac records and a mechanical record player that was made in 1917. It's mostly a historical curiosity, but if the power happens to go out, I can play some ancient records on it. I still have CDs and DVDs, but I have long since ripped them to my hard drive, and they now sit in boxes in a dark corner. It is far more convenient to find music on my hard drive than to go into another room, pull a CD or a record off the shelf, put it in the device that plays it, and then in roughly an hour after it is done playing, put the thing away and dig out another one. I still want to own music, so I haven't gone over to streaming, but nowadays, I buy downloads. Amazon has made this increasingly inconvenient because they want to force people into streaming, but there are other ways to buy downloads. Classical music is my first love in music, though I also like many other genres. For classical and jazz, Presto Music is great for CD-quality or better lossless downloads, and for those who are still stuck on CDs, they sell CDs. The classical crowd doesn't seem to have come back to records in the same way as fans of other genres - CDs are still king for those who want physical media, and a lot of classical fans are old curmudgeons who refuse to embrace computer hard drives and streaming. For other genres, there is a lot of weird, underground stuff on Bandcamp. It is fun to dig around there and see what hidden gems might turn up. I've never had trouble buying downloads from that site. Come to think of it, I haven't looked around there for a while - maybe it's time to get back to it and see what I might find. One note on music downloads... If you do this as I do, back up your hard drive. Even better, keep multiple backups. I mirror my music library on two different computers and keep an external backup. Hard drives crash on occasion, and you don't want to suddenly lose a gigantic music library. I went in the FYE at the local half-dead mall recently. It certainly has turned into a weeb emporium. (Incidentally, there is another weeb superstore in that mall, and it is even more weeby.) It's fun to look at the strange stuff in there, but none of it interests me. I don't have room to collect useless ugly junk. That store still have some physical media, but the racks are as pitiful as the ones in this video. I also found some old, long expired candy there, and the place is generally a mess. The employees look like the place has sucked out their souls. I have good memories of a large big box FYE, which had previously been Media Play. All kinds of CDs and DVDs could be found there. Out of curiosity, I looked on Google Street View to see what is there now, and I saw a sporting goods store. Barnes & Noble and Borders also used to be great for CDs and DVDs, but those days are long gone. There is a used CD and record store in town that keeps a lot of stuff in stock. I don't want to add to my physical media, but occasionally I'll look in there, and if I see something interesting that I can't easily buy as a download, I might make an exception and pick up a CD or two. I know there are a few other stores like it around. People who still actively collect physical media should look for stores like this. There aren't as many as there used to be, but going into the used record stores that remain is like going through a time warp back to the 1990s. There is nothing quite like browsing through the dusty racks in a moldy old record store; the way discoveries can be made there simply cannot be duplicated online.
Used record stores are your best bet for physical media today, especially weird and obscure things that your never gonna find anywhere. There are fewer but there will always be some around. I still buy a CD here and there, especially if it's a collector's editon or remastered with the extra booklets and such.
Best Buy had announced that in 2024, they would stop selling physical media such as DvDs and even some games. Walmart will be doing the same by the end of this year tho no confirmed date has been announced as of yet.. There are a few Walmarts that already got rid of their DvD shelves and tossed the movies into the big $5 bins. Ah, FYEs.. or Sam Goodys as I knew it back in the early 2000s.. It was my go-to store for physical media..I visited one few months ago after a decade of not going to one and boy has it changed. Its like a totally different store. More aimed at they younger anime-loving generations
I still buy CDs, but usually J-pop imports or things that aren't on Spotify. I know there are other ways to get the music, but I like the convenience of putting the CD in and listening, rather than tracking down files. It would be hard for a mall store to stock the CDs I was specifically interested in buying.
Same here. Often when I am able to track down files for semi-obscure J-pop they are low quality mp3s. Lots of older idols have been getting re-releases on CD lately, so it seems to still be a fairly popular format in Japan.
For me , I still buy classic anime CDs & vinyl records to this very day . The majority of them are from Japan & the ones that I have are very interesting to my liking. ❤😊 But if I ever get the chance , I do buy some Western music vinyl records from the 80s on ebay (Tiffany , Starship , Expose , Madonna-chan , Duran Duran , Michael Jackson & some of my other favorites. ) 😂 But I still love listening to J-POP from the Heisei era & even music from the 70s & 80s ( late Showa era.)
I'm lucky enough to still have a music store near me. Although I'm convinced they wouldn't be open anymore if it wasn't for selling vinyls. You usually have to order many alternative albums and wait for them to come in, then take a separate trip there just to pick it up. Kind of sucks and makes going on the internet to order a cd more tempting. I still give them my business whenever I can though. I'm lucky I still have a mall that isn't abandoned next to it too.
Cool vid Josh! Here in Chile record stores are multiplying like crazy but are keeping prices high AF, sometimes you can get good deals tho. Hifi CD players are expeeeensive also.
I'm glad I got to grow up in the 90's and early 2000's and enjoy buying tapes and CD's. Now I'm more into the Vinyl thing because of the value they hold.
Where I live, upstate New York (nowhere near the city), CDs are everywhere! At every thrift store I go to there’s at least one bin full of them, some of them have a couple shelfs of them, and not just at the big chain ones like Salvation Army and Thrifty Shopper but at the local ones too! In fact one of the local ones I went to had a 7’ tall shelving unit full of CDs, there had to be at least a couple thousand of them, and at 50 cents each, I walked out with about 40 of them and the lady at the counter said they had way more than that.
CDs will find their place again. Can't play a record in a car, and Spotify doesn't have everything. It will be the underground artists catering to a physical media crowd primarily that sees it through. I like records and CDs. And DVDs and Blu. I think the world will slowly regain an understanding of ownership ad streaming becomes more complicated and expensive. Best Buy and target halting most physical media stuff seems like an end, but it's really the beginning for many to understand where corporate greed is trying to push us - consumption without rights, and money exchanged without ownership. Spotify and Netflix are the fads.
Yeah, but Vinyl records now cost upwards of $30 or more each. I don't know if any millennials are buying those en masse. Heck, even Taylor Swift and Billie Ellish are still putting their music on CD.
I'm so fortunate to live in California, where the compact disc is still popular! They won't be found at Best Buy at all and only a few at Target. The Barnes and Noble chain have a decent selection of LPs and CDs at their stores and plan to expand the chain. There are many independent shops here, including the big Amoeba Music stores in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, selling new and used discs, including imports. A few miles west of me, Pasadena College has a monthly swapmeet featuring several dealers. Of course there are online sellers like Cherry Red, Burning Shed, Rhino (home of Quadio, yeah!) and The Elusive Disc.
