Yes I totally agree with you. CDs are cheaper than vinyls and much prefer the CDs over vinyl. The CDs are much easier to store and then vinyl. However, what the companies need to do is to release the harder to find albums, all kinds of music to CDs albums that are hard to find and out of print. I have hundreds of CDs. I put them in alphabetical order so that I can find them. Great video thanks
Most stuff was issued on cd but went out of print. When there's a format war (between records and cds), fewer titles are pressed and the consumer doesn't win. Back in the 90's, Fantasy used to reissue without street dates or much fanfare. Ho-hum! We're getting another Stax box. Fans actually criticized them for issuing John Coltrane's complete Prestige catalog in box set form a second time. Was viewed as a money grab! Concord bought the entire Fantasy catalog which included Stax, Prestige, Contemporary, Pablo, Riverside, among others. When you order a new cd today, Concord will most likely send you a cd-r. Craft is their boutique reissue label and it's full of vinyl, bloat, and a ton of hype. Twenty years ago I got tired seeing those 20th Century Millennium collections and reissues with just one bonus track. They're a sight for soar eyes in 2022.
I agree. Cd's sound way better than streaming and better than lp's in many (not all) ways. You can hear so much more detail with a cd. LP's seem so antiquated, large and fragile. Anyway, I have about 5000 cd's and 2500 lp's. I don't buy lp's anymore as they take up too much space and are way too expensive these days but still buy new and used cd's. So many more titles are available on cd than lp as well.
You are right, they need more record plants that keep up with the demand and promote out of print material. There are many desirable albums I would like on CD.
I've been collecting music for over 50 years. I never got rid of my vinyl collection or off loaded my CDs. Why on earth would I? I've never understood the "all in or all out' mind set. I'm happy to live in a multi format eco system- there are pro's and con's for every format including streaming. I did stop buying new vinyl over 25 years ago but I've never stopped buying CDs. I turn 62 next year and despite embracing streaming I am buying as many CDs as I ever did. The extortionate prices for new vinyl is basically a scam that's milking the collectors for their last penny. The same happened when CDs first launched - record companies plundered their vast back catalogues and hiked prices on the new format as folks made the transition- so many offloaded their vinyl for next to nothing and now they are rebuilding their collections... Many of those same people did the same when streaming became "cool" selling off their CD collections and scoffing at the uncool fogeys who were still buying and listening to CDs... The more things change the more they stay the same.
Great comment indeed! It seems many people just follow the trends. I have never understood it. I love the both CD and vinyl. Bought a lot of vinyl back in late 90s until 2018 or so when they were at first cheap and then reasonable priced, not anymore. Now it is time for the CD again. But the sought after CDs have been expensive for a decades too, but not that expensive as the trendy vinyl today. But we can say the CD is at the stage the vinyl was back in 2012/2013, Judas Priest/Iron Maiden CD cost now about 3-10 which was the price of its vinyl counterpart back then and common albums by Doors or Rolling Stones are still like 3-6 on CD.
I’m a cd seller myself to this day and I’m never going to quit selling them old cars still have CD players and better sound quality and u support the artist 👩🎨 and u own the music
I'm 74 and I was part of the 1960's counterculture (a freak, not a hippy) and aside from the cultural importance of the 60's music, vinyl records were the main source of entertainment at that time. I didn't have enough money back then to afford a good sound system for vinyl, so when CD's came out it was an opportunity for me to hear music clearer than I've ever been able to hear it. Today, I can finally afford a decent turntable, amp and speakers, so I've been collecting vinyl again. Subjective as it may be, I like the sound of vinyl, its not better or worse, just different than hearing music digitally. I still have quite a few CD's with a growing record collection and I listen to both. But there is a nostalgic aspect to vinyl, the process of playing a record, reading the liner notes and marveling at the jacket's artwork make the listening experience more immersive and it does remind me of my youth. I find the extra effort needed to play vinyl has its own, unique rewards. I'm glad that vinyl is having a resurgence and that younger generations are experiencing the same things that I and many from earlier generations experienced when playing vinyl albums. I think the popularity of vinyl is here to stay as are CD's and streaming, one format no longer has to suffer greatly because another exists. CD players in cars and portable CD players are no longer necessary with the availability of streaming. With that, a significant reason for buying CD's no longer exists, this alone will prevent them from becoming "a big thing again". Vinyl has its place and its in the home, which is also the case now with CD's. Once someone invests in a sound system for vinyl and starts to feel more engaged with the process, they'll continue. CD's will continue to be sold and used but unlike in the 80's, 90's and early 00's, they now have competition from vinyl and streaming. I think that all three formats will be popular for a long time but its unlikely one will knock the other out of the market place in a similar way that CD's did to vinyl after their introduction. Each format has a place in our lives, streaming is convenient, CD's don't require much care and offer good fidelity, vinyl rewards the extra effort with tactile engagement, a unique auditory experience, visual pleasures and nostalgia.
Any audio issues people had with cd sound was all to do with poor mastering and production of the music, not the CD nor the Redbook formula. If one truly learns to understand how digital audio works and of course 16 bit 44.1k sampling of the CD will note that it's completely transparent to the original master recording. Bad sounding CD = bad or incompetent music mastering.🤔
I’ve been a music collector for 55yrs+. Bought them in their various formats, some only available on a specific type. Counterculture aesthetics is what’s driven the resurgence of vinyl. CDs have twice the fidelity, quiet & are convenient to use, durable, don’t warp, not affected by dust. Audiophile vinyl doesn’t exist, it’s only remastered. Vinyl appeals to those who tinker; wow/flutter/rumble, tonearm type/material, cartridge type/stylus/material, etc. All in hopes of finding a good combination, albeit that tracking surface noise exists!🙈. CDs have advanced HiFi measurably. And DACs satisfy those who dislike “digital sound”. Sadly, streamers are left with nothing except subscription fees, no pride of media ownership🎶😎.
You're probably correct. I'm 74 and I was part of the counterculture (a freak, not a hippy) and aside from the importance of the 60's music, vinyl records were the main source of entertainment at that time. I never had enough money to afford a good sound system for vinyl, so when CD's came out it was an opportunity for me to hear music clearer than I've ever been able to hear it. Today, I finally can afford a good turntable, amp and speakers, so I've been collecting vinyl again. Subjective as it may be, I like the sound of vinyl, its different than hearing music digitally. I still have quite a few CD's with a growing record collection and I listen to both. But there is a nostalgic aspect to vinyl, the process of playing a record, reading the liner notes and marveling at the jacket's artwork make the listening experience more immersive and it does remind me of my youth. I find the extra effort needed to play vinyl has its own, unique rewards. I'm glad that vinyl is having a resurgence and that younger generations are experiencing the same things that I and many from earlier generations experienced when playing vinyl albums.
I ❤ physical media. I just here recently emptied my CD binders back to their jewel cases. I really dig actually seeing what I have. Not to mention its like a timeline in my life. Every piece represents a significant part of my life . Its cool.
😂I did the same. I thought putting them in cd binders was going to be better and yes save space. But I found it more of a pain to have to flip through cd binder pages. So I put them back in jewel cases and on shelves in alphabetical order. It to me looks cooler and is easier to find a disc to play. 😎👍
I was at a Goodwill thrift store and they rolled out two carts that had about 400 CDs. I came back the next day so I could use a discount and when I did, they were all gone.
@@rudyonduty Same happened to me. I heard a man & woman talking while filling their cart with CD’s and from what I could tell is they turn around and flip them on eBay and sell some to the local used book/movie/music reseller who pay a couple of bucks for them and then resell them for $7+.
Another thing people fail to mention, is that you can back them up on a computer. If your computer doesn't have an optical drive you can get an external USB version for around $20 to $25. In addition to backup you can rip the disc as flac files and transfer the music to your phone or digital music player. Not to mention local music stored on your phone or digital music player sounds better than streaming.
The cds I buy are mostly $10-20 each even used. The nominal 90's-00's cds that you showed will always be bargain bin as are Carpenters and Air Supply records. I don't see cds that charted in Billboard's the Top 100 taking off as there are just too many and people aren't into a lot of that. What will and has increased in price are deluxe editions like those done for the group Bad Company, box sets, indie releases, cd singles with unique mixes, third party licensed music like those issued by Wounded Bird, Sundazed, or Hipo-select, and imports especially in the older music that wasn't in it's heyday issued on cd. Rock Candy, Bear Family, Cherry Pop, Japanese pressings all lead the way. The 50's-early 60's pop, rock, and doo-wop isn't going to make much of a comeback with few exceptions as most who remember those styles as a current have sadly past or are very old. The standard classic rock/soul cd may hold their value but there was a moderate amount pressed. After music goes out of print, you have the 90/10 rule where 90% falls below retail price. After all, said title isn't selling and that's usually the reason why items are cut-out. A good 10% will increase with some going exponentially but interest in the artist after their initial peak has to obviously follow which is the biggest key compenent. I wasn't impressed with your titles like Rod Stewart and re-recordings of the Platters and Drifters. The titles on the wall behind you mostly sold in the millions but my money would be on Jeffrey Osborne. His albums with LTD haven't been in print in awhile. Osborne also issued a second companion volume to Ultimate collection called More of my best. A ballad collection followed in 2001 and mopped up the rest but these were pressed in far fewer numbers. He also had an album called "Don't stop" that was quite underrated and was subsequently cut out rather quickly on cd in the mid 80's. It normally is in the $15 dollar range propelled by the hit "Crazy 'bout cha" which was a Quiet Storm favorite and later put on Ballads. LTD also did an album without him called Love Magic that was only issued on cd in Japan. Enchantment and T-Connection are other groups that weren't anthologized early in the cd era. Domestic discs are long out of print and full catalog got limited issue in England. Just some insight.
Exactly. For example, last year I bought an out-of-print CD of the Cowsills' 1968 album, Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools (on the British Now Sounds label, which apparently released more obscure and overlooked albums of the 60s and 70s), and it was $50. Look on e-bay now, and you'll see prices of $80+. More recently, I boought David Bowie's Aladdin Sane 30th Anniversary 2cd Deluxe Edition, as well as Matthew Wilder's I Don't Speak the Language (1980s album with the one-hit wonder, Break My Stride, on the Collectables label). The CDs cost about $50 and $60 respectively. Basically, I bought all the very popular and mainstream releases back in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. Now I'm focused on finding more obscure or less popular albums on CD that were released on smaller, independent labels, or special editions of albums that I didn't purchase at the time they were released. Like, right now, I'm looking to buy the deluxe box set of the Kinks' Arthur album, which is a 4 CD set, and it can go for hundreds of dollars, since it's rare and out of print. Basically, when it comes to the rare or more obscure stuff, buying CDs ain't cheap.
