Best Buy to cease in-store sales of music CDs

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music cd’s are so ancient

i’d’ve been surprised that they are made anymore

Best Buy failing to sell off their inventory

you want a CD? check out the dumpster behind your local best buy; they will be there (for free)
 
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I’m surprised by this, as they’re still a pretty popular format, or so I’ve read. Older music listeners, classical music fans, and ethnic minorities still cleave to them in surprisingly high numbers. I actually think they deliver the best bang for buck in terms of sound quality.
 
Music CDs have still been dominant in Japan in recent years.
 
I jumped on the streaming bandwagon a year or so ago; the funny thing is, unlike buying cd’s, vinyl records, or even disembodied albums from the iTunes store, when you have a streaming service, it’s as if you have all the records in the world and none simultaneously - that is, you have access in theory to everything, therefore the very idea of a ‘collection’ becomes unnecessary; and so therefore you have nothing that is distinctly yours.
 
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Some of the first CDs I bought were at Best Buy. I still buy CDs, but it’s been over a decade since I’ve bought one at Best Buy. I buy them online.

I don’t actually listen to music off the CDs anymore. I just rip them and listen to them digitally. But I prefer to have the hard copy. I’ll keep buying music on CDs until they stop making them.
 
tomarin said:
when you have a streaming service, it’s as if you have all the records in the world and none simultaneously
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There was a promo a few months back where I could get Amazon Unlimited for free for a month, so I tried it out. That’s kind of how I felt. I ended up listening to the same CD for the whole month. I thought, why spend money month after month so I can keep listening to it without ever owning it? So I cancelled the subscription and bought the CD.

If I were just starting out, I might feel differently. But I already own so many CDs and really only buy a few a year at this point in my life.

I know that most purveyors of media have been shifting to subscription models. I can see how it’s a win-win. I pay the price of a CD (or book, or DVD) each month, and then I get access to thousands or millions of songs, movies, etc. But then the moment I stop paying, it all vanishes.

From a rational perspective, it makes sense and I know that’s not necessarily that bad of a thing. How many books or CDs or DVDs do I have that I’ll never actually read or listen to or watch again? And think of all the space it would save! But I’m not there yet. 😜
 
I probably haven’t purchased a CD since 2003 or 2004.

I still miss vinyl. 😦 Sometimes my dad and I spend time on the weekends playing some of his and my mother’s old 45s from the 50s and 60s. He still has an old stereo turntable that works! It’s the kind that was built to look like an actual piece of furniture (the other oldtimers here will know what I’m talking about!)
 
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Joe_5859 said:
From a rational perspective, it makes sense and I know that’s not necessarily that bad of a thing. How many books or CDs or DVDs do I have that I’ll never actually read or listen to or watch again? And think of all the space it would save! But I’m not there yet.
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A couple years ago I got rid of all but a few CDs. I had ripped most over the years. I went through each CD and made sure I had it ripped. A few, mostly my classical music collection, I re-ripped if they had a low bit rate. I didn’t have the largest collection. But I am so happy to no longer have the actual CDs. The ripped version is fine for me. It was liberating.

I’ve not done the same with DVDs. But I don’t have as many of them. And what I do have are mostly a few collections like the spaghetti westerns and a John Wayne collection. But, I’d much prefer the modern HD version of any DVD. I have bought a few movies from iTunes and the advantage there is things like giving you the 4K upgrade version. You can download the movie to your local storage.
 
I’m too much of a sentimental packrat to get rid of my CD collection, even if I have them all ripped. Right now, they are all in cases on the floor of my closet. Since there’s nothing else I can think to put in that space, then I figure they’re not really doing any harm. I can see how it would be liberating. When I moved a few years ago, we got rid of so much stuff and it was nice. But there are some things that are more difficult for me to part with, namely my media collections: books, CDs, movies, video games. I think of people like St. Francis who gave it all up and it puts me to shame. I’m a work in progress. 🙂 I know I can’t take it with me, so I’ll get there eventually. 😜
 
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I’m too much of a sentimental packrat to get rid of my CD collection, even if I have them all ripped. Right now, they are all in cases on the floor of my closet. Since there’s nothing else I can think to put in that space, then I figure they’re not really doing any harm. I can see how it would be liberating. When I moved a few years ago, we got rid of so much stuff and it was nice. But there are some things that are more difficult for me to part with, namely my media collections: books, CDs, movies, video games. I think of people like St. Francis who gave it all up and it puts me to shame. I’m a work in progress. 🙂 I know I can’t take it with me, so I’ll get there eventually. 😜
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I have a really hard time getting rid of books myself. And I have way too many of them, so much so it’s a problem. I did get rid of most of my cd collection a few years ago, it was surprisingly easy. But books …
 
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I still have CD’s but I don’t have anything to play them. Thus, they have been relegated as coffee table coasters. 😆
 
I was a sentimental pack rat. I moved enough that I got tired of having stuff. Plus, I started to really think about the idea that if I never actually used or looked at the thing how important could it be. If only I could get my wife to think like that.

I have a harder time with books. But I try to confine my books to my single large book case.
 
Yeah, books are hard for me. I actually got rid of over 1000 books when I moved, but that was still only about half my collection. It’s funny because I almost never buy books for myself anymore. But I always seem to be the recipient of boxes of other people’s books. I guess I acquired the reputation of being the guy who will take all your old books. 😝 And it’s true, I will. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
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Yeah, books are hard for me. I actually got rid of over 1000 books when I moved, but that was still only about half my collection. It’s funny because I almost never buy books for myself anymore. But I always seem to be the recipient of boxes of other people’s books. I guess I acquired the reputation of being the guy who will take all your old books. 😝 And it’s true, I will. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
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I tried to curb the problem some years ago by buying all reading material on my kindle, and it helped, but recently I realized I missed holding an actual book in my hands. It also bothered me that reading an e-book made me less likely to remember the author and title of the book I was reading (if it was non-fiction at least) because there was no physical object to remember.
 
I like to use CDs in my car. It would suck if they stopped making CDs because then you have to fill your phone up with extra junk or lug along a MP3 player.
 
I have hundreds of CDs I no longer want, but nobody else wants them either. I tried selling them on eBay, but used CD prices are so low that it’s hardly worth the time it takes to list the items, monitor activity, and package and ship the sold items. At typical used CD prices, I think it’s equivalent to working for $5/hour, if I’m lucky. Selling them at a garage sale or flea market would be less effort and less time commitment, but again prices are so low, is it worth the bother? Maybe donate them to the library, but most likely they will not put them on library shelves, but only sell them cheap for fundraising.
 
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I have hundreds of CDs I no longer want, but nobody else wants them either. I tried selling them on eBay, but used CD prices are so low that it’s hardly worth the time it takes to list the items, monitor activity, and package and ship the sold items. At typical used CD prices, I think it’s equivalent to working for $5/hour, if I’m lucky. Selling them at a garage sale or flea market would be less effort and less time commitment, but again prices are so low, is it worth the bother? Maybe donate them to the library, but most likely they will not put them on library shelves, but only sell them cheap for fundraising.
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Take them to a used vinyl store and sell them to the owner, or give them away.
 
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