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I'm 40, and when I was a teenager, EVERY band had CDs. And I know a lot of music has shifted to digital. So much so that I heard Best buy stopped selling CDs. Presumably because nobody buys them.

So I wonder what musicians sell besides t-shirts and posters at concerts. Do the kids have ANY CDs? Do they buy mp3's? Do they just use pandora and spotify? Do they even own their own music?

I've given up on trying to understand the lingo. Other generations lingo sounds stupid to me, but still understandable based on context.

I have NO idea what a skibifibi toilet is....sounds like a toilet after some taco bell and untalented jazz, but maybe I can try to understand their thought process on media consumption.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (7 children)

If they did, it would likely be a collector thing.

What would they even put them in?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, every concert I go to I try to get at least a CD, maybe a vinyl or T-shirt if they were sold out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Am a data hoarder with a shitton of flac yet I still buy cds. (And blue ray/dvds). It's really about owning things and not losing acess on the whim of some random contracts between copyright holders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I know some people who will buy vinyls but that's as far as it goes for physical media in music. Music CDs are pretty much foreign objects in 2024 and people just stream instead.

A CD would be cool, but where am I ever going to use it? I don't have a CD player at all...but I do have an Apple Music subscription. A vinyl at least is large and works better as a decoration. Don't really see the point in using a CD.

If I want to support the artist I'm seeing, I just buy clothing instead.

P.S. we don't know what a skibidi toilet is either. Ask gen alpha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A CD would be cool, but where am I ever going to use it?

I'm still mad at the lack of available disk drives to the average individual these days, and now they're taking my fucking 3.5mm jacks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The artists I like don't put out CDs with their music so no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

High School teachers I know comment on the number of portable CD players they see these days... So, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Naah, maybe a bakelit disc tho.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/1bZ0OSEViyo

This might answer some of your questions. Music isn’t the same. It’s mass produced entertainment that we can browse at our fingertips with infinite options. Music devalued itself by being so accessible and throwaway.

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