@@thehighllama8101 If you get into viewing or buying other's collections, you'll find some of that stuff especially if they bought mail order (remember that), Tower records, genre focused store, or did special orders. There's solid collections out there with Japanese pressings of obscure and famous groups. The earlier Collectables discs are easy to find but a little tougher on the ears. When Collectables started issuing twofers, the majors got involved in the mastering process and things improved but they weren't over-pressed. Around this time, they issued twofers on Slave and Cheryl Lynn and I rarely saw them stores. Maybe Tower and Sound of Market/Jazz Sound in Philadelphia had them. Sound of Market was really the only physical store that really catered to my taste. Within a week of going there, I dropped $10K and they were fairly priced. I had a bag of about 200 cds from the R&B section and I only completed S-Z in reverse order. I wasn't as excited about what I got as I was worried about what was left behind. Today if a cd is sealed, you better open up because there might be a dreaded cd-r lurking in there. That's another issue that is totally ruining collecting.
As much as I'd like to see a full-blown CD resurgence like you describe, I don't see them ever overtaking vinyl again like they did 35 years ago. They might (and I hope they do) continue to modestly increase in popularity like they did last year, though. However, having said that, vinyl prices cannot continue rising like they have been or they'll run the risk of pricing themselves out of business. I hope the record company execs are smart enough to realize that.
Only time will tell… to the serious record collector they will not. I thinking more of a new trend. This recent surge in vinyl is mainly nostalgia from the previous vinyl owners and the younger population who never experienced owning records and think it’s cool. I’m saying that will be the next driving force in the CD trend. Will CDs overtake vinyl in value I doubt it vinyl has way more history so the CDs that will increase in value will be the box sets the limited presses, etc.
I think that they will overtake lp's in the long run. LP's are such an expensive, antiquated, fragile, large, cumbersome, etc format. I have 2500 lp's and they take up a ton of space. People are going to get sick of that. My 5000 cd's take up way less space and sound better in most (not all) respects.
With hi-res streaming available, CDs will never gain their previous popularity. For $20 a month I can stream in rates far higher than any standard CD and listen to it anywhere in decent sound. And if you want physical media, CDs will never offer more than LPs. CDs really sit I between streaming and LPs. It's like an inverse bell curve. But for real, for those liking CDs, our local Goodwills have them by the 100s at 1$ a piece. Go buy them by the armfuls! You can always judge what's losing popularity by what's stacked deep at the local Goodwill.
@@sjakovics But all studies show that you can not hear any difference between CD quality sound and any higher resolution source. If anyone says that they can, it is almost certainly the placebo effect. Plus, if you don't have the physical media, you are renting the music and are at the mercy of the corporate streaming lords. If there is a copyright dispute, any dispute with the artist or if they decide that they don't want songs like Catholic Girls, Not Now John, Walk On The Wild Side, The End, Jewish Princess, Some Girls, Revolution Blues, Brown Sugar, Georgia, Into The Night, Everyone's Gone To The Movies, Turning Japanese, etc, they may well get pulled or censored. Most music lovers don't want to rent, they want to own their music and only two formats exist today where almost all titles are available, LP and CD. I agree that cd's will never, nor will lp's, attain their previous popularity because the masses are content to rent their music but there will always be those who value music enough to want to own it.
@@sjakovics I'll bet that the vast majority of the cd's that are selling at those prices are basically mainstream, throw-away titles. Strictly commercial disposable music that was mass marketed in the heyday of cd sales. I can give you plenty of examples of lp's that sell at the same price from lp's heyday in the 70's.
More than 40 years that CD's exist, CD's for life, better sound, last longer, cheaper... You can actually touch the music and the products it's a nice object, inside the booklet you still have credits, lyrics, and some recommendations of bands or interviews sometimes. Listening to CD out you in a mood and you respect more the artist by listening to the entirety of the record instead of a random Playlist with only singles. And if one day there is a shutdown of internet or even electricity you can still listen to CD as long has you have CD player and batteries. Also CD you can listen in a CD player, computer, DVD player in your car compare to vinyl for exemple. There is some good videos alps on TH-cam that give you 11 /20 reasons to collect CD go check it out! Support the artist and the music industry buy your music even if you use Spotify that's fine but buy your music 🙂 peace guys.
I have around 900 . I have a custom made cabinet for them. I like my CDs. I also love records. Grewup with albums and I didnt like cds when they came out. The good thing is they last.
I think the cd is by far the most practical thing in today’s world than vinyl. The cd is smaller, more portable, and are recordable unlike vinyl. I’d like to see the cd come back for reasons mentioned earlier. Digital remastering causes distortion in the sound giving them that metallic sound. AAD CD’s sound much better than digitally remastered CD’s. Cd’s don’t wear with playing like vinyl. I feel that AAD CD’s with improvements would be closer to vinyl sound than digitally mastered analog CD’s would be. CD’s compared to vinyl is like cassette tapes to reel to reel sound wise. Both the CD’s and cassette tapes are more practical for home use.
My thoughts exactly! I started collecting cds at the beginning of the covid pandemic and i sure am glad i did! i've amassed about 600 awesome cd's for mostly a dollar. Some i've paid 3 to 8 bucks for at my local records shops but they were usually 2 or 3 cd sets. I am so glad I started collecting them, i would have probably originally spent about ten grand give or take had i bought them new. That being said i have occasionally bought brand new just released current music but that's ok. And I bought a good quality digital audio player so I can take music with me in digital un comprssed files. And it's also blue tooth. Although i mostly enjoy popping in the cd into my player in my man cave over some coffee or bourbon depending on the time of day haha. Cheers from Houston! Class of 96 and an 80's kid...
Good stuff! I’m amazed at little value people put on CDs. But the best time to buy anything is when people don’t want it. I bought a stack for .25 at a yard sale the other day. I’m going to make a video to share that score soon!
I'm particulalry going crazy with complete opera CDs. They were always difficult for me to afford new because it would be $40-50 for three CDs with a huge libretto booklet. Of course, condition is everything, but I can now get them with minimal shelf wear, sometimes even sealed, for $2-10. Collection is all over the map because of what I can find in acceptable condition. I have Rossini's Il Viaggio del Rheims and L'Italiana in Algeire but not Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Smetana's Libuse but not The Bartered Bride, and Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz but not Cavelleria Rusticana except for burned copy I was given when I was in it to help me learn the part (which was chorus, so it wasn't that helpful).
To me it's better to have physical media. I still buy both cds and dvds. I got 20 dvds for £1 a couple of months ago when my local community centre charity shop had a clear out. New cds here cost £11-15 and second hand can be anything from 25p-£1 depending where you go.
CD's are much more affordable, just got back from a CD and Record show. It was about 80% records, 20% CDs, a few DVDs, tapes and various music memorabilia. On CD I got the Monkees greatest hits (Rhino records compulation) and Rod Stewart's Every picture tells a story for just $2 each, marked down from $6 each. Frank Zappa's Freak Out for just $8.
i am a collector of mainly cds and dvd/bluray. i recently stopped by an estate sale near my house and scored a little over 200 cds for $10. mainly classical and celtic with some oldies, country, and contemporary. all mostly pristine condition still inside the wooden storage boxes. i have in the past also hit a few goodwill stores where you never know what you'll find for around a buck.
@@rudyonduty the count was really 225 but 25 were missing the cd! while going through the haul i was beginning to wonder how many empties there would be! those may have been in the slip cases you were showing for travel that became misplaced in the caos of the estate sale.
For many reasons I still collect CDs though I also stream music. Not all music is available on Spotify etc. My 18 years old son consider my a dinosaur but I love the physical aspect of being able to enjoy the cover art and reading the details of the recordings in the booklets.
I have been collecting vinyl almost 30 yrs. I have notice prices are getting crazy, for a common album I paid $3 for in the 90's mint. I've had over 2K albums, and another 2K+ in 45rpm singles. 97% of my collection is original first pressing. That Billy Idol album I picked it up in the 90's probably at a record store for $2.99 mint. In those days, the employee would tell I was one of the few people buying albums.
I never got rid of my cds the only reason I stopped buying was because the cd stores all closed oh wait you can still say they sell cds because of one little store in the city. But they are not releasing awesome new cds anymore and I got all the ones I want that are available so as a result I no longer buy cds.
I’m sure there are people who do that. Happy to say that i’m not one of them! I have a couple of cd books but I would never throw the artwork and case away. Thanks for the input and watching the channel! God Bless! 😊🙏
They’re great if you’ve got storage to keep them. Can quickly overwhelm a living room/listening room. I like to keep most in storage and a few favourites out ready to play and circulate them every once in a while. Not sure that CDs will ever have a Vinyl like comeback though as they don’t have the same kind of analog appeal. They’re digital just like streaming but without all the convenience. CDs appeal rests with audiophiles who think they sound better than streaming. Doubt there’s enough of them to really make a difference. Edit: Just realised that CD sales are no longer in decline in the US and are significantly outselling vinyl. So who knows maybe your right. I guess if artists stop distributing ALL their music via the likes of Spotify it might help. There’s a lot of good stuff not on the streaming services so there’s still an incentive to buy physical albums.
I have buying CDs since the early days of the format. I prefer them for their size and the quality of sound. I do not buy mainstream albums in the first, as I am into jazz and improv and other Avantgarde genres, and here some some CDs can be very expensive if hard to find. I also buy classical and have bought 40 classical CD`s in a thrift store once for a fiver or six dollars.
Dude, you struck a chord with me on this one. I was listening to exclusively vinyl up until about 2020 when records just started getting way too expensive. I HAPPENED to come across an 80s Sony CD player at Goodwill and I bought it based on the reviews I quickly discovered on my phone. I guess I was expecting it to sound maybe 75-80% as good as my vinyl setup. Needless to say, it sounded awesome. The first album I played was an AM+ copy of Styx - Grand Illusion that I bought at a used book/music store for $.25. Since then I have been buying tons of CDs mostly in the $1-$3 range. I'd say at this point my CD collection is probably about the same size as my vinyl collection. I agree with you that CDs are still way undervalued/underrated, but I have seen prices creeping up a bit in the past year or two. CDs are an awesome medium that a lot of people are sleeping on but shouldn't be. Enjoyed your video!
If you actually like hundreds of artists and have the time to listen. More power to you! Streaming just makes the most economical, time, and space saving sense.
People say technology ruined everything, but in a way the lack of technology did. The reason why is because they never got anything to replace cds with sure you can say iTunes but they needed a new form of a physical copy which nobody invented or came out with, which stopped the tradition.
A smart music collector regards any format for it's price. I totally agree with your logic. When CD's came around , all my friends gave me their records asking why would you want to keep them ? Now it's people asking why do you want to keep CD's.? There are certain releases that are only available on CD. I love my records and my CD's. CD's are a bargain now days. P.S.I also love 78 rpm's.
