Do you still buy CDs?....VOL...BEST BUY

[SC kid]

The end of the CD format might be in sightas two major retailers are set to push for change in their relationship with the industry through the end of the year. According to Consequence of Sound, “89 million CDs were purchased in all of 2017” and paled in comparison to 800 million in 2001. The drop in popularity for the format has already caused a shift in how each store carries inventory, with Target only handling a limited selection compared to nearly 800 titles at its height according to Billboard. Best Buy, on the other hand, will get rid of CDs altogether by July 2018:


At one point, Best Buy was the most power music merchandiser in the U.S., but nowadays its a shadow of its former self, with a reduced and shoddy offering of CDs. Sources suggest that the company’s CD business is nowadays only generating about $40 million annually. While it says it’s planning to pull out CDs, Best Buy will continue to carry vinyl for the next two years, keeping a commitment it made to vendors. The vinyl will now be merchandised with the turntables, sources suggest.


Target isn’t getting rid of music on their end. Instead, they are pushing to change the payment structure for both CDs and DVDs from the movie distributors. The store has told the music companies that they want to switch to a consignment basis according to Billboard:

Currently, Target takes the inventory risk by agreeing to pay for any goods it is shipped within 60 days, and must pay to ship back unsold CDs for credit. With consignment, the inventory risk shifts back to the labels…

According to those sources, Target gave the ultimatum to both music and video suppliers in the fourth quarter of last year that it wants to switch to scanned-based trading, with a target date of Feb. 1. But while it is proceeding to push DVD vendors to switch to scan-based trading terms (i.e. the chain would pay for DVDs after they are sold or scanned while being rung up at the register), it has moved the deadline back to music suppliers to either April 1 or May 1. So far, music manufacturers are not sure what they are going to do, but sources within the various camps say that at least one major is leaning no, while the other two majors are undecided.

Billboard adds that any push back on these new deals and sale terms could “hasten” the demise of CDs. They also note that music companies are keeping a watchful eye on what happens with DVD sales before making any final decisions.

What is the last CD you purchased? And is vinyl a suitable physical format to ride into the future as an alternative to digital music

 

[Hahahaha]

I still buy CDs and I don't know anyone else that still does. Most people just stream now because it's much easier. I still buy because music been my first love since I was like 7. I enjoy purchasing a CD if I love the album. I'm thankful that now I can download and hear first before I buy. The old days of paying $17-$21 for an album and only liking 2-3 songs were brutal. The CD sections in Best Buy and Target have gotten small as hell. It's been shrink drastically for like 2-3 years now.


This is probably all I bought in 2017, still gotta go buy Scarface.

I don't really buy Vinyl, I put all my Vinyl on my wall from when I was a kid and bought some new **** to add to my wall and that was it.

 

[ggarvinxx3]

No

 

[Arthur Shelby]

Never Did

 

[JVII]

I'm an old school *****, so yeah lol.

I only buy from Amazon tho since 9 times outta 10 they'll give you the mp3 version too.

 

[ninjahood]

first CD heard = DR Dre da Chronic

last CD heard = Common Finding Forever

 

[Hahahaha]

first CD heard = DR Dre da Chronic

last CD heard = Common Finding Forever

You're better than this post, come on dogs

 

[SC kid]

I heard the chronic on tape lol.
First CD heard was the Joshua tree by u2


Yutes will never know the "book"
Or the resilience of a cd
You could use one for coaster and it would still work

 

[niceshoes247]

The book

 

[ambitious sole]

I do but only for the few artists I really mess with that I know won’t disappoint. I’ll be copping that Nipsey Hussle album on the 16th.

RIP to that feel when you rip off the plastic in the parking lot and pop it in the whip

 

[SC kid]

Opening a CD was a *****

 

[slighted]

First CD I ever bought = Usher's Confessions

 

[tr1ll]

The last CDs I purchased was Snoops Rythm and Gangsta and a second copy of T.I I’m Serious(I swear that cd had that UGK cd curse). I wanna say that was just before or right at the time live mixtapes was on. After live mixtapes hit, I didn’t pay for music again until Apple Music.

Ironically, the first CD I ever purchased was Doggy Style.

 

[suberzat1]

Jay Z MCHG was the last CD I purchased

I've been buying vinyls lately

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

I used to until last year.. I was at the car dealership buying a new car and the dealer told me the newest model doesn't have a CD player..

Dealer - "Who need a c.d player? It's 2017 not 2000!"

Me- "I did?"

 

[ninjahood]

You're better than this post, come on dogs

umm most people didn't have CD's in 1992.

i was listening to da Chronic when it dropped on a Sega CD.

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

Last CD I bought..

DAMN

 

[niceshoes247]

My 2017 has a CD player

 

[tr1ll]

Last CD I bought..

DAMN

I thought you was saying "DAMN", as in you can't remember, then I realized that's the name of Kendrick's album.

 

[ninjahood]

ironically cassette players are more useful because of da AUX adaptor.

 

[niceshoes247]

Where’s my purple tape

 

[lobcity]

I still buy CDs and I don't know anyone else that still does. Most people just stream now because it's much easier. I still buy because music been my first love since I was like 7. I enjoy purchasing a CD if I love the album. I'm thankful that now I can download and hear first before I buy. The old days of paying $17-$21 for an album and only liking 2-3 songs were brutal. The CD sections in Best Buy and Target have gotten small as hell. It's been shrink drastically for like 2-3 years now.


This is probably all I bought in 2017, still gotta go buy Scarface.

I don't really buy Vinyl, I put all my Vinyl on my wall from when I was a kid and bought some new **** to add to my wall and that was it.

That Master P Ghetto D is the best cd out of all those!

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

I thought you was saying "DAMN", as in you can't remember, then I realized that's the name of Kendrick's album.

 

[ilike turtles]

I still buy CD's, but only when an artist I really F with drops an album that I've been anticipating. So its really only 1 or 2 CD's a year for me lol.

But I noticed that CD's are starting to get phased out last year when I tried copping Joey Bada$$ and K. Dot's albums. I went to Target and Best Buy and neither of them had any new releases. Just a small selection of old CD's. I eventually found the CD's but the fact that I had to do a little searching for them told me that they're gonna officially become a thing of the past within the next year or two. Looks like its happening

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

I still buy CD's, but only when an artist I really F with drops an album that I've been anticipating. So its really only 1 or 2 CD's a year for me lol.

But I noticed that CD's are starting to get phased out last year when I tried copping Joey Bada$$ and K. Dot's albums. I went to Target and Best Buy and neither of them had any new releases. Just a small selection of old CD's. I eventually found the CD's but the fact that I had to do a little searching for them told me that they're gonna officially become a thing of the past within the next year or two. Looks like its happening