re: Have you gone digital or are you still a CD buying person?

As the title asks, which are you? Do you download everything online now or are you still a old timer (like me) and buy cd's and rip them yourself? I don't want to know where you get your digital downloads (hopefully your doing it legally through Zune marketplace or another legal store) I just want to know what you do? I'm a cd purchaser still, I like to have the booklet and to have a hard copy of the cd if anything ever happens to my hard drive. So what do you do?

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I've had my zune80 for over a year...before that I was stictly buying cd's, now I'm buying both, but still prefer the cd/rip method.......btw I just picked up Mastodons new CD and holy *** does it RAWK!!!

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"These go to 11....." - Nigel Tufnel -

Although I download more today, I still enjoy buying a CD and ripping the contents.  The main reason is I love to read the booklets as I listen to the CD.  Often, the artist includes stories of creating the CD.  Without the booklet, you don't know -- at a glance -- who the guest musicians are, who the artists are thanking, what guitar models are being used, and so on.  Who knows?: perhaps when you download an MP3 album, you'll also receive an electronic version of the booklet.  Not a bad idea, eh?

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 Whirlwind Bolt wrote:

Who knows?: perhaps when you download an MP3 album, you'll also receive an electronic version of the booklet.  Not a bad idea, eh? 

I would love to see Zune start doing this as a added feature for buying albums through them.  I know a certain "fruit" company does this with their downloads, and so it would be nice to have for us too.  Granted, you can now buy and put any album from their store on your Zune, but I am trying to stay as faithful to Zune as I can.  So here's to crossing our fingers for digital booklets with albums soon.

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I am a CD person who is being pulled kicking and screaming into digital. I bought a Zune two weeks ago because I work in college radio and everyone seemed to turn digital delivery at the same time. So out went the portable CD player and stereo headphones (older stereo though probably I can rig something eventually so I can play the Zune through it) for the most part when I review records. I am always a lagger to this stuff though. (I won a RIO player when they first came out and barely used it) I switched from vinyl and cassettes to CD once an album came out I couldn't get in either of those formats.

I am attempting to go all digital, and zune is the only place I can do it. I having no credit card must buy Microsoft points cards for my digital music fix, I don't have a problem with it. I don't have to use credit cards, its greener than buying the whole albums, and I get a HUGE(er than Wal-Mart...uncensored too) 24/7 library of content.

Though having a hard copy, the booklet with artwork, and CD quality recordings are very nice.

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Personally, I consider buying cds and ripping them pretty digital. I'm a vinyl buying person, lol.

I prefer buying cds to downloading by the album, but I'm also an a-music connosieur, and I'm enjoying that. I guess I do a little of everything.

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I'm still an old bugger and buy physical copies of the album for collection reasons: To me, there's nothing like shelling out your own money for an album that you've been anticipating and thumbing through the artwork and lyrics while listening to the album. Plus, you get to hear the album in its pure hi-fi goodness, and collector's editions/digipaks are always fun to have.

But if there's an album that I dig and wouldn't necessarily want taking up space on my CD rack, I'll buy the mp3s from the Marketplace; considering that the mp3s are offered at a bit rate of 256, you get more or less the same fidelity as the normal disc with a few exceptions.

The association between spending money on music and having a physical product to show for it has been hard to shake for practical and idiosyncratic reasons.  I still buy everything on CD, preferring to have a professionally manufactured hardcopy of the uncompressed music.  Away from the PC, I still listen to CDs at home.  IMHO, digital downloads are best positioned for sales of popular (read "everything other than classical and jazz") music singles, where having a raw file is less important and you're able to get what you want off an album for $5 or less.  I've primarily been buying classical for the past couple of years, and buying a single track or a scattering thereof from a classical album has no appeal.  There often isn't a significant cost difference between whole album downloads and the CD with free shipping. 

With the decline of DRM, I'm open to spending $1 on the occasional current hit if I don't have any interest in the artist/album beyond a song or two, but I haven't done so yet.  I'd be much more inclined to make such purchases through the Zune Marketplace if I didn't have to play the Microsoft Points metagame.

 

I'm about 80% download, 20% cd. If i really like what I download, I'll try to get is on disc. I'd like to get back into vinyl again, but thats been put on hold for now.

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Although I have a Zune pass, I still purchase cds. The marketplace doesn't offer alot of stuff I listen to, (no Tool?? wft..) plus I enjoy loitering at my local indie music store.  

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 TMVfoSHO wrote:

Although I have a Zune pass, I still purchase cds. The marketplace doesn't offer alot of stuff I listen to, (no Tool?? wft..) plus I enjoy loitering at my local indie music store.  

 

Nothing like wasting an afternoon at the record store!!

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