Damn dude, I gotta agree. It's a damn shame too. Especially the Best Buy part. The last cd I bought there was in 2014, and they had a scarce selection even then. Granted, that was in Twin Falls, Idaho lol.
the last time i went to FYE, it was having a going out of business sale and everything was pretty well picked clean, all the shelves were mostly empty except one shelf in the tv dvd section that was full of unsold cosby show box sets
@dwcinnc Yep I did that at times with CDs. But not with tapes as much. But I mostly listened to my own mix tapes anyways. Only ever made one 8 track mix tape. Back when Radio Shack still sold blank 8 tracks in the early 80's. I bought one just to figure out the recording to an 8 track on our home stereo. It was made just for fun though
@@bsommer1717 I know they exist. But I prefer not to tie up my phone and drain its battery if I can still simply burn my own custom playlist to a cheap CD
@@Archivist1971yeah people ate stupid buying USBS knowing that with cds 💿 u can do the same thing have mix cds on a list of songs 😅😅😅😅 depending how much minutes the blank cd can carry
Honestly I think what ruined cd and music sales was a combo of FYE buying up every record store thus hiking up prices , having a shit selection , and piss poor customer service. Then when music was peaking in the early 2000s in which you had something for every genre American idol came out and the airwaves and record stores were inundated with that glorified karaoke garbage no one wanted to buy . We’re seeing the same pattern with stores like target with its over abundance of K-pop and Taylor swift cds
I was a cassette guy up until 2001 when I got the internet access, yarr! Life in eastern europe... The CD era was completely missed/skipped here. I would actually like the vinyl now tho, it looks cool, but the prices are unacceptable - I'm not broke, but I still can't allow myself to drop this much money on collectibles.
oh yeah vinyl is stupid expensive just for one album that you can easily just stream.. vinyl records are also super expensive to make though that's why they cost so much compared to CD's
thank you everyone for sharing your stories! I am reading all the comments but there are so many now that I can't respond to all of them but you are being seen!
hey brotha, i am 52 and a 80's cd collector fan n i still send out money orders for cds actually from private sellers from discogs or ebay and i burn cdr's too , sadly i have more of them than origs , i am having trouble getting headphones though to plug into my stereo and they are becoming harder to find that plays older cdr's not blutooth crap , tectnology sucks for me , i do not own a celly either nor have any social media except this channel , i am stuck in the 80's and i LOVE IT , talk soon bro > tom !
Music stores have become a joke, ... its sad.
"CDs", not "CD's". I'm sure you can find a better word than "gotten", too.
@@DVDfeverGames we did for you its = TOTAL ASSCLOWN !
@@tomquirin4231 No need for rudeness.
You know whats great about CDs? You pop it in and it just plays. You don't need the internet, or a password, or Wi-Fi. You just get uninterrupted music from beginning to end. And they come with booklets filled with lyrics and pictures. Usually.
agreed, it's for this reason why i still keep a CD booklet in my car full of Cd's.. having limited choice is actually a good thing sometimes
agreed, but my new car has FLAC playing capabilities so a USB drive full of songs in flac has been pretty good so far
Same thing with DVDs, Blu-ray and vinyl. Don't have to worry about a computer crash or anything else.
You went through more trouble to post this then it would have been to play an mp3.
@@DancingwithGhosts Streaming with me is limiting. The things I listen to are typically not available everywhere so I actually live by CDs. I use mostly streaming when entertaining. No vinyl though.
I will never give up on cds.
Facts! Still the best form of music media, by far! Get em used on the cheap!
I totally agree with you there. Amazon, ebay and discogs are my go-to spots for CD purchases.
Especially Japanize cd's they are still working on the technology of them making them sound better.
Same. I STILL use CDs, still have so, so many in my office, and yeah many more in boxes due to space. . And yes, I have a boatload of MP3s...which I burn onto recordable CDs and play them in my car, (that can thankfully play Mp3 CDs_ which has a 5 CD changer. So...hours of music when it comes to that. I simply refuse to pay for a silly subscription and stream music.
Nothing like owning physical media.
Buying a CD as a teenager in the 90s/00s was a special event
for sureee!
I was 28 years old in 1994 when I bought my first CD, Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80s, volume 4.
@@haroldfridkis3536 nice!
And then limewire/kazaa came along..
Columbia House
Maybe it's just me, but I swear playing a CD in my pickup sounds better than connecting my phone to it via bluetooth. Never let physical media die!!!
👍👍👍💯💯💯!
Because Sony & Philips spent a billion dollars to make cd perfect. And they did make perfection.
KW-ew7ll Thanks for the info! I never got into the vinyl craze so I have to ask, do these new vinyl records sound any better than the ones that were published in the early 20th century?
It's not just you. I'm an audio engineer and its way too much to get into but against all other methods, if your pickup has good speakers and a good amp you have the best sound quality of any of these methods period. People might not think it's cool, but fuk em.
@@megamanmarchek8293 I've read often that when buying vinyl, focus on albums released before the early eighties, when recordings were made using ANALOG instead of digital equipment, ANALOG has a richer, warmer and more natural sound. Digital means COMPRESSION which takes some natural sonics away from recordings! When listening to my 70's music, I can definitely hear the difference!
Japan is where the CD (and most physical media) market still thrives. The music industry there loves the idea of releasing limited special collector's edition autographed albums that can entice the otaku . They still operate Tower Records including a very prime location in Shibuya.
love that for them
You mentioned Tower Records still going in Japan.......a single tear just slipped down my face.
🥲
And Germany sell well
Also South Korea Kpop is real big right now
CDs are by far the best type of physical music, I don't care what anyone says. I'm glad that there are still a few stores where I live dedicated to physical media, CDs and DVDs and all.
I still only buy physical copies of music. No downloading or streaming for me.
I feel privileged to work at a record store currently because as of now people from all walks of life are coming in to buy tons of physical media. Gen alpha kids are buying DVDs and CDs brand new and used. Most customers buying this stuff talk about how they're sick of streaming and want to own the material so it's not taken away from them later by the company. While physical media is in a bad place right now, it's good to know there's a strong market still that's pushing to keep stores like mine alive and physical media as a whole so it's not lost to time.
I don't think physical media will ever completely go away. It will decline to a certain point and level off probably. There will always be some market for it especially vinyl. For me it's the artwork, the booklets that came with them, and the ability to actually own the music.
Yeah! I’m so sick of streaming. At times my internet service is down temporarily. That sucks!! I’ve watched from streaming services and the internet or the freaking internet service interrupts the viewing experience. Give me physical media back.
@@rachelrivera91cds DVDs 📀 blue rays forever Physical media all the way 📀📀📀💿💿🎧🎧🎧
If the internet 🛜 goes down for a long time we will need older forms of music media like cds 💿 and cassette tapes
@@PraveenSrJ01 I been say that 👍👍👍streamers will never learn 😂🤣😂
Here in the north of Mexico, CDs, VHS's and tapes are appreciated by collectors, they are at regular price, greetings to all.
Yes Los Angeles need more physical collectorsz than cheap ass streamers
It's so sad when stores like Best Buy have completely given up on CD's. Something that was considered a technological marvel in the 80's is now just a worthless piece of plastic coated aluminum. 25 years ago, people would've thought we are out of our minds to have the vinyl record become our physical media of choice in 2024.
