im doing it cos audio fidelity is better on cd than spotify. i could buy vinyl but a lot of modern pressings seem to be shit, and i dont feel like paying 20 or 30 a time.
and im not going to subscribe to tidal for wavs or whatever it offers.
might as well own it (i suppose i could fork out for another audio file player but just cant be bothered at this stage. i found my late 90s discman in lockdown and havent looked back lol).
plus... cds are bloody cheap these days!
if i hate an album, i can just sell it on discogs.
i was surprised though that many people in my age bracket no longer have a cd player. all sold a poor audio quality dream by the streaming overlords. sad to see. (i realise nothing ages a 40 year old more than getting all stevehoffman-like and going on about superior audio.)
Interesting to read somebody in a headz forum like this say that they rather buy CDs than vinyl, even if modern pressing has something to do with it. For a long time CDs have been mocked after all. I believe that CDs will make a comeback as a hip retro-thing, like cassettes are right now. Instead of walkmans, hip music enthusiasts will be carrying a discmans. Also comeback of good old CD-R-releases would be nice, and I'm planning to do a small run of them at some point. For indie artists CD-Rs are much more cheaper to do than vinyls. You get artwork and printing in the CD-R, to get that physical experience. You don't get that grandiose big artwork like in 12"s, you do get a nice booklet.
Personally CDs have emotional value for me, as that's the format when I started listening to music back in my teens. Vinyls are great and all that, but for me they don't have same memories and emotion attached to them like CD does. Back in the days in '00s when I read forum posts from older heads writing how vinyl has superior sound quality, are more real etc., I wanted to thrive towards vinyl, as older heads with more knowledge and "I was there back in the days"-status did influence me. But now later on I have come into realization about CDs emotional value for me, and besides lets be real, as a Millennial I'm not from true vinyl generation like Gen X still are.