| ▲ | WD-42 8 hours ago |
| I’ve been doing the same over the last few months. The best part for me is going to record stores again. CDs are SO cheap now, especially used ones. I’ll usually pick a few out of the dollar bin just based on vibes and the cover and rip them when I get home. I’ve found some cool stuff. It’s like a treasure hunt. Don’t miss Spotify one bit. |
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| ▲ | rurp 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Slightly off topic but this describes a lot of what I love about used book stores. I enjoy browsing around and often buy things that just seem interesting since the prices are low. I've found all kinds of great books that would never turn up in a regular curated store. |
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| ▲ | te_chris 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes. But shhhhh about cds, don’t want people to realise… Also the price of decent (Sony hifi grade, not ES) CD players used is great too. |
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| ▲ | WD-42 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I did just realize after posting maybe touting how affordable CDs have become is maybe not the best idea. | | |
| ▲ | eterm 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I can't remember the artist but there's a fun song about how they used to pick up second hand LPs really cheap and then they got popular and too expensive, then discovered second hand CDs are really cheap now. Frank turner-ish vibes but I don't think it was actually him. It's completely un-googlable though, and even the LLMs aren't much help on this one. | | | |
| ▲ | RIMR 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The people who really want to stop paying for streaming are going to turn to piracy, don't worry. Physical media will still be accessible for people who are willing to pay with space instead of money. | | |
| ▲ | KK7NIL an hour ago | parent [-] | | "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" - Gabe Newell |
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| ▲ | conartist6 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | :'D |
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| ▲ | patates 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Aren't CD players just reading digits? I'm not anywhere close to a hifi expert but it must be all about the DAC, no? Or do you mean the ones with a built-in DAC? | | |
| ▲ | JohnFen 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | > all about the DAC, no? Yes, it is (unless the CD player is so bad that it can't do adequate error correction). What I do is rip the CD to my music server, which is where I listen to the music from. Then the quality of the CD player isn't important, as long as it works correctly. | | |
| ▲ | blibble an hour ago | parent [-] | | it's surprising difficult to rip from audio CDs in a error free manner most tools do it badly and just accept what the drive gives them in default mode, often with glitches |
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| ▲ | 6stringmerc 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I second this strategy. My suggestion is keep an eye out for soundtracks and “sampler” type promo discs - some quirky gems! Record labels and their relationships with Hollywood did demonstrate money and drugs and music to great together…see: Spawn the movie soundtrack (1990s). Also my library card is much better for legacy music exploration. It scales too. |