It's odd to think about how people are more into collecting vinyl than CDs, especially when you consider the fact that CDs are a lot more practical than vinyl, mainly due to their small, compact size and the existence of portable disc players and built in car players.
There's also the fact that you can purchase some blank ones and burn some songs onto it at home using a computer and a disc drive (either internal or external), which is another bonus of the compact disc which vinyl lacks.
I never understood the fascination of the public with vinyl records. It takes too much space, plus in my opinion they don't sound as good as cds. Cds sounds crystal clear, vinyl sounds scratchy, and streaming sounds flat. Nothing beats the sounds of a good 💿.
@@felipehernandez-pedroza8288yeah I like cds 💿 better take up less space and better sound quality 😅
@@felipehernandez-pedroza8288i like CDs better too mainly because of lack of pops and clicks. But you are wrong about sound. Vinyl can reproduce much wider frequency range than CD. Most of that range average human can't hear but the very existence of those frequencies makes sound richer on appropriate audiophile gear
Lots of underground artists are requesting CDs at least for a limited time these days, I've been doing my part burning them for the younger kids I know like my older sisters did for me. I think if any of the older physical media has the opportunity for a large scale retail comeback, it's discs bc they're pretty cheap and the more expensive ones are very efficient
Physical media will never go away. Vinyl and cds are here to stay.
Thank u I don’t care about new technology we can be in the year 2029 and ima keep buying cds 💿 and supporting them and the artist I had never stream ever in my life 🤘🤘🤘📀📀📀🎧🎧💿🎧🎧🎧🎧 cds forever ♾️
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Even in the year 2033 cds 💿 will be ubiquitous
@@PraveenSrJ01 u mean cds 💿 will always be around That phrase is getting old 😭🤣🤣😂😅 No one buys cds 🤣🤣😂only streamers say that Real music lovers still buy them
@@SarahPalinQuitgrow up.
Physical media never dies. The cassette tape is making a come back too.
Also 8-tracks to an extent.
I want cds 💿 to come back 😅😅
@@RobertQuant There's a CD shop where I live and they cell a lot of underground rap, hip hop, metal, rock and punk CDs.
@@WeWokeTheGiants The unofficial live recordings, : )
The problem is that the 'new' analogue machinery (Crosley for vinyl, Tanashin for cassettes) is total garbage. Wht reintroduce an old form of media if there's no quality gear to play it back on?
I miss the days of buying a CD in the store's what has this world come to
There is still a large market for CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays, it's just the labels are trying to force obsolescence to funnel people into streaming. Look at all the major music acts whose documentaries/live films are ONLY available on streaming platforms now rather than physical media. The upshot to this is there are some high quality bootlegs that are available almost immediately to cater to the folks who wish to OWN the film rather than rent it in a sense through streaming. High quality "fan-made" blu-rays and DVDs of The Beatles Let it Be, Billy Joel's 100th MSG Concert and the new Beach Boys documentary are out there, and ALL have hours of bonuses on them - just like best DVDs and blu-rays used to. Make no mistake, not being able to easily find physical media in stores in 2024 is by design. There is still a large market out there for this stuff, but since streaming generates a constant stream of revenue for the labels (as opposed to a disc which you buy once and have it forever), so that's where they are pushing folks towards in 2024.
Well said
Anything that 'they' make available ONLY on streaming is available on the high seas. Just saying.
"There is still a large market for CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays, it's just the labels are trying to force obsolescence to funnel people into streaming."
nailed it. 100%. well said, thanks!
Bring back Concert Films on Physical Media ‼️
@@TECHLOVER_91 Let me know what you are looking for. I could probably hook you up. 👍
Best Buy not having physical media blows my mind. What’s the point of the place anymore?
Good question, once their physical media section shrunk down to barely anything of interest, I lost interest in the store. Best Buy sucks now, because of this.
@@AaronC143 I’d literally go there once a week to look over all the new releases and check for good deals on the rest. Now there’s no reason to go there what so ever.
Apple products and washers and dryers 💀
The Best buy nearest to me just stopped selling media back in March. I feel it will go full circle though, CD may make a come back as vinyl did.
@@arioutlaw it’s sad. Totally pointless place.
Fun fact: my local Walmart and Target have taken to stocking kpop albums. That shit is wild to me. To be fair, kpop fans are insane and happily blow $20-40 on each album and they sell out pretty quickly so I guess it's a no brainer. But considering I'm from a medium sized south Texas town and most the other CDs stocked are 80s fodder or Tejano, it's.... certainly a wild thing to experience.
My Walmart also still has an overstock of American Idol Season ...20? 21? Something like that CDs that have been there since... at least 2018. They ain't going anywhere I don't think.
Shelf warmers in my area tbh😂
I wish I had included it in my video but FYE had it's very own "K-Pop" section in the CD's as well.. shit's crazy
Update: The American Idol cds are finally gone. They have been replaced by "Now That's What I Call Music: K-pop edition". I wish I was kidding.
You have Tejano? The central TX Wal marts don't stock it. Up here in Central TX the stores have NOW its 90's! The best of Seether, and Morgan Wallen. Crazy stuff
If you grew up in the 70s or 80s or was a DJ in the 90s, vinyl will never be a fad.
I feel like putting on a vinyl record forces you to actually absorb the music at a more conscious level. Especially if you have great speakers hooked up to your turntable
So does a cassette tape, or a video of a full album whilst closing the other tabs
The real problem is that anybody nowadays can produce their own Albums, so the selection is huge, and much of it is neither new nor innovative
I wouldn’t really call it a fad, that implies that it went away and came back. Whereas vinyl has had a select fanbase (now cult) since its release.
@@r4v4g3r how is that different than what I said: "...vinyl will never be a fad"?
I was born on October 6, 1983 and remember casettes
I love that you showed how it is now. I'm 65 years old and have been collecting vinyl since I was 6 years old--true. My Mom was a huge record collector, and she got them for me as well. I have the 1st 4 Beatles albums that came out still in my collection, all in good shape.
I have collecting records all along, but of course it didn't stop me from getting CDs for other music and DVDs for all the movies I've obtained...😳
I'm a book collector as well...I do have a small room with book cases for the books, DVDs and Cds...the vinyls (my Mom's and mine now) have their own record cabinets.
It is sad to see how things are in the stores now...I go thru Amazon to find most what I get now. It's much easier.
Thank you.
Some info from someone in Gen Z who started buying CDs in 2019-
First, Best Buy stopped selling CDs in 2019. I bought some Green Day and Linkin Park albums when they were trying to clean out their remaining stock.
