Dead to the public, but not for the music fans and collectors. As long as CD collectors want to buy CDs, bands and indie labels won't stop making a little amount of physical stuff.
I hope you're right, but I hope they don't gouge us for it! I don't want to see them start charging $18 for a CD just because they think collectors will pay it. For that much, we should get better packaging or autographed covers... something to make it special. Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe!
@3 Subscribers Without Any Videos!!!!! Yes, there are people with this opinion, but there will be CD lovers in the future just as there are Vinyl lovers now, if you know what I mean.
Those geniuses that created CD'S ruined it for them selves they shouldn't have made CD'S so damn delicately easily to scratch even if you take care of your CD'S sooner or later they will be ruined and people keep wasting money over and over on the same CD that they already had CD'S are a defective badly made product they should have made all CD's like scratch resistant Blu-ray CD'S and maybe this wouldn't have happen
well.. business is business.. you go where the money is, and the market of CD's is shrinking....not expanding by any form. Sorry, but no one can say otherwise... That's just how profits are done. In actual fact, if the artist make their same tracks/songs/albums available on streaming services to listen, the physical copy *should* be cheaper to keep people buying them. But that never happens.
I’m 49 as a teenager CDs were $29.99 that was a lot of money for a CD thirty years ago. We wanted to listen to music in the house and the car so the cassette is what we bought.
I just made a trip to Best buy to replace some CDs that I own that are scratched up and won't play anymore and they said they don't have any CDs 😳! My first reaction was my jaw just about hit the floor ,and then unfortunately I felt like a dinosaur and that the music industry and the way music is recorded has passed me by! I still have a 5 disc CD changer that I use fortunately it still works it's almost 20 years old and you put five discs in there and hit random and they just change the song every time automatically! Really nice when you're out in the pool and the music keeps playing for up to 5 hours! It looks like I will have to get some kind of a stereo with some type of digital streaming device to get music in the future and not too thrilled about that! I guess one thing in life you can be sure of and that is change! In my opinion not always for the better! Thanks for the great video
This was great man, really enjoyed hearing about your history with it. I do videos like this sometimes and always enjoy hearing other people talk about their start and growth with music related things.
Thanks! I think it is important for channels like ours to "keep it personal" and be real. We may be considered music critics, but we're music FANS first and foremost. It's important to share that passion.
Digital streaming and downloads are not as reliable as the CD. I’ve had problems with it. Some songs that I like are not always ‘on the web.’ A physical format is trustworthy.
I only buy CDs. But I have been able to find older stuff used from 25 cents to 1 buck. I took about 14 CDs up to the register and the girl said, a dollar. Gave her 2 bucks and left with a smile on my face.
@@TrackXTrack McKay's book store Nashville. I would sit for hours going through all the 25 cent CDs. Another place in Nashville, Turnip green reuse store. They gave me over 200 empty CD cases. Extra cases always come in handy when you buy CDs used. What's really cool is I have a place that gives me free electronics. Eventually you may find videos of me here and my electronic hoard.
CDs are actually the cheapest way you can buy music today. Not if you buy them new, but if you shop for used CDs at pawn shops, yard sales, thrift shops or flea markets, you will find them selling for $1 or less. Kyle talks about this in some detail. Just remember, once you buy one you own it because it is physical media. And you can always create your own mp3 files from your CDs. And because they are digital, minor scratches won't affect the sound. Your music collection is now independent of devices. You won't need to transfer music when you get a new device.
I agree 100%. I’ve been picking up a lot of used CDs the past few years for just a buck or two each. I can’t believe some of the great stuff I’ve found for only a dollar... often that I already own and paid much more for!
Aaah, the perils of playing Nostradamus ;) I enjoy it all with the exception of vinyl which is simply too bulky for me (not to mention the money I would need to throw at a turntable/cartridge/phono stage in addition to my existing gear). I was never a fan of the CD single and dont even get me started on cassingles. As long as the CD market doesn't see more producers like Rick Rubin going forward, I'm happy to listen to new albums via Spotify and only buy albums that have less than 50% filler tracks. Trust me, that's not as simple as it sounds and something like the Van Halen boxed set would do nothing for me beyond that incredible first album. Thanks for the vid, and I'm glad that CDs are still alive and well !
I have an idea. If we could get everyone when they are close to Best Buy, just go in and ask, where are the CDs. If you could spread the word till thousands were stopping in saying, where are the CDs. Why does this sound like Alice's restaurant.
@@TrackXTrack when my kids were little it wasn't me telling them to turn it down. It was my daughter telling me to turn it down. That song and a handful of Beetles and Elton John stuff. I would crank it up and sing all the time. Drive the kids nuts. And the pickle song.
Almost 3 years after this video posted I'm still buying tons of cds. One thing you didn't mention is the sonic superiority of cd over mp3 files. Most downloads are in mp3 format which has at highest resolution only 20% of the data of cd audio. I can certainly hear the difference. I went through a few years of vinyl renaissance and accumulated some 1000 albums or so. Now I'm almost exclusively buying cds. I like the convenience, portability, and sound of modern cds. As long as we keep buying, they will keep making them. CDs are cheap and easy to produce, so no real downside. Cassette tapes and vinyl records degrade with time and use. A well cared for cd will continue to play well for many decades. All my 30 year old cds play like new unless they received physical damage. Burned cds are not as reliable. I am however disappointed that laptop computers are mostly made without cd/dvd burners. Until they bring back 8 track tapes I will stick with mostly CD and a bit of vinyl.
All very good points. But unfortunately I think the majority of consumers prefer both prefer the convenience of digital/streaming, and also are not listening to music on devices capable of producing high quality audio. MP3 sounds as "good" as high resolution audio (CD or FLAC) when played on average headphones, car stereos or the home audio players purchased at stores like Walmart or Target. What's worse is that the majority of people buying vinyl today are also listening on crappy Crosley all-in-one retro style record players... far from a hi-fi experience. Music fans that have invested in quality playback systems--whether for CD, vinyl or FLAC digital--are definitely in the minority. And that sucks for those of us that care about quality, because the music industry is far more interested in catering to the interests of the large majority of listeners with their average-at-best sound systems.
Ya. I'm 64 and have CDs I bought new. Had over 100 before I even figured out the CD player I wanted. Do you find the newer ones seem louder than some from the late 80s. Some of my original Led Zeppelin I felt I had to turn up the volume more. I had a moment when I turned 60. I saw pop and rock stars dieing. Only one of the Monkey's left now. I wanted to keep the music alive. I wanted my kids to enjoy the stuff I listened to for years. I wanted to leave a collection for them to enjoy when I'm gone. In almost 5 years my collection has gone from about 600 to almost 4 000. I've had to resort to buying boxes on Amazon just to store them. I also bought two 5 terabyte hard drives to store them digitally. One drive for each child when I'm dead. They can fight over who gets what CD but they both will have the same collection on the passport drive. My goal was to collect 5000 CDs before I die and I'm so close to that. My thoughts are I hope I don't die when I hit 5000. So maybe I'm better off changing that to 10,000 and get two more drives. Amazon has these original album series CDs. 5 to 10 CDs in a boxed set and mini album covers. They come out to 3 or 4 bucks per album. I buy those when I can get them. I have over 200 CDs still in the wrapper I have got used, mostly at Goodwill. 3.99 for 5 plus my senior discount. You just have to get them before others pick through them. Sometimes I get 30 or so in one trip. Been told they stopped the 5 for 3.99 thing. But most of the girls there still sell them to me for that. On senior day they come out to 5 for 3.19.
Vinyl degrade over time? I DON'T think soo Vinyl can last over 1,000 years or more and that's in dumpsters you said you own Vinyl? You probably have cheap turntable not even high end just look at high end in Munich 2022 turntable are getting superior over cds.
Genuine audio fans, and there are many, place sound quality above everything else. Streaming doesn't compete. Plus, if your internet isn't stable or simply shuts down what are you expected to do? Good hi-fi separates make all the difference to the listening experience. I want to own my music. I don't want to hire it. And I definitely don't want to own nothing and be happy. That's what head of The World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab has stated.
Great video brother. As a fellow collector it is with a heavy heart that I watch CD sales trickle towards the inevitable. I wish that music still mattered to people enough for them to support artists and labels. I remember people talking in the early days of file sharing, about how it would "seperate the wheat from the chaff." They said that "only the artists that truly cared would remain and the ones that were only in It for the money would fall by the wayside." In the last few years we have seen a lot of lesser known acts as well as new artists fold simply because they can no longer afford to record and tour. It has become increasingly risky for labels to put money into advertising for up and coming acts, and even more so for artists to leave their day jobs so that they can tour. It's very distressing to watch for those of us who truly love music.
