ehhh cds arent dead...thier is still something reallly cool and special about owning that physical copy of music and looking at all the artwork and reading the words and thank yous from the bands..its the same reasons why people still love and cherish vinyls. digital downloads can never change that.

Cd's are not dead, they are not worth 20 dollars thought. Also, today we got the Kevin Federline cd's at the store I work in. They are priced at a 19.99 suggested retail price!!! And even thought they will be sale priced at 15 dollars, it still means that record labels think crappy music, like Mr. Federline's album is worth that much money. I really do not care if major labels go bankrupt, as long as Matador, Merge, Sub Pop and others are doing well

CDs aren't dead. Vinyl's not dead. Only cassette tapes are really dead.

8-Tracks are forever.

yeah, tape is dead!!!! But I cannot live without buying cd's of bands I love and cd-r's to make copies of those to give to friends, and to make copies of overpriced albums I do not want to buy but still I want to listen to

8-Tracks are just giant cassettes tapes, really.

there's something to say about thumbing through vinyl and CD stacks. taking it home and putting it on the CD rack. something concrete with liner notes and pictures.
however. bleep.com rocks bebe..blah blah jib jab hibbedehibbedehooo

Hey, on the flip side, it's quite beneficial for the environment if CDs fade out of the marketplace. Think of all that petroleum and paper to make them, and all that waste when they inevitably end up in our landfills...

I know it's not as sexy, but it makes more sense ecologically.

"Here's some more unreleased tracks that weren't good enough to make the actual album, oh please god keep buying cds. My children are so hungry!"

I suppose that if you really like the band you'll buy the cd's. I mean i'll download a few songs and if the band is kickass i'll shell out the 20 bucks for the cd.

8-Blasphemy.

Why don't they just lower the fucking prices?

Only once have I ever bought a song in a digital format, and that was because the band doesn't sell physical CDs yet and they were selling mp3s rather than DRMed mp4s. I don't steal music nearly as much as I've done in the past, but having done it, I just can't justify paying money for a download unless there's no other way. I buy a CD to have the CD. Downloads don't feel like they have any permanence.

That and the fact that even Fairplay is broken now just proves that DRM is simply not fit for purpose, and I don't see how it ever will be. It's fucking hard to steal a CD from a store. That one little sensormatic tag is so much more effective than any existing DRM tells the whole story.

8-Tracks? Cassettes? CDs?

Time I upgraded my music collection from Wax Cylinders.

And I just got used to not hearing all music in person.

i refuse to buy an mp3 player or an ipod. guess i'll be singing all my faves