In these days of music streaming anyone still buy physical albums?

I still buy cd’s. If I had had a record deck I would like to get vinyl. I see tapes are coming back too.

For me I buy cd’s when it is a band I really like and they wouldn’t get huge traffic on the streaming sites. I like to support these artists.

Anyone still buy albums too?

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Only as Christmas presents. :cd:

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I do. I own dosens of albums. They are starting not to do it with all new music though. Like when I tried to buy the new Tool album, a standard CD version is just not available. Shame really, I know it is not really important but I like to physically own them.

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I do. 151515151515

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I once owned hundreds of CDs and albums.
Now all gone - poof!!!

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:raising_hand_woman:

I dont have internet at home accept for my smartphone.

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I still buy a ton of CDs and vinyl. Here in the States you can find a lot of quality stuff, usually for $2 or less, in record store clearance bins/garge sales/flea markets and thrifts.

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I have physical copies of all my music. I don’t want to pay for a license that could go away.

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Oh yeah! I own a ton of records and CD’s. It’s really fun to collect the physical media of old blues albums. They tend to go in and out of print pretty fast.

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I don’t really have a house to put stuff in so I buy mostly digital when it comes to music and video games.

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I love buying vinyl records. I have a good crate filled up so far. May order a Bob Dylan or Sgt. Pepper albums some time soon.

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I stopped buying CD’s many years ago.

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I love vinyl but after living overseas I am of the mindset of few possessions. I am thinking of going digital with my books too just because they add to space. It’s a pity. I had a lot of records, tapes and cd’s that are gone. My little brother cleaned me out when I went overseas.

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I don’t do streaming or downloads; all of the music I have is my collection of CDs.

I listen mostly to lesser-known bands, and I like to support them with CD/merch purchases, not to mention going to their concerts.

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We have lots of everything.
Check this out. I found it today. Ha.

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I had a large closet of vinyl. And a few boxes of 45’s. And about 500 CD’s.
Sold all of it, along with an audiophile vacuum tube stereo and a second solid state system.
Now I just listen to Spotify it’s a small Samsung M5 Bluetooth speaker. It’s perfect for the fairly small room in my new house.
If I could, I’d buy a Peachtree DeepBlue3 speaker. But that would be another $300 I don’t want to spend just yet.

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I buy CD’s all the time. I like to look at the album artwork and the lyrics all printed out.

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I would buy some great and favourite albums in vinyl.

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I still do as gifts to my sister but I use Amazon to download albums. I would probably save money with the streaming service instead but I like being able to download the mp3s as a possibility.

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About a decade or so ago I had a lot of mp3s, downloaded via limewire, on an external hard drive . The drive failed ,and I lost all the music .