Well said. The music "industry" may be evolving, but not to the benefit and support of the artists. Streaming has been set up on a foundation that mostly only benefits major label artists. It is indeed very sad!
Really enjoyed this video, once stores here are allowed to reopen again i might go to some local second hand stores and record shops and buy a few CDs i know nothing about, i'm sure i'll get at least one or two good albums out of it.
CDs are for music nerds now that want a gorgeous art and CD have physically displayed on the shelf, as for the music, you can pirate the album in flac or 320 kbps mp3 in minutes
I buy on both. Btw.. great videos and channel!! Do you collect promo cds? What's your opinion as to collectibility down the road? Thanks and i just subscribed :)
I do pick up promo CDs when I can find them at good prices. In particular, promos that are samplers or singles. If it's a promo copy that is no different from the regular whole album, that's not very interesting to me. Obviously, promo discs don't get sent out much anymore. Still, I think collectors will always find value in them since they have always been rare. In my past, I worked at radio stations and a record store, which were GREAT for getting free promo discs!
Track X Track yeah as teens(92ish) our local record store would sell us promos for $1 each. My thought is, they only pressed a very limited amount of promos relative to official release. Stamped disc or booklets. Not the drill hole or punch. We still collect promos and think they'll still hold value down the road. What about music club pressings? I'm starting to see a trend where they are starting to be sought after. Same concept as promos.... Fewer pressings.... Thanks for your input. Very interesting to talk CDs as some of us still collect passionately. Have a great wknd and we look forward to your next video! Cheers and rock on!
I try to avoid record club versions. Whenever I look at used discs, I always check the barcode for the "CRC" or any BMG text. If I see that, it may be a dealbreaker. If I'm on the fence and it's a record club edition, I'll usually pass. I think they tend to be lower quality, and the booklets are often not as good. I also have some bias against them from when I worked at a record store and people would bring them in to try to exchange them. They'd try to fool us and say they lost their receipts. Nope. CRC was a tell-tale sign.
I'd be really interested in seeing a music room tour from you sometime! Looks like a music lover's dream come true, just from the shot of the opening with the closed sign :)
I've been wanting to do a tour of the Music Room video, actually. I hope to get that done in the next month or two. Keep watching. It will happen soon!
Sure looks that way ... How can you keep CD's in your stores if hardly anyone buys them due to streaming ? Convenient always runs rampid, over quality. You won't find many streaming services around that offer "uncompressed" quality like CD's have.. which arguably would be better.. Furthermore, when you have a tough time trying to find that one artist there just aren't many copies off on music services due to copyright. people take 'advantage' of the fact they are the 'only game in town' by offering either super high bit rate 320k regardless of the source, so you'll introduce more noise than actual music, or they offer crap bit rate so un-playability on that hi-fi system. Better to just get the CD's and avoid the middle man... That way YOU have the music and control what formats you wanna rip to to listen personal backups. In addition I think RIAA claimed by offering songs only as well as albums side by side on services, don't just gives the user more choice, but no one "listens to the entire album. They only buy the CD just to listen to two or there songs" No one can provide proof of that because i don't believe it exists... It entirely depends more on the user. You can't just assume no one llistens to the entire CD to make your own argument better.
Yes, this video is a couple years old and the camera I used back then didn't have great autofocus. I've upgraded since then, and the new camera is much better!
Agree with every word of this, I have to say. Thanks for putting it so eloquently. I love CDs and would be sad to see them go. But it has never been easier or cheaper to pick up great albums for not much money.
Got back into vinyl for so,e older stuff…but the cost is getting nuts…spent $100 and got 5 LPs…. Spent $120 and got 35 CDs….. I like owning my music, so there is that….however lossless streaming has been a wonderful thing lately
there was a time where they had Enhanced Cd's where if you put it into a computer it would have extras such as music videos and interactive stuff, it never really took off as far as i know the only Enhanced Cd i own is "Sheryl Crow "The Globe Sessions" (i bought it for my sister) when she put it into our computer it had a music video and extra i never knew that a Cd can have enhanced features.
After I started recording music on standard Audio Compact Cassette Tapes in the '90's using state-of-the-art Professional Studio Quality Audio Compact Cassette Tape Decks and equipment and managed to make tapes sound no different than CD's, I still use audio compact cassettes till this day, never stopped and never will.
Your CD history is EXACTLY like mine. I was a cassette hoarder, on the cusp of breaking out to other genres of music besides my 80s pop. I resisted CDs until the release of Sgt. Pepper. With bonus tracks my CD collection increased 10-fold. And I had tons of CD singles (esp. Tori Amos). And I still buy CDs and will as long as I can. (i'm the guy who wanted a CD player in my new car...which wasn't even an option anymore)
I like the fact that you mentioned you still purchase cds and also stream. It’s like the artist gets paid twice. I may own physical copies but rely on downloads and streaming, as pop culture has changed the way we listen to music, relying listening mostly on cellphones, computers, and tablets. Nobody wants the cumbersome of setting up a theater system to listen to music anymore.
I love your channel. ...and I love having a physical copy of a CD. I'm still an album guy. It's so great to experience a collection of music from a particular moment in time from an artist. Thank you for sharing.
The only reason I would ever use a streaming service to listen to music is if I am looking to discover new artists that I've never heard of before. I don't like just relying on streaming, because the magic just isn't there. Not like you're listening to a song on a physical copy that you paid for and own. That's why I like CD's and Cassettes.
Interesting video! I've been collecting CDs since I was a young teenager in 2004/2005 so kinda just when downloads were starting to get popular? And I've been thinking of selling a lot of my 900+ collection. It seems a shame but when I have everything I own on CD ripped to HD + a lot more music digitally (around 500gb in total) most of which has little/no loss in sound quality owning CDs has started to seem a bit pointless ..Which is sad say but ..anyway I'm glad albums are more available on vinyl now because for the past couple of years been into collecting records and have 150 or so on that format - and even though recently I can't afford to buy much it's generally vinyl that i go for because it often seems to sound better than cd/digital and to collect records with the big artwork as well as stuff like coloured vinyl :p just seems kinda nicer than CD? Still been buying CDs too over the last couple of years but mostly pick them up second hand now or in sales unless it's something specific. Anyway a long rambling comment but yeah ..good video! :D
I used to rip all my CDs until one day my hard drive with all my music crashed. I had a backup, but not a full backup, so I lost about 20% of the music files. Still, I didn't want to re-rip all that music, so that's when I kind of gave up on ripping and just stream it now when I need digital. If I find something that isn't available to stream, then I rip it. At this point I don't want to get into vinyl. It's just too much for me to take on when you think about how much I'd want to own. I'll stick with CD! Thanks for watching, and please subscribe if you haven't already!
Don't get rid of your CDs. Your hard drive will crash and you'll end up buying them back a 2nd time. You be happy you didn't sell them once the same thing happens just like with vinyl! They will make a revival. History repeats itself.
I adore my Japanese 1st press CDs. The CDs are so much cooler than a digital download. Downloads don't come with music boxes, shot glasses, post cards, etc. And then the lyrics and artwork... Japanese CDs (especially 1st pressings) are just the bee's knees. ♡
When you come across a video on TH-cam and just before the video enrolls your eyes glimpse down to the Like\Dislike section to see, what are the odds that this video will be a total waste of your time and then your rebounded with blink-blink :: It has no dislikes...You immediately become self drooled and impatient to watch it. Great content Sir!
Yours is the most eloquent I have heard. You are so right. Napster and iTunes lowered the bar. I think with this Best Buy thing, part of it is down to them. They weren't stocking good stuff for a number of years, and with Toys R Us going out of business, I think this really means the death of the box stores and online stores have taken over. CDs are still doing well globally, Japan and Spain are two examples. I do see CDs going down in price on Amazon. Got a bunch of new stuff at 7.99. The CD prices back in the day were the big issue. That is one reason for the decline, but they are still making them, especially for Countries where streaming hasn't caught on, which means they will be around. Just subscribed.
I agree that big box stores may well be on their way out. Best Buy has been struggling for years, and as you said, Toys R Us is now at an end. But also as you said, online sales will probably stay strong or maybe even increase. I buy most of my CDs on Amazon, and I started doing so because I was frustrated by the lack of variety of inventory at Best Buy! I try to support local record stores too, though. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
I use Apple Music, and listen to my massive vinyl collection. I have been listening to vinyl since 1993. On average I listen to about 1,000 albums for the first time a year.