Second, the only chain in my area that has a good number of CDs is actually… Barnes and Noble? The one near me has half CDs and half vinyl (which actually reflects US sales numbers) and has a small section of $5 CDs with a lot of great modern classics. The prices are decent, highly suggest them. It’s a lot of mainstream stuff, but you’ll occasionally find something obscure, and it’s typically discounted.
toys R us in canada this year, started selling, cd's, records, and dvds, it's actually a huge part of the store too now
edit, it's also not just top 40,. i saw all of pantera's albums in there
damm you still have toys r us? that's crazy
I'm about to start coming there to shop
@@DancingwithGhosts So does Japan. I saw a Toys R Us next to a Babies R Us there.
@@bobdavis4848well of course Japan 🇯🇵 cds 💿 are number 1 in Japan 💿💿📀📀📀
Pantera cds in toys r us is a sentence I never thought I would read in 2024.
Florida man seen trying to buy CDs
lol yep
I’ve been buying CDs since 1985. Used to buy a ton every payday. It mainly slowed down because the greedy record labels kept raising prices as the costs to make CDs went down. I still refuse to pay more than $15 for a single album.
In Sacramento, where Tower Records was born, it’s now an absolute wasteland for media shopping. Barnes and Noble is the only store with a worthwhile selection, and prices aren’t competitive. For 5 years now, ever since we lost our last real media store, I’ve had to mail order most stuff which I hate doing. Had a package get stolen outside my apartment recently.
We don’t have FYE left here but sad that they have such a pitiful selection now, you’d think they’d try harder to keep it alive. Best Buy helped put a lot of stores out of business by selling popular titles at a loss, since they’ve now dropped media altogether I hope they go out of business.
I remember buying music in a music store
without knowing what it was going to sound like. The mystery could be very exciting when you discover something you really like
I’m definitely old enough to remember that when I was in my early 20s
I still do that to this day! It's a lot of fun to occasionally take a chance on an album and experience it for the first time in full
I still love my cds. I end up getting them from Amazon these days and they have plenty. As someone who actually grew up with vinyl when it was widely distributed, I appreciate cds. Records always skip and having to flip it over after 5 songs is annoying. I still like them but more for the look than anything. I have a large cd selection and always adding to it. FYI flea markets tend to have plenty for sale.
I sold my vinyl collection 10 years ago and went all in with my cd collection. I just got reached 400 titles and still searching for more.
I trimmed down my lp collection from 2600 to 1900 but upped my cd collection up to 4500.
Thank you for the fantastic content! Thanks for not pivoting to drama because its easier to farm engagement. I am here for the long haul!
thanks! but ya never know.. i may put on my overalls and start farmin' if the tea is hot enough!
Looks like those stores were all sold out of Dancing with Ghosts cd's. Way to go!
lmao
CDs are still available in places around me like walmart, target, barnes & noble, local record store. They can also be bought online at amazon, ebay, discogs, bandcamp, artist/record label webstores.
There's also now Tower Records now, but as an online store only.
I buy all my cds 💿 from those stores u name but Walmart dosent count 😅😅😅😅😅 they only sell edited versions of 💿 them 😅😅😅😅😊
@@RobertQuant I haven't seen any edited CDs lately. I think they did away with edited versions. Walmart has now been selling them uncensored. I bought Beyonce's "Renaissance" CD there back in 2022, that album sucked. It has way too much profanity and vulger lyrics.
@@AaronC143 they did sell edited cds 💿 at Walmart everyone knows that maybe know they change their minds
@@RobertQuant Well, I'm not seeing any with the new ones. Heck, I haven't seen an edited CD of Olivia Rodrigo's "GUTS" on CD. So, I had to get it uncensored.
As my grandmother used to always say, "Don't get old, it doesn't pay". RIP Grammy
CDs are way better than getting music over the internet
Best time of my life working in a record store from 1980 and later in CD department until 2011.
Vinyl is so expensive these days. Here in the UK we have a shop called HMV and some of the vinyl can cost upwards of £50! It's ridiculous. Best to buy from charity shops or independent record shops. Cool video anyway my dude!
New Vinyl is expensive, yes. In the States it can be upwards of $30+. I'd imagine that £50 are for imports from the states? Either way, always buying used whether it's from Thrift Stores or local spots these days bc I'm a cheapskate. I even have a series on my channel where I review my thrift store finds
keep in mind vinyl is also very expensive to print, so the artist who is putting out the vinyl is taking it on the chin with cost that's why they have to charge so much. There are much less vinyl pressing facilities than there used to be
@@viralmedianetwork415 Sorry to say, but even used records are starting to get ridiculously expensive in some cases, particularly those commonly known albums by big name Legacy acts like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, Stones, Floyd and so forth. For example, it's become the norm to find a beat-to-hell USED copy of Micheal Jackson's "Thriller" for $20 or more. I've even seen open-shrink copies with the hype stickers intact marked up to $75, even with the record in deplorable condition - and people are stupid enough to PAY THAT MUCH for it! No joke! And we're talking about an album that isn't rare, collectible or hard to find, either. But something that was pressed in the millions!
@@DancingwithGhosts Hardly the truth, since new vinyl pressing plants are opening on a regular basis in an effort to curb the bottle-necking. And, as any amount of proper research will reveal, the cost of manufacturing records has NOT gone up as exponentially as we've been led to believe post-pandemic. Nope. What it's come down to at this point in time is nothing more than good-old fashioned corporate major label greed. Go figure: When a single new LP should still be comfortably priced at around $25 (many still are, in fact) and labels like Universal Music Group are charging $35-$40 and up for their new releases, even those on 1xLP (far more than other labels), it becomes LAUGHABLE. Especially when you consider that big accounts like the majors typically get the cheapest available bulk rates on everything from packaging to pressing, along with priority status at the front of the line - while indie artists and smaller labels who kept the pressing plants alive through their darkest days are basically getting screwed. And because they know people will pay what they think it's worth, these majors keep raising the prices of new release and reissue LP's higher and higher PAST the point of inflation. Not to mention needless color variants sparking FOMO, which the majors are also taking advantage of in typically unscrupulous fashion. Most people with an actual conscience in the vinyl community can agree that this overall approach is 100% UNSUSTAINABLE and could soon put vinyl back on the same path to slow obsolescence that CD's have occupied in the past several years. In fact, it's safe to say that history is repeating itself; For in the late 90's, if you recall, the majors began overpricing the hell out of CD's and forcing bands to fill 78 minutes of a single disc with music, even if they had only one or two good songs and the rest were crap. Naturally, at the damn of the new millennium, people started pushing back on this greed. Enter Napster, with iTunes following not far behind. Suffice to say, the big labels are only on track to shoot themselves in the foot all over again! Once the vinyl bubble eventually bursts - and it will - you can bet that's what's gonna happen! Anyway, apologies for veering so far off topic. Great video, BTW!
I went in an independent shop recently as I had just purchased a vintage JVC turntable. Vinyl was the same as ebay prices for 2nd hand records, some were going for £45 even! I decided buying a turntable wasn't a great idea, stick to CDs from now on. Can get 6-7 CDs for that price.
Plenty of physical media @ thrift shops. Local libraries offering CDs, DVDs, etc.
