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For a while now, I have been content to buy LPs as our families music source, knowing that the market is quite healthy for used, new and limited release content. I buy locally and from around the world, focusing mainly on jazz, classical and very recent pop or modern. I'll continue to do this.But, like others, I have started to notice that the availability of new performances (new artists, recent recordings) is shifting away from physical media in my locale. I'm not starting to worry yet, but I have begun to set aside resources to buy more CDs while I still can. For me, it's the music and performances I'm after first, with great sound (always nice to have) a distinct second.
The worry is that
a) I like to have something to show for my money, and that something is disappearing to the cloud and the control of the publisher;
b) I am not content to rely on publishers for downloads (too many links in the IT chain that can break);
c) Recent great but hard-to-find/low volume performances will get to obscurity before they can be 'found' in significant numbers (physical media has a way of actually lasting on the chance it can be sold, as opposed to deleted or removed form view).
I realise c) can potentially be addressed by streaming (in some cases - not all, like the output of music concerns I like, such as APR, for piano, or Audiobulb, for new electronica), but still see I must invest in a medium I previously shunned!
Anyone feel similarly, or am I alone?
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Edits: 12/21/14Follow Ups:
by buying CDs which you control.
After about 20 years of trying, I finally got enjoyable-sounding music out of CDs by using an NOS DAC, so I am happy that there are cheap discs available.
I have a local shop that has a HUGE amount of vinyl and a smaller but still large amount of used cds. The cds are just about always 5 bucks each and the vinyl ranges from 1 buck for no name classical to 50 bucks or so for original Living Stereo of top performers. Reissued Jazz is between 18 and 24 bucks for a new LP.
Never been a better time to buy CD or SACD.
Except that vinyl just sounds a lot better to me...so I am buying mostly that now.
Older vinyl is still an excellent investment.
Not alone! Big J-
I will always buy CD and SACD releases. No downloads for me...
+1. The used CD market is alive and well at Amazon. This will continue to be my choice. The only stick in the mud here is the pricing of desirable out of print material.
Just so you understand that your CDs are digital recordings stored on a Plastic Disc instead of other digital media such as a Hard Drive. So, if all else is equal, such as Cost, storing digital music is much more convenient on other media than a plastic disk.You can also store 'downloads' on a plastic disc (CD) very easily. Downloading Digital Media does not destroy the recording. If you want to store your downloaded Digital Music on an Outdated Plastic Disk, go ahead. I can put the Music of 5,000 CDs in my Shirt-pocket.
Cut-Throat
Edits: 12/23/14 12/23/14
Almost agreed (I won't say "never" as who knows what the future holds?).
Given the cost of both hi-rez downloads and CD quality streams in the UK (about 50% higher than in the US), it is not something I consider economically reasonable.Especially when the points raised by jusbe are accounted for.
Maybe I'll be a big purchaser of second hand CDs when the primary market expires. Incidentally my friend from one of the major record companies predicts this will happen within the next 36 months, at least for pop music.
Seems entirely possible. Not sure if the outcomes will be what everyone expects but it bodes well for vinyl, I think!
Maybe 'tru-CD' releases will become the special digital editions?
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
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