We still have a very long way to go before the Compact disk will be discontinued officially and we need to realize it will be a long long time until everybody can access every single song by every single artist in existence digitally or streaming it will take quite some time either an alternative app or service is created or we make an App in which you can burn songs directly from a CD which a portable CD drive would be a great solution and quite surprisingly, a reasonably large amount of people are actually turning back to CD's for their piratical, reliable and sentimental value. myself included I have been collecting Cd's for several reasons 1.CD's are a permanent hard copy of digital information both from a genuine source and once you own it its your forever. 2: You can upload copies of the song as many times as you want,and they are an backup source and the sound of CD tracks is ultra crisp and super clear and much better than streaming as far as im concerned. 3. As long as there are collectors who want to buy CD's will always be in demand even if they have declined. physical copies are a cheap and efficient way to spread music. 4. Most importantly, we should be preserving resources especially when CD's are a great way of obtaining genuine copies which can be digitally uploaded to you mobile phones to which something is already in existence and will always be something you can hold and know that your money has been well spent, the amount of donated CD's i find it shops is quite shocking. But I of course realize making everybody find ways to reuse what is in existence and just find a way to best utilize it with what we have is never gonna happen because its all about convenience and whats super easy. so I will be one who collects CD all the way till there are no more left.
I'm with you. It's a shame that so many people have abandoned physical media entirely. There's nothing permanent about digital or streaming music. I do enjoy the convenience of it, but I want to "own" the music I love!
I like my music in my hand. Not on some server 1000 miles away. Thats why i continue to buy-collect CDs. Hold onto your CDs. They will be collectible one day.
You are honestly have the best word choice ever. Also, please review "Twin Fantasty (Face to Face)" by car seat headrest. It's a reimagining of their 2011 band camp album, Twin Fantasy (mirror to mirror). It also has a dope double cd with both versions coming out February 16.
the Very first Cd i Ever bought was L7 Bricks are heavy, i bought it when i was 5 years old and i paid 5 bucks for the album, and now i found out that the Album is Rare and selling for 30 bucks on Ebay, mine has the signature from the band, i'm surprised that it has some value even though i paid 5 bucks for it used at a yard sale.
I'm not giving up on CDs, but I've never really Had any music CDs...they Just aren't useful for me. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that there's only two Bands of which I really like all Songs...all the other songs I listen to are a mix from a broad variety of genres and musicians.
I am laughing at this news because it’s a lie CDs are not dead in people need to understand that there are people out there that still buy these links and if they buy them then why do people want to stop selling them it makes no sense I still buy CDs and I do download music sometimes but that does not mean I do not buy CDs I will always buy CDs and there’s nothing no one can say about that
Lol WTF are you talking about bro? CDs have been dead since the invention if the iPod. Any response other than agreement is just an attempt to be s hipster
Dimitri Rodriguez Dude when the iPod first came out I was listening to CDs and so were many others in fact when I started high school five years ago I was listening to a CD even at the time when the iPhone 5s out and I still listen to CDs and I’m hoping I can get my hands on Lake Cit dude when the iPod first came out I was listening to CDs and so were many others in fact when I started high school five years ago I was listening to a CD even at the time when the iPhone 5s out and I still listen to CDs and I’m hoping I can get some blank CDs to record my Music and I still listen to CDs with my dad because CDs or something get me and my father bonded over with and that something you can I get with a digital download you would never get those special memories of a digital download that you can get with a cd and if CDs were dead then why are people stop buying them in fact why are they still being made it there supposed to be dead why are people buying and why are people making and selling them so they’re not dead
A relative of mine has a new car that doesn't have a CD player. CDs are dying and I bet in about 20-30 years people are gonna start to buy them again for nostalgia purposes.
Cassette tapes ruled in the 70's, 80's and 90's because it was the only portable medium you could record separate tracks and playlists on. Not a lot of people could afford a CD player in the 80's and most cars had cassette players. CD burners were out of reach for most. So you could record your favorite tracks from multiple CD's onto Cassettes and listen to them in your car our on your Sony Walkman. Cassette tapes get a bad rap for low quality but they brought a lot of Joy to a lot of people for over 30 years😉
believe it or not cd sales have been making a big comeback as of lately'i do miss driving to sam goody 'virgin music' coconuts music store buying my cd's . I order on ebay or amazon or through the artist website. target still has a lot of cds they sale. nothing wrong with downloading a few songs here and there' however nothing like having a physical copy at your hand anytime you want to listen to music. yes I still buy cd's all the time at 29
@@TrackXTrack Yes, Ive noticed . There is also a trend of music Artist sell their Publishing Rights for larger amounts of right now money. This goes against what they have been promoting. Which is own the rights to their masters and publishing. They are retaining the owner ship of their masters. But selling part or all of their publishing.
I think the very first CD I ever bought was Scorpions: Bad For Good album. I still have the cover it came with but the CD is scratched to hell and back because I was a dumbass kid who didn't take care of his things lol.
Interesting idea. I'm working on doing a video tour of the music room as a whole at some point in the near future. But a series that looks at the collection could be interesting as well. I'll think about it. Thanks for watching!
The labels are killing the medium with poor mastering. So much great music is simply not worthy of my dollars because the CD's are mastered for cars / earbuds rather than a home hifi. I stick with SACD now - not a lot of releases but the mastering is in most cases much better than you find on CD releases. If I do buy CD's - it's nearly always first releases [pre 1992] as remastered is just code for loud with too much compression.
I know - TL;DR but here goes... People today just want the song that is popular on social media("radio"?), at least until social media tells them it's time to listen to the new song in rotation. Plus music is so cookie cutter and over simplified now, it simply doesn't command collection status(CD archiving). For me, music is a soundtrack to my life. I wonder if people today will have music worth reminiscing about that corresponds to special moments from their younger days.
Yeah i have many u2 CD singles from 1991-2001. Since u2 didnt Want to reissue pop in 2017 for its 20 th anniversary , these singles are only way to listen bonus tracks and awesome live tracks. I still buy cds , i even bought high quality CD player from 90s to get best sound from cds
Track X Track and about music value. For me music is on a first place. I buy expensive box sets without whining about price, becouse i value music. I know that music isnt something that you can record yourself ( well excluding maybe some extreme noise music or grind metal lol) and yeah i like to hold booklets etc in my hand. Im not interested in streaming
That's the same reason my parents were forced to listen on usb... lol.I still can't believe she asked the dealer on her 2016 Hyundai "Can i replace this with a CD player"
You also forget to mention that Clear Channel bought all the radio stations and play the classics over & over again but ignore new music & acts plus MTV/VH-1/BET stop playing music videos another reason how these companies devalue music.
Indeed, the death of radio would be another deep topic to discuss! (And I worked in radio for 7 years!) Thanks for watching, and don't forget to subscribe!
Yep i forgot to mention I used to worked at Tower Records from Sept.1995 through October 2001 in New Orleans. My manager blamed Napster, I told him it was the record labels stop making CD Singles, when you force a 13 or 15 year old to buy a CD that cost around $15.99($12.99 if it was on sale) for a Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys or N-Sync CD that may have 3 or 4 good songs on there plus I never forget that radio stations used to play album tracks of songs that weren't singles would help sell the album. I heard a story that Clive Davis pushed radio stations to stop playing album tracks because radio played the song "Red Light Special" to death before it dropped as a single. When it came out as a single around Feb. 1995, it stall at No.3 on R&B charts/No.2 on The Billboard Hot 100 while the album already sold 2.5 million in 8 weeks. While Clive was pleased the album that "CrazySexyCool" sold very well, he wasn't happy that single didn't hit No.1 Another story of how record labels blew it was the story that I saw on VH-1 when they aired a documentary on Napster. Record labels knew they had a problem and had a meeting with the heads of Napster. A lawyer from RIAA set the meeting up. The lawyer had an idea that the labels should buy out Napster, take their idea & control of the music and sell the music digitally. The lawyers for the label told him "get the fuck out of here" and walked out of the meeting. The RIAA Lawyer noticed that the labels just put the final nail on the coffin. i also think the lawyer was fired. A year later Steve Jobs created the IPod and took the idea of the RIAA lawyer to create ITunes. IPod became an instant hit and when ITunes became another successful way of selling music, labels started their own digital store because they didn't automatically jump on board with ITunes plus they didn't want to share 40% of the profits to Apple. Remember a year ago the RIAA lawyer suggested this idea but the label was too stubborn to buy out the people that helped people ripped off artists. Funny, the record labels had ripped off artists for years, just asked Roger McGuinn & the lead singer of the song "Time Has Come Today" who went in front of the senate to call out the hypocrisy of record labels saying Napster ripping off artists(that part was also focus on the same documentary about Napster) while they said they haven't got any royalties of their classic hits in decades. i can also blame "American Idol" & "The Voice" devaluing the music but that's another story I also thought the music business had hope when Adele came out with "21" and sold over 10 million copies a year later because of great talent, songwriting & production. I was hoping the record labels would push talented artists, producers, songwriters like they did back in the day but they went back to selling crap to teenagers with the song that sound the same & how long the vinyl and yes cassettes resurgence will last especially that the labels are selling it twice the price(probably because of the declining sales of the CD's, the format the record labels put all their eggs in one basket). When I heard the retirement of Neil Diamond, Elton John, Lynyrd Skynryd & just recently The O' Jays(and don't be surprised McCartney and The Stones will make the same announcement in the near future), I wondered if we would find more artists like them again to keep the business going and to fill arenas & stadiums? Who knows. Sorry I posted a long comment but I'm as passionate when it comes to music. Thanks for making great videos of subjects like this and music reviews.
