15 reasons why I STILL BUY CDs

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🛋 My listening room in 2022:

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3:07 Reasons 1 - 5
8:39 Reasons 6 - 10
12:44 Reasons 11 - 15
18:40 Bonus reason
20:24 One final thought

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[Sparkyzilla]

One of the reasons why I still buy CDs is because an artist can remove their music from Spotify, but they can't come into my house and remove my CDs.

[TheMultiGunMan]

I still buy CD's. You can't beat having a physical copy of an album.

[SuperButterfly]

I will always buy cds. I love having physical copies of my favorite artist's music.

[rosstudisco]

One of my favorite pass times is going to a store and looking at cd’s.

[thebestoffools]

The industry is killing vinyl with their ridiculous asking prices. People who prefer a physical format and were into vinyl for the last few years are simply shifting back to CD. 💿

[NedenaBeerFarm]

Two more reasons: when you go to a live show, the performers will have a table set up where they sell CDs and merch. If you buy a CD, you can support the artist directly and get their autograph on the CD. That's a lot of fun and you can't do that with streaming. Plus, CDs make great gifts that you can give your musically enlightened friends.

[yostabbastabba]

I'm switching back to CD's after a 3 year affair with vinyl. I just can't deal with these ridiculous vinyl prices. Great video....

[JohnnyTurnerMusic]

Heres the first and only reason. You actually OWN the music.

[Pufoe]

I have been collecting, buying records since 1978.
I started, and switched to collecting CD's in 1987.
I love owning physical copies.
This will never change.
I use streaming services reference new artists, bands to see if I like, then buy later when I can afford.

[JezJerzy]

There is 1 main reason I love CDs: you can stay disconnected from internet / PCs, no FANs noise or shitty adverts in the browser or streaming services. Only you and music... brilliant experience.

[Pinstripedood]

I like physical formats mostly for the last reason. I like sitting down and listening to an album in full, rather than skipping around or doing playlists.

[joker_on_blitz]

Having a car with no bluetooth, aux, and a broken antenna forced me into playing some of my old cd's. Now I'm hooked and my collection is slowly growing. It's nice not having to connect my phone to the car and just let the cd continue from where it left off. I too hate when some of my favorite songs get removed from spotify.

[the-mr-paul]

Cds are still big in Japan. We still have several Tower Records and HMVs in Tokyo. Both are always busy and most of the customers are young.

[SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac]

Thanks for the shout out John, great episode!

[Christian-iyox]

No advertisements on CD's! That's my reason

[shannonfrench]

I absolutely still listen to CD's. I like owning the music, not renting it from a streaming service. I like picking out what I want to listen to, holding it and putting it in one of my players and even choosing which track's I want to hear. And as I noticed in the first comment that had 707 likes, now 708 after I liked it too these companies can remove certain artists at their discretion. And they can raise prices as they wish. I come from a long line of musicians and have been writing songs and recording them for over 50 years. I still record analog on multiple 4-track cassette's then mix and master them to CD. I received an offer to record in Nashville in May of 2000 and did so. This was right after Napster. My demo was shopped around the world and I got an offer to sign with a record company in Australia in 2002 from the 3 songs I recorded in Nashville. I didn't get to choose which songs for the demo and I have over 500. They wanted 7 more songs to complete a 10 song album with a $1, 000, 000 signing bonus. They kept pushing me to be a Country artist and I can and do write some Country stuff but I also write a lot of Rock music and some of my music doesn't really fit into a category. That's why I didn't get an offer from a record company in America. I had some offers from some smaller independent labels and even some major labels. I had a face to face meeting with the then hot producer of MCA records Mark Wright who produced Leanne Womack's #1 hit 'I Hope You Dance' and he told me I was good but not quite "Country" enough. He was producing Miranda Lambert at the time and I saw a preview of her video Kerosene before the rest of the public. My Dad had been in the music business and played with star's of his era like Porter Wagoner, Tex Ritter, Red Foley and Brenda Lee to name a few and he warned me of the traps and pitfalls of the music industry. So to everyone's amazement I saw so many red flags in the contract I was offered I turned it down. I felt like I was swimming in an Ocean of Sharks; not just the big money people but people I thought were my friends and fans. So in the end my best friend and I started a small YouTube channel called FlattBlaggMusic. I only have 91 subscribers and I let my friend pick out a lot of the songs he wanted to make video's to. I'm still making new music and it's just me writing, playing all the instruments and recording them on CD'S. Then I send them to my friend in Dallas and he puts them on our tiny little channel. I never ask anyone to subscribe, hit the like button or comment. I just do it for fun and it's good therapy for me. But I have an extensive CD collection of other artists as well as my own. Now vinyl, CD's and even cassette's are making a comeback! And I love it!!! I am not telling anyone to not use streaming services. I like to listen to music on YouTube myself sometimes. Glad you are one of the people keeping this art form alive!

[billpetersenjr.]

I bought a Cambridge Audio CD player a few years ago because I wanted to start listening to my archived CD collection (I had ripped them about 15+yrs ago to a portable HD so I could listen to music at work thru winamp!) When I started purposely listening to my CDs and LPs again, I realized how much I had been missing from just sitting down and only listening to music. As you mention, it's about holding the physical element, reading the liner notes, the cover art, the portability, and the price point. Not to mention that the sound quality of CDs are still phenomenal.

There are CDs I have that aren't on streaming platforms and never will be. My love of collecting CDs and LPs came from my parents who ran a record store back in the early 80s. I'm passing that love of the physical element of music on to my kids, especially my oldest daughter who loves the physicality of CDs herself. They represent some kind of musical magic for her.

[ryangunwitch-black]

Reason #11 really needs to be reason no. 1
I make sure to have a physical copy of anything I love. Albums, movies, books. The digital version can go away at any time. Chapters considered "problematic" cannot be excised from my book shelf. A copyright dispute won't cause a song to disappear from a CD. Nobody can ruin my CD collection with their awful remaster.

[RutgerSteenbergen]

Here a CD-buyer as well. Hunting for cheap, second hand albums is great fun. And I really like a physical collection. Flipping through my albums and surprising myself. From pop to jazz and from soul to dance. A digital experience is completely different. One more reason: I listen much more thoughtfully. When the CD is on, I listen to it all the way through.

[RocknRollkat]

CDs sound SO much better.
That's all I need to know.
Excellent presentation, thank you.
Bill P.