How would this effect the way you listen to music? When Best Buy, Wal-mart & Target, Starbucks, etc., finally decide to not carry music (and it's coming), music labels will have to decide whether or not to manufacture the CD. They are already forcing us to download legally, but it's a little too late.
Record Stores are far and few between and more will close in 2010. On line sites are your best bet, but if they pull the plug then you will have no choice.
I'm for the CD going away. They take up way too much space and folks are staying home more and trying to utilize what little space they have.
Think about, the CD artwork in most of these packages are just that. I find more about an album just by entering it in Google, blogs and artists sites.
The ORG offers WAY more info!!! Thank you guys and gals!
There are hardly and credits and liners notes in a "new" album. Re-issues offer more about a older release, but how many times are you expected to purchase them? Some CD's from the 70's and 80's are being re-issued for the third and forth time.

I have a very large CD collection. I don't look at them the same way. I don't see the value in owning them. I love the music I have purchased over past 25+ years and I'm re-discovering a lot of them, now that I have digitized all of them for my MP3 device. Do I really need to own a physical CD? Do you?

My CD's get ripped to my PC after opening and thrown on a shelf anyways.

I don't listen to CD's anymore. I enjoy going through the booklet and having the music in phsyical form, but I don't use them for everyday use.

Well.....I do like the booklets...but I don't see using them as art as I do with my vinyls.


To be fair we all know the cd is going to die and we are just going to make our own...I mean seriosuly when you go to a party and people want to trade / play music it's going to be made on a cd form, not downloaded and not transered to ipods or mp3's...most people want a physical copy to do as they want with said music later.

Vinyls are making a big comeback and I think they are going to stand the test of time to be fair as well as digital.

If they decide to pull the plug I think it will just mean more people illegally download. which in the end will damage the industry even further.

there was I time I would buy all the new releases . . . . not no more
the advent of illegal downloading gave me the opportunity to hear before I buy
take away the cd format & I doubt I would make the effort to download an album for a 2nd time/legally
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I love CD's it's such a shame so many people are losing out on a lot of money because of illegal downloading. I think they should offer things with the CD that you can't download, like an automatic entry into a raffle like Prince did with 3121, discount coupon for concerts, posters, stickers,...

I love CDs and still, it´s the only way I listen to my music. I don´t even have an MP3 player or and IPOD or whatever the new technology is.

Caramelpfe said:

Labels won't pull it, there'll just be as Caramelpfe said, more illegal downloads. The industry acts like that 10-year-old who keeps repeating 3rd grade.

TonyVanDam said:

Think about it yes, put that stuff on wax only again and people will start buying turntables...a good precentage of the industry will make a profit and young people will want to buy music in my opinion seeing the big labels, posters and artwork...and actually having a huge copy of their music will re-inspire also.

paisleypark4 said:

That would be good if that was on the labels' agenda but as we see it's not...

They're back up against the wall,,,,they're in a hole for still releasing CDs for non-buying consumers, and they'll bury themselves and their business alive when they pull the plug.

But it is also getting harder to buy a turntable though.

Harlepolis said:

And they know so.

The reality is the average kid now has a ipod / MP3 player of some sort. Even Family Dollar has a mp3 player for 15 dollar for a one gig which hold 300-500 songs it is a hard sell to 17 year to buy a cd for the amount of a cheap mp3 player that hold a dozen cds and take up less space

DecaturStone said:

I'm old school a little bit so I'll buy CDs. They won't take it fully out of stores anyways.

I'm in my early 20's and don't have the ipod etc , I still buy albums but only for artists I really like. And If it's one song i'm interested in I'll go buy a 5 dollar mixtape for that one song .

There's a FYE where I'm at that is going out of business , More people getting there music online now.

babybugz said:

I wonder if our FYE in the mall is going out but I ain't been there in two years so I don't know. I'll probably try to purchase some CDs and music DVDs soon if that happens lol or they'll all be shipped to Wal-Mart (the devil's store), Best Buy or Target.

Timmy84 said:

I been going to Best Buy alot lately , they have Albums I haven't seen in ages lol.

babybugz said:

Hmm, maybe when I need to get print ink next time, I'll check the entertainment section.

I would prefer to have my music in some sort of physical form. Yes, I rip my CDs into my computer and yes, I have my computer hooked to my stereo so it will thump, but I still have all my music in some sort of physical form (except for a few of the free downloads I've done recently ). What the people of the computer generation fail to realize is when you have music only in a computer, when that computer finally dies, so does all your music. Machines don't last forever but records and CDs do.

But as for labels eventually doing away with CDs, I really could care less since new music these days isn't worth buying anyway. Hell, it ain't even worth downloading for free. The only artist that I still buy new music from in the last 10 years has been Prince and next time around, I'm not going to even waste my money on his next CD until I hear it first because if it's sellout shit like his last one, he won't get another dime of my money.
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vainandy said:

Some teenagers own 2 iPods. If one mp3 player breaks, they still have back-up.

In most cases, none of the mp3 files would stay on the desktops, laptops, OR netbooks for very long.

Hard drive prices are so cheap these days that you can buy a massive drive and make regular backups.

You can schedule the backups so that they do them when you're out of the house, or asleep, and so the computer shuts down automatically when the backup is finished.

With USB 3.0 coming out, you'll be able make backups of your entire music library in minutes.

There's really no reason for anyone to lose data in this day and age.

Militant said:

tricky2 said:

Well i can tell you that Walmart and Target will keep it for the most part, its just gonna get downsized, so if you are not into the Top 40 you better find new source for getting music, its that simple. People bitched about prices and that caused the loss of REAL retailers, when the BIG culprit of pricing was labels, this is why you have cds on sale right next to shirts and socks in stores. Best Buy is already been downsizing the last 3 years and this year will be their most drastic drop a 50% cut in catalog and 75% cut in Music Dvds all around.

Im the opposite on the whole ownership thing, i like the physical copy, whether it was vinyl or cds or singles and 45's, thats just me, i have an ipod and an ipod touch, but honestly with the exception of the artists that i have always liked i will very very rarely invest in new artists, mainly because even if they are good, they will not have a catalog, and im not looking to have a 100 albums digital of 1 album wonders, or 2000 songs of 2000 one song wonders. But that is what digital did, it cheapened the music, and the way it is looked at.

Stick with the mom and pop stores to the bitter end

DecaturStone said:

Not at Target

then I would be basically left with two choices :
1. stop buying music altogether
2. finallly buy my first MP3

I can't imagine No. 2 to happen. but No.1 is no real alternative either.
I need to own a physical format, period, be it Vinyl or CD.
and if they "pull the plug", I'm sure it would be temporarily, just like Vinyl made an unexpected comeback