Thanks for the great insights. Truth be told, there's never been a perfect system for music distribution. Artists have decried the label system for years. Today it is easier than ever for an artist to self distribute their own music, but still just as hard to find an audience and make good money. For every star that hits it big on TH-cam, there's tens of thousands who can't get their music heard at all. And then we see major artists like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead essentially going independent, but they never could have done so if the record labels had not helped build them into international stars. Digital is certainly here to stay, but I think it is too soon to tell what the ultimate business model will end up being for music.
blachubear I agree! Right around the time napster launched I remember virgin megastore was charging 18.99 for a cd!!!!! Lol who's gonna pay that for 1 or 2 good song and 10 filler tracks?? The greed got the best of them.
You're absolutely right Return. When I was a kid I grew listening great albums like "Band On The Run", "Mothership Connection", "That's The Way Of The World", "Songs In The Key Of Life", "Rumours", "Hotel California", "The Stranger", "Saturday Night Fever", "Some Girls", then when I was high school we had awesome albums like "Back In Black", "Street Songs", "The Dude", "1999", "Thriller", "Synchronicity", "Purple Rain", "Songs From The Big Chair", "No Jacket Required", "Rapture", "True Blue", "Licensed To Ill", "Sign Of The Times", "Bad", "The Joshua Tree", "Faith", Hysteria", "Kick", "It Takes A Nation Of Millions", "Traveling Wilburys", "Full Moon Fever", Like A Prayer". Then the 90's all genres of music put out amazing records and to me it was the last hurrah for the recording industry. I say it went downhill in 2002 when less great music was hitting the CD/record shelves. I also blame "American Idol" for just discovering stars without any artist development and terrible songwriting & production. There lots of reasons why CD sales are suffering but I think the main suspect are the record labels.
Digital music sucks. When you have 100 LP's or cd's on your shelve its a physical product that you can touch. If you look after it it will still be there in 10 years. Digital music is like a ghost. No-one can actually see it, your favourute song disappears into this bottomless void, and you may never listen to it again and it may be lost for future generations
You are 100% correct! I enjoy the feeling of having a CD in my hand while listening to the music in my car or on my stereo at home. I also enjoy seeing the album credits and reading who produced, wrote and the musicians who played on each song. I get to learn about the CD and learn about my favorite artists. With digital downloads you seem to miss so much. Long live CDs! Hope they never die away.....
You need to Buy a Ticket to the UK and Hit the Boot Sales. They give You a Hand full of CD's If You buy something from their Table. And when the Field Is cleared You can walk around and pick up all the Ones that have been dropped and walked Into the Mud. Even Charity's (Thrift) have stopped taking them In. And Shops like Cashconverters and CEX stopped taking them.
That is $1.16 per song for a $14 CD and 12 songs. And you could get a bunch of songs you don’t like. Were as on iTunes you can pay $0.99 or at most $1.29 or in some instances $0.69 for a song and only get the ones you like. It is a non contest. I used to have 3 CDS, all of them contained crappy music, that at the time I though sounded good, but I was 12 and had a shit taste in music. So I stopped listening to them after less than a year and I got all of them for free as a gift or with a target gift card. So I gave them to good will and never looked back. My CD Player also broke and so I had no method to play it. I never regretted my decision.
That's fair. But there's still many albums worth owning, whether on CD, vinyl or digital, in their entirety. And to be honest, I almost never buy a CD for only a couple songs unless I'm buying it for collector purposes. (Such as buying a soundtrack CD with my favorite artist on it just because I want to own everything they release.) I have little doubt, though, that younger generations (perhaps including yours) will care very little about the eventual death of the CD. Digital is the format of the future.
Upload CDs on iTunes and make playlists, no commercials or subscription fees. If anything happens, you still have your music (stopping a subscription) The CD can't be beat for clarity of sounds. The real killer of CDs was car manufacturers aren't putting CD players in their cars anymore, seems to be USB ports are the way it's going. iTunes works there.
Aren't you worried about bit rot/disc rot? It seems to be plaguing optical media these days. Especially discs over 15-20+ years old. It's becoming prevalent in videogame and Laserdisc collecting.
I have been collecting cds since around 1989 or so. With that said, I have never had a music cd develop any sort of fatigue in quality in either sound or appearance. I usually take a cd and put it on my computer and then transfer it to my phone to listen to it repeatedly. Maybe this is why I have never experienced this
Good, CDs sound like fucking garbage. They are loud, compressed and low quality. I can play an album, on vinyl or cassette tape from the 80s, and listen to it and it. It is a really pleasing experience. I can play the same album on a CD for half an hour and I get a headache. There is the end of the argument for me about CDs are better than vinyl. Bonus tracks? Who cares if they sound like garbage.
Dead to the public, but not for the music fans and collectors. As long as CD collectors want to buy CDs, bands and indie labels won't stop making a little amount of physical stuff.
I hope you're right, but I hope they don't gouge us for it! I don't want to see them start charging $18 for a CD just because they think collectors will pay it. For that much, we should get better packaging or autographed covers... something to make it special. Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe!
@3 Subscribers Without Any Videos!!!!! Yes, there are people with this opinion, but there will be CD lovers in the future just as there are Vinyl lovers now, if you know what I mean.
Those geniuses that created CD'S ruined it for them selves they shouldn't have made CD'S so damn delicately easily to scratch even if you take care of your CD'S sooner or later they will be ruined and people keep wasting money over and over on the same CD that they already had CD'S are a defective badly made product they should have made all CD's like scratch resistant Blu-ray CD'S and maybe this wouldn't have happen
well.. business is business.. you go where the money is, and the market of CD's is shrinking....not expanding by any form. Sorry, but no one can say otherwise... That's just how profits are done. In actual fact, if the artist make their same tracks/songs/albums available on streaming services to listen, the physical copy *should* be cheaper to keep people buying them. But that never happens.
I am from Germany and here a new cd cost 17 euro, that is 20 dollars.
My first CD I bought was Belinda Carlisle's Heaven On Earth in 1987, analog recording but put digitally on CD.
I’m 49 as a teenager CDs were $29.99 that was a lot of money for a CD thirty years ago. We wanted to listen to music in the house and the car so the cassette is what we bought.
Now is 2021 (3 years after this video) and seems to be a resurgence of Physical format including cassettes and Cd's
I just made a trip to Best buy to replace some CDs that I own that are scratched up and won't play anymore and they said they don't have any CDs 😳! My first reaction was my jaw just about hit the floor ,and then unfortunately I felt like a dinosaur and that the music industry and the way music is recorded has passed me by! I still have a 5 disc CD changer that I use fortunately it still works it's almost 20 years old and you put five discs in there and hit random and they just change the song every time automatically! Really nice when you're out in the pool and the music keeps playing for up to 5 hours! It looks like I will have to get some kind of a stereo with some type of digital streaming device to get music in the future and not too thrilled about that! I guess one thing in life you can be sure of and that is change! In my opinion not always for the better! Thanks for the great video
Hard to find CD in ANY store these days. The times they are a changin'.
This was great man, really enjoyed hearing about your history with it. I do videos like this sometimes and always enjoy hearing other people talk about their start and growth with music related things.
Thanks! I think it is important for channels like ours to "keep it personal" and be real. We may be considered music critics, but we're music FANS first and foremost. It's important to share that passion.
Hi ARTV!😁 can you do another video on Relient K for me? Thank for reading this!
@@TrackXTrack I stream music because i use spotify for free but I buy a lot of physical dvds and games
Digital streaming and downloads are not as reliable as the CD. I’ve had problems with it. Some songs that I like are not always ‘on the web.’ A physical format is trustworthy.
Exactly right!
I only buy CDs. But I have been able to find older stuff used from 25 cents to 1 buck. I took about 14 CDs up to the register and the girl said, a dollar. Gave her 2 bucks and left with a smile on my face.
Love finding great deals on used CDs!
@@TrackXTrack McKay's book store Nashville. I would sit for hours going through all the 25 cent CDs. Another place in Nashville, Turnip green reuse store. They gave me over 200 empty CD cases. Extra cases always come in handy when you buy CDs used.
What's really cool is I have a place that gives me free electronics. Eventually you may find videos of me here and my electronic hoard.
