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Post by daytona600 on Feb 7, 2018 18:30:41 GMT
According to Billboard, Best Buy recently told music suppliers of plans to pull CDs from its stores. Target is expected to follow suit. people are increasingly getting their music from streaming services and vinyl More than 800 million CDs were sold in the US in 2001, but that number fell to 89 million in 2017, amp.businessinsider.com/best-buy-pulling-cds-from-stores-reaction-2018-2 |
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Post by MartinT on Feb 7, 2018 18:55:56 GMT
It's going to be another vinyl story. I'm still buying them, filling holes in my collection. At the moment, CDs are very cheap in charity shops.
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Post by karatestu on Feb 7, 2018 19:14:30 GMT
I am buying them in quantity. And the odd vinyl album too.
Streaming is not very appealing to me for several reasons. Not sure i will go in that direction at all as long as i can avoid it.
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Post by daytona600 on Feb 7, 2018 19:21:38 GMT
still buy lots of them myself vinyl/sacd/cd don,t do streaming or downloads
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 21:11:23 GMT
Streaming could never take the place of a hard-copy medium for me. I like to have a product in my hands.
I also agree with Martin: It will be like vinyl all over again and CD will have a renaissance down the line. There are billions of CDs out there on the Used market to buy, so I'm not concerned. I can't see me buying many new releases going forward, anyway.
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Post by Clive on Feb 7, 2018 23:35:14 GMT
That's all I do with CDs... RIP them!
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Post by Chris on Feb 8, 2018 5:02:28 GMT
I prefer streaming but if I hear something decent I buy the CD.
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Post by John on Feb 8, 2018 8:17:01 GMT
I was one of the early birds to move towards file based music and now I'm just listening to stream based music for me this works well I am discovering lots of new and old music
I totally get for most here this will not work
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 18:39:34 GMT
Most Cds are sold on Amazon or other online stores. Best Buy and Target aren't exclusively music retailers (closer to walmart) so sell what is in fashion. Hence they jumped on the vinyl bandwagon. I don't think this will affect CD sales in USA much. I remember people in the 90s thinking they had stopped making vinyl when they obviously never frequented specialist record stores.
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