Are MP3 and IPOD players taking over CDS?

Originally posted by Tempe Brennan
Why the **** would anyone want to get digital downloads anyway? I prefer buying an album with a CD cover and that little booklet with the lyrics. I don't wish to have to download frigging songs from the bloody internet and pay for them. Whoever heard of paying for songs? Geez...most stores here don't even stock CD singles anymore, everyone just downloads them...

If you buy a CD you're still paying for songs.

And not all CD booklets have lyrics.

I buy CDs, and I buy digital downloads. I do like having the discs but in all honesty I have enough clutter as it is and really have no place to keep them, plus CDs are very easily damaged.

Originally posted by shiv
Drinking fresh pressed Peach juice is not the same as holding the soft gold fruit in your hand and taking a bite out of it.

CDs aren't easily damaged or lost if you're even reasonably careful with them, really.

-AC

They are if the only way to guarantee they'll be where you put them is to lock them up somewhere and you have no means to do so 😛

plus CDs are very easily damaged.

Hardly, I've still got cds from when they first came out, still working fine and dandy. Not EASILY damaged at all. Like Alpha said, if you look after them, it's fine.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Hardly, I've still got cds from when they first came out, still working fine and dandy. Not EASILY damaged at all. Like Alpha said, if you look after them, it's fine.

CD Art, Pull out Posters and Linear Notes kick ass. CD's can survive software malfunctions t😛😛.

Though they usually will lose their information over time.

Well my cds from the late 80s are still going strong, so it will be sometime before the later cds go 😛

Originally posted by MildPossession
Well my cds from the late 80s are still going strong, so it will be sometime before the later cds go 😛

Yeah, they are a perfectly fine medium. Though, I'd back them up anyways. Better safe than losing music.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Hardly, I've still got cds from when they first came out, still working fine and dandy. Not EASILY damaged at all. Like Alpha said, if you look after them, it's fine.

Easily damaged as in it takes no effort to damage one. Just because you take care of your CDs doesn't mean that one scratch can't wreck it.

Well I have dropped, scratched(not deep, big ones, have to do something big for it to be a scratch like that...) a lot of cds and they still work fine, and I can only remember just one cd that was damaged.

You are just unlucky 😛

I probably am, I'm the type that'll buy a brand new game and it'll have been the one in the shipment that came loose and got scratched up in a box 😛

Ah, now that happens a lot to me with dvds through the post! ha

Then it's not CDs, you idi-fool.

-AC

Having a huge library of CDs was hip in my HS days.

Oh, those were the 90's. 😂

Yeah.

Nowadays it's only stuff for the real cool kids. The fans, as they're called. We're TRULY hip.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
CDs aren't easily damaged or lost if you're even reasonably careful with them, really.

-AC

I take good care of all my CD's. I'm rather proud of my collection, actually. I can't even fathom getting digital downloads, they don't interest me. I prefer the actual CD, and the case and the front cover etc. Much better. 🙂

So did I...then they started to pile up. Need room...

Originally posted by MildPossession
Well I have dropped, scratched(not deep, big ones, have to do something big for it to be a scratch like that...) a lot of cds and they still work fine, and I can only remember just one cd that was damaged.

You are just unlucky 😛

yeah, the CD player also has alot to do with the ability to play damaged Cd's. I have Cd's that have been through Dante's 7th circle. They will work find on some cd players and not at all on others. I agree though, they Cd's fairly easy to take care of and can endure much punishment.

my only problem with Cd's is space. Cd's take up much space. I have sold most all of my cd's. I do regret it sometimes, but for the most part. Im happy to be free of more material possessions.

I understand people want to hang on to their CDs. I know many people during the 80s and 90s didn't want to let go of their cassettes.

Get with the times...I'm hip. 😎