Some questions come to mind:
1 Do any CDs have value? About once a year I'll hear about people who can't live without those old "West German Produced" CDs because they're so much clearer and more dynamic than the ones that got pressed afterward, once everyone was stamping them out. Or then again, sometimes it's just cool to own something that was made within shouting distance of the Berlin wall once upon a time. Sure hope there's something to it because I've got a bunch of 'em from Madonna to Dire Straits to the Rolling Stones (theirs is one of those dreaded greatest hits though - still, gotta love Hot Rocks!)
2 Please explain the vinyl comeback to me! The whole reason it was supposed to be over was that the compact discs would replace them. Remember? The better dynamic range, no hiss, pops or distortion of any kind. That was supposed to be a good thing, right? So what gives now, this many years later? I need to understand why it's the compact disc that's the annoying holdover and not the inferior LP's and 45s. Hey, do they still have 45s? Remember those? I saw a bunch of albums there but not one 45 rpm cut.
Vinyl might in theory have a warmer sound than a CD. At least that is the reputation it has. Some early CD recordings were harsh sounding, but that was before the engineers figured out how to make it sound good. As for me, I was never able to get beyond the noise floor of vinyl. What good is a marginally warmer sound if you have snap crackle and pop along with rumble? The biggest weakness I see in CD is that it is standardized on computer technology from about 1977. Today, we could have much higher sampling rates and bit depth which might improve the sound. Of course, new digital formats wouldn't be compatible with old players, though new players could easily be made compatible with old disks.
Thanks for shooting & posting this vid. It was fun. Great work! Please keep it up.
If you have a collection of metal cd's, of any sub-genre, sell them if they're taking up space. I made a nice chunk of change selling mine, way more than I spent on them.
I have bought cd's of the first pressings as they always sound better than the later "remasteres" that bricks everything. Though some of those Black Sabbath remasters actually sound good as they didn't brick it.
@@colt5189 if interested, the remaster if Gwar's "Scumdogs of the Universe" is almost an entirely different album.
The market for old school metal first pressing CDs is wild. I was into collecting them for a while but didn't acquire much. Got a lot of cool ones from Japan for dirt cheap, probably would have cost an arm and leg if bought in the states.
Metal CDs do a brisk business on Discogs according to folks I know. New and old. Mainstream and obscure.
The annoying part is that, while we've gotten convenience down pat, we're losing the intangible stuff that made shopping brick and mortars so interesting.
I've lost count of how many CDs I picked up because a name grabbed my attention or a cover looked interesting. You can't do that online - or at least I'm not sure what the online equivalent of browsing a used rack might be. You either need to know about something already or get a specific recommendation and it's far less fun than just randomly finding treasure.
The vinyl resurgence would be great for it, but most of what you see at anything other than niche stores is the same top 40 and/or "classic" albums. Great if you've lived under a rock most of your life, not so much if you're looking for something off the beaten path.
Can be nice to thrift as a CD fan though. It's like tales people tell of looking for vinyl in the '90s when everyone was offloading their shit for pennies. Same deal now, but with CDs.
100% agree
It's been a great time for me. people dumping their cd collections has been a bonanza for me.
I still buy CDs quite a bit. Some of them are meant as collector's items, while some admittedly, I burn, and usually don't play them again. However, I want a physical piece of media in my hands. I don't want to stream all of my music, as if I don't pay for the streaming service, I won't have it available for my listening pleasure when not on the internet. Currently, I use UA-cam music, as it allows me to listen to albums I'll be it with ads, and if I find I like it enough, I will purchase it. I will never let physical media die. Plus, if you see your favorite artist, you can have them sign this piece of physical media, which you can't do if only you stream the album.
Praying for CDs to make a comeback 😔
I know I want that to happen to but it’s going to be impossible u too they get rid of streaming services for good 📀📀💿💿🤘🤘🤘 cds 💿 forever
Unless the internet goes out
Let’s pray for 2025 for the cds 💿 revival Let’s get rid of the internet and cell phones having Music and will definitely happen 👍👍👍📀📀💿🤟💽💽
@manifestationsofasort why? If you collect CDs now, they are really cheap because they aren't popular. Look at vinyl, once they became popular their prices skyrocketed.
I'm thankful that my local library has a great selection of CDs from all genre. All you need is a library card.
And if you want to keep the song, burn it onto your MP3 play list. That way you don't have to concern yourself with going store-hopping to see where a CD is located of an album that you only care about one or two songs.
Modern cars don't even have CD players in their stereos; so it's essentially obsolete outside of just nostalgia purposes and collection. And as far as collectors are concerned here's a wake-up call that would save you from being disappointed: Those $1.00 CDs that you're finding in the bargain basement bin at your local F.Y.E. or similar store WON'T be gaining any more value than it already has. 20 years from now you might be able to make a profit of an extra dollar if you sell it on eBay. Buying CDs in the value bin is NOT an investment. Again, if it's only for nostalgic purposes, that I'll understand.
Starting listening to and buying cds again after about ten years of spotify use. They sound so much better on my hifi system than streaming. The record store I grew up with still exists but they have about 20 cds and the rest is vinyl.
what made you ditch streaming? for me it's just soooo much more convenient
@@DancingwithGhosts well, I prefer the album format, I like little ritual of putting it in and looking through the booklet, and it's got arguably the best sound quality. I usually just stream some vapor list on youtube when I'm working.
Last CD I remember getting super excited to get was Slipknot Iowa on release day. Had my mom drive me to The Wherehouse and they had a whole basket right next the register. Those were the days.
9:30 Really just depends where you live. Online I have to buy CDs for $5 - $10 each, but irl I haven't spent more than $5 in years on a CD. I find good stuff all the time too. Usually I end up spending 50 cents to $2 per CD, unless I buy new ones from Walmart where I'll spend $3 - $7, but it's very rarely I'll do that considering it's all remasters and reissues of big albums I likely already have. There's this one mall that has a flea market once a month and this guy in there sells the best variety of CDs I've ever seen for only $2 each, or $1 - $1.75 if you buy in bulk. Oh and btw, I'm 15 and only grew up with CDs until I was around 7, so I'm not doing this to be hip or nostalgic, rather doing it because I have a passion for music and like to physically own my albums. I also buy records, although not as much because it's hard to spend less than $10 on an album anymore. Sorry for the long ass paragraph lol, and I enjoyed the video.
This was my first time viewing your content, and I absolutely loved it! I’m 52, so I started out life with vinyl and 8 track tapes as a kid, then graduated to cassette tapes not long after. But when CD’s really took off, I was hooked! I remember ordering the 12 CD’s for a penny from Columbia house, I talked most of my relatives into ordering my pick of CD’s as well. After a year or so, I had hundreds of CD’s! I lost most of my collection in a divorce years ago, but I just started trying to collect some of my favorites a couple years ago. Nothing beats the sound, quality and nostalgia of CD’s. I look forward to seeing more of your videos 👍🏼
I dont know why most Auto-Makers dont include a CD player when theyre so small, simple, and convenient. Car companies are so worried about being the most advanced they leave out common sense accessories like a CD playerwhich takes up little room on a dashboard
Strangely enough, the US sales numbers are roughly equal for CDs and vinyl so far this year, after a few years of vinyl outselling CDs. And in many other countries (eg. UK, Australia), CDs still outsell vinyl by a significant margin.
