Since Prince died, and I suppose long before that, I stopped buying CDs of anything except Prince releases; the last 2 cds I purchased were "Originals" and before that "Piano 1983."

I've listened to other stuff on streaming but no purchases.

Y'all?

sro100 said:

I buy the artists I want to support. But they're few.

No.

2019 CDs I've bought so far:

So no, I still buy CDs

Generally speaking, yes.

I paid for tidal premium, and keep paying because of the wide variety of content on it. I guess I wouldn't have bothered starting if it wasn't for Prince, but downloading and streaming a bunch of artists keeps me there, so that is sort of a yes and no.

PANDURITO said:

2019 CDs I've bought so far:

The Beat Feat. Ranking Roger	Public Confidential
Steve Hackett	At The Edge Of Light
Paul Young	The CBS Singles Collection 1982-1994
Fangoria	Extrapolaciones 1989-2000
Beirut	Gallipoli
The New Seekers	The Albums 1970-73
Pet Shop Boys	Agenda
Prefab Sprout	I Trawl The MegaHertz
The Specials	Encore
Bonnie Tyler	Between The Earth And The Stars
James Morrison	You're Stronger Than You Know
La Casa Azul	La Gran Esfera
Simple Minds	Rejuvenation 2001-2014
Francis Rossi ⋆ Hannah Rickard	We Talk
Babybird	Happy Stupid Nothing
Suzi Quatro	No Control
Alan Parsons	The Secret
The Cranberries	In The End
Andy Bell	Torsten In Queereteria
Eric Barao	Obsolete
Leo Sayer	Selfie
Marina	Love + Fear
VVAA	Descanso Dominical – (Tributo A Mecano)
P!nk	Hurts 2B Human
Tangerine Dream	In Search Of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979
Howard Jones	Transform +
Mavis Staples	We Get By
Sting	My Songs +
Babybird	Cigarette Candle
The Waterboys	Where The Action Is +
Bruce Springsteen	Western Stars
Neil Hannon	Swallows & Amazons
The Divine Comedy	Office Politics
Madonna	Madame X +
Prince	Originals
Santana	Africa Speaks
Two Door Cinema Club	False Alarm
Tony Banks	Banks Vaults
Labi Siffre	Gold
Thom Yorke	Anima
Shakespears Sister	Singles Party (1988-2019)
Shalamar	Gold
Bon Iver	i,i
Josh Garrels	Chrysaline
Lana Del Rey	Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Mungo Jerry	Gold
Sheryl Crow	Threads
Babybird	Photosynthesis
Baby Bird	I Was Born Again
Apple Android 2	Apple Android 2
VVAA	Blank & Jones Present so8os 13
VVAA	Blank & Jones Present so8os 12
Bat For Lashes	Lost Girls
Belle & Sebastian	Days Of The Bagnold Summer
Keane	Cause And Effect +
Melanie Martinez	K-12
Liam Gallagher	Why Me? Why Not? +
Les Rita Mitsouko	L'Intégrale
Status Quo	Backbone +
Gruff Rhys	Pang!
Robyn Hitchcock & Andy Partridge	Planet England

So no, I still buy CDs

Nope--I buy CDs from the people who i listen to. I still enjoy the physical format. I collect old and new releases from artists old and new. I'll download if a physical copy is unavaialble.

Just ordered The Originals and will order the upcoming 1999

Other recents listens: (vinyl)

-Eat a Peach, Allman Bros.

-Best of Wilson Pickett (recent purchase)

-American Beauty, Grateful Dead (love Jerry Garcia)

-Revisted Atral Weeks, Van Morrision

-Back to Black, Amy Winehouse

-Best of Curtis Mayfield

-The Cars (recent purchase)

[Edited 10/13/19 8:06am]

Not at all. Prince is my favorite, but there's incredible new music out there today.

Recent obsessions include SZA's CTRL, Charli XCX's Charli, Roisin Murphy's recent singles, Robyn's Honey, Tyler the Creator's IGOR, etc.

No idea why Prince's death would impact the music I buy in general. I don't listen to music solely for Prince.

Nope.I listen to many artists and bands.

LoveGalore said:

Not at all. Prince is my favorite, but there's incredible new music out there today.

Recent obsessions include SZA's CTRL, Charli XCX's Charli, Roisin Murphy's recent singles, Robyn's Honey, Tyler the Creator's IGOR, etc.

No idea why Prince's death would impact the music I buy in general. I don't listen to music solely for Prince.

Interesting choices.

Are you familiar with Abra? She´s my favorite "new" artist but she´s been around for quite a few years now. She can be heard on Charlie XCX´s song "Drugs".

I still buy and guess will always buy any Prince releases, but other than that it´s getting more and more difficult to buy physical releases because many artists that I like simply don´t release CD anymore, and streams and downloads are not really my thing. I love to support my favorite artists and just got to have a CD that I can then turn into mp3s to listen on other devices.

The latest album I bought was Brenk Sinatra´s new album....a talented producer from Vienna.

Er, no.

I love Prince and buy every release, but he's probably 1 or 2% of my music listening...

There area THOUSANDS of amazing musicians and artists out there... I don't believe in renting music, so I buy my albums. I buy vinyl - CD if there's no vinyl option - sometimes new, sometimes 2nd hand.

This year I have bought over 200 LPs.... so no, Prince is far from the only music I purchase. How could anyone listen to only Prince?

LoveGalore said:

KoolEaze said:

LoveGalore said:

Not at all. Prince is my favorite, but there's incredible new music out there today.

