Why You Should Collect CDs in 2024
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
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In a digital age dominated by streaming, why should you consider collecting CDs in 2024? Join us as we explore the timeless appeal of compact discs, from their superior audio quality to the tactile satisfaction of owning physical music. Discover the joys of building a CD collection and why it's a hobby worth embracing in the modern era.
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I still buy cds, I never quit. Mostly because I like having physical media. I don't want to rely on the internet.
How big is your collection?
@HomeVideoHangouts about 2,000 at the moment. I'm not only a collector but a completist just recently bought 5 other Billy joel cds to complete his collection favorite of course BEATLES
I used to have a bunch of cds. I ended up ripping them all to my PC in lossless format. Then started just downloading albums digitally. But the last couple years, I’ve gone back to buying the CD and ripping in lossless again. They are essentially the same price as the digital version, but better quality.
Very true!
if they're FLACs they are the exact same as CDs if not better. 24 bit audio, sample rates above 44.1k (though anything above 48k is useless for sound reproduction), and also built-in metadata.
Couldn't agree more. I have 500-600 CDs. I don't trust any online streaming services. Like you say, them can remove songs at any time. Buying MP3 leave you at the mercy of the medium you copy them too and even then you are limited to the number of times you can copy, leaving you unable to play on all you machines. Storing things on the cloud is like letting an unknown neighbor keep you whole music collection for you. One day you wake up and they have disappeared. I buy the CD, burn it to a HD with a backup in case of failure. Even if both drives fail, I still have the CD as an original source. I think a lot of young people will be really pissed one day when they realize they don't have their favorite songs to stream anymore and it will happen. Young people think the world is permanent since they haven't lived in it long enough to see that things always go away eventually. Protect your music. If you have the CD, you have it forever. FOR SURE !!
Yes the ownership aspect is important for sure and CDs still allow you to have digital copies.
I have bought a couple a month for the last 20 or so years. The problem is that new releases that I actually want are few and far between.
CDs forever📀
I never stopped buying cds since they debuted. I just bought a couple this week alone.
Nice!
I just crossed the 800 mark with my collection. I never abandoned physical media.
Awesome!
Good points. All 90's and 2000's releases I collect them on CD format only, I like it because that was the original format during those years.
Nice!
I bought a new Panasonic Stereo for Lana del Rey and Greta Van Fleet 😂 ... i conected my Phone via 3,5.mm and played the same song from Spotify and the CD and the CD has much more depthness ! That really suprised me ! Especially over headphones! I conected my Sennheiser and the sound was so much richer and deeper with the CD its nuts !
Thanks for sharing!
CDs are still a better sound quality than these streaming services which will most likely never get to the CD quality. I love collecting & listening to them. There's so much in CDs that there isn't in streaming such as ownership, tangibility, convenience, beautiful artwork, signed copies, no ads or internet, no removal/editing of songs etc. The prices are still cheap, same with good portable cd players on amazon.
Couldn't agree more!
Great video! I agree with everything you said. My CD shelves are getting close to 1,500 albums of selective purchases across jazz, punk, blues, rock and hip hop. I am still buying new and used CDs regularly and don't see myself stopping.
Nice! That's a good collection.
Great video.....I'll NEVER rent music or movies
I am an old soul 😂 that's why I like them!
Nothing wrong with that!
The very first CD I bought was in 1987 when that CD was first released to replace my vinyl album of Floyd's Obscured By Clouds. To hear that album without any hiss or pops or crackles was fuckin' amazing. I still have it, I still buy CD's and I still have all the vinyl albums and CD's I have bought over the years.
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
Hey its Balok!
There was an uptick in 2005 around the price of certain limited edition cds when they went out of print. In my corner, soul music on cd was worth about double once copies dried up. This is pre-cd era music reissued in limited batches but available for a number of years. Some get repressed while others didn't.
Labels that are collectible include Sundazed, Rhino-handmade, Hipo-select, Wounded Bird, Spy, Edsel, Raven, Right Stuff, Sequel, Ambassador, Ace, Bear Family, etc. Japanese imports and almost any jazz album with 4-6 players sells well.
Cds on the charts in the 90's-2005 like REM were common and will hardly ever command more than $3-5 if that. Cd singles and deluxe reissues with bonus content is where the gains will be as it has limited content.
Vinyl albums from the mid to late 70's are very common in number and don't command as much as desired titles outside of that era.
Thanks for the additional insights.
The limiting factor in quality isn't the cd or stream; it is the original source.
Collect them all the time i never stop CDs and Vinyl , get the same album/songs on both.
Great points all around! I just purchased a Sony 5 disc changer from my local goodwill for $9.99 (no remote). Have a dvd player, but I just like putting in 5 CDs in a CD player and hitting shuffle.
NIce! You can typically find remote controls cheap on amazon. I got a $5 Blu-Ray player from goodwill and then payed like 5 or 10 for a remote on amazon. Not sure which one you have but heres an example amzn.to/3vUXxjA
Well said. As of late I've been buying up a few CDs. Some to play, some to keep sealed, a couple sealed which I'll rip once the current one being played starts to skip etc 😆
Nice! Always good to have backups.