Tower Records in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan is alive and well. Recently bought a huge stack of CDs from there. DVDs are thriving in Japan too.
CD shopping is alive and well in Japan... we brought back 100 discs from visiting 7 Tower Records stores, and with the weak yen this year, it was a killer haul.
It's funny, I was kind of one of those "only analog is real" types years ago, until the vinyl resurgance really started to take off. In the past decade or so, I've really grown to like CDs again as well. They're far more economical if you're a physical media type, and some times flipping vinyl (especially 7"s and 45s) is tedious, especially if you're gaming or something. I also like collecting CD discographies of old punk, metal, grindcore, etc bands with the Artists whole run on it, especially if there's some good (hopefully not too hard to read) liner notes included.
Of course, I am a metal fan in his mid 40s, so CD collecting is practically required. I proudly wear an onion on my bullet belt, as it was the style at the time.
It’s not a long lost deal. I have CDs coming in the mail every week as well as records, dvd, cassettes, books, magazines, etc
i started collecting CDs again and i've used eBay and Amazon. there is a record store near me that sells vinyl and CDs though. i think they sell cassettes as well
Yeah? They sell cds by the truckload here at our flea markets in southern california. Anything more than $2 is overpaying.
I thought, you would test those CDs and telling us, which ones wouldn't take part in the Loundness Wars?
I used to be able to buy CD's at everywhere from Media Play (RIP) to Meijers grocery store. Now most have totally gotten rid of their physical music section and if you do find a store that sells them still it's one or two small racks with just a few current titles sprinkled with a few hits packages from legacy artists. Thankfully I have Amazon and Ebay to buy new CDs from every week. I currently have 11,000 CDs and will never give up on them.
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At my local record store in Ohio he still has a lot of CDs. Also just coming from a 2 week vacation in Japan, Tower Records has a LOT of CDs. Japan still loves their CDs
I used to buy a ton of CDs when I was a teenager in the 00s and now I have a storage box full of a couple hundred CDs that I don't even open anymore. That's not including two big CD wallets full of burned CDs. There are a couple of albums I have that pretty much don't exist online and were only ever released in CD format so I'm glad I have them.
I still buy a CD maybe once or twice a year these days but it's usually at a show or directly from an indie artist's merch store that I want to support.
Where I'm from (Dublin, Ireland) they still seem easy to find with a couple of stores still having large selections of them but there has definitely been a major push toward vinyl.
The same thing has happened to the science and mathematics sections of book stores. Back in the 70's and 80's you could find a whole eighth of a bookstore just for science and mathematics books, then down to onw row in the 2000's, now, if they even have one, it's usually filled with light-weight X for dummies books. Damn clouds !
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My buddy bought a brand new truck in 2022 and it blew my mind that it didnt come with a cd player. i havent bought a new car since 2009 so i didnt realize that that was even a thing.
So. True. I bought a new car a few months ago. One of the first things I noticed is that it's missing the cd player. I was like, what? Streaming is convenient, but nothing beats the sound of 💿. I still owe my old car from 2010. I has cd player. Can't wait to f
@@felipehernandez-pedroza8288 Classic case of big business deciding for themselves what the masses want instead of actually giving them what they want. I’m currently looking for a new(er) car and there is not a cat in hell’s chance I will be buying one without a CD player.
U guys know that Amazon know sells cd transports for new cars they like $60 dollars buy worth it to install in ur new cars and u can finally play ur cds 💿 on that system 🤘🤘🤘📀📀💿🎧🎧🎧
That is one of the main reasons I do not want a new car. The other reasons include I don't want a car with any kind of connection to anything capable of controlling it or tracking it. I have an extensive CD collection, mostly classical, which people tend to listen to for years if not decades.
@@dr.a.wbuy cds 💿 transports on Amazon they sell them for new cars know problem solved
I’m very lucky to have one of world’s best record stores in the country right near my house, with such a complete collection of anything new or old. You can find literally whatever you like there on any format
I was born in 81' and will NEVER EVER have a f**king Spotify account. I still buy CDs and blurays and 4ks. Only a chump would rely on the internet and streaming corporations for their art.
Agree 100%. I wanna listen to my music, play my video games and watch my movies and shows offline. Once we start relying on the internet to run all our entertainment needs 24/7, we're in a real desperate and sad situation as a human race. We should NOT be forced to have the internet run our lives.
Convenience. I own over 1000 cds and have a small but growing collection of vinyl.
I used to haul five huge 300 cd booklets around. They are still heavy. Then my mom got me an IPOD. I put all my cds on them. Then streaming came. Streaming makes it easy. I was born in 86. I have a Spotify account. Everything I own is on there. I don't have to carry everything around. I can listen to my favorite songs anywhere without having to carry tons of cds. I make playlist on Spotify. Its one of my favorite hobbies. I make Playlist with over 1000 songs on them. I have over 200 playlist based on different sub genres, most favorites, who my audience is, hits, holidays, and other different factors. Streaming is my main art. It's cheap. For $12 a month, I can do all that. I still buy albums of my most favorite artist, but other bands, Nah I'll just listen to them on Spotify. There is too much music in the world and not enough money to buy them all. That's why streaming works for me.
Streaming is rental 😅😅😅😅 if u like it so much good for u but u will never own the music and the sound quality sucks 😅😅😅 it’s just a file ok a cheap cell phone
@RobertQuant I already own 1000 cds. Don't need anymore. I dont care about owning the music. Its about making the best playlist and enjoying it. And Not wasting money on something I don't like. New music comes out every week. Streaming is the best way to find new music without having to buy it first. CDs are $20 each. If I put 1000 bands on a playlist and decide to buy an album for each band I like, that's $20,000 that i dont have. Streaming is cheaper.
I very rarely buy music CDs these days as I can't afford them but I still make my own CDs and get just about everything for nothing from the net and burn it to a CD-R recordable, that way I still own something physical and it still counts as my own playlist. It's cheaper to buy blank CDs and rip your own playlists on them then to actually buy store bought CDs. If they wanna keep the music CD media alive then they need to lower the prices, somehow paying $25 dollars for one complete album over spending the same money on a pack of 50 blank CD-Rs is not worth it.
