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Music Album Poll


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  1. 1. Do you still buy albums?

    • Yes
      48
    • No
      27
    • Wait, people still make albums?
      4
  2. 2. What formats have you bought albums on in the last year?

    • don't buy albums
      25
    • Cd
      41
    • Vinyl
      12
    • Cassette
      5
    • Digital format (MP3, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, Streaming app that you buy individual albums on like bandcamp)
      33
    • Other format
      0
  3. 3. How have you bought music in the last year?

    • in a general music shop
      23
    • In a specialised music shop (one that doesn't cater to all types of music but specialises like am indie shop)
      4
    • Through a music artist or record labels website (or the bands page on bandcamp which would be direct from the artist)
      18
    • Through a music shops website
      7
    • From the merchandise stand at a music event
      11
    • In a shop / superstore/ big store
      18
    • Through a general website like amazon
      24
    • From a digital music site
      27
    • from eBay or a site like that
      5
    • Haven't bought a music product in the last year
      21
    • Other
      4

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to celebrate the UK's national album day (

 

 

this is a poll based on this previous one

my answers are

 

1) yes i do

2) cd, vinyl and digital format. the one vinyl i got was a 20th anniversary album of Hamell On Triall

3) my places i have bought music is in a general music shop,  aat merchandise stand at shows, amazon for a really hard to find thing, digital format (bandcamp, google music)  and direct through musician websites

 

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1. Yes, I still buy music :D

2. Mainly CD, but I buy vinyl and downloaded some Kate Bush tracks from her live album on to my phone.

3. In music shops, sometimes from a supermarket and iTunes.

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1. Yeah, I do!

2. CD.

3. A store in the music section of which I managed to find some pretty cool stuff! (Thinking back, I picked the wrong answer in the poll, but hey. No big deal.)

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Last year - no, I have too little money.

But generally - yes, I buy albums. For me music without cover, all other graphics, liner notes is just "defective".

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I don’t listen to music

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I've never bought music in my life. YouTube exists, soooo....

 

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Alejandrogynous

1) Yes, I do. Not too often because I'm poor but I like to support artists when I can.

2) CDs and digital mostly

3) Usually from the artist's website or merch booths.

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I only buy Kpop albums and only one group. I've never listened to the CD from any of them - I only buy them for all the stuff that comes with them (book, photocards, stickers, etc)

 

To actually listen to music, I use Spotify. I got rid of almost all my CDs years ago and I'm probably gonna have another culling soon.

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Mostly I buy older music, including albums, as CDs. Then I rip the songs I like to my computer and put together song lists for my pc and other devices. I generally buy them online since I find very little music in stores and even then very unlikely to find anything I want.

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I don’t buy albums anymore. I buy songs on iTunes once in a blue moon but most of the time I use YouTube to listen to music.

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i still buy albums. in the last year i have bought them in cd, vinyl, cassette, and digital form. some are from local bands, friends who make music, and from different music/record stores.

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3 hours ago, CBC said:

I buy them in other forms too though, including cassette (yes, seriously).

Can you still buy music on casettes?

 

56 minutes ago, spookyon. said:

To actually listen to music, I use Spotify.

Same here.

 

I still have all my CDs, but haven't listened to them in a long time. They may at some point share the fate of my casettes...

 

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I still prefer to buy CDs and then rip to lossless. This does mean I have literal crates of CDs around the place but I still like playing them and looking through the booklets, a bit like some people like playing vinyl. I'm not old enough for vinyl records but I do remember when CDs were new and fancy.

Bandcamp lets you download flac, but bandcamp also reliably triggers the fraud protection on my credit card for some reason, so I don't use it unless there isn't an alternative.

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The first album i got was a compilation of Louis Armstrong’s greatest hits. But since i got iTunes music, Soundcloud and Spotify i don’t buy albums anymore since i can listen to the music there(but there are many anime albums i wanna buy someday). I prefer ITunes music and soundcloud since you don’t have to get premium for stopping ads or make songs offline. But it could still be fun to buy vinyls.

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Orion the Hunter

I like to listen to Chillhop Radio and watch the raccoon on his laptop for hours and hours

 

I listen to the YouTube video ‘Music from Disneyland - Trader Sam’s Enchanted Tiki Bar’ all night long 

 

I’ve never downloaded a single song, I don’t know how to

 

 

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I mostly buy mp3 albums.

 

Don't like relying on streaming or always being online, it is handy to be able to plug a USB drive into my car.

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I don’t really listen to music on CDs anymore, but I do still like to buy music on CDs sometimes, as it is nice to have that tangible asset that you can hold and touch. I then rip the tracks into mp3 format on my computer. However, for me to buy a CD, I will have to like most or all of the tracks on it. If there are only one or two tracks that I particularly want, it is more sensible to download an mp3.

 

These services where you pay a monthly subscription to have access to a library of millions of tracks have no interest for me. I would rather pay a couple of bucks to download each single track that I want so that I then effectively ‘own’ the track; I don’t want to rely on a system where I have to pay an ongoing subscription or lose access to the tracks.

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Maybe things are better these days, but in the past I had purchased a few songs as digital downloads only to find at some point I no longer had access rights to them. So that's another reason I still prefer to buy cds and rip songs.

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If I can, I prefer CDs that I can rip to my computer so I can put them on my MP3 player. This has the advantage of still having music which disappears when the computer inevitably dies, while also allowing me to listen to the whole album in the car if I want. Since I can't be plugged into WiFi all the time, the MP3 player is the best way for me to listen to music (I refuse to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a smart phone or the charges for data usage just to be able to get online to listen to music).

 

I like Vinyl too, the sound quality is much better than digital, especially on a really good record player.

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Mainly CD from the supermarket, occasionally from a record shop if I can find one, occasionally vinyl. 

Not this year, but I have brought Blu-ray before 

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Just to bump this thread a bit:

I haven't bought any album this year, in any format. Back when I did buy CDs I used brick-and-mortar music shops, and I ocassionally bought CDs on the Internet. I also sold some of my CDs over the 'net. The last album I bought was Nightwish Endless Things Most Beautiful back in 2015. SInce then I've thought about buying a DVD by one of my favourite bands, but DVDs usually end up gathering dust on my shelf, so eventually I dropped this idea.

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I've bought CDs. And only when I know I like them. When I listen to music, I listen to singles, not the entire album. So I won't buy the whole album unless I know I'll like 90% of it. 

(Also because the poll is about "the last year" my answers are different than in general because Japan). 

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  • 1 year later...

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This poll is being locked and moved to the read only Census archive for it's respective year. As part of ongoing Census organisation, and in an attempt to keep the demographics of the polls current with the active user base at the time, the polls will last for one year from now on. However, members are allowed and even encouraged to restart new polls similar to the archived ones if they like them.

  

iff, Census Forum Moderator

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