Once it starts to skip? Is this a thing that just magically happens to some people? I've never once had a CD stop working. Scratches and rot are purely theoretical threats as far as I'm concerned. The CD is an extremely durable medium.
I still buy them. I have few thousand. With vynl mak8ng a comeback ebay has cds cheap..people are selling off their collections thinking its going away forever..not everything on cd will make it on to albums .I b9ught 30 or so this month alone..local in door flea market sells them $1 each like new too.bought 40 that day
Nice! Not a bad deal!
@HomeVideoHangouts yes and you can open them and inspect them. They only sell them if they have no scratches or marks, must have cd case front back.covers and anything else like booklets. Used to sell them for $5 per cd now all are $1.00 girl who works there calls me when they get a lot of newer ones in .I usually buy them.all unless it's a genre I hate like rap, screamo metal
Physical media is the best way
Agreed!
Buying DVDs n CDs helps with jobs tgat make them for our entertainment
There seem to be a lot of people commenting that buy cd's. Why is it that I constantly hear about the demise of the cd?
Vinyl, CD, whatever. Collect a tangible copy of the album.
I think it's funny how it's called "collecting". As a Millenial, I may have a "Collection of CDs" but I hardly used this therm, they were just "my CDs". Now it feels like I'm a "collector of old things". Prices for CDs are already increasing and therefore I buy used CDs in a bulk just because I may want to listen to them later but wouldn't be able to afford them later on, which led me to a little bit messy collection at the moment. It's "buy now and catalog afterwards" instead the other way around and buy only the CDs you want. But if everybody buying cheap CDs in bulk, I feel the need to do as well. This leaves me a little bit frustrated because I can't listen to every CD I bought.
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Ya its the same with movies. I feel pressure to buy titles now when I see them cheap even though I know it will be a while before I actually watch them
Why? This goes for most media. I understand buying the best quality media available for high-quality rips especially, but it also takes up a lot of space and burdens you with more responsibilities of worry imo, having been there myself. Some storage devices and a means to playback nicely and you're golden and have a faster and easier means of use typically.
i personally love to have a tangible copy of an album i'm passionate about along with the extras that come with a physical copy like artwork, signed copies & lyrics. Plus it supports the artist. I understand the storage concern which is exactly why I don't want to store my computer & phone with songs because of the amount of space they take up. It's also not a physical problem if you have a small collection, i'm not even at 20 yet because i'm picky.
I never understood why people use Apple iTunes when there are far, FAR better services out there to listen to music. Like, for me I mainly listen to 60's -90's music and for that I just switch on the radio (or load in a radio station on my PC,) , or load a UA-cam playlist in the background. I love listening to the radio when I play most video games, which is my main hobby and something I do for at least 12 hours a day as I am 100% housebound. I have not bought any physical media for over 10 years now of anything. Blu-ray, CD, tape, etc. There is no point. It just takes up valuable space which, in my case is at a huge premium as I live in a 10 foot by 10 foot studio flat. Radio stations and UA-cam are perfect for me. And they are FREE! (well, apart from paying the internet provider, but you have to do that anyway.) So, that's my 2 pence worth. I guess we are all different.
Thanks for sharing your perspective! I agree physical media does take up space and it's essential to stay organized. If radio and youtube works for you thats great! Do you buy physical videogames or stick to digital videogames as well?
@@HomeVideoHangouts I stick to digital video games too. Though, to be honest I am over 95% into emulation so I play mainly NES, Sega, and that sort of thing and those I download from sources where I can keep them for as long as I want to. It may not be quite legal, but, hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I do own about 4-5 Steam games but that is about it. And some people say that, "what happens if the server goes offline and you can never play that game anymore," then I just say, "Oh well, never mind," and play something else. I have never been annoyed if I lose anything like that. It's not important, just a toy really. It's not like losing your home or one of your family. There are so many 10's of 1000's of games out there that it doesn't bother me. As long as I get at least a year out of the game I feel like I have got my monies worth out of it. And, even if I havent, cest la vie.
Nice, Ya it's amazing how many options for emulation are out there. I have a physical collection of videogames but have an appreciation for emulation too
Why not buy FLACs instead (or sometimes MP3s)? You own them, they sound really good and the're still conveniently small. I don't get people only thinking about two options: physical or streaming platforms.
It's possible to lose a FLAC collection with a failed storage device. The only way I'm losing my CD collection is in a house fire, and then I've got bigger problems. Plus CDs are the best way to listen to music in the car or at a friend's house, bar none.
CD's sound better than streaming.
Very true!
Or anyone could just burn a cd lmao
good luck torrenting the exact mastering of the album that you're looking for.
I just pirate music digitally
The price of LPs is ridiculous these days. 30-50€ for an album. That's 'cause it's a fad, a trend, same with cassettes which cost as much as cds these days. Mindboggling. Do they remember how brilliant cassettes were back in the day? Evidently not. I'm not interested in that overpriced bullshit with million different LP colours. You need to have a great turntable to make LP sound close to cd-quality. Hopefully the LP and MC craze will die out soon. I hope for the appreciation of music, not the overpriced item, to come back.