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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 14:28:41 GMT -5
It's ten pages away to 1000!
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Post by Farrar on Feb 3, 2018 16:07:32 GMT -5
Glad you're feeling better Jesse--and welcome back!
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Post by Jesse on Feb 3, 2018 17:45:23 GMT -5
Thanks for all the well wishes @mechagodzilla , Slam_Bradley , lobsterjohnson , hondobrode , Confessor , Icctrombone , Prince Hal , and Farrar . One of the worst things about this ordeal is that I had a blood clot in my right arm where they put the PICC line to take blood and now I've lost partial feeling in my drawing hand. Since about Monday the 21st of Jan it's felt like it's half asleep sort of numb but also like I hit my funny bone. Have to schedule a follow up with my physician to have it looked at. In good news I was feelin' well enough to hit up my LCS today and pick up my copy of Space Riders that came out last week. Unfortunately he was sold out of The Night Force hardcover that I wanted.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 3, 2018 21:49:19 GMT -5
Hopefully you continue to progress and get better again Jesse
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 2:46:18 GMT -5
We may be seeing the beginning of the end of another music format. Best Buy is going to stop carrying music CDs by July 1st of this year and Target is likely to follow suit. In 2001, over 800 million CDs were sold, last year it was down to 89 million, almost a 90% drop in sales in 16 years. It's probably been a couple of years since I last bought a physical CD myself. There's an album or two set to drop this year I might pick up, but I am actually more likely to get it on vinyl if I can rather than CD. I use streaming services for most of my music these days, or listen to stuff I already have. I ripped most of my CDs to my computer about 5 years back and got rid of all but a few dozen anyways, so I won't miss the format, but I have seen so many music formats come and go in my life time (I've had music on reel to reel, vinyl, 8 track, cassette CD and mp3 in my lifetime, and it sort of feels like just yesterday I finally switched to CDs to begin with (I was a late adopter). -M
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Post by Søren on Feb 6, 2018 4:49:21 GMT -5
We may be seeing the beginning of the end of another music format. Best Buy is going to stop carrying music CDs by July 1st of this year and Target is likely to follow suit. In 2001, over 800 million CDs were sold, last year it was down to 89 million, almost a 90% drop in sales in 16 years. It's probably been a couple of years since I last bought a physical CD myself. There's an album or two set to drop this year I might pick up, but I am actually more likely to get it on vinyl if I can rather than CD. I use streaming services for most of my music these days, or listen to stuff I already have. I ripped most of my CDs to my computer about 5 years back and got rid of all but a few dozen anyways, so I won't miss the format, but I have seen so many music formats come and go in my life time (I've had music on reel to reel, vinyl, 8 track, cassette CD and mp3 in my lifetime, and it sort of feels like just yesterday I finally switched to CDs to begin with (I was a late adopter). -M I hope not. I love to have CD still, flip through booklet too. I think it be around while longer, over here at least seems there is a want for it. Even seen local music shop have whole back wall for Vinyl so maybe it all go back to that lol. My fav band released there newer album on CD and vinyl, would have brought it too if could afford to ship it from Norway
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Post by Confessor on Feb 6, 2018 6:15:00 GMT -5
CD won't disappear anymore than vinyl did. Its sales might continue to shrink and it may become something of a niche thing, but it will survive (again, like vinyl did).
Also, to be clear, although vinyl sales have increased over recent years, it hasn't in any way taken over CD's previous place in the market because the majority of the under 50s get their music through streaming services nowadays. Vinyl sales are dwarfed by streaming "sales". mp3 downloads are in the crapper too, sales-wise...again, because of streaming.
Myself, music is the most important thing in the world for me and, as such, I have always collected physical formats. I never stopped buying vinyl, for example, although I had happily adopted CD too by the late '80s. To me (and I know I'm in a minority here), the CD or LP packaging, with its liner notes or booklet, is an essential part of the album experience.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 6, 2018 6:30:38 GMT -5
To me (and I know I'm in a minority here), the CD or LP packaging, with its liner notes or booklet, is an essential part of the album experience. Same here. It’s the same for books as well: a computer file is an O.K. substitute, but falls short of the real thing.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2018 6:53:20 GMT -5
I do streaming myself.
I can't remember the last CD I purchased.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 6, 2018 10:08:51 GMT -5
I mix my music acquisitions up. I do the free streaming thing with Pandora and Amazon Prime Music, I buy mp3s, I borrow and rip CDs from the local library, and yes, I even buy a hard-copy CD now and again if it's an artist that I really want to support.
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Post by impulse on Feb 6, 2018 10:33:14 GMT -5
99% of my music listening is done with Spotify premium, but I still like to buy certain CDs. For example, some bands unfortunately decide to "remaster" their back catalog, and sometimes it's an improvement. Others, it's a travesty, and I am so relieved to have my original backup somewhere once it is replaced all over everywhere else. If there is anything like that you feel strongly about, I'd say scoop it up now while you can still get them cheap used on Amazon and eBay before they become a real collector's thing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 11:15:29 GMT -5
I never stopped buying vinyl, for example, although I had happily adopted CD too by the late '80s. To me (and I know I'm in a minority here), the CD or LP packaging, with its liner notes or booklet, is an essential part of the album experience. Same here. I have CD's. Albums. Books.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 11:24:44 GMT -5
My brother and many of my friends prefer CD's for their own musical experience and I don't have a CD player nor music because I prefer listening music through YouTube and because of my own hearing ... I only listen to music on YouTube about a hour a week. I just can't believe that CD's is going away and most of my friends don't care for streaming and any other format ... they want the album experience and having a CD's is making it real and enjoyable. My brother stills buy records from speciality stores and his last purchase was Maynard Ferguson Orchestra and wanted it to complete his collection of records and he has over 50 of them and once in awhile plays them! He'll be really sad to see CD's goes ... He hates streaming and others means of music because its doesn't offer the real thing of owning a CD and/or Record. He and many others are old-fashioned and that's the beauty of owning a CD and/or Record. I've support him 100%.
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 6, 2018 13:02:07 GMT -5
I mostly listen to the radio.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 13:42:29 GMT -5
He hates streaming and others means of music because its doesn't offer the real thing of owning a CD and/or Record. He and many others are old-fashioned and that's the beauty of owning a CD and/or Record. I've support him 100%. the only real thing music wise is hearing the music performed live. Everything else is a recording in some form or another and it is just a matter of quality of reproduction. All of it is as real as any other format, and none of it compares to hearing and experiencing the acts live. Music existed long before recorded formats and will exist long after it as well as long os humanity survives to make music. -M
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