The thing that is going to make collectible CDs collectible is CDs with non-jewel case packaging (i.e. where the jacket is a cardboard sleeve) in pristine condition. These packages are subject to wear, making packaging in good condition more rare.
I collect both vinyl records and CD's and still have my original records as well as lots and lots of CD's purchased since the 1980's to the present day with no plans to get rid of either format. I think CD's are making a comeback partially due to a renewed nostalgic interest in everything 1980's as well as the steep prices of records being released either as new albums or as reissues of past albums which only encourages music collectors, particularly young collectors, to consider buying CD's instead as a more affordable alternative.
I also rake in vinyl, CDs and cassettes. Prices however have gotten so out of hand that I’m taking blank cassettes and taping what I want off the internet. So if I hit any kind of “dry spell”, I can’t lose. Period. I’m not going to pay the outrageous prices I’m seeing. Over and Out!
I think you’re right about the vinyl resurgence crashing at some point. A CD resurgence could happen, but I don’t see it happening to the same extent. I hope I’m wrong, because if it does, I can unload a bunch of CDs which are currently sitting in boxes collecting dust
I believe or atleast hope the market will be "normalized" when the vinyl trend will crash. At the same time people will realize the CD is still the easiest and best sounding format to listen physical music (I love the vinyl too but thats a fact). I'm not too happy if there will be another trend with the CD's. It means stupid hype and insane prices which has very little to do with the dedicated 2nd hand collectors market. Also there is so much different CD editions of same album, it will be a huge mess if there will be "every CD is worth of gold" attitude because a tiny IFPI code can separate a CD worth of 0,50 and 50.
I was 19 when the CD player came out in 83 and what the young folks today don’t seem to grasp is that CD’s are a “stand alone” media which is not dependent on the internet or an MP3 storage device to store for long periods. The CD is a MUCH higher quality sound in comparison to downloaded music but young people don’t know that there’s something much better out there. As for albums, basically the same thing as the CD’s but you’ll need quality equipment to bring out the quality of the album. Albums are susceptible to heat and moisture so proper storage is important and for Gods sake, keep the albums vertical and straight, don’t put a lot of weight on them where they’ll warp.
CDs can also be ripped and stored on computer/phone and played wherever you go. I dont have to handle the media outside my storage area. I recently got the Beatles Anthology series and some recent remixes for $7 each off ebay. Usually, I just listen with good headphones and a USB dac/amp. I dont have the space for a formal audio system. My 1980s turntable's belt disolved 15 years ago.
Thrift stores sometimes have good finds...but I don't want a bunch of crap that sits in my collection I don't use. I'd rather pay a bit more for used CDs sourced off the internet.
If you go dumpster diving or treasure hunting in the trash, you could find tens of CDs for free. People are dumping them in favour of streaming or mp3.
You’re right about people dumping them…That’s what people did with vinyl records in the 90s when CDs came out. now they’re paying 30 to 50 bucks an album. Everything runs in cycles. Thanks for watching!
Everybody moved out of an apartment building next to me recently..somebody was throwing away tons of DVD's..for about a month I was constantly seeing them in and outside of the dumpster..
I collect cds and I have a lot of them and I will continue to buy them. I also buy albums and recently have been growing my collection. I even have 800 cassette tapes in 8 Napa Valley holders. Cd sales have already increased 47% over last year and albums sales also increased. I believe both the cds and albums can co exist together. I also know albums are trendy for a large portions of buyers and expect sales of albums will slow down and level out. People are still buying cassettes and some music groups have been releasing cassettes for sale. Although I have never owned a reel to reel I do have a working 8 track player on my home stereo. Like albums and cds I believe the streaming of music can stay viable just like my satellite stereo in my car. The point is I hope the record business keep making cds and albums. What I really would like is new cars have an option for Bluetooth, Satellite Radio, Streaming, a hook up for an Ipod with a cassette player and a cd player and RCA hook up for amps. I am the person who would pay more for a car with a stereo like that, and I believe I am not the only one. Prices of Albums will come down slowly and I hope people trade in their record and cd collection. I will be there to get the deals and enjoy my hobby of collecting music. I really love technology but there is nothing like touching a product like a cassette, cd and albums,. You get the artwork and extras that technology can't deliver with the formats. I was against people downloading music for free I want to make it viable for an artist to make a living, and the consumers to afford collecting. I am considering getting a reel to reel after I get a tube amp, a preamp, amp and equalizer for my home stereo. I almost have my speaker set up on my home hi-fi. Bottom line keep making cds and albums, get more record plants that can produce what ever the customer buys. We really need the independent record stores to thrive and realize we need the experience thumbing through music at a store. We still can shop on the internet and we need to learn from our mistakes. A lot of people got rid of their albums, cassettes and cds I know I did. I am holding on to my music and not getting rid of anything again. I wish I had all my albums I gave away. If anyone wants to get rid of their compact disc's you can donate them to me.
Great news im a CD collector i have sold most of my Vinyls and cassette and replaced them with CDs and i keep buying CDs at least once a week thanks for your opinion
Great video there’s something about paying just 8 to 12 bucks for a brand new CD. I also like knowing I own it and it can’t be edited or deleted. I have Apple Music, Spotify and You Tube music. If I just dropped one of those services and bought one brand new CD a month I’d have a growing collection . 🤔
I have a USB port on my car stereo, no CD though but I put all my music (200+ CD's at 192 bit rate) on a 32 gig flash drive and have "ALL" my music in my car! I also put my music directly onto my PC as soon as I get it and then blue-tooth to my stereo and blue-tooth devices. My CD's stay like new!
Wow, you are very computer savvy! My last car was totaled in an auto accident and it was a 2017 which I believe is the last year cars came with CD players. Now it’s about my Apple subscription. Thanks for posting! Have a great day God bless! 😊🙏
No just saying that you can fit all that music onto a very small deal that you can use in your car and save CD's from damage. I love CD's and they are my favorite music medium.
I think, the best way of physical music media is the CDs on Vinyl gatefold packaging (12 inch)instead of jewel case. Current CD package does not show cover art which expressed their visual concept of the records.
I always listen to Pandora radio I listen to the 80s & 90s channel also 50s rock n roll Eurodance/Trance Nation channel I don't need CDs or records I do have CDs and cassette record but I used to use those when I used to mix my music I'm done with mixing music I'm old 39 years old it cool for those people who collect CDs and other stuff 👍😎
It's already started to turn. Used cds are going from $6-12 at the shops and on ebay. Take care of them. They will be worth more. The loudness cds and gazillion sellers won't have much value, same with bruised cds. But oop and OG's in VG will probably always have some resale value. Many oop cds go in the double digits.
I have almost all of the CDs you have in your back ground...plus the CDs you showed... I bought my first CD in 1987...the Beatles. I've been collecting ever since. I've been thru many a thrift store buying approx 3K CDs. Now I'm collecting Albums at 1 or 2 bucks a pop. I'm not going to name any of them...because I don't want the competition lol! I saw a ton of 8tracks recently at 2 bucks a pop...I might invest in them only to resell them.
Hi Tim, thanks for watching & the compliment! 800 CDs is a size nice collection. The 80s is when it all started for CDs. And the cool thing about CDs is you can put a cd that you bought in 1985 in the player it’ll sound exactly like it did when you bought it! And they cost less today! Thanks for watching & God bless! 😊🙏
Cds weren't cheap THEN, they just seemed cheap compared to the prices of vinyl NOW. I still buy cds, and always will. Vinyl is a trend right now, but dont see how anyone can afford to buy it.
To the collectors like you and me Vinyl will never die or lose its value… but there will be many who got in just because it was cool and trendy that will dump their collectors cheap…. And that’s where we come in! Thanks for watching!
Wow, where did you buy all those cds for $20? When Circuit City went out of business, I purchased a couple hundred brand new cds for about $225. what a deal. Still haven’t listened to them all. I have a collection of over 3000 cds of all taste scattered all over my house😎. LOVE YOUR PHILOSOPHY.
Hi There thanks for watching the channel! I mainly buy at thrift stores and yard sales! Circuit City… I bought a pair of Polk Audio speakers from them that I still have today. Have a great day & God Bless! 😊🙏
I'd rather collect cd"s than vinyl, takes up less space. The sound isn't much of a difference to me. Many of the "deluxe" editions & box sets come in very nice packaging
I have follow the same pattern as you have. Right now the action is CDs at thrift stores, Since people have been dumping their CDs off at thrift stores or selling them at garage sales I have more than three times added to my collection and I had a huge collection to start off with. I will buy the vinyl version of albums released by newer artist so I do both vinyl and CDs. When I am busy around the house performing tasks then it is CDs so I do not have to change the record every 20 plus minutes. When I am relaxing and want to get deep into the music then it is vinyl.
You can definitely get CDs on the cheap right now. I listen to vinyl pretty much the same way you do! But I work from home so sometimes I stream through a Bluetooth adapter on my stereo so when my phone rings music automatically cuts off. Thanks for your post and for watching!
At 3:31, I notice you have some CDs stacked (even though you're holding them) .... and I store most of my CDs in Stacks (horizontally, in stacks). I Never stack more than 17 CDs in one stack, however, even if they're all in jewel cases. I wondered if You have a personal limit .... I notice that, at 3:31, you have 17 in that stack, ironically, if I counted correctly. Do you have a limit?
Growing up in the mid nineties, i grew up listening to casettes and cds, i've never had access to vinyl but i love my cds. The price is better and they're easier to store, plus i can listen to them in the car
Well, I grow up in the mid 90's too and I tell you the 2nd hand vinyl selection was large and cheap as chips. I mean you could pick up 1st pressing Black Sabbath and KISS records for 0,50cent all the day and even the new vinyl was cheaper than the CD counterpart. Thats why many of people got into vinyl back then and build the foundation for the upcoming "vinyl revival", later "vinyl trend". If you liked old metal or rock, it was like a paradise because instead of nowadays very common Evanescence or Nightwish CD it was Black Sabbath or Anthrax LP for example.
I agree, they are very expensive to produce. Plus you get something other than just the use of the song. However, The last couple of concerts I went to the artists were selling CDs, along with the other Merchandise. thanks for tuning into the channel and God bless! 😊🙏
CDs will always be better than steaming I grew up in the 1990s so cds 💿 I was the only option to buy album I miss that Streaming made people lazyyyyyy and rely too much internet which won’t be there for that long
Hello I'm in my sixties, and I have a large collection of cds. All genres, with a huge quantity of Jazz. I like my cds, and play them alot. I clean them with a solution called Isopropyl Alcohol. This solution is what was used back in the 1980s when cds came out. I have the soundtrack to my life on cd. From the sixties to the early 2000s. I'm not so much into anything too contemporary. I live in New Zealand and some stores that sold new cds don't now. I get alot from charity stores.