I’ve been to that McKays. Great store! Huge too!
in Japan CDs are actually still alive, since they invented it they cherish it
People always go for the method that is most easy with the least hassle sound quality and anything else is a secondary.
Sad but true
CDs are actually the cheapest way you can buy music today. Not if you buy them new, but if you shop for used CDs at pawn shops, yard sales, thrift shops or flea markets, you will find them selling for $1 or less. Kyle talks about this in some detail. Just remember, once you buy one you own it because it is physical media. And you can always create your own mp3 files from your CDs. And because they are digital, minor scratches won't affect the sound. Your music collection is now independent of devices. You won't need to transfer music when you get a new device.
I agree 100%. I’ve been picking up a lot of used CDs the past few years for just a buck or two each. I can’t believe some of the great stuff I’ve found for only a dollar... often that I already own and paid much more for!
If I can’t bye a cd I will not stream you can keep your music . That’s just the way it is
Aaah, the perils of playing Nostradamus ;)
I enjoy it all with the exception of vinyl which is simply too bulky for me (not to mention the money I would need to throw at a turntable/cartridge/phono stage in addition to my existing gear). I was never a fan of the CD single and dont even get me started on cassingles. As long as the CD market doesn't see more producers like Rick Rubin going forward, I'm happy to listen to new albums via Spotify and only buy albums that have less than 50% filler tracks. Trust me, that's not as simple as it sounds and something like the Van Halen boxed set would do nothing for me beyond that incredible first album. Thanks for the vid, and I'm glad that CDs are still alive and well !
I have an idea. If we could get everyone when they are close to Best Buy, just go in and ask, where are the CDs. If you could spread the word till thousands were stopping in saying, where are the CDs. Why does this sound like Alice's restaurant.
LOL! Alice's Restaurant! It would be the Best Buy CD Massacre!
@@TrackXTrack when my kids were little it wasn't me telling them to turn it down. It was my daughter telling me to turn it down. That song and a handful of Beetles and Elton John stuff. I would crank it up and sing all the time. Drive the kids nuts. And the pickle song.
Almost 3 years after this video posted I'm still buying tons of cds. One thing you didn't mention is the sonic superiority of cd over mp3 files. Most downloads are in mp3 format which has at highest resolution only 20% of the data of cd audio. I can certainly hear the difference. I went through a few years of vinyl renaissance and accumulated some 1000 albums or so. Now I'm almost exclusively buying cds. I like the convenience, portability, and sound of modern cds. As long as we keep buying, they will keep making them. CDs are cheap and easy to produce, so no real downside. Cassette tapes and vinyl records degrade with time and use. A well cared for cd will continue to play well for many decades. All my 30 year old cds play like new unless they received physical damage. Burned cds are not as reliable. I am however disappointed that laptop computers are mostly made without cd/dvd burners. Until they bring back 8 track tapes I will stick with mostly CD and a bit of vinyl.
All very good points. But unfortunately I think the majority of consumers prefer both prefer the convenience of digital/streaming, and also are not listening to music on devices capable of producing high quality audio. MP3 sounds as "good" as high resolution audio (CD or FLAC) when played on average headphones, car stereos or the home audio players purchased at stores like Walmart or Target. What's worse is that the majority of people buying vinyl today are also listening on crappy Crosley all-in-one retro style record players... far from a hi-fi experience. Music fans that have invested in quality playback systems--whether for CD, vinyl or FLAC digital--are definitely in the minority. And that sucks for those of us that care about quality, because the music industry is far more interested in catering to the interests of the large majority of listeners with their average-at-best sound systems.
Ya. I'm 64 and have CDs I bought new. Had over 100 before I even figured out the CD player I wanted. Do you find the newer ones seem louder than some from the late 80s. Some of my original Led Zeppelin I felt I had to turn up the volume more.
I had a moment when I turned 60. I saw pop and rock stars dieing. Only one of the Monkey's left now. I wanted to keep the music alive. I wanted my kids to enjoy the stuff I listened to for years. I wanted to leave a collection for them to enjoy when I'm gone. In almost 5 years my collection has gone from about 600 to almost 4
000. I've had to resort to buying boxes on Amazon just to store them. I also bought two 5 terabyte hard drives to store them digitally. One drive for each child when I'm dead. They can fight over who gets what CD but they both will have the same collection on the passport drive.
My goal was to collect 5000 CDs before I die and I'm so close to that. My thoughts are I hope I don't die when I hit 5000. So maybe I'm better off changing that to 10,000 and get two more drives.
Amazon has these original album series CDs. 5 to 10 CDs in a boxed set and mini album covers. They come out to 3 or 4 bucks per album. I buy those when I can get them. I have over 200 CDs still in the wrapper I have got used, mostly at Goodwill. 3.99 for 5 plus my senior discount. You just have to get them before others pick through them. Sometimes I get 30 or so in one trip. Been told they stopped the 5 for 3.99 thing. But most of the girls there still sell them to me for that. On senior day they come out to 5 for 3.19.
@@TrackXTrack Mp3’s and CDs don’t sound the same. MP3’s generally are one tenth the file size of a Wav or AIFF file.
Vinyl degrade over time? I DON'T think soo Vinyl can last over 1,000 years or more and that's in dumpsters you said you own Vinyl? You probably have cheap turntable not even high end just look at high end in Munich 2022 turntable are getting superior over cds.
@@zztop7000 I have a refurbished pioneer turntable from the 80s with a high end stylus. I have around 1000 albums on vinyl.
Nice video! I also will continue to buy CDs as long as they are released. It will be really sad to see the end of an era if it really happens.
Genuine audio fans, and there are many, place sound quality above everything else. Streaming doesn't compete. Plus, if your internet isn't stable or simply shuts down what are you expected to do? Good hi-fi separates make all the difference to the listening experience. I want to own my music. I don't want to hire it. And I definitely don't want to own nothing and be happy. That's what head of The World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab has stated.
I agree completely!
Great video brother. As a fellow collector it is with a heavy heart that I watch CD sales trickle towards the inevitable. I wish that music still mattered to people enough for them to support artists and labels. I remember people talking in the early days of file sharing, about how it would "seperate the wheat from the chaff." They said that "only the artists that truly cared would remain and the ones that were only in It for the money would fall by the wayside." In the last few years we have seen a lot of lesser known acts as well as new artists fold simply because they can no longer afford to record and tour. It has become increasingly risky for labels to put money into advertising for up and coming acts, and even more so for artists to leave their day jobs so that they can tour. It's very distressing to watch for those of us who truly love music.
Well said. The music "industry" may be evolving, but not to the benefit and support of the artists. Streaming has been set up on a foundation that mostly only benefits major label artists. It is indeed very sad!
I'm gonna always buy cd's until they stop selling them altogether
Same
I wonder how the CDS actually work, I never think about it when I play them.
The future of CDs is on the used market millions available dirt cheap.
Just like the vinyl was.
Really enjoyed this video, once stores here are allowed to reopen again i might go to some local second hand stores and record shops and buy a few CDs i know nothing about, i'm sure i'll get at least one or two good albums out of it.
You may find some bargains on used CDs. It is always worth taking a chance if the price is right.
CDs are for music nerds now that want a gorgeous art and CD have physically displayed on the shelf, as for the music, you can pirate the album in flac or 320 kbps mp3 in minutes
Ebay is the best place to find used cds!!
eBay is great, and surprisingly so is Amazon. There’s a lot of used stuff from third party sellers there.
I buy on both. Btw.. great videos and channel!! Do you collect promo cds? What's your opinion as to collectibility down the road? Thanks and i just subscribed :)
I do pick up promo CDs when I can find them at good prices. In particular, promos that are samplers or singles. If it's a promo copy that is no different from the regular whole album, that's not very interesting to me. Obviously, promo discs don't get sent out much anymore. Still, I think collectors will always find value in them since they have always been rare. In my past, I worked at radio stations and a record store, which were GREAT for getting free promo discs!
Track X Track yeah as teens(92ish) our local record store would sell us promos for $1 each. My thought is, they only pressed a very limited amount of promos relative to official release. Stamped disc or booklets. Not the drill hole or punch. We still collect promos and think they'll still hold value down the road.
What about music club pressings? I'm starting to see a trend where they are starting to be sought after. Same concept as promos.... Fewer pressings.... Thanks for your input. Very interesting to talk CDs as some of us still collect passionately. Have a great wknd and we look forward to your next video! Cheers and rock on!
I try to avoid record club versions. Whenever I look at used discs, I always check the barcode for the "CRC" or any BMG text. If I see that, it may be a dealbreaker. If I'm on the fence and it's a record club edition, I'll usually pass. I think they tend to be lower quality, and the booklets are often not as good. I also have some bias against them from when I worked at a record store and people would bring them in to try to exchange them. They'd try to fool us and say they lost their receipts. Nope. CRC was a tell-tale sign.
