My teenage son just decided he's going to take a cd player and cds with him. I was curious if it was 1990 again.
That said, vinyl outsold digital downloads for the first time recently. A lot of artists have gotten into pressing their own, adding various colors, etc. https://www.google.com/search?q=colored+vinyl+albums&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik7_qBybPRAhWRZiYKHY5QB4cQ_AUICSgC&biw=1536&bih=744 On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > Those of you outside the US or with friends and relatives there, is this > just a US thing, that all music is either in the cloud and streamed, or > electronically downloaded to an iPhone/iPod like device? > > > > Amazon pretty much killed off the brick-and-mortar record stores, but now I > find that even Amazon doesn’t seem too interested in carrying CDs. They may > have recent releases, but otherwise what you get is other sellers on the > Amazon storefront. And these other sellers are predominantly in the UK, > followed by Japan and Germany. Which leads me to believe people in those > countries still buy CDs, maybe at actual record stores. So is this a > cultural difference? Or is the trend just hitting Europe and Japan a little > later than here? > > > > One thing I miss are the EP singles, not the 2 songs on 7 inch vinyl, more > like 4-5 songs on a CD. Often these were exclusive for Borders or Barnes & > Noble, or sent out to record stores to promote an upcoming album. Often > they had bonus tracks or live performances that never made it to the albums. > I still see a few of these for Barnes & Noble but from sellers in the UK, > leading me to believe that even Barnes & Noble sells more music at their UK > stores than here. > > > > How long before physical media for content distribution is totally dead? > Already pretty much true for software and games, plus software seems to be > going to the subscription model (like Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud). > I suspect music CDs may not be long for this world, even though vinyl has > made a comeback – how strange. Will they stop releasing movies on Blu-Ray? > Will they work out DRM so you can buy movies via electronic download, or > will all video be streamed from the cloud? > > > > Maybe what I’m missing is that most people today are never without their > phones, so that’s the only logical place to have their music. I’m probably > a dinosaur, sticking a CD in the stereo, or grabbing a handful to play in > the car.