Some store in the US still have new cds but for the most part I get my cds at yard sales and thrift stores. I often use “ soundtrack of my life” to describe my music collection. Thanks for the comment and thank you so much for watching!
CDs are my favorite medium. I gave up on 8 tracks because they're so delicate at 50 years old are disintegrating. Original cassettes not far behind. Get them on digital while you still can.
I'am now 64 , collecting music since 1973 I only buy ,never sell anything my house is full of thousands of vinyls , CD's, flac ,wav and more , I am not into streaming , Nowadays DACs are much better than in the the 90's and digital music just offer the best sound , I don't play my vinyls very often now I prefer CD's When I buy digital files on bandcamp I sometime burn CDR & print the cover to have type of physical media In 2022 I only bought 2 vinyls albums , but several hundreds used CD's on internet mostly jazz, post-punk , reggae & electronic music ....for new music I buy digital on bandcamp , vinyl is just too expensive now If they don't reduce the price simply boycott them and buy CD's
I have thought along that digital audio discs can sound better than [analog] vinyl discs. I have collected both media kinds but have not had any things on which to play the music. Otherwise, I am spending lots of time listening to music on TH-cam.
I have CDs and I have Vinyl and prefer vinyl. I don't see liquidation of vinyl stock, but please tell me where you do. Walmart's $15 record sale was pretty busy. Those prices were pretty good, considering in the 70s an album was $6 and a double album was around $10, that's a decent price. I have almost 3000 LPs and probably 1000 or more CDs. I'd never buy a new CD, but I would and have bought used. At 50 cents a pop I'd be foolish not to. Now is there going to be a resurgence of CDs overtaking streaming and vinyl, I doubt it very much. Just a feeling I have. Vinyl lasted tooooooo long for it not to come around as relevant again and I'm sure glad it did. Besides even cd players fell apart and are harder to bring back to life than 60 year old turntables.
I’m not sure how old you are but if you do a little research, there were big chains of record stores all through the 60s,70s, 80s and into the early 90s, not just a section in Target or Walmart… Tower Records, Sam goody & Licorice pizza just to name few. Your serious vinyl collector will always be. To all those people scooping them up at Walmart for 15 bucks it’s just a fad for most of them. As far as CD Players go… new turntables came along with the resurgence of vinyl and so will CD players as soon as there is an Oporto make money comes along. In closing, you think Walmart would be selling $30 albums for 15 bucks if they didn’t have a reason to? Follow the signs. Thanks for watching. And thanks for your post!
You make a couple of great points! Although I still collect vinyl. It can be very disappointing when you buy a record and the person selling has been way too generous on the grading. Plus if CDs skips or stutters you can polish them out with a rubbing compound or toothpaste. Thanks for posting God Bless! 😊🙏
Hi Nick, 600 is a nice size collection! I Agree the sound quality is great and the maintenance is much easier. Thanks for Supporting the channel! God Bless!
Where i live there is a charity ( thrift) shop selling CD's for 50P (about 60 cents?) they have an enormous amount in there, and at that price you could build a really good collection fairly quickly. I also like all kinds of music so such a place is an aladins cave. I will not buy vinyl, simply because you have to be fairly rich to indulge and i have to budget. I like CDs they sound better, i just don't buy that nonsense that vinyl has superior sound quality. Buy these gems when you can, a bagfull for little money.
One thing you forgot about CDs have full album art. I never stopped collecting CDs. I been collecting since I was 14 and I'm 45 now. I still buy them from shows and online. I have close to 3,500 CDs and growing. I collect all kinds of media movies, video games and music. My game collection is the most value but my CDs are close behind. To speak the truth if I lost my CDs I would be devastated but my movies and games it would suck but I could handle it. Some CDs are extremely expensive. Like old video game soundtrack also a lot of movie soundtracks because they were low pressed. If you ever buy to resell old first pressing of black metal and Death Metal sell for a pretty penny. Again very low pressing on a lot of them.
But where you can find 1st/early press black/death metal CDs under 20$€£ today is a question. Those CDs was never a big thing in the flea market bins. About 5-10 years ago there was better 2nd hand market for those items, not anymore. Like I said, the CD market is like vinyl market was back in 2012 or so, with a good luck you can still find those early "extreme metal" CDs for a reasonable prices and the availability is generally much better than their vinyl counterparts. But finding them for cheap is almost impossible, even the 80's Iron Maiden CDs command 15-30$€ online today, they were 5 buck CDs just a couple years ago, but with a good luck you can still find those for cheaper (For example some months ago I bought 1st Bathory CD 1991 for 10€, 1st press of Mayhem's Deathcrush without barcode for 15€, talking about bargain! It is just like you could score a 1993 pressing of Deathrush on vinyl for 50€ back in 2012) Same cannot say for their vinyl counterparts today. People who see that thing now are blessed, because many "extreme metal" (I hate that term) fan is too obsessed with the vinyl at the moment to understand the beauty of CDs and I think it is same on the every music style at the moment. I dont have see rare CD soundtracks on the wild much. But yeah, 2nd hand CD market is still very fine overall because the joy of hunting is still alive.
Depends? Are you going to sell them as a lot or individually? Individually gets you more money if you want to spend the time. I would look on discogs & ebay to see what they are going for first. Have a great day! God bless! 😊🙏
@@rudyonduty i just am looking to sell them at highest price. Its a Widegren range of anythingg. Albums and collections (best ofs small and big and soundtracks)
I go to the Goodwill store all the time mostly on Wednesday's because now that I'm 55 I get a senior discount of 25% off. They sell their CD's for a $1 so I only pay .75 cents. Some days I only find 1 or 2 other days I walk out with 15 or more. My biggest problem is that I have hundreds of CD's and finding stuff I don't already own is a challenge. I collect vinyl also but I refuse to pay the prices they want for new records. I spend my vinyl money on "Holy Grail" rare and original pressings.
Just purchased 20 cds from a charity shop for £10 the lot 50p each wow after recently buying a marantz cd 6007 with usb slot. I also still buy albums but cds are so cheap at this moment so grab them now. Just purchased some new cd racks to fill up.I
I still like to buy vinyl on the 180 vinyl format but I have been holding of on such purchases because if vinyl see a decline in sales then retailers my start sailing them at a reduce price.
I have a nice collection of vinyl myself! I pretty much collect it all… vinyl, CDs, cassettes & real to reel tape’s! Happy hunting for Vinyl! Thanks for watching!
Never collect something just because the price is low. 78 records were cheap when the LP came out but today the price is still low except for very few.
hi Tom, thanks for watching! I totally agree… the point I was trying to make is that for people who love to collect music, CDs are a great format and a great value for the price! As far as 45s go, probably the biggest reason why they’re not so popular any more is because it takes a lot of effort to enjoy vinyl when you’re changing the record every three minutes. thanks again for watching! 🙏
I collect CDs and I really don’t care what other people think about it.
Well said! Thanks for watching!
I think that's cool and smart!
I agree with you.
CD’s are by far more practical in today’s world than vinyl.
CD's are superb.
CDs or vinyl, I am so pleased to see people buying and supporting physical media!
Not in my area bunch of streamers 🤬🤬😡 go to Hollywood if malls that’s we’re real music lovers buys CDs 💿
For me , CD sound is 10x better than streaming. Also you do not have to hear any rotten advertiesments when you have a CD.
Thanks for watching! You are right on the sound quality… Commercials too!
Streaming disappears if contracts with the artist don't get renewed.
My point of contention is reliability. Streaming isn’t reliable.
@@bikdav Yup, streaming is like going to a store and choosing from what is in print. You can find something to listen but not everything you want.
I have my own library from 40 years of collecting cds. I don't need any streaming services!
CDs are the best physical format in terms of sound quality and price!
And u own the music 🎶 CDs 💿 forever let’s keep buying physical media and CDs 💿 and records and supporting artist 👩🎨
Yes I totally agree with you. CDs are cheaper than vinyls and much prefer the CDs over vinyl. The CDs are much easier to store and then vinyl. However, what the companies need to do is to release the harder to find albums, all kinds of music to CDs albums that are hard to find and out of print. I have hundreds of CDs. I put them in alphabetical order so that I can find them. Great video thanks
Most stuff was issued on cd but went out of print. When there's a format war (between records and cds), fewer titles are pressed and the consumer doesn't win. Back in the 90's, Fantasy used to reissue without street dates or much fanfare. Ho-hum! We're getting another Stax box. Fans actually criticized them for issuing John Coltrane's complete Prestige catalog in box set form a second time. Was viewed as a money grab! Concord bought the entire Fantasy catalog which included Stax, Prestige, Contemporary, Pablo, Riverside, among others. When you order a new cd today, Concord will most likely send you a cd-r. Craft is their boutique reissue label and it's full of vinyl, bloat, and a ton of hype. Twenty years ago I got tired seeing those 20th Century Millennium collections and reissues with just one bonus track. They're a sight for soar eyes in 2022.
I agree. Cd's sound way better than streaming and better than lp's in many (not all) ways. You can hear so much more detail with a cd. LP's seem so antiquated, large and fragile. Anyway, I have about 5000 cd's and 2500 lp's. I don't buy lp's anymore as they take up too much space and are way too expensive these days but still buy new and used cd's. So many more titles are available on cd than lp as well.
You are right, they need more record plants that keep up with the demand and promote out of print material. There are many desirable albums I would like on CD.
I've been collecting music for over 50 years. I never got rid of my vinyl collection or off loaded my CDs. Why on earth would I? I've never understood the "all in or all out' mind set. I'm happy to live in a multi format eco system- there are pro's and con's for every format including streaming. I did stop buying new vinyl over 25 years ago but I've never stopped buying CDs. I turn 62 next year and despite embracing streaming I am buying as many CDs as I ever did. The extortionate prices for new vinyl is basically a scam that's milking the collectors for their last penny. The same happened when CDs first launched - record companies plundered their vast back catalogues and hiked prices on the new format as folks made the transition- so many offloaded their vinyl for next to nothing and now they are rebuilding their collections... Many of those same people did the same when streaming became "cool" selling off their CD collections and scoffing at the uncool fogeys who were still buying and listening to CDs... The more things change the more they stay the same.
Great comment! Thank you so much for sharing and thank you so much for watching!
Great comment indeed! It seems many people just follow the trends. I have never understood it. I love the both CD and vinyl. Bought a lot of vinyl back in late 90s until 2018 or so when they were at first cheap and then reasonable priced, not anymore. Now it is time for the CD again. But the sought after CDs have been expensive for a decades too, but not that expensive as the trendy vinyl today. But we can say the CD is at the stage the vinyl was back in 2012/2013, Judas Priest/Iron Maiden CD cost now about 3-10 which was the price of its vinyl counterpart back then and common albums by Doors or Rolling Stones are still like 3-6 on CD.