I'd be really interested in seeing a music room tour from you sometime! Looks like a music lover's dream come true, just from the shot of the opening with the closed sign :)
I've been wanting to do a tour of the Music Room video, actually. I hope to get that done in the next month or two. Keep watching. It will happen soon!
Sure looks that way ... How can you keep CD's in your stores if hardly anyone buys them due to streaming ?
Convenient always runs rampid, over quality. You won't find many streaming services around that offer "uncompressed" quality like CD's have.. which arguably would be better.. Furthermore, when you have a tough time trying to find that one artist there just aren't many copies off on music services due to copyright. people take 'advantage' of the fact they are the 'only game in town' by offering either super high bit rate 320k regardless of the source, so you'll introduce more noise than actual music, or they offer crap bit rate so un-playability on that hi-fi system.
Better to just get the CD's and avoid the middle man... That way YOU have the music and control what formats you wanna rip to to listen personal backups.
In addition I think RIAA claimed by offering songs only as well as albums side by side on services, don't just gives the user more choice, but no one "listens to the entire album. They only buy the CD just to listen to two or there songs"
No one can provide proof of that because i don't believe it exists... It entirely depends more on the user. You can't just assume no one llistens to the entire CD to make your own argument better.
Very well said!
Did you notice your camera is having problems. could be the autofocus?
Yes, this video is a couple years old and the camera I used back then didn't have great autofocus. I've upgraded since then, and the new camera is much better!
if I really like the album hell yeah I would buy the CD, people are just silly
Agree with every word of this, I have to say. Thanks for putting it so eloquently. I love CDs and would be sad to see them go. But it has never been easier or cheaper to pick up great albums for not much money.
in U.K CDs are everywhere we got huge retailers like hmv and fopp that have thousands of cds for sale very easy to find here
We had HMV in Canada and then they went bankrupt. We have Sunrise Records though which is pretty much the same thing but they focus more on vinyl.
I have the Beatles on CDs...Thay are still Cool 😎
Vinyl came back, I doubt cds will disappear for many years
I hope you're right
Got back into vinyl for so,e older stuff…but the cost is getting nuts…spent $100 and got 5 LPs…. Spent $120 and got 35 CDs…..
I like owning my music, so there is that….however lossless streaming has been a wonderful thing lately
there was a time where they had Enhanced Cd's where if you put it into a computer it would have extras such as music videos and interactive stuff, it never really took off as far as i know the only Enhanced Cd i own is "Sheryl Crow "The Globe Sessions" (i bought it for my sister) when she put it into our computer it had a music video and extra i never knew that a Cd can have enhanced features.
I have a few of those, including the Sheryl Crow one.
After I started recording music on standard Audio Compact Cassette Tapes in the '90's using state-of-the-art Professional Studio Quality Audio Compact Cassette Tape Decks and equipment and managed to make tapes sound no different than CD's, I still use audio compact cassettes till this day, never stopped and never will.
Your CD history is EXACTLY like mine. I was a cassette hoarder, on the cusp of breaking out to other genres of music besides my 80s pop. I resisted CDs until the release of Sgt. Pepper. With bonus tracks my CD collection increased 10-fold. And I had tons of CD singles (esp. Tori Amos). And I still buy CDs and will as long as I can. (i'm the guy who wanted a CD player in my new car...which wasn't even an option anymore)
I hear ya! I’ll stick with CD as long as they’re still around!
I love your channel man, keep on keeping on!
I appreciate the compliment! Thanks for watching!
I like the fact that you mentioned you still purchase cds and also stream. It’s like the artist gets paid twice. I may own physical copies but rely on downloads and streaming, as pop culture has changed the way we listen to music, relying listening mostly on cellphones, computers, and tablets. Nobody wants the cumbersome of setting up a theater system to listen to music anymore.
I love your channel. ...and I love having a physical copy of a CD. I'm still an album guy. It's so great to experience a collection of music from a particular moment in time from an artist. Thank you for sharing.
I am definitely an album guy as well. I don't listen to single songs much, nor do I make playlists. I like to play ALBUMS!
The only reason I would ever use a streaming service to listen to music is if I am looking to discover new artists that I've never heard of before. I don't like just relying on streaming, because the magic just isn't there. Not like you're listening to a song on a physical copy that you paid for and own. That's why I like CD's and Cassettes.
I use streaming all the time for portable listening, like when I'm walking or at work. Otherwise, at home or in the car, CD works as good as ever.
It's Cool To Be Able To Listen Music At Work .
CDs are better than digital music! I won’t stop buying CDs.
Same here.
Awwww damn. I love buying CDs..... Yeah I just love the adventure of driving to buy a CD
Funny how prices of CDs are pretty high on amazon currently. One might expect the opposite. I guess they are milking a niche market for all they can!
You may be right
Interesting video! I've been collecting CDs since I was a young teenager in 2004/2005 so kinda just when downloads were starting to get popular? And I've been thinking of selling a lot of my 900+ collection. It seems a shame but when I have everything I own on CD ripped to HD + a lot more music digitally (around 500gb in total) most of which has little/no loss in sound quality owning CDs has started to seem a bit pointless ..Which is sad say but ..anyway I'm glad albums are more available on vinyl now because for the past couple of years been into collecting records and have 150 or so on that format - and even though recently I can't afford to buy much it's generally vinyl that i go for because it often seems to sound better than cd/digital and to collect records with the big artwork as well as stuff like coloured vinyl :p just seems kinda nicer than CD? Still been buying CDs too over the last couple of years but mostly pick them up second hand now or in sales unless it's something specific. Anyway a long rambling comment but yeah ..good video! :D
I used to rip all my CDs until one day my hard drive with all my music crashed. I had a backup, but not a full backup, so I lost about 20% of the music files. Still, I didn't want to re-rip all that music, so that's when I kind of gave up on ripping and just stream it now when I need digital. If I find something that isn't available to stream, then I rip it. At this point I don't want to get into vinyl. It's just too much for me to take on when you think about how much I'd want to own. I'll stick with CD! Thanks for watching, and please subscribe if you haven't already!
Don't get rid of your CDs. Your hard drive will crash and you'll end up buying them back a 2nd time. You be happy you didn't sell them once the same thing happens just like with vinyl! They will make a revival. History repeats itself.
Worst Decision Ever Made Streaming Sounds Horrible.I Remember Buying A Sunday Paper Just For Best Buys Tuesday's. Releases . I Miss Those Days .
Yes, I used to do the same with the Sunday ads! Always checked Best Buy and Target for new releases. (Back when they were on Tuesday! Exactly!)
Once physical format stops being available ill stop buying not saying im not gonna listen ill just torrent
I adore my Japanese 1st press CDs. The CDs are so much cooler than a digital download. Downloads don't come with music boxes, shot glasses, post cards, etc. And then the lyrics and artwork... Japanese CDs (especially 1st pressings) are just the bee's knees. ♡
When you come across a video on TH-cam and just before the video enrolls your eyes glimpse down to the Like\Dislike section to see, what are the odds that this video will be a total waste of your time and then your rebounded with blink-blink :: It has no dislikes...You immediately become self drooled and impatient to watch it. Great content Sir!
Thanks! I’m proud of this one. I appreciate you taking the time to watch!
Yours is the most eloquent I have heard. You are so right. Napster and iTunes lowered the bar. I think with this Best Buy thing, part of it is down to them. They weren't stocking good stuff for a number of years, and with Toys R Us going out of business, I think this really means the death of the box stores and online stores have taken over. CDs are still doing well globally, Japan and Spain are two examples. I do see CDs going down in price on Amazon. Got a bunch of new stuff at 7.99. The CD prices back in the day were the big issue. That is one reason for the decline, but they are still making them, especially for Countries where streaming hasn't caught on, which means they will be around. Just subscribed.
I agree that big box stores may well be on their way out. Best Buy has been struggling for years, and as you said, Toys R Us is now at an end. But also as you said, online sales will probably stay strong or maybe even increase. I buy most of my CDs on Amazon, and I started doing so because I was frustrated by the lack of variety of inventory at Best Buy! I try to support local record stores too, though. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
I use Apple Music, and listen to my massive vinyl collection. I have been listening to vinyl since 1993. On average I listen to about 1,000 albums for the first time a year.
We still have a very long way to go before the Compact disk will be discontinued officially and we need to realize it will be a long long time until everybody can access every single song by every single artist in existence digitally or streaming it will take quite some time either an alternative app or service is created or we make an App in which you can burn songs directly from a CD which a portable CD drive would be a great solution and quite surprisingly, a reasonably large amount of people are actually turning back to CD's for their piratical, reliable and sentimental value. myself included I have been collecting Cd's for several reasons
1.CD's are a permanent hard copy of digital information both from a genuine source and once you own it its your forever.
