CDs, vinyls or downloads?

For the convenience I'd rather listen to my music on my phone from a download but I do tend to collect the CDs of artists I like I'd love to collect vinyl but, as you've said, it's expensive and hard to get a hold of. I envy my father's vinyl collection... he has hundreds :/

 

CDs and vinyls for me, please! I collect cds and just love to go thru the covers and read lyrics. I don't enjoy music the same way if there are only files on my laptop - I somehow can't get into the song if I dont have the physical album.

I have some vinyls too, and I absolutely love them. Last vinyl I bought was Kate Bush and it sounds so much better than when listened on Spotify.

 

The fact that vinyls are more rare and more expensive is what makes them collectible.

 

I don't use CDs, vinyl, tapes, or downloads. I use what only the trve and initiated would use...

I only read sheet music! You people are aren't kvlt enough for me!

Downloads, but once I like an album well enough, I buy the CD. Because of this, my CD collection (~40 of them) is very important to me. There's something about having a physical treasure to go along with your mental one. It's probably not for everyone, though I'm sure most understand.

 

Cd's. I like looking at the pictures in the little booklet and reading the lyrics. It makes me feel like I'm supporting the artist.

 

I prefer lossless files from CDs or playing vinyls out loud on a stereo. I just don't really do digital downloads anymore. I've become more of an audiophile in recent years

 

I prefer download because of the simplicity, but I do have a CD and vinyl collection. Well technically they belong to my parents, but I've claimed them as my own.

 

My preference is for the vinyl LP. Part of this is performance--I find it has the potential for better sound quality than CD. One does need, however, a good turntable, which is not cheap. I also like how cheap used LPs can be. Locally, they are 99 cents at Goodwill and usually a quarter at the on-going Friends sale at the library. However, the condition can be, er, challenging. A local audio dealer is more expensive, but does have a selection at $5/under. Everything they sell is clean.

I have some interest in CD, since I'm seeing more good deals used. At one time, my CD usage was mostly A) CDs checked out from the library or B) something I really wanted. But prices have dipped low enough some places that I'm acquiring more CDs that are of interest, but not something I'd have bought on CD at one time. The problem, though, is that my CD playback equipment is...er...limited.

As for downloads, I have little interest in MP3. But I am interested in the possibility of CD quality--or better--downloads.

 

I've got a few vinyls, but I've bought almost all of them off ebay, considering an Armin Van Buuren single is like £11 on vinyl it can get expensive very quickly! I mostly download as everything as it's just easier, I sometimes buy CDs off Amazon used as I can get a 3CD album for like 70p posted.

 

I prefer downloads. I can sort them, move them, and listen to them faster than I could with CDs or vinyls. Though, I am somewhat addicted to computers, so that may affect it.

 

I use YouTube. Downloads take up memory space, and I don't have a computer to put hundreds of songs in.

I also use cassette tapes, the player was cheap, it's convenient and portable, you can make your own mix tapes, and has a retro vibe to it. Plus it's more stable than YouTube (I've had great songs be deleted only for me to never find them again).

 

All of them. Vinyl, CD, AAC. Streaming services.

 

Any. I don't care. I love all types of music. However, for ease of distribution, I would say that downloads are probably my favorite. As someone who listens to a lot of "underground" music, I love downloads, because it makes it SO much easier to discover musical artists.

 

Well... I think my name pretty much says it all for me~

 

it really does. I could always tell you liked CDs

 

All of my music is on CDs, I want to start collecting vinyls and tapes. And screw downloading!

 

Vinyl for the things I absolutely love, and mp3s for every other song I like/slightly appreciate/consider a guilty pleasure.

 

Well, right now all my music has to be digital, FLAC for my most beloved songs, and ogg for the rest. I don't have the time nor the place to care about a decent hi-fi system right now.

One day I plan to start a vinyl collection. The sound seems warmer to me, and the cracks and pops add charm to most of the music I listen to, which was conceived back then, so it's the closest I can get to "the real thing".

I grew up with casettes, and they were ok... Better than the first cd players, which didn't came with a decent "anti-shock" system... Mp3 players seem soulless to me, devices made to "consume" music. It's easier to skip tracks, which makes easier to skip good songs just because you are not patient enough to listen to it.