Me too. Exactly
I’m a cd seller myself to this day and I’m never going to quit selling them old cars still have CD players and better sound quality and u support the artist 👩🎨 and u own the music
I'm 74 and I was part of the 1960's counterculture (a freak, not a hippy) and aside from the cultural importance of the 60's music, vinyl records were the main source of entertainment at that time. I didn't have enough money back then to afford a good sound system for vinyl, so when CD's came out it was an opportunity for me to hear music clearer than I've ever been able to hear it. Today, I can finally afford a decent turntable, amp and speakers, so I've been collecting vinyl again.
Subjective as it may be, I like the sound of vinyl, its not better or worse, just different than hearing music digitally. I still have quite a few CD's with a growing record collection and I listen to both. But there is a nostalgic aspect to vinyl, the process of playing a record, reading the liner notes and marveling at the jacket's artwork make the listening experience more immersive and it does remind me of my youth. I find the extra effort needed to play vinyl has its own, unique rewards. I'm glad that vinyl is having a resurgence and that younger generations are experiencing the same things that I and many from earlier generations experienced when playing vinyl albums.
I think the popularity of vinyl is here to stay as are CD's and streaming, one format no longer has to suffer greatly because another exists. CD players in cars and portable CD players are no longer necessary with the availability of streaming. With that, a significant reason for buying CD's no longer exists, this alone will prevent them from becoming "a big thing again". Vinyl has its place and its in the home, which is also the case now with CD's. Once someone invests in a sound system for vinyl and starts to feel more engaged with the process, they'll continue. CD's will continue to be sold and used but unlike in the 80's, 90's and early 00's, they now have competition from vinyl and streaming. I think that all three formats will be popular for a long time but its unlikely one will knock the other out of the market place in a similar way that CD's did to vinyl after their introduction. Each format has a place in our lives, streaming is convenient, CD's don't require much care and offer good fidelity, vinyl rewards the extra effort with tactile engagement, a unique auditory experience, visual pleasures and nostalgia.
CD best audio format ever!
Any audio issues people had with cd sound was all to do with poor mastering and production of the music, not the CD nor the Redbook formula.
If one truly learns to understand how digital audio works and of course 16 bit 44.1k sampling of the CD will note that it's completely transparent to the original master recording.
Bad sounding CD = bad or incompetent music mastering.🤔
I’ve been a music collector for 55yrs+. Bought them in their various formats, some only available on a specific type. Counterculture aesthetics is what’s driven the resurgence of vinyl. CDs have twice the fidelity, quiet & are convenient to use, durable, don’t warp, not affected by dust. Audiophile vinyl doesn’t exist, it’s only remastered. Vinyl appeals to those who tinker; wow/flutter/rumble, tonearm type/material, cartridge type/stylus/material, etc. All in hopes of finding a good combination, albeit that tracking surface noise exists!🙈. CDs have advanced HiFi measurably. And DACs satisfy those who dislike “digital sound”. Sadly, streamers are left with nothing except subscription fees, no pride of media ownership🎶😎.
You're probably correct. I'm 74 and I was part of the counterculture (a freak, not a hippy) and aside from the importance of the 60's music, vinyl records were the main source of entertainment at that time. I never had enough money to afford a good sound system for vinyl, so when CD's came out it was an opportunity for me to hear music clearer than I've ever been able to hear it. Today, I finally can afford a good turntable, amp and speakers, so I've been collecting vinyl again.
Subjective as it may be, I like the sound of vinyl, its different than hearing music digitally. I still have quite a few CD's with a growing record collection and I listen to both. But there is a nostalgic aspect to vinyl, the process of playing a record, reading the liner notes and marveling at the jacket's artwork make the listening experience more immersive and it does remind me of my youth. I find the extra effort needed to play vinyl has its own, unique rewards. I'm glad that vinyl is having a resurgence and that younger generations are experiencing the same things that I and many from earlier generations experienced when playing vinyl albums.
I have hundreds of cd's - I was thinking of getting rid of them, but after watching this - I'm going to keep them! Thanks
Don’t 😅do it or else ima buy all ur CDs 💿 and u won’t anything but a cell phone 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️💁♂️💁♂️💁♂️
I ❤ physical media. I just here recently emptied my CD binders back to their jewel cases. I really dig actually seeing what I have. Not to mention its like a timeline in my life. Every piece represents a significant part of my life . Its cool.
Same🤘
😂I did the same. I thought putting them in cd binders was going to be better and yes save space. But I found it more of a pain to have to flip through cd binder pages. So I put them back in jewel cases and on shelves in alphabetical order. It to me looks cooler and is easier to find a disc to play. 😎👍
I never stopped buying Cds
Been swooping up cheap cds for years. I’ve already noticed a huge drop off in selection at thrift stores, meaning more people are buying them..
I was at a Goodwill thrift store and they rolled out two carts that had about 400 CDs. I came back the next day so I could use a discount and when I did, they were all gone.
@@rudyonduty Same happened to me. I heard a man & woman talking while filling their cart with CD’s and from what I could tell is they turn around and flip them on eBay and sell some to the local used book/movie/music reseller who pay a couple of bucks for them and then resell them for $7+.
drop off in selection???....wait... theres plenty of michael bolton and amy grant.......
@@peartfaldo Celine dion for days
@@jiujitsustl oh. love her;-)
Another thing people fail to mention, is that you can back them up on a computer. If your computer doesn't have an optical drive you can get an external USB version for around $20 to $25. In addition to backup you can rip the disc as flac files and transfer the music to your phone or digital music player. Not to mention local music stored on your phone or digital music player sounds better than streaming.
Great point! Thanks for watching!
You can digitize LPs, EPs and singles from vinyl as well.
@beetlebum7760 you vinyl snobs just don't shut the hell up.
Little known feature you can upload your personal collection from computer to TH-cam music
I have a youtube channel where I've been saying for a long while "we are in the golden age of collecting CD's". Hopefully it will stay this way.
CD collector here. I like you channel and content. Need more collector's talking about CDs.
Ima cd collectors and seller myself ima make my own TH-cam video soon
I'm like a kid in a candy store when I find cool CD's and cassettes at the thrift store or flea market. I'll never stop. Cool vid!
I’m glad I started collecting CDs and autographed CDs now that CDs are making a comeback.
The cds I buy are mostly $10-20 each even used. The nominal 90's-00's cds that you showed will always be bargain bin as are Carpenters and Air Supply records. I don't see cds that charted in Billboard's the Top 100 taking off as there are just too many and people aren't into a lot of that. What will and has increased in price are deluxe editions like those done for the group Bad Company, box sets, indie releases, cd singles with unique mixes, third party licensed music like those issued by Wounded Bird, Sundazed, or Hipo-select, and imports especially in the older music that wasn't in it's heyday issued on cd. Rock Candy, Bear Family, Cherry Pop, Japanese pressings all lead the way. The 50's-early 60's pop, rock, and doo-wop isn't going to make much of a comeback with few exceptions as most who remember those styles as a current have sadly past or are very old. The standard classic rock/soul cd may hold their value but there was a moderate amount pressed. After music goes out of print, you have the 90/10 rule where 90% falls below retail price. After all, said title isn't selling and that's usually the reason why items are cut-out. A good 10% will increase with some going exponentially but interest in the artist after their initial peak has to obviously follow which is the biggest key compenent.
I wasn't impressed with your titles like Rod Stewart and re-recordings of the Platters and Drifters. The titles on the wall behind you mostly sold in the millions but my money would be on Jeffrey Osborne. His albums with LTD haven't been in print in awhile. Osborne also issued a second companion volume to Ultimate collection called More of my best. A ballad collection followed in 2001 and mopped up the rest but these were pressed in far fewer numbers. He also had an album called "Don't stop" that was quite underrated and was subsequently cut out rather quickly on cd in the mid 80's. It normally is in the $15 dollar range propelled by the hit "Crazy 'bout cha" which was a Quiet Storm favorite and later put on Ballads. LTD also did an album without him called Love Magic that was only issued on cd in Japan. Enchantment and T-Connection are other groups that weren't anthologized early in the cd era. Domestic discs are long out of print and full catalog got limited issue in England. Just some insight.
Exactly. For example, last year I bought an out-of-print CD of the Cowsills' 1968 album, Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools (on the British Now Sounds label, which apparently released more obscure and overlooked albums of the 60s and 70s), and it was $50. Look on e-bay now, and you'll see prices of $80+. More recently, I boought David Bowie's Aladdin Sane 30th Anniversary 2cd Deluxe Edition, as well as Matthew Wilder's I Don't Speak the Language (1980s album with the one-hit wonder, Break My Stride, on the Collectables label). The CDs cost about $50 and $60 respectively. Basically, I bought all the very popular and mainstream releases back in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. Now I'm focused on finding more obscure or less popular albums on CD that were released on smaller, independent labels, or special editions of albums that I didn't purchase at the time they were released. Like, right now, I'm looking to buy the deluxe box set of the Kinks' Arthur album, which is a 4 CD set, and it can go for hundreds of dollars, since it's rare and out of print. Basically, when it comes to the rare or more obscure stuff, buying CDs ain't cheap.
@@thehighllama8101 If you get into viewing or buying other's collections, you'll find some of that stuff especially if they bought mail order (remember that), Tower records, genre focused store, or did special orders. There's solid collections out there with Japanese pressings of obscure and famous groups. The earlier Collectables discs are easy to find but a little tougher on the ears. When Collectables started issuing twofers, the majors got involved in the mastering process and things improved but they weren't over-pressed. Around this time, they issued twofers on Slave and Cheryl Lynn and I rarely saw them stores. Maybe Tower and Sound of Market/Jazz Sound in Philadelphia had them. Sound of Market was really the only physical store that really catered to my taste. Within a week of going there, I dropped $10K and they were fairly priced. I had a bag of about 200 cds from the R&B section and I only completed S-Z in reverse order. I wasn't as excited about what I got as I was worried about what was left behind. Today if a cd is sealed, you better open up because there might be a dreaded cd-r lurking in there. That's another issue that is totally ruining collecting.
As much as I'd like to see a full-blown CD resurgence like you describe, I don't see them ever overtaking vinyl again like they did 35 years ago. They might (and I hope they do) continue to modestly increase in popularity like they did last year, though. However, having said that, vinyl prices cannot continue rising like they have been or they'll run the risk of pricing themselves out of business. I hope the record company execs are smart enough to realize that.
Only time will tell… to the serious record collector they will not. I thinking more of a new trend.
