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Bob got me thinking in another thread how many still buy CD's or Vinyl?

I buy CD's for personal use occasionally and I still will buy the odd piece of vinyl at a yard sale for the collection. Strictly for business, I only use downloads for the last few years. Financially it makes better sense since my service has almost everything I need and I really hate buying albums for one song
 
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I will buy "greatest hits" (usually one of the 20th Century Masters Millennium Collection - 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection ) to fill holes - sometimes find these at Walmart or Target for $5 each. And I buy Time-Life collections when I get them at a good price. I did buy both the Beatles "Stereo" box set and the Pink Floyd Discovery set in the past couple years .. each $100+ .. mainly because I'm a fan.
 
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I'll still buy them. I bought the Tribe Called Quest album, as well as Childish Gambino recently. That may change though.. I was driving an 02 BMW that had a CD player, but no Aux in. My new car has USB inputs which I will probably use more.
 
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I still buy CD's on occasion... sometimes that's the only way I can get a particular track. You'd think you could get anything you want (digital download) on iTunes, Amazon, and such, but it's not always the case. My preference, though, is to buy & download.


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I still buy vinyl. Mostly 12' singles from the 70's & 80's. A lot of my wax comes from ebay since I've cleaned out all the local record stores of any thing I can use. Sometimes I'll pick up some CDs out of the dollar bin if I think I can use them. But the majority of my new music comes from my Promo Only POOL subscription.
 
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Jeff Romard said:
Bob got me thinking in another thread how many still buy CD's or Vinyl?

I buy CD's for personal use occasionally and I still will buy the odd piece of vinyl at a yard sale for the collection. Strictly for business, I only use downloads for the last few years. Financially it makes better sense since my service has almost everything I need and I really hate buying albums for one song
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Which download service do you primarily use for your music?
 
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Nope, no CDs, Reeords or DVDs. Only hard media I get are Blu-Rays. I'm in the process of getting rid of all the records and videotapes. Also digitizing all of the home movies and photos. So much easier To share everything once digital. I am able to just plug in a jump drive and listen to music that I haven't heard in years. Actually now the only turntable Is one I grabbed from my moms house 15 years ago. Sold off my last pair of 1200s couple of months ago. I was only using them for rentals to other DJs, the last time use them at a event was in the early 90's.
 
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I use Xtendamix. It's a video service. I then rip to MP3 for audio
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Why would you retrieve your audio from a video service just to rip the audio from it? Unless you provide video services, I can't seem to find the point. I can almost guarantee an audio service provider would be cheaper, plus save you a step from having to rip it and plus would be original quality.
 
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No hard media since prime cuts stopped sending discs. But the reality is I hadn't even opened those discs in a long time
 
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Yeah Jeff, I was thinking, on rare occasion the video mix (audio for the video) is not the same as the audio for the record release. It does happen (although all I can think of now is an ancient-but-goodie, Michael Jackson's "Bad"). You may not be getting the actual release version of the song...

GJ
 
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For personal listening, I will always buy vinyl and some CDs. I am a record collector. A music collector really, but the packaging is part of the experience for me and owning downloads is only a convenience. Streaming to me is like radio; nice, but I want my own music. And, as someone pointed-out above, you can't get everything you want, because it never made the transition; nor do I want to constantly have to update everything in my library to whatever the format du jour happens to be. So I will always have physical media _and_ use whatever digital media is most expedient.

GJ
 
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BlueLineDJ said:
Why would you retrieve your audio from a video service just to rip the audio from it? Unless you provide video services, I can't seem to find the point. I can almost guarantee an audio service provider would be cheaper, plus save you a step from having to rip it and plus would be original quality.
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I do provide video service. I don't do a lot of video in the run of a year but I do like having the option and the collection. Xtendamix costs me $40/month for 200 videos the last I checked ERG Canada was 24.95/pool/month I believe. You can also buy booster packs of 250 videos for $30 bucks for someone starting off that wants to build a collection quick. The quality is top notch, as good as any MP3 and ripping only takes a few seconds per song


rhythmgj said:
Yeah Jeff, I was thinking, on rare occasion the video mix (audio for the video) is not the same as the audio for the record release. It does happen (although all I can think of now is an ancient-but-goodie, Michael Jackson's "Bad"). You may not be getting the actual release version of the song...

GJ
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Xtendamix does edits for those songs. Stuff like Bad or Thriller are offered as the original or the strictly music edit. The also do remixes or redrums on a lot of videos that never had that option before. I got a cool Old Time Rock and Roll remix the other day
 
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adj2ent-- Going to publish a list of what you have available?

GJ
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Unfortunately I don't have an accurate list of the records anymore. DJs came got the records all out of order and I was unable to track what was sold. Other Items i.e.: equipment, videotape & videoed are accurately tracked. Listings can be found here For Sale
 
After 30-some years in radio, I have "collected" all f the vinyl and CD's that I can handle.
I ran out of room long ago, and if I would buy more, the wife would kill me.
Besides, I have all of the older songs that I need, so the only media I would buy would be new music....
and I refuse to pay anymore than a dollar to download the ONE popular song any new artist would have. :sick:
My daughters do buy an LP on occasion, but more for displaying than playing.
 
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