2: You can upload copies of the song as many times as you want,and they are an backup source and the sound of CD tracks is ultra crisp and super clear and much better than streaming as far as im concerned.
3. As long as there are collectors who want to buy CD's will always be in demand even if they have declined. physical copies are a cheap and efficient way to spread music.
4. Most importantly, we should be preserving resources especially when CD's are a great way of obtaining genuine copies which can be digitally uploaded to you mobile phones to which something is already in existence and will always be something you can hold and know that your money has been well spent, the amount of donated CD's i find it shops is quite shocking.
But I of course realize making everybody find ways to reuse what is in existence and just find a way to best utilize it with what we have is never gonna happen because its all about convenience and whats super easy. so I will be one who collects CD all the way till there are no more left.
I'm with you. It's a shame that so many people have abandoned physical media entirely. There's nothing permanent about digital or streaming music. I do enjoy the convenience of it, but I want to "own" the music I love!
Iv spent 30$ on a cd before
I have too. But I wouldn’t want to make a habit of it.
I like my music in my hand. Not on some server 1000 miles away. Thats why i continue to buy-collect CDs. Hold onto your CDs. They will be collectible one day.
I have bluetooth in my car but I still listen to CDs in the stereo.
@@gcord21blue tooth sucks 😂😂😂😂 cds 💿 have better sound quality
You are honestly have the best word choice ever. Also, please review "Twin Fantasty (Face to Face)" by car seat headrest. It's a reimagining of their 2011 band camp album, Twin Fantasy (mirror to mirror). It also has a dope double cd with both versions coming out February 16.
I do plan to check out the Car Seat Headrest album. Not sure if I’ll do a review yet, but it is definitely a possibility. Thanks for watching!
I buy CDs from Amazon because you can also stream it from Amazon music. I like the sound quality the CD offers.
Same here.
It's The Best Quality.
the Very first Cd i Ever bought was L7 Bricks are heavy, i bought it when i was 5 years old and i paid 5 bucks for the album, and now i found out that the Album is Rare and selling for 30 bucks on Ebay, mine has the signature from the band, i'm surprised that it has some value even though i paid 5 bucks for it used at a yard sale.
LOL! I have that CD too!
I'm not giving up on CDs, but I've never really Had any music CDs...they Just aren't useful for me. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that there's only two Bands of which I really like all Songs...all the other songs I listen to are a mix from a broad variety of genres and musicians.
I am laughing at this news because it’s a lie CDs are not dead in people need to understand that there are people out there that still buy these links and if they buy them then why do people want to stop selling them it makes no sense I still buy CDs and I do download music sometimes but that does not mean I do not buy CDs I will always buy CDs and there’s nothing no one can say about that
Lol WTF are you talking about bro? CDs have been dead since the invention if the iPod. Any response other than agreement is just an attempt to be s hipster
Dimitri Rodriguez Dude when the iPod first came out I was listening to CDs and so were many others in fact when I started high school five years ago I was listening to a CD even at the time when the iPhone 5s out and I still listen to CDs and I’m hoping I can get my hands on Lake Cit dude when the iPod first came out I was listening to CDs and so were many others in fact when I started high school five years ago I was listening to a CD even at the time when the iPhone 5s out and I still listen to CDs and I’m hoping I can get some blank CDs to record my Music and I still listen to CDs with my dad because CDs or something get me and my father bonded over with and that something you can I get with a digital download you would never get those special memories of a digital download that you can get with a cd and if CDs were dead then why are people stop buying them in fact why are they still being made it there supposed to be dead why are people buying and why are people making and selling them so they’re not dead
A relative of mine has a new car that doesn't have a CD player. CDs are dying and I bet in about 20-30 years people are gonna start to buy them again for nostalgia purposes.
I'm going to miss renting CDs for free from my local library and burning those tracks onto iTunes :P
My library still has tons of CDs, but I don’t know if they’re continuing to add any to their collection.
long live cd the ultimate music format
Amen!
Streaming services bad investment
More like ZERO investment
It's not a whole stars that are doing that
Cassette tapes ruled in the 70's, 80's and 90's because it was the only portable medium you could record separate tracks and playlists on.
Not a lot of people could afford a CD player in the 80's and most cars had cassette players. CD burners were out of reach for most.
So you could record your favorite tracks from multiple CD's onto Cassettes and listen to them in your car our on your Sony Walkman.
Cassette tapes get a bad rap for low quality but they brought a lot of Joy to a lot of people for over 30 years😉
Yep! I used to have a TON of cassettes and made mixtapes from my CDs all the time!
CDs won't completely die---just you watch!
I hope you’re right!
believe it or not cd sales have been making a big comeback as of lately'i do miss driving to sam goody 'virgin music' coconuts music store buying my cd's . I order on ebay or amazon or through the artist website. target still has a lot of cds they sale. nothing wrong with downloading a few songs here and there' however nothing like having a physical copy at your hand anytime you want to listen to music. yes I still buy cd's all the time at 29
Thank you for this video. I just love collecting CD.
Thanks for watching!
An update to this vid would be cool. Time has moved on. Now days I just pay a monthly fee and stream all my music
It has certainly gotten worse for CDs in retail stores since I made this video. Hard to find them anywhere now.
@@TrackXTrack Yes, Ive noticed . There is also a trend of music Artist sell their Publishing Rights for larger amounts of right now money. This goes against what they have been promoting. Which is own the rights to their masters and publishing. They are retaining the owner ship of their masters. But selling part or all of their publishing.
I love CDs and still DJ using CDs! You can still purchase CDs at www.cdconnection.com
I think the very first CD I ever bought was Scorpions: Bad For Good album. I still have the cover it came with but the CD is scratched to hell and back because I was a dumbass kid who didn't take care of his things lol.
I was always very careful with my CDs, so even the oldest have no scratches. I plan to be playing them for a looooong time!
Well done!!!
Thanks!
You should start doing a series of videos showing us your full collection.
Interesting idea. I'm working on doing a video tour of the music room as a whole at some point in the near future. But a series that looks at the collection could be interesting as well. I'll think about it. Thanks for watching!
You should do a post on the first two albums by Men At Work. Classic 80s...
Classic indeed!
Let just hope they don't stop selling CD's, l still buy CD's, l personally don't download music cause l don't have a computer or internet or wi - fi.
I believe yesterday (June 30) was the final day Best Buy was selling CDs. How sad!
The labels are killing the medium with poor mastering. So much great music is simply not worthy of my dollars because the CD's are mastered for cars / earbuds rather than a home hifi. I stick with SACD now - not a lot of releases but the mastering is in most cases much better than you find on CD releases.
If I do buy CD's - it's nearly always first releases [pre 1992] as remastered is just code for loud with too much compression.
great one man
Thanks!
I know - TL;DR but here goes... People today just want the song that is popular on social media("radio"?), at least until social media tells them it's time to listen to the new song in rotation. Plus music is so cookie cutter and over simplified now, it simply doesn't command collection status(CD archiving). For me, music is a soundtrack to my life. I wonder if people today will have music worth reminiscing about that corresponds to special moments from their younger days.
I totally agree!
NOOOOO Not CD'S They Now Started To Fell Down In Heaven And Out
Cds I like them, collect them ,on the internet I find a lot I have and always will purchase cds, the music is so sharp for me cds are no.1 thank you
Exactly! CD is the highest quality way to listen to music. Thanks for watching!
Yeah i have many u2 CD singles from 1991-2001. Since u2 didnt Want to reissue pop in 2017 for its 20 th anniversary , these singles are only way to listen bonus tracks and awesome live tracks. I still buy cds , i even bought high quality CD player from 90s to get best sound from cds
Yes, U2 had a ton of great b-sides on their CD singles! Glad I picked them up back in the day!
Track X Track and about music value. For me music is on a first place. I buy expensive box sets without whining about price, becouse i value music. I know that music isnt something that you can record yourself ( well excluding maybe some extreme noise music or grind metal lol) and yeah i like to hold booklets etc in my hand. Im not interested in streaming
CDs will probably "die" when car manufacturers stop putting cd players in their cars.
They already are
I just bought a car and having a cd player was a top priority
That's the same reason my parents were forced to listen on usb... lol.I still can't believe she asked the dealer on her 2016 Hyundai "Can i replace this with a CD player"
You also forget to mention that Clear Channel bought all the radio stations and play the classics over & over again but ignore new music & acts plus MTV/VH-1/BET stop playing music videos another reason how these companies devalue music.
Indeed, the death of radio would be another deep topic to discuss! (And I worked in radio for 7 years!) Thanks for watching, and don't forget to subscribe!