This recent surge in vinyl is mainly nostalgia from the previous vinyl owners and the younger population who never experienced owning records and think it’s cool. I’m saying that will be the next driving force in the CD trend. Will CDs overtake vinyl in value I doubt it vinyl has way more history so the CDs that will increase in value will be the box sets the limited presses, etc.
I think that they will overtake lp's in the long run. LP's are such an expensive, antiquated, fragile, large, cumbersome, etc format. I have 2500 lp's and they take up a ton of space. People are going to get sick of that. My 5000 cd's take up way less space and sound better in most (not all) respects.
With hi-res streaming available, CDs will never gain their previous popularity. For $20 a month I can stream in rates far higher than any standard CD and listen to it anywhere in decent sound. And if you want physical media, CDs will never offer more than LPs. CDs really sit I between streaming and LPs. It's like an inverse bell curve. But for real, for those liking CDs, our local Goodwills have them by the 100s at 1$ a piece. Go buy them by the armfuls! You can always judge what's losing popularity by what's stacked deep at the local Goodwill.
@@sjakovics But all studies show that you can not hear any difference between CD quality sound and any higher resolution source. If anyone says that they can, it is almost certainly the placebo effect. Plus, if you don't have the physical media, you are renting the music and are at the mercy of the corporate streaming lords. If there is a copyright dispute, any dispute with the artist or if they decide that they don't want songs like Catholic Girls, Not Now John, Walk On The Wild Side, The End, Jewish Princess, Some Girls, Revolution Blues, Brown Sugar, Georgia, Into The Night, Everyone's Gone To The Movies, Turning Japanese, etc, they may well get pulled or censored. Most music lovers don't want to rent, they want to own their music and only two formats exist today where almost all titles are available, LP and CD. I agree that cd's will never, nor will lp's, attain their previous popularity because the masses are content to rent their music but there will always be those who value music enough to want to own it.
@@sjakovics I'll bet that the vast majority of the cd's that are selling at those prices are basically mainstream, throw-away titles. Strictly commercial disposable music that was mass marketed in the heyday of cd sales. I can give you plenty of examples of lp's that sell at the same price from lp's heyday in the 70's.
More than 40 years that CD's exist, CD's for life, better sound, last longer, cheaper... You can actually touch the music and the products it's a nice object, inside the booklet you still have credits, lyrics, and some recommendations of bands or interviews sometimes. Listening to CD out you in a mood and you respect more the artist by listening to the entirety of the record instead of a random Playlist with only singles. And if one day there is a shutdown of internet or even electricity you can still listen to CD as long has you have CD player and batteries. Also CD you can listen in a CD player, computer, DVD player in your car compare to vinyl for exemple. There is some good videos alps on TH-cam that give you 11 /20 reasons to collect CD go check it out!
Support the artist and the music industry buy your music even if you use Spotify that's fine but buy your music 🙂 peace guys.
Yet I bet the first CD that was pressed 40 years ago still sounds as good as the first time it was played.
@@jerryspann8713 yes CD can last untill 50 years to 200 if good condition of storing
@@xzandher6812 I believe it can be even longer. CD is made of aluminum and plastic. Nobody knows yet.
@@prowlingfrost5588 damn true 🙂
CDs forever better sound quality 📀📀💿and u own the music and pay the Artist
Streaming-keep paying fir subscriptions and never own music 😅
I have around 900 . I have a custom made cabinet for them. I like my CDs. I also love records. Grewup with albums and I didnt like cds when they came out. The good thing is they last.
I think the cd is by far the most practical thing in today’s world than vinyl. The cd is smaller, more portable, and are recordable unlike vinyl. I’d like to see the cd come back for reasons mentioned earlier. Digital remastering causes distortion in the sound giving them that metallic sound. AAD CD’s sound much better than digitally remastered CD’s. Cd’s don’t wear with playing like vinyl. I feel that AAD CD’s with improvements would be closer to vinyl sound than digitally mastered analog CD’s would be. CD’s compared to vinyl is like cassette tapes to reel to reel sound wise. Both the CD’s and cassette tapes are more practical for home use.
My thoughts exactly! I started collecting cds at the beginning of the covid pandemic and i sure am glad i did! i've amassed about 600 awesome cd's for mostly a dollar. Some i've paid 3 to 8 bucks for at my local records shops but they were usually 2 or 3 cd sets. I am so glad I started collecting them, i would have probably originally spent about ten grand give or take had i bought them new. That being said i have occasionally bought brand new just released current music but that's ok. And I bought a good quality digital audio player so I can take music with me in digital un comprssed files. And it's also blue tooth. Although i mostly enjoy popping in the cd into my player in my man cave over some coffee or bourbon depending on the time of day haha. Cheers from Houston! Class of 96 and an 80's kid...
Good stuff! I’m amazed at little value people put on CDs. But the best time to buy anything is when people don’t want it. I bought a stack for .25 at a yard sale the other day. I’m going to make a video to share that score soon!
@@rudyonduty cool! i look forward to checking it out!
@@MusicalHifi54 I posted the Video... Check it out and let me know what you think!
I'm particulalry going crazy with complete opera CDs. They were always difficult for me to afford new because it would be $40-50 for three CDs with a huge libretto booklet. Of course, condition is everything, but I can now get them with minimal shelf wear, sometimes even sealed, for $2-10. Collection is all over the map because of what I can find in acceptable condition. I have Rossini's Il Viaggio del Rheims and L'Italiana in Algeire but not Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Smetana's Libuse but not The Bartered Bride, and Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz but not Cavelleria Rusticana except for burned copy I was given when I was in it to help me learn the part (which was chorus, so it wasn't that helpful).
To me it's better to have physical media. I still buy both cds and dvds. I got 20 dvds for £1 a couple of months ago when my local community centre charity shop had a clear out. New cds here cost £11-15 and second hand can be anything from 25p-£1 depending where you go.
CD's are much more affordable, just got back from a CD and Record show. It was about 80% records, 20% CDs, a few DVDs, tapes and various music memorabilia. On CD I got the Monkees greatest hits (Rhino records compulation) and Rod Stewart's Every picture tells a story for just $2 each, marked down from $6 each. Frank Zappa's Freak Out for just $8.
i am a collector of mainly cds and dvd/bluray. i recently stopped by an estate sale near my house and scored a little over 200 cds for $10. mainly classical and celtic with some oldies, country, and contemporary. all mostly pristine condition still inside the wooden storage boxes. i have in the past also hit a few goodwill stores where you never know what you'll find for around a buck.
200 for 10 bucks! That’s the score to brag about! I yard sales always have the best deals! Thanks for watching and keep finding those big scores!
@@rudyonduty the count was really 225 but 25 were missing the cd! while going through the haul i was beginning to wonder how many empties there would be! those may have been in the slip cases you were showing for travel that became misplaced in the caos of the estate sale.
@@yenbbc8840 Even the empty jewel cases have value. I've seen jewel cases listed for $10 for 10 cases.
For many reasons I still collect CDs though I also stream music. Not all music is available on Spotify etc. My 18 years old son consider my a dinosaur but I love the physical aspect of being able to enjoy the cover art and reading the details of the recordings in the booklets.
No doubt. I've been buying CDs again.
I have been collecting vinyl almost 30 yrs. I have notice prices are getting crazy, for a common album I paid $3 for in the 90's mint. I've had over 2K albums, and another 2K+ in 45rpm singles. 97% of my collection is original first pressing. That Billy Idol album I picked it up in the 90's probably at a record store for $2.99 mint. In those days, the employee would tell I was one of the few people buying albums.
I never got rid of my cds the only reason I stopped buying was because the cd stores all closed oh wait you can still say they sell cds because of one little store in the city. But they are not releasing awesome new cds anymore and I got all the ones I want that are available so as a result I no longer buy cds.
I still buy cd's and I'm 70 years old.
Ima cd buyer and seller myself in 2024 📀💿💿📀📀💽💽 and ima keep supporting them better sound quality u own the music and support the artist 🧑🎨 😊
A lot of people take the CDs and put them in the plastic sleeve holders and then throw away the paperwork thereby rendering them worthless.
I’m sure there are people who do that. Happy to say that i’m not one of them! I have a couple of cd books but I would never throw the artwork and case away. Thanks for the input and watching the channel! God Bless! 😊🙏
Yes, I like CDs, they are good to have, they don't take up much room like albums,I still buy them.❤️
They’re great if you’ve got storage to keep them. Can quickly overwhelm a living room/listening room. I like to keep most in storage and a few favourites out ready to play and circulate them every once in a while.
Not sure that CDs will ever have a Vinyl like comeback though as they don’t have the same kind of analog appeal. They’re digital just like streaming but without all the convenience. CDs appeal rests with audiophiles who think they sound better than streaming. Doubt there’s enough of them to really make a difference.
Edit: Just realised that CD sales are no longer in decline in the US and are significantly outselling vinyl. So who knows maybe your right. I guess if artists stop distributing ALL their music via the likes of Spotify it might help. There’s a lot of good stuff not on the streaming services so there’s still an incentive to buy physical albums.
I have buying CDs since the early days of the format. I prefer them for their size and the quality of sound. I do not buy mainstream albums in the first, as I am into jazz and improv and other Avantgarde genres, and here some some CDs can be very expensive if hard to find. I also buy classical and have bought 40 classical CD`s in a thrift store once for a fiver or six dollars.
Dude, you struck a chord with me on this one. I was listening to exclusively vinyl up until about 2020 when records just started getting way too expensive. I HAPPENED to come across an 80s Sony CD player at Goodwill and I bought it based on the reviews I quickly discovered on my phone. I guess I was expecting it to sound maybe 75-80% as good as my vinyl setup. Needless to say, it sounded awesome. The first album I played was an AM+ copy of Styx - Grand Illusion that I bought at a used book/music store for $.25. Since then I have been buying tons of CDs mostly in the $1-$3 range. I'd say at this point my CD collection is probably about the same size as my vinyl collection. I agree with you that CDs are still way undervalued/underrated, but I have seen prices creeping up a bit in the past year or two. CDs are an awesome medium that a lot of people are sleeping on but shouldn't be. Enjoyed your video!
Awesome testimony thanks for sharing! Lots of great CD scores to be had! Happy hunting!
God Bless! 😊🙏
If you actually like hundreds of artists and have the time to listen. More power to you! Streaming just makes the most economical, time, and space saving sense.
People say technology ruined everything, but in a way the lack of technology did. The reason why is because they never got anything to replace cds with sure you can say iTunes but they needed a new form of a physical copy which nobody invented or came out with, which stopped the tradition.
