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Buying an album: do you download or buy the physical CD? |
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Buying an album: do you download or buy the physical CD?
For me, the answer is easy. I never download an album online and always buy the physical CD. It saves all the hassle of backing it up, when transferring it to an iPod and it's something that can be kept forever. I do on the other hand always download the odd single.
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For me, the answer is easy. I never download an album online and always buy the physical CD. It saves all the hassle of backing it up, when transferring it to an iPod and it's something that can be kept forever. I do on the other hand always download the odd single.
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Buy the CD. I like going into a music shop and spending a good couple of hours just looking around, seeing what there is, listening to stuff in the booths, walking out with the actual CD and artwork, etc. I sometimes download the odd song when it's the only song on an album or soundtrack I want and I don't want to shell out for a whole album when it's just for one track.
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For me its a mixture, if its an artist i really like then i will wait to go out and get the CD, but if its someone who i do like but not really that much, or just have a passing interest in them then i wont bother and i'll just do the download.
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Buy the CD. I like going into a music shop and spending a good couple of hours just looking around, seeing what there is, listening to stuff in the booths, walking out with the actual CD and artwork, etc. I sometimes download the odd song when it's the only song on an album or soundtrack I want and I don't want to shell out for a whole album when it's just for one track.
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Always buy physical CD.
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Always buy physical.
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Download, unless I haven't enough credit on my iTunes account or the CD is reasonably cheap or on special offer.
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I buy the CD unless it is something I can't find anywhere in which case I download, which with my tastes is a lot.
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Buy the CD then put my favourite tracks on my MP3 player
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Always buy the Album,....I download the odd song but never a whole album.
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Its a physical attraction...
always PHYSICAL with me! Love the album booklets, blasting CDs in CD Players and speakers and also put onto Itunes and Ipod too
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Buy the CD.
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Unless its an illegal download of a CD im just checking out physical
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Always buy physical CD.
I stick it on the PC and then keep the CD safe as the "master" copy. |
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Always buy physical.You have to be pretty stupid to buy a lower bitrate version of something that should sound so good ?
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Always buy physical CD.
I stick it on the PC and then keep the CD safe as the "master" copy. |
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i do too. i remember the booths/headphone stands in hmv's years ago. i'm sure virgin had them as well. shame those days have gone.
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Well I don't have much space left for more CDs so the last few albums I've bought have been from iTunes...I won't stop buying CDs altogether but I have to think hard because of the lack of space...
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Every single or album I've purchased since 2007 has been made online via iTunes or Amazon MP3.
I care about the music, not the packaging! |
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It depends, if it's an artist I love I will buy the physical CD (including singles if I can), but otherwise I just buy off Amazon MP3 or whatever - I've lost count of the times I've wasted petrol going to buy a CD to find that none of the supermarkets have it, and sometimes HMV don't or it's a ridiculously high price. (It's too far to drive to take the risk that they don't have it)
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Physical CD ALWAYS...think i've only ever downloaded one song off itunes.
i prefer looking at the artwork, reading the lyrics (if there any) and looking at the song credits. |
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Buy the CD. I like going into a music shop and spending a good couple of hours just looking around, seeing what there is, listening to stuff in the booths, walking out with the actual CD and artwork, etc. I sometimes download the odd song when it's the only song on an album or soundtrack I want and I don't want to shell out for a whole album when it's just for one track.
online) CDs. My parents still have a cupboard full of old vinyl albums from the 1970s (they get kudos points for including ones by Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison and Johnny Cash ).
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Always the physical unless the price difference is massive.
An example of that would be the Foo Fighters new album, which was £3 on release day for download on Amazon. Easy decision to go for the download then. |
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Unless its really cheap - like the amazon £3.99 downloads of the week or whatever, I always buy physical cds.
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