Yep i forgot to mention I used to worked at Tower Records from Sept.1995 through October 2001 in New Orleans. My manager blamed Napster, I told him it was the record labels stop making CD Singles, when you force a 13 or 15 year old to buy a CD that cost around $15.99($12.99 if it was on sale) for a Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys or N-Sync CD that may have 3 or 4 good songs on there plus I never forget that radio stations used to play album tracks of songs that weren't singles would help sell the album. I heard a story that Clive Davis pushed radio stations to stop playing album tracks because radio played the song "Red Light Special" to death before it dropped as a single. When it came out as a single around Feb. 1995, it stall at No.3 on R&B charts/No.2 on The Billboard Hot 100 while the album already sold 2.5 million in 8 weeks. While Clive was pleased the album that "CrazySexyCool" sold very well, he wasn't happy that single didn't hit No.1
Another story of how record labels blew it was the story that I saw on VH-1 when they aired a documentary on Napster. Record labels knew they had a problem and had a meeting with the heads of Napster. A lawyer from RIAA set the meeting up. The lawyer had an idea that the labels should buy out Napster, take their idea & control of the music and sell the music digitally. The lawyers for the label told him "get the fuck out of here" and walked out of the meeting. The RIAA Lawyer noticed that the labels just put the final nail on the coffin. i also think the lawyer was fired. A year later Steve Jobs created the IPod and took the idea of the RIAA lawyer to create ITunes. IPod became an instant hit and when ITunes became another successful way of selling music, labels started their own digital store because they didn't automatically jump on board with ITunes plus they didn't want to share 40% of the profits to Apple. Remember a year ago the RIAA lawyer suggested this idea but the label was too stubborn to buy out the people that helped people ripped off artists. Funny, the record labels had ripped off artists for years, just asked Roger McGuinn & the lead singer of the song "Time Has Come Today" who went in front of the senate to call out the hypocrisy of record labels saying Napster ripping off artists(that part was also focus on the same documentary about Napster) while they said they haven't got any royalties of their classic hits in decades.
i can also blame "American Idol" & "The Voice" devaluing the music but that's another story
I also thought the music business had hope when Adele came out with "21" and sold over 10 million copies a year later because of great talent, songwriting & production. I was hoping the record labels would push talented artists, producers, songwriters like they did back in the day but they went back to selling crap to teenagers with the song that sound the same & how long the vinyl and yes cassettes resurgence will last especially that the labels are selling it twice the price(probably because of the declining sales of the CD's, the format the record labels put all their eggs in one basket).
When I heard the retirement of Neil Diamond, Elton John, Lynyrd Skynryd & just recently The O' Jays(and don't be surprised McCartney and The Stones will make the same announcement in the near future), I wondered if we would find more artists like them again to keep the business going and to fill arenas & stadiums? Who knows. Sorry I posted a long comment but I'm as passionate when it comes to music. Thanks for making great videos of subjects like this and music reviews.
Thanks for the great insights. Truth be told, there's never been a perfect system for music distribution. Artists have decried the label system for years. Today it is easier than ever for an artist to self distribute their own music, but still just as hard to find an audience and make good money. For every star that hits it big on TH-cam, there's tens of thousands who can't get their music heard at all. And then we see major artists like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead essentially going independent, but they never could have done so if the record labels had not helped build them into international stars. Digital is certainly here to stay, but I think it is too soon to tell what the ultimate business model will end up being for music.
blachubear I agree! Right around the time napster launched I remember virgin megastore was charging 18.99 for a cd!!!!! Lol who's gonna pay that for 1 or 2 good song and 10 filler tracks?? The greed got the best of them.
You're absolutely right Return. When I was a kid I grew listening great albums like "Band On The Run", "Mothership Connection", "That's The Way Of The World", "Songs In The Key Of Life", "Rumours", "Hotel California", "The Stranger", "Saturday Night Fever", "Some Girls", then when I was high school we had awesome albums like "Back In Black", "Street Songs", "The Dude", "1999", "Thriller", "Synchronicity", "Purple Rain", "Songs From The Big Chair", "No Jacket Required", "Rapture", "True Blue", "Licensed To Ill", "Sign Of The Times", "Bad", "The Joshua Tree", "Faith", Hysteria", "Kick", "It Takes A Nation Of Millions", "Traveling Wilburys", "Full Moon Fever", Like A Prayer". Then the 90's all genres of music put out amazing records and to me it was the last hurrah for the recording industry. I say it went downhill in 2002 when less great music was hitting the CD/record shelves. I also blame "American Idol" for just discovering stars without any artist development and terrible songwriting & production. There lots of reasons why CD sales are suffering but I think the main suspect are the record labels.
Digital music sucks. When you have 100 LP's or cd's on your shelve its a physical product that you can touch. If you look after it it will still be there in 10 years. Digital music is like a ghost. No-one can actually see it, your favourute song disappears into this bottomless void, and you may never listen to it again and it may be lost for future generations
Very true!
You are 100% correct! I enjoy the feeling of having a CD in my hand while listening to the music in my car or on my stereo at home. I also enjoy seeing the album credits and reading who produced, wrote and the musicians who played on each song. I get to learn about the CD and learn about my favorite artists. With digital downloads you seem to miss so much. Long live CDs! Hope they never die away.....
You need to Buy a Ticket to the UK and Hit the Boot Sales. They give You a Hand full of CD's If You buy something from their Table. And when the Field Is cleared You can walk around and pick up all the Ones that have been dropped and walked Into the Mud. Even Charity's (Thrift) have stopped taking them In. And Shops like Cashconverters and CEX stopped taking them.
Wow, it’s not that way in America at all! Sounds great for collectors!
CDs are back, due to lots of bargain used CDs, and millennials start to collect them.
¿Because of Streaming? That isn't going to happen.
My first CD was the Wayne's World Soundtrack LOL
And you're willing to publically admit that? LOL! Just kidding. There were some good tracks on that!
At bare minimum, the CD is an excellent archival format.
Very true
@@TrackXTrack Oh, and another nice thing about them is how nicely you can buff minor scratches out with a quality car wax. Can't do that with vinyl!
That is $1.16 per song for a $14 CD and 12 songs. And you could get a bunch of songs you don’t like.
Were as on iTunes you can pay $0.99 or at most $1.29 or in some instances $0.69 for a song and only get the ones you like. It is a non contest. I used to have 3 CDS, all of them contained crappy music, that at the time I though sounded good, but I was 12 and had a shit taste in music. So I stopped listening to them after less than a year and I got all of them for free as a gift or with a target gift card. So I gave them to good will and never looked back. My CD Player also broke and so I had no method to play it. I never regretted my decision.
That's fair. But there's still many albums worth owning, whether on CD, vinyl or digital, in their entirety. And to be honest, I almost never buy a CD for only a couple songs unless I'm buying it for collector purposes. (Such as buying a soundtrack CD with my favorite artist on it just because I want to own everything they release.) I have little doubt, though, that younger generations (perhaps including yours) will care very little about the eventual death of the CD. Digital is the format of the future.
vinyl won the war.....
Actually, vinyl survived the war, but streaming won.
Great content. Sad to see CD go given their great sound quality. Just to be clear, CD is digital.
Upload CDs on iTunes and make playlists, no commercials or subscription fees. If anything happens, you still have your music (stopping a subscription) The CD can't be beat for clarity of sounds. The real killer of CDs was car manufacturers aren't putting CD players in their cars anymore, seems to be USB ports are the way it's going. iTunes works there.
Aren't you worried about bit rot/disc rot?
It seems to be plaguing optical media these days.
Especially discs over 15-20+ years old.
It's becoming prevalent in videogame and Laserdisc collecting.
I’ve never had a problem with it on music CDs. I have had a couple CD-R that got disc rot, but never a music disc.
I've never had that problem. You must not be taking very good care if your discs
Dimitri Rodriguez No...
Its natural wear and tear. The label eventually starts peeling off. Exposing the data to oxygenation which causes the rot.
I have been collecting cds since around 1989 or so. With that said, I have never had a music cd develop any sort of fatigue in quality in either sound or appearance. I usually take a cd and put it on my computer and then transfer it to my phone to listen to it repeatedly. Maybe this is why I have never experienced this
Good, CDs sound like fucking garbage. They are loud, compressed and low quality. I can play an album, on vinyl or cassette tape from the 80s, and listen to it and it. It is a really pleasing experience. I can play the same album on a CD for half an hour and I get a headache. There is the end of the argument for me about CDs are better than vinyl. Bonus tracks? Who cares if they sound like garbage.
I have that same final cut cassette
I used to have all the PF albums on cassette!
@@TrackXTrack I have a lot, but I have all on cd