A smart music collector regards any format for it's price. I totally agree with your logic. When CD's came around , all my friends gave me their records asking why would you want to keep them ? Now it's people asking why do you want to keep CD's.? There are certain releases that are only available on CD. I love my records and my CD's. CD's are a bargain now days. P.S.I also love 78 rpm's.
The thing that is going to make collectible CDs collectible is CDs with non-jewel case packaging (i.e. where the jacket is a cardboard sleeve) in pristine condition. These packages are subject to wear, making packaging in good condition more rare.
keep the hipsters away from my CDs. i don’t want their popularity to increase. i like purchasing hard copies for the same price as the files sell for
I collect both vinyl records and CD's and still have my original records as well as lots and lots of CD's purchased since the 1980's to the present day with no plans to get rid of either format.
I think CD's are making a comeback partially due to a renewed nostalgic interest in everything 1980's as well as the steep prices of records being released either as new albums or as reissues of past albums which only encourages music collectors, particularly young collectors, to consider buying CD's instead as a more affordable alternative.
Great comment! Thanks for watching!🙏
I also rake in vinyl, CDs and cassettes. Prices however have gotten so out of hand that I’m taking blank cassettes and taping what I want off the internet. So if I hit any kind of “dry spell”, I can’t lose. Period. I’m not going to pay the outrageous prices I’m seeing. Over and Out!
I think you’re right about the vinyl resurgence crashing at some point. A CD resurgence could happen, but I don’t see it happening to the same extent. I hope I’m wrong, because if it does, I can unload a bunch of CDs which are currently sitting in boxes collecting dust
Thank you for your perspective and thanks for watching!
@@rudyonduty No worries. Keep on posting!
I believe or atleast hope the market will be "normalized" when the vinyl trend will crash. At the same time people will realize the CD is still the easiest and best sounding format to listen physical music (I love the vinyl too but thats a fact). I'm not too happy if there will be another trend with the CD's. It means stupid hype and insane prices which has very little to do with the dedicated 2nd hand collectors market. Also there is so much different CD editions of same album, it will be a huge mess if there will be "every CD is worth of gold" attitude because a tiny IFPI code can separate a CD worth of 0,50 and 50.
I was 19 when the CD player came out in 83 and what the young folks today don’t seem to grasp is that CD’s are a “stand alone” media which is not dependent on the internet or an MP3 storage device to store for long periods. The CD is a MUCH higher quality sound in comparison to downloaded music but young people don’t know that there’s something much better out there. As for albums, basically the same thing as the CD’s but you’ll need quality equipment to bring out the quality of the album. Albums are susceptible to heat and moisture so proper storage is important and for Gods sake, keep the albums vertical and straight, don’t put a lot of weight on them where they’ll warp.
CDs can also be ripped and stored on computer/phone and played wherever you go. I dont have to handle the media outside my storage area. I recently got the Beatles Anthology series and some recent remixes for $7 each off ebay. Usually, I just listen with good headphones and a USB dac/amp. I dont have the space for a formal audio system. My 1980s turntable's belt disolved 15 years ago.
Thrift stores sometimes have good finds...but I don't want a bunch of crap that sits in my collection I don't use. I'd rather pay a bit more for used CDs sourced off the internet.
If you go dumpster diving or treasure hunting in the trash, you could find tens of CDs for free.
People are dumping them in favour of streaming or mp3.
You’re right about people dumping them…That’s what people did with vinyl records in the 90s when CDs came out. now they’re paying 30 to 50 bucks an album. Everything runs in cycles. Thanks for watching!
Everybody moved out of an apartment building next to me recently..somebody was throwing away tons of DVD's..for about a month I was constantly seeing them in and outside of the dumpster..
I collect cds and I have a lot of them and I will continue to buy them. I also buy albums and recently have been growing my collection. I even have 800 cassette tapes in 8 Napa Valley holders. Cd sales have already increased 47% over last year and albums sales also increased. I believe both the cds and albums can co exist together. I also know albums are trendy for a large portions of buyers and expect sales of albums will slow down and level out. People are still buying cassettes and some music groups have been releasing cassettes for sale. Although I have never owned a reel to reel I do have a working 8 track player on my home stereo. Like albums and cds I believe the streaming of music can stay viable just like my satellite stereo in my car. The point is I hope the record business keep making cds and albums. What I really would like is new cars have an option for Bluetooth, Satellite Radio, Streaming, a hook up for an Ipod with a cassette player and a cd player and RCA hook up for amps. I am the person who would pay more for a car with a stereo like that, and I believe I am not the only one. Prices of Albums will come down slowly and I hope people trade in their record and cd collection. I will be there to get the deals and enjoy my hobby of collecting music. I really love technology but there is nothing like touching a product like a cassette, cd and albums,. You get the artwork and extras that technology can't deliver with the formats. I was against people downloading music for free I want to make it viable for an artist to make a living, and the consumers to afford collecting. I am considering getting a reel to reel after I get a tube amp, a preamp, amp and equalizer for my home stereo. I almost have my speaker set up on my home hi-fi. Bottom line keep making cds and albums, get more record plants that can produce what ever the customer buys. We really need the independent record stores to thrive and realize we need the experience thumbing through music at a store. We still can shop on the internet and we need to learn from our mistakes. A lot of people got rid of their albums, cassettes and cds I know I did. I am holding on to my music and not getting rid of anything again. I wish I had all my albums I gave away. If anyone wants to get rid of their compact disc's you can donate them to me.
Great news im a CD collector i have sold most of my Vinyls and cassette and replaced them with CDs
and i keep buying CDs at least once a week
thanks for your opinion
Thanks for sharing and thank you for watching!
Watching you here with my son 👍. He does similar as you 👍 I remember when cds first came out. Was so excited about the new technology 🙂
That is awesome!! 😊🙏
Great video there’s something about paying just 8 to 12 bucks for a brand new CD. I also like knowing I own it and it can’t be edited or deleted.
I have Apple Music, Spotify and You Tube music. If I just dropped one of those services and bought one brand new CD a month I’d have a growing collection . 🤔
I got 7 cds this morning for €2.50 in a charity shop. 2 were brand new. It’s a good time for us cd lovers !!
Congrats on the Scores! It’s a definitely a buyers market! 😊
I have a USB port on my car stereo, no CD though but I put all my music (200+ CD's at 192 bit rate) on a 32 gig flash drive and have "ALL" my music in my car! I also put my music directly onto my PC as soon as I get it and then blue-tooth to my stereo and blue-tooth devices. My CD's stay like new!
Wow, you are very computer savvy! My last car was totaled in an auto accident and it was a 2017 which I believe is the last year cars came with CD players. Now it’s about my Apple subscription. Thanks for posting!
Have a great day God bless! 😊🙏
No just saying that you can fit all that music onto a very small deal that you can use in your car and save CD's from damage. I love CD's and they are my favorite music medium.
Yeah I love your collection. I think it’s coming back.
I think, the best way of physical music media is the CDs on Vinyl gatefold packaging (12 inch)instead of jewel case. Current CD package does not show cover art which expressed their visual concept of the records.
I always listen to Pandora radio I listen to the 80s & 90s channel also 50s rock n roll Eurodance/Trance Nation channel I don't need CDs or records I do have CDs and cassette record but I used to use those when I used to mix my music I'm done with mixing music I'm old 39 years old it cool for those people who collect CDs and other stuff 👍😎
Good day Rudy, I also store some of my cds in that bag that you shown, and I store the cds and booklet either, best wishes
It's already started to turn. Used cds are going from $6-12 at the shops and on ebay. Take care of them. They will be worth more. The loudness cds and gazillion sellers won't have much value, same with bruised cds. But oop and OG's in VG will probably always have some resale value. Many oop cds go in the double digits.
I have almost all of the CDs you have in your back ground...plus the CDs you showed...
I bought my first CD in 1987...the Beatles. I've been collecting ever since.
I've been thru many a thrift store buying approx 3K CDs. Now I'm collecting Albums at 1 or 2 bucks a pop.
I'm not going to name any of them...because I don't want the competition lol!
I saw a ton of 8tracks recently at 2 bucks a pop...I might invest in them only to resell them.
Thanks for sharing your scores! Keep on hunting and thanks for watching!
I still have my CD collection
I have over 800 c.d.s and have been buying them since 1985 or so. I sold many and sorry I did. Great video.
Hi Tim, thanks for watching & the compliment! 800 CDs is a size nice collection. The 80s is when it all started for CDs. And the cool thing about CDs is you can put a cd that you bought in 1985 in the player it’ll sound exactly like it did when you bought it! And they cost less today! Thanks for watching & God bless! 😊🙏
Cds weren't cheap THEN, they just seemed cheap compared to the prices of vinyl NOW. I still buy cds, and always will. Vinyl is a trend right now, but dont see how anyone can afford to buy it.
Vinyl will not die so soon,cd‘ will go up with price, no internet no music, streaming sux
To the collectors like you and me Vinyl will never die or lose its value… but there will be many who got in just because it was cool and trendy that will dump their collectors cheap…. And that’s where we come in! Thanks for watching!
StreamIng- pay a lot of subscriptions
Renting music u don’t own
CDs 💿-better sound quality
Pay once and own forever 🙏
Wow, where did you buy all those cds for $20? When Circuit City went out of business, I purchased a couple hundred brand new cds for about $225. what a deal. Still haven’t listened to them all. I have a collection of over 3000 cds of all taste scattered all over my house😎. LOVE YOUR PHILOSOPHY.
Hi There thanks for watching the channel! I mainly buy at thrift stores and yard sales! Circuit City… I bought a pair of Polk Audio speakers from them that I still have today.
Have a great day & God Bless! 😊🙏
I'd rather collect cd"s than vinyl, takes up less space. The sound isn't much of a difference to me. Many of the "deluxe" editions & box sets come in very nice packaging
Good points also you get so much more music for your money! I love it when I come across deluxe editions! Thanks for watching and God Bless! 😊🙏
I have follow the same pattern as you have. Right now the action is CDs at thrift stores, Since people have been dumping their CDs off at thrift stores or selling them at garage sales I have more than three times added to my collection and I had a huge collection to start off with. I will buy the vinyl version of albums released by newer artist so I do both vinyl and CDs. When I am busy around the house performing tasks then it is CDs so I do not have to change the record every 20 plus minutes. When I am relaxing and want to get deep into the music then it is vinyl.
You can definitely get CDs on the cheap right now. I listen to vinyl pretty much the same way you do! But I work from home so sometimes I stream through a Bluetooth adapter on my stereo so when my phone rings music automatically cuts off. Thanks for your post and for watching!
@@rudyonduty I work from home as well at a job called retirement. lol :)
At 3:31, I notice you have some CDs stacked (even though you're holding them) .... and I store most of my CDs in Stacks (horizontally, in stacks). I Never stack more than 17 CDs in one stack, however, even if they're all in jewel cases. I wondered if You have a personal limit .... I notice that, at 3:31, you have 17 in that stack, ironically, if I counted correctly. Do you have a limit?
