Where do you buy CDs?
 

Do any of you buy CDs online? I live in a small city, so there's not a lot of places to get music. Occasionally, I buy CDs off of iTunes, but I like to have the physical copy of the CD. There's a site called "Glyde" that have cheap CDs sometimes. Sometimes amazon. Where do you all get CDs from?

I don't buy online. Most of the time I go to CD Plus, which is just a small Canadian chain. They're great for having local/Canadian music. If they don't have what I'm looking for, it's HMV.

Local shops: Easy Street, Sonic Boom, Everyday Music, few others on occasion

Online: Amazon Marketplace, Wherehouse.com, Half.com, eBay, Discogs.com, individual artist/label websites

Mostly online (mostly through iTunes, or through the artist's personal site if they are not as known), because it works out cheaper and more economical, but occasionally I will buy them from stores like JB Hi-Fi.

I buy from Amazon or the local independent The Electric Fetus.

The words CD and iTunes just don't compute when referring to purchasing. :confused:

Yeah, I know. But when the original poster says "Occasionally, I buy CDs off of iTunes, but I like to have the physical copy of the CD" I'm guessing he meant albums/ music in general so I just went with it!

Yeah I noticed he was a bit contradictory himself. ;)

Haha, Sanity FTW.

If I really like the band I'll order a CD from Amazon

I don't buy CDs very often but if I like a CD a lot and see it in a store for a reasonable price, I'll buy it. There's not one specific place where I buy CDs, just whatever store has what I want.

Hock Shop/second hand store (I just bought 10 CDs for 28 bucks yesterday), HMV, or online at Amazon.

Play.com

amazon.com/amazon marketplace, cd universe.com, ebay, iTunes, and local used. I usually buy used to cut down on cost.

I get everything used from Amazon.

But shipping is like a jillion bucks

C...D...? The **** is that?

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Goodwill Thrift Store.

You never know what you're going to get. Sometimes I think people record their own records and then donate them to the store to get exposure.

This > Blogs

This just seems like an overthetop hipster move.
I wouldn't have the patience to sit their and listen to soooo much garbage, which I'm sure 99% of it is, to get a few gems. There's too much good stuff out there.

I'd rather just go to a used record store. In my experience the records at thrift shops tend to be (a) in pretty rough shape and (b) 99% crap.

Where do you live? My Goodwill is all Englebert Humperdink records with penises drawn on his face.

Same for me. Rarely worth the trip...I only look at the CDs if I happen to be at Goodwill for some other reason - like looking for a Halloween costume.

I like Goodwill because I live in walking distance to it, and since I don't really drive it's great. As opposed to my nearest record store, which is 10 or so miles away and it's got pretty much nothing.

As for the 99% crap thing, that's what's fun about it. Braving the weird and often terrible world of thrift store records is a lot of fun for me. Not to mention, buying foreign CDs not knowing what the heck could be on them = :laughing:

Why not download the music and make copies?

I usually buy from local places like 8raita or levykauppa äx if I cant find what I want from these I order it somewhere else.

Amazon is the bestest.

And the record and tape exchange in Notting Hill. Best bargain basement mine eyes heave seen.

I mostly buy cds from the one remaining music shop in my town. It's an independent shop and the selection is mostly mainstream but it still has a good enough selection. There's also used cd sections in Gamestop and Xtravision and i like to trawl through those regularly.

Other those i try to go to Dublin whenever i can and go to Tower Records, the HMVs stores, or the various independents dotted around the city centre. I can usually find something i'm looking for then.

I usually buy my cds at best buy or fye.

I like to pick my cds up from Graywhale. They have a good selection.

I don't really buy CDs anymore, but any of the Amoeba Records in California are great. Amazon is another great place.

I don't buy CD's very often. I usually buy them second hand of the internet.
I buy most of my new music on vinyl.
I buy most of that at the Music Machine in Sittard. Nice little musicshop.
I've bought stuff there since I was 14, they know me :)

I pick up what stuff I can in HMV, I also use Amazon and EMP (mail order and online shop) for some of the harder to find things. Some things that I cannot find at all I end up downloading though.

I either buy at HMV, or through online stores.

Amazon.

I buy CDs online at Amazon through the Marketplace (used or new, whichever is cheaper) and also from the local CD Warehouse and Best Buy, if there's a sale. Here's a post I made at another forum involving the retail experience:

Know what? I'm kinda starting to care less and less about retail stores.

Example: I was streaming some albums online tonight at work and decided I really really had to have them. So, on my 15 minute break, I pull up Amazon on my phone and bam bam bam, I pull up the albums (CKY, Fastway, Mark Ronson), check prices, go for the best options, buy them right then and there and then go back to work.

The entire experience took less than 15 minutes and I was able to buy all these albums for cheaper than I could at CD Warehouse (even with shipping), I bought half of them in new condition, and I had a selection to choose from as far as quality of the discs went.

Yeah, record stores are nice for the "instant gratification" but now with streaming music, I HAVE even faster instant gratification. I can listen to an album in full at my leisure (instead of having people wait in line for the listening station or having to wait for others), in relative silence (instead of hearing it in-store with the loudspeakers blaring different music overhead), buy it online, and then continue to listen to the 320kbps stream until my lossless copy arrives.

I also don't have to deal with taking the album up to the clerk, waiting for them to grab the disc, then listening to it, then handing it back to them if I decide I don't like what I'm hearing and making them go through all that work of reshelving stuff (which clerks HATE).

As far as the "expertise" at a record store goes....quite honestly, most of the clerks I've dealt with don't know any more about the music I'm listening to or purchasing than I do. Yes, it does happen occasionally, but for the most part I don't need clerks when I have an internet full of people to ask.

Is the environment fun? Yes. Is the environment a really cool place? Yes. Is there more social interaction? Meh. Not really. Nothing I couldn't live without that I don't get someplace like here.

Really, the best thing that I can find about retail stores right now is that it's sometimes easier to discover new groups and albums because they're all there within eyesight, unlike online. That will always trump the online experience of discovering bands, to some degree, but again, we have instant clicking and YouTube now so that puts a HUGE dent in that little aspect.

Sometimes if you get lucky the prices in store are cheaper than online, but that's fairly rare.

Anyway, I will continue to use retail stores while they're around, and I think I'll still miss them (to some degree) because of the overall experience (when they're gone), but for right now? I see less and less benefit to them.

There's something catharic about rooting through somebody else's old, cracked, sharpied-on CD's at the used bin at FYE......

Here in Louisville I have an FYE at the mall (about 45 minutes away), a Half Priced Books about half an hour away, and Ear Xtacy, Louisville's 30+ year old record store. Has literally everything, including free shows to go to almost every week, and indie/rare artists out the wazoo. Definitely worth the 40 minute drive.

And I rarely buy things on iTunes anymore. I'd rather support local places.

We have a used record shop in town where I get the majority of my cd's. Support your record stores! Sometimes I occasionally go to Best Buy or buy them on amazon.

local shop and online