Recent obsessions include SZA's CTRL, Charli XCX's Charli, Roisin Murphy's recent singles, Robyn's Honey, Tyler the Creator's IGOR, etc.

No idea why Prince's death would impact the music I buy in general. I don't listen to music solely for Prince.

Interesting choices.

Are you familiar with Abra? She´s my favorite "new" artist but she´s been around for quite a few years now. She can be heard on Charlie XCX´s song "Drugs".

Yes! Abra reminds me a bit of like a mix of SZA and FKA Twigs. Frankly, I am obsessed with most alternative R&B/pop. Also love Sky Ferreira and her new one can't come out soon enough.

I sort of feel like all these artists owe a ton of props to Prince who was doing alt R&B/pop since the beginning.

[Edited 10/13/19 15:28pm]

purplepolitician said:

LoveGalore said:

Not at all. Prince is my favorite, but there's incredible new music out there today.

Recent obsessions include SZA's CTRL, Charli XCX's Charli, Roisin Murphy's recent singles, Robyn's Honey, Tyler the Creator's IGOR, etc.

No idea why Prince's death would impact the music I buy in general. I don't listen to music solely for Prince.

Sza is ok it was a process but I dug most of Ctrl but Robyn n Tyler jawns u said r really good. To answer question I haven't bought a CD since Janelle monae's latest n prolly won't anytime soon. Apart from being hella broke with many other more important expenses. I've taken to streaming. Shit it's (usually) free n no "guilt" 😛

Oh I can't even begin to explain how much I love CTRL (peep the username, lol). Even her previous EPs to me are just so fire. She reminds me of so many other artists, but is doing it entirely in her own lane. Hmm, quite reminiscent of P. I wish P had done more work with younger artists. Janelle Monae, Kendrick Lamar, and Lizzo are talented as hell (even Rita Ora is), but the list goes on. I hope there is something with him and FKA Twigs in the vaults since she was up at Paisley for a minute.

LoveGalore said:

purplepolitician said:

LoveGalore said: Sza is ok it was a process but I dug most of Ctrl but Robyn n Tyler jawns u said r really good. To answer question I haven't bought a CD since Janelle monae's latest n prolly won't anytime soon. Apart from being hella broke with many other more important expenses. I've taken to streaming. Shit it's (usually) free n no "guilt" 😛

Oh I can't even begin to explain how much I love CTRL (peep the username, lol). Even her previous EPs to me are just so fire. She reminds me of so many other artists, but is doing it entirely in her own lane. Hmm, quite reminiscent of P. I wish P had done more work with younger artists. Janelle Monae, Kendrick Lamar, and Lizzo are talented as hell (even Rita Ora is), but the list goes on. I hope there is something with him and FKA Twigs in the vaults since she was up at Paisley for a minute.

I thought Prince worked with Lizzo, Rita Ora and Janelle Monae...

Yes! I love Fangoria, so ready for part two coming next month. I went to see them the night (4/21) and they dedicated "Miro La Vida Pasar" to Prince.

PANDURITO said:

2019 CDs I've bought so far:

Fangoria	Extrapolaciones 1989-2000

PeggyO said:

SoulAlive said:

Nope. I listen to many artists and bands.

But they asked if Prince the only music you buy, not just listen to. I would hope no one solely listens to Prince post-mortem. haha

For me, there are a few artists I choose to support.

Prince

Janet

MJ

Timberlake

Madonna

maybe Motley Crue (I bought The Dirt soundtrack, and already had the book years ago)

fDeluxe

But I'm with some others here. The last real CDs I bought were.. well most of those I listed. Purple Rain Deluxe, Originals, The Time - Ice Cream Castles. I canceled my orders for Original vinyl, and the other three purple LPs (Versace, Emancipation, Chaos). It was breaking my bank. Also, Madame X, I bought Man of the Woods on CD & orange tree grain vinyl at Target. I'm surprised the MJ estate hasn't released more material than it has. I know there's music sitting around and it has to fill more than Xscape did. I also bought Janet's Control, Control: The Remixes, The Velvet Rope and janet. on colored vinyl. But dat's it!

Edit: I will buy the fuck out of records in the $1 bin at my local record store.

[Edited 10/14/19 10:14am]

TrivialPursuit said:

EmmaMcG said:

haha...I guess I should have said I buy music from many artists and bands I have dozens of favorite artists and I buy their music.Got so many CDs and vinyl that I need a storage room for them all,lol.

TrivialPursuit said:

SoulAlive said:

Nope. I listen to many artists and bands.

But they asked if Prince the only music you buy, not just listen to. I would hope no one solely listens to Prince post-mortem. haha

For me, there are a few artists I choose to support.

Prince

Janet

MJ

Timberlake

Madonna

maybe Motley Crue (I bought The Dirt soundtrack, and already had the book years ago)

fDeluxe

But I'm with some others here. The last real CDs I bought were.. well most of those I listed. Purple Rain Deluxe, Originals, The Time - Ice Cream Castles. I canceled my orders for Original vinyl, and the other three purple LPs (Versace, Emancipation, Chaos). It was breaking my bank. Also, Madame X, I bought Man of the Woods on CD & orange tree grain vinyl at Target. I'm surprised the MJ estate hasn't released more material than it has. I know there's music sitting around and it has to fill more than Xscape did. I also bought Janet's Control, Control: The Remixes, The Velvet Rope and janet. on colored vinyl. But dat's it!

Hell no. Prince is one of many. Even back when he was my favorite. Different artists go with diffferent moods. Sometimes I have no desire to hear Prince lol