Hi Gregory, I have stacks of 20. Not because it’s a limit it’s just the height of the shelves they are on. Thanks for watching the channel! 🙏
Get some SLs behind you 😂 Nice vid, and very true
Growing up in the mid nineties, i grew up listening to casettes and cds, i've never had access to vinyl but i love my cds. The price is better and they're easier to store, plus i can listen to them in the car
And they don't crack. I mean "crack", not literally crack. 😃
Well, I grow up in the mid 90's too and I tell you the 2nd hand vinyl selection was large and cheap as chips. I mean you could pick up 1st pressing Black Sabbath and KISS records for 0,50cent all the day and even the new vinyl was cheaper than the CD counterpart. Thats why many of people got into vinyl back then and build the foundation for the upcoming "vinyl revival", later "vinyl trend". If you liked old metal or rock, it was like a paradise because instead of nowadays very common Evanescence or Nightwish CD it was Black Sabbath or Anthrax LP for example.
I like to buy CDs, especially new ones. I would like to see more acts release their music on CDs instead of just having to download or stream music.
I agree, they are very expensive to produce. Plus you get something other than just the use of the song. However, The last couple of concerts I went to the artists were selling CDs, along with the other Merchandise. thanks for tuning into the channel and God bless! 😊🙏
CDs will always be better than steaming I grew up in the 1990s so cds 💿 I was the only option to buy album I miss that Streaming made people lazyyyyyy and rely too much internet which won’t be there for that long
Hello I'm in my sixties, and I have a large collection of cds. All genres, with a huge quantity of Jazz. I like my cds, and play them alot. I clean them with a solution called Isopropyl Alcohol. This solution is what was used back in the 1980s when cds came out. I have the soundtrack to my life on cd. From the sixties to the early 2000s. I'm not so much into anything too contemporary. I live in New Zealand and some stores that sold new cds don't now. I get alot from charity stores.
Some store in the US still have new cds but for the most part I get my cds at yard sales and thrift stores. I often use “ soundtrack of my life” to describe my music collection. Thanks for the comment and thank you so much for watching!
I buy albums I dig in both formats. I wish CDs were released in a mediabook format though.
CDs are my favorite medium. I gave up on 8 tracks because they're so delicate at 50 years old are disintegrating. Original cassettes not far behind. Get them on digital while you still can.
I couldn't agree with you more. Threes a still an amazing selection out there so get them while they're cheap! Thanks for watching & God bless! 😊🙏
I think that's awesome!
My CD Collection is just for my archive.
I play USB music in my car.
And CD,s on my Home Music System
Nope, you're wrong. CD has always been the big thing for many people, it has never left! So there's no need to say it has come back.
I have a big CD collection and still adding on to it.
Right on Marvin! Go big or go home right? 😂
The selection is so good it’s hard not to have big collection! Thanks for watching God Bless!
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I'am now 64 , collecting music since 1973 I only buy ,never sell anything my house is full of thousands of vinyls , CD's, flac ,wav and more , I am not into streaming , Nowadays DACs are much better than in the the 90's and digital music just offer the best sound , I don't play my vinyls very often now I prefer CD's When I buy digital files on bandcamp I sometime burn CDR & print the cover to have type of physical media In 2022 I only bought 2 vinyls albums , but several hundreds used CD's on internet mostly jazz, post-punk , reggae & electronic music ....for new music I buy digital on bandcamp , vinyl is just too expensive now If they don't reduce the price simply boycott them and buy CD's
I have thought along that digital audio discs can sound better than [analog] vinyl discs. I have collected both media kinds but have not had any things on which to play the music. Otherwise, I am spending lots of time listening to music on TH-cam.
I have CDs and I have Vinyl and prefer vinyl. I don't see liquidation of vinyl stock, but please tell me where you do. Walmart's $15 record sale was pretty busy. Those prices were pretty good, considering in the 70s an album was $6 and a double album was around $10, that's a decent price. I have almost 3000 LPs and probably 1000 or more CDs. I'd never buy a new CD, but I would and have bought used. At 50 cents a pop I'd be foolish not to. Now is there going to be a resurgence of CDs overtaking streaming and vinyl, I doubt it very much. Just a feeling I have. Vinyl lasted tooooooo long for it not to come around as relevant again and I'm sure glad it did. Besides even cd players fell apart and are harder to bring back to life than 60 year old turntables.
I’m not sure how old you are but if you do a little research, there were big chains of record stores all through the 60s,70s, 80s and into the early 90s, not just a section in Target or Walmart… Tower Records, Sam goody & Licorice pizza just to name few. Your serious vinyl collector will always be. To all those people scooping them up at Walmart for 15 bucks it’s just a fad for most of them. As far as CD Players go… new turntables came along with the resurgence of vinyl and so will CD players as soon as there is an Oporto make money comes along. In closing, you think Walmart would be selling $30 albums for 15 bucks if they didn’t have a reason to? Follow the signs.
Thanks for watching. And thanks for your post!
Love my cds. Vinyls to expensive and your hearts in your mouth hoping it plays clean. Don't have that worry with cds.
You make a couple of great points! Although I still collect vinyl. It can be very disappointing when you buy a record and the person selling has been way too generous on the grading. Plus if CDs skips or stutters you can polish them out with a rubbing compound or toothpaste. Thanks for posting God Bless!
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Record companies have learned they can make more money so they launched the vinyl trend with exorbitant prices. They are doing the same with cds now.
I dig CDs.
I've got around 600 cds. Some of which, you can't stream. Cd quality is 10x vinyl
Hi Nick, 600 is a nice size collection! I Agree the sound quality is great and the maintenance is much easier. Thanks for Supporting the channel! God Bless!
@@rudyonduty it's crazy. Although cds on d8scogs average about 3 bucks, it says the high value of the collection is 4794. British pounds
Where i live there is a charity ( thrift) shop selling CD's for 50P (about 60 cents?) they have an enormous amount in there, and at that price you could build a really good collection fairly quickly. I also like all kinds of music so such a place is an aladins cave. I will not buy vinyl, simply because you have to be fairly rich to indulge and i have to budget. I like CDs they sound better, i just don't buy that nonsense that vinyl has superior sound quality. Buy these gems when you can, a bagfull for little money.
One thing you forgot about CDs have full album art. I never stopped collecting CDs. I been collecting since I was 14 and I'm 45 now. I still buy them from shows and online. I have close to 3,500 CDs and growing. I collect all kinds of media movies, video games and music. My game collection is the most value but my CDs are close behind. To speak the truth if I lost my CDs I would be devastated but my movies and games it would suck but I could handle it.
Some CDs are extremely expensive. Like old video game soundtrack also a lot of movie soundtracks because they were low pressed. If you ever buy to resell old first pressing of black metal and Death Metal sell for a pretty penny. Again very low pressing on a lot of them.
But where you can find 1st/early press black/death metal CDs under 20$€£ today is a question. Those CDs was never a big thing in the flea market bins. About 5-10 years ago there was better 2nd hand market for those items, not anymore. Like I said, the CD market is like vinyl market was back in 2012 or so, with a good luck you can still find those early "extreme metal" CDs for a reasonable prices and the availability is generally much better than their vinyl counterparts. But finding them for cheap is almost impossible, even the 80's Iron Maiden CDs command 15-30$€ online today, they were 5 buck CDs just a couple years ago, but with a good luck you can still find those for cheaper (For example some months ago I bought 1st Bathory CD 1991 for 10€, 1st press of Mayhem's Deathcrush without barcode for 15€, talking about bargain! It is just like you could score a 1993 pressing of Deathrush on vinyl for 50€ back in 2012) Same cannot say for their vinyl counterparts today. People who see that thing now are blessed, because many "extreme metal" (I hate that term) fan is too obsessed with the vinyl at the moment to understand the beauty of CDs and I think it is same on the every music style at the moment. I dont have see rare CD soundtracks on the wild much. But yeah, 2nd hand CD market is still very fine overall because the joy of hunting is still alive.
Always love the CD from the start, clean,clear punchy wide sound! Only the plastic cases are meh..
The jewel case can be delicate… the good thing is they’re easy and cheap to replace! Thanks posting and thanks for watching!
Love my vinyl and cds. Kept certain cassettes as well.
Nice I have a few cassettes also… I just picked up Michael Jackson’s Thriller for $1 at a yard sale. Thanks for much watching!
@@rudyonduty awesome
How bout selling high end cds to collectors? How much would I get for bout 259 high ennd cds?
Depends? Are you going to sell them as a lot or individually? Individually gets you more money if you want to spend the time.
I would look on discogs & ebay to see what they are going for first. Have a great day! God bless! 😊🙏
@@rudyonduty i just am looking to sell them at highest price. Its a Widegren range of anythingg. Albums and collections (best ofs small and big and soundtracks)
I go to the Goodwill store all the time mostly on Wednesday's because now that I'm 55 I get a senior discount of 25% off. They sell their CD's for a $1 so I only pay .75 cents. Some days I only find 1 or 2 other days I walk out with 15 or more. My biggest problem is that I have hundreds of CD's and finding stuff I don't already own is a challenge. I collect vinyl also but I refuse to pay the prices they want for new records. I spend my vinyl money on "Holy Grail" rare and original pressings.
The cool thing about Goodwill is that they will combine discounts so the saving potential is big! Thanks so much for watching!
We need more choices in c.d. players.
Just purchased 20 cds from a charity shop for £10 the lot 50p each wow after recently buying a marantz cd 6007 with usb slot. I also still buy albums but cds are so cheap at this moment so grab them now. Just purchased some new cd racks to fill up.I
nice score! thanks for watching!
I still like to buy vinyl on the 180 vinyl format but I have been holding of on such purchases because if vinyl see a decline in sales then retailers my start sailing them at a reduce price.
The vinyl does more for me than the CD's. I collect vinyl and I have bought almost all of them new anyway.
I have a nice collection of vinyl myself! I pretty much collect it all… vinyl, CDs, cassettes & real to reel tape’s! Happy hunting for Vinyl! Thanks for watching!
@@rudyonduty I have CD's also and collect cassettes from the band KISS that I started to listen to when I was 6. Now it's more for nostalgia 🥰
Never collect something just because the price is low. 78 records were cheap when the LP came out but today the price is still low except for very few.
hi Tom, thanks for watching! I totally agree… the point I was trying to make is that for people who love to collect music, CDs are a great format and a great value for the price! As far as 45s go, probably the biggest reason why they’re not so popular any more is because it takes a lot of effort to enjoy vinyl when you’re changing the record every three minutes. thanks again for watching! 🙏