Always ready for CD nostalgia! Thanks!
i always love reminiscing lol
This was a really good video and very eye-opening. I used to have a circuit city in the plaza that I would work at and walk over there on my lunch hour and go through the new CDs that came out for that week and always come back to my store with a bag full of stuff, and then he always go to store was Best Buy. I just spend hours in there with my friends looking through DVDs and CDs. Very depressing now because you have streaming services but they’re not the same as the physical copies, and I always liked popping in a CD and just hit play now with download you have to wait maybe go through three or four commercials before you get to a song that you like, I wish I could go back to the 80s where it was fun and enjoyable, and it seemed like people were a lot happier. Take care of my friend good video
i notice one thing over here in Germany: people like me mostly do not got to local shops anymore, because you almost find anything there - it`s the same situation in every shop as it was recently uploaded and to bee seen in one of your "short"-clips - those who collect CDs order them via internet. Thank God i have a very cool 2nd hand-music shop in my town - CDs but also Vinyl in a very good quality, so you dive in there and feel like Alice in Wonderland.
Huh? I live in Germany and Mediamarkt has a massive CD section. K+B expert used to but only recently slimmed down
"You almost find anything there"? I think you meant "You find almost nothing there."
@@bobdavis4848 yes, i meant to say nothing - nothing at all - sad.
I’ll continue to say this! . There are a lot that still clamor for physical media such as myself & as long as they’re is that group of people . it will not completely die off . I don’t care about this digital media crap . I love my physical media!
I'm only in my 20s and the amount of change has been drastic already.
It's so hard to take sometimes. I remember how everything was physical in like 2007 and now everything is digital almost. I can't believe people are okay with not actually owning anything. It's so odd to me.
@@mr.goodboi2780 Yeah.
There are no Fyes in New York City anymore. But I use to go to The Wiz, Tower Records, Disc O mat, Sam Goody, HMV, and J&R Music World as well as a few smaller music stores. It depended on what area of the city or New Jersey I was in.
I really liked going to Tower Records. When they had 3 locations in Manhattan I was at all of them buying CD's.
I remembered back in the 2010’s buying cds at target since they would never ID you for explicit cds. Got Yeezus and Born Sinner the same day. One day I would try to buy Long Live A$AP at a Fred Meyer. The ID verification popped up on the screen but the cashier was like a couple years older than me and bypassed it. I still have those cds and feel nostalgic when ever I see em
That’s why I like target 🎯 more on cds 💿 they sell explicit version and there selection is better than Walmart
We had Cocunuts still at my mall (before ot got razed amd it's an outdoor shopping center. Boo on that). But it was an aweome store to find mice box sets or really onscure stuff. Misfits boxed set, goth band Nosferatu. They even had a huge release book of street date titles. Asked to find Stabbing Westward Darkest Days right when it come out (dated Gen X here). Not even in the book and cashier had no idea who they were.
Anyway, miss just browsing titles endlessly and buying some random thing cause it was in your hands and you were like, "f it I'm buying this one." Ah good times.
Also, anyone remember when walmart used to sell live fish, or waa that a fever dream?
So Best Buy basically has waaay too much space.
ya.. i'm sure IF a new best buy store opens up it will be half the size.. now that they dont have to make all that room for those racks of physical media
I worked at FYE in college, right before Spotify exploded. Getting to be around all of that music and CDs was definitely one of my favorite jobs I've ever had. I miss those stores.
Things certainly have changed. I started collecting records in the late 1980s. I found them at thrift stores, used record stores, and a few chain stores. Not long afterward, I added CDs to the collection. Over time, it grew to the point of becoming completely unwieldy. Just over ten years ago, I moved to a new city with a far more expensive real estate market, so I had to purge a lot of that stuff. I no longer have vinyl records or a turntable for them. I still have some shellac records and a mechanical record player that was made in 1917. It's mostly a historical curiosity, but if the power happens to go out, I can play some ancient records on it. I still have CDs and DVDs, but I have long since ripped them to my hard drive, and they now sit in boxes in a dark corner. It is far more convenient to find music on my hard drive than to go into another room, pull a CD or a record off the shelf, put it in the device that plays it, and then in roughly an hour after it is done playing, put the thing away and dig out another one. I still want to own music, so I haven't gone over to streaming, but nowadays, I buy downloads. Amazon has made this increasingly inconvenient because they want to force people into streaming, but there are other ways to buy downloads. Classical music is my first love in music, though I also like many other genres. For classical and jazz, Presto Music is great for CD-quality or better lossless downloads, and for those who are still stuck on CDs, they sell CDs. The classical crowd doesn't seem to have come back to records in the same way as fans of other genres - CDs are still king for those who want physical media, and a lot of classical fans are old curmudgeons who refuse to embrace computer hard drives and streaming. For other genres, there is a lot of weird, underground stuff on Bandcamp. It is fun to dig around there and see what hidden gems might turn up. I've never had trouble buying downloads from that site. Come to think of it, I haven't looked around there for a while - maybe it's time to get back to it and see what I might find.
One note on music downloads... If you do this as I do, back up your hard drive. Even better, keep multiple backups. I mirror my music library on two different computers and keep an external backup. Hard drives crash on occasion, and you don't want to suddenly lose a gigantic music library.
I went in the FYE at the local half-dead mall recently. It certainly has turned into a weeb emporium. (Incidentally, there is another weeb superstore in that mall, and it is even more weeby.) It's fun to look at the strange stuff in there, but none of it interests me. I don't have room to collect useless ugly junk. That store still have some physical media, but the racks are as pitiful as the ones in this video. I also found some old, long expired candy there, and the place is generally a mess. The employees look like the place has sucked out their souls. I have good memories of a large big box FYE, which had previously been Media Play. All kinds of CDs and DVDs could be found there. Out of curiosity, I looked on Google Street View to see what is there now, and I saw a sporting goods store. Barnes & Noble and Borders also used to be great for CDs and DVDs, but those days are long gone.
There is a used CD and record store in town that keeps a lot of stuff in stock. I don't want to add to my physical media, but occasionally I'll look in there, and if I see something interesting that I can't easily buy as a download, I might make an exception and pick up a CD or two. I know there are a few other stores like it around. People who still actively collect physical media should look for stores like this. There aren't as many as there used to be, but going into the used record stores that remain is like going through a time warp back to the 1990s. There is nothing quite like browsing through the dusty racks in a moldy old record store; the way discoveries can be made there simply cannot be duplicated online.
Used record stores are your best bet for physical media today, especially weird and obscure things that your never gonna find anywhere. There are fewer but there will always be some around. I still buy a CD here and there, especially if it's a collector's editon or remastered with the extra booklets and such.
What happens after the hard drives crash?
@@arricammarques1955 Hard drives can crash. That is why you make multiple backups. I keep two separate backups up to date.
Best Buy had announced that in 2024, they would stop selling physical media such as DvDs and even some games. Walmart will be doing the same by the end of this year tho no confirmed date has been announced as of yet.. There are a few Walmarts that already got rid of their DvD shelves and tossed the movies into the big $5 bins.
Ah, FYEs.. or Sam Goodys as I knew it back in the early 2000s.. It was my go-to store for physical media..I visited one few months ago after a decade of not going to one and boy has it changed. Its like a totally different store. More aimed at they younger anime-loving generations
I still buy CDs, but usually J-pop imports or things that aren't on Spotify. I know there are other ways to get the music, but I like the convenience of putting the CD in and listening, rather than tracking down files. It would be hard for a mall store to stock the CDs I was specifically interested in buying.
Same here. Often when I am able to track down files for semi-obscure J-pop they are low quality mp3s. Lots of older idols have been getting re-releases on CD lately, so it seems to still be a fairly popular format in Japan.
For me , I still buy classic anime CDs & vinyl records to this very day . The majority of them are from Japan & the ones that I have are very interesting to my liking. ❤😊 But if I ever get the chance , I do buy some Western music vinyl records from the 80s on ebay (Tiffany , Starship , Expose , Madonna-chan , Duran Duran , Michael Jackson & some of my other favorites. ) 😂 But I still love listening to J-POP from the Heisei era & even music from the 70s & 80s ( late Showa era.)
I'm lucky enough to still have a music store near me. Although I'm convinced they wouldn't be open anymore if it wasn't for selling vinyls. You usually have to order many alternative albums and wait for them to come in, then take a separate trip there just to pick it up. Kind of sucks and makes going on the internet to order a cd more tempting. I still give them my business whenever I can though. I'm lucky I still have a mall that isn't abandoned next to it too.
Cool vid Josh! Here in Chile record stores are multiplying like crazy but are keeping prices high AF, sometimes you can get good deals tho. Hifi CD players are expeeeensive also.
oh cool that's really interesting!
Was a Hii five cd player
I'm glad I got to grow up in the 90's and early 2000's and enjoy buying tapes and CD's. Now I'm more into the Vinyl thing because of the value they hold.
I used to go to Best Buy several times a month looking at CDs, DVDs/Blu-Rays, and games. Now, it's unusual if I even going once during a year.
im suprised that they re still open these the one i went to last week was pretty dead for a best buy on the weekend
Very good. You are really well spoken in your description of lost physical media over the years.
Where I live, upstate New York (nowhere near the city), CDs are everywhere! At every thrift store I go to there’s at least one bin full of them, some of them have a couple shelfs of them, and not just at the big chain ones like Salvation Army and Thrifty Shopper but at the local ones too! In fact one of the local ones I went to had a 7’ tall shelving unit full of CDs, there had to be at least a couple thousand of them, and at 50 cents each, I walked out with about 40 of them and the lady at the counter said they had way more than that.
CDs will find their place again. Can't play a record in a car, and Spotify doesn't have everything. It will be the underground artists catering to a physical media crowd primarily that sees it through. I like records and CDs. And DVDs and Blu. I think the world will slowly regain an understanding of ownership ad streaming becomes more complicated and expensive. Best Buy and target halting most physical media stuff seems like an end, but it's really the beginning for many to understand where corporate greed is trying to push us - consumption without rights, and money exchanged without ownership.
Spotify and Netflix are the fads.
CDs will never die, preserve your collection.
Yeah, but Vinyl records now cost upwards of $30 or more each. I don't know if any millennials are buying those en masse. Heck, even Taylor Swift and Billie Ellish are still putting
their music on CD.
You deserve 100k subscribers… your shit is on point
I'm so fortunate to live in California, where the compact disc is still popular! They won't be found at Best Buy at all and only a few at Target. The Barnes and Noble chain have a decent selection of LPs and CDs at their stores and plan to expand the chain. There are many independent shops here, including the big Amoeba Music stores in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, selling new and used discs, including imports. A few miles west of me, Pasadena College has a monthly swapmeet featuring several dealers. Of course there are online sellers like Cherry Red, Burning Shed, Rhino (home of Quadio, yeah!) and The Elusive Disc.
The FYE in Knoxville has a very sad cd section, it’s becoming more & more “collectibles” 😢
McKay’s in Knoxville is my best hope for CDs.
I went to 2 McKays in North Carolina, Winston-Salem and Greensboro, they had a great selection of cheap CDs.
Mckays is garbage
Its nickname was "Fuck, you're expensive".
Haha ive seen those $5 metallica cds in person. Just to think that 30 years ago when i was 12 they were my most prized possession
Our local mall back in the 80s had FOUR record stores. For the past 10 years they’ve had ZERO.
If you go to japan you can get CDs everywhere
Great video man,big fan.
Damn dude, I gotta agree. It's a damn shame too. Especially the Best Buy part. The last cd I bought there was in 2014, and they had a scarce selection even then. Granted, that was in Twin Falls, Idaho lol.
Best Buy got rid of all their physical media including new movies Q1 2024.
the last time i went to FYE, it was having a going out of business sale and everything was pretty well picked clean, all the shelves were mostly empty except one shelf in the tv dvd section that was full of unsold cosby show box sets
hahaah that's funny.. yeah this FYE isn't going out of business yet but certainly looks like a store that's going down
was just looking at Vinal records when i got your notification lmao
Here in The Netherlands you can find lots of great cheap CDs in thrift stores, and there are a few well-stocked independent CD stores locally
I still burn CD's to listen to in my car.
I always made duplicates and put the original on the shelf. I copied to 8-Track in the seventies, to cassette in the eighties, and CDRs onward.
@dwcinnc Yep I did that at times with CDs. But not with tapes as much. But I mostly listened to my own mix tapes anyways. Only ever made one 8 track mix tape. Back when Radio Shack still sold blank 8 tracks in the early 80's. I bought one just to figure out the recording to an 8 track on our home stereo. It was made just for fun though
Check out bluetooth cigarette lighter adapters.
@@bsommer1717 I know they exist. But I prefer not to tie up my phone and drain its battery if I can still simply burn my own custom playlist to a cheap CD
@@Archivist1971yeah people ate stupid buying USBS knowing that with cds 💿 u can do the same thing have mix cds on a list of songs 😅😅😅😅 depending how much minutes the blank cd can carry
Honestly I think what ruined cd and music sales was a combo of FYE buying up every record store thus hiking up prices , having a shit selection , and piss poor customer service.
Then when music was peaking in the early 2000s in which you had something for every genre American idol came out and the airwaves and record stores were inundated with that glorified karaoke garbage no one wanted to buy .
We’re seeing the same pattern with stores like target with its over abundance of K-pop and Taylor swift cds
I was a cassette guy up until 2001 when I got the internet access, yarr! Life in eastern europe... The CD era was completely missed/skipped here. I would actually like the vinyl now tho, it looks cool, but the prices are unacceptable - I'm not broke, but I still can't allow myself to drop this much money on collectibles.
oh yeah vinyl is stupid expensive just for one album that you can easily just stream.. vinyl records are also super expensive to make though that's why they cost so much compared to CD's
*though. Spell like an educated person.
I've been thinking the same thing as you the past few years. The death of CDs is very, very sad.
I buy CDs all the time.
So do I.
@@AaronC143same here I have spoooo many lost count cds 💿 forever 🖖🖖📀👍📀👍💽💽
So do I let’s keep buying cds 💿 and support the artist 💽📀👍👍💿👍🤟🤟