Reasons why to buy CD albums instead of downloading?

all of your answers, and the fact that i actually want to give the musicians the money they deserve for all the work they put into it. it's only fair.

and uh, i'm 17 and i have over 250 cds and i've downloaded maybe 10 songs (then went out and bought the CD). i'm honestly shocked at the low numbers of CDs i've been seeing on here. i'm so behind. haha.

"musicians are rich enough as it is"

are you kidding?! not every band makes millions of dollars. most of them barely make enough to pay for gas.

edit: i buy most of my CDs at shows straight from the artist.

1. If you lose all of your downloaded music by some means, you have a physical copy and can easily put it back on your computer and MP3 player.

I have all my downloaded mp3s on CDs and on my external hard drive.

2. You can usually have a nice album cover to look at.

I can look at that on iTunes or online.

3. A lot of the time on Amazon, you can buy the CD for a lower price than you can download it on most sites.

I don't have a credit card. :(

4. The booklets in the CD cases usually have lyrics for the songs (the correct ones, unlike most lyric websites)

I can find lyrics on the band's website.

5. The sound quality from a CD is much better.

I didn't know that.

6. Sometimes it is impossible to find a rare band's music to download, but you can almost always find a CD of it.

Actually, it seems like the opposite. There aren't many places to buy CDs where I live though.

Reason 7: Buying a CD is always legitimate. The sites you download from don't always have permission from the bands and record companies.

I buy from iTunes.

Also, albums on iTunes are usually only $10, but new CDs are usually around $14 and there isn't anywhere to buy used CDs here.

MQ: How many CD albums do you have?

4 or 5.

MQ2: How many downloaded albums do you have?

A lot. I've never counted.

On itunes when you buy the album there's a digital booklet that you get that has the whole thing in the Cd case this time you get it bigger on Adobe

You can get a back up when you out your songs in you iPod, it will transfer if you bought it form tunes

You can put your songs to whatever quality you want, meaning bit rate

I don't have the convince of buying Cds because i have to go to Target and they never have the CD i want and there over priced i see them on the internet for way cheaper with bonus tracks, so not everyone can buy CDs downloading is way more convenient. So i find downloading better then buying a CD

to Livyyy you should know artist don't make money from an Album the most you can make is 2.00 per album with a CD you have to pay the label the manufactures distributes and promoters with downloads the middle man is cut so in essence the artist makes more money from a download and they make money from tour and endorsements

CDs can be illegitimate also like movies there's bootlegged CDs You won't get a virus if you use sites like iTunes, Amazon MP3, Wal-Mart, eMusic, and Aol Music

I like buying the actual CD more so than downloading. Of course, since I got a gift certificate to iTunes, I will use that, but for iTunes exclusives or tracks that aren't on a certain artist's album and, instead, on some compilation album of various artists.

MQ: Anyway, I have over 200 CDs at this time and, as of now, I've never downloaded one song.

MQ2: None.

I do have a comment about your reason 6...if you go to iTunes, you'll most likely find ANY artists music, since it's the #2 largest distributor of music in the world. What's #1? Walmart, which I think is pretty odd!

Also, about reason 7, I'd like to say that, if you go to certain sites like iTunes, you can always make sure your purchase is legitimate.

I buy the CDs when I can. They have better sound quality, and that way I don't have to worry so much about losing my purchases if my computer dies again. I've had too many computer problem of that sort to buy too many albums online. Also, I just like CDs better, and I've been collecting them for much of my life and have no intention of stopping.

MA: I have around 350-360 CDs at the moment

MA2: with my use of emusic.com for the last year or so, I have acquired quite a few albums in download form, so I have about 350 of those as well, all though not all of them are complete albums.

I prefer buying CD's because of the quality and sometimes there are viruses in them. Also I never get to complete any of the albums song list. I only download songs as my previews and then buy the CD's ASAP. Also I have a stereo so I use my CD's to listen to it than my computer. Although burning CD's is good too but again the quality is the important thing about musics.

Also it saves time than looking for the album picture and grouping them when using Media Player or Itunes.

A1:Sadly I only have 77 CD's and most of them are classic rock and emo

A2:I dl 400 songs but then delete them as soon as I get the CD's so I have like 4 dl songs now.

All of these are good reasons, but one reason you forgot to mention about buying CDs versus downloads: With CDs, you don't have to worry about downloading viruses that might be attached to some mp3s. The virus embedding might not be intentional: The host computer may be infected, and if it's a Trojan, it can embed itself in anything uploaded or downloaded from the infected computer.

I have *at least* 100 CDs. I have them in six small plastic bins stacked on the bottom shelf of my bookcase.

I have a few downloaded songs, but most of them are single songs by an artist. They're the only songs by that artist that I like.

Out of a collection of 880-some songs, about 96% of them came from CDs, whereas the other 4% came from the Internet.

One thing I like about using CDs is that I can upload them to the computer, and using an audio editing/cleaning program I bought for paranormal investigation purposes, I can splice together several songs from the same CD that are meant to be played together. I did this because I could never figure out how to program a playlist on my mp3 player.

I have noticed a big difference between songs uploaded from a CD versus downloaded from the Internet. The volume tends to be a bit louder, and it doesn't cause the mp3 player to freeze up as much. One cause to that is the downloaded file is more than likely corrupt, especially if you got it from a file-sharing site like Limewire. Sometimes even if you paid for the download and downloaded it legally (iTunes, Amazon.com, etc.) the file could become corrupt due to being downloaded to your computer (during download, some digital programming gets damaged, and the file may have been corrupt when uploaded to the website's servers to begin with), and uploaded to the mp3 player. Transferring a raw file from a CD to the computer to the mp3 player helps to minimize this.

1) If you burn your music onto a blank CD or a mp3 player you will still have a backup copy to transfer back to your computer if all of the information is lost.

2) An album cover isn't worth the ridiculous prices they charge for CDs nowadays.

3) It's nice that you can find CD's for cheaper prices on amazon but you can download them for FREE from Limewire, Frostwire, Bearshare, etc.

4) I can learn the lyrics simply by listening to the song :)

Also, as someone else mentioned there are plenty of CD burning software programs that let you customize the sound and even adjust the bass.

Let's be real. Music artists are going to get paid regardless. It's not like people that download are taking food from their mouths. They live in mansions and drive cars that I could never afford so sorry if I don't feel bad. Besides that, back in the day when I used to buy CD's I would spend about $13 bucks and it would turn out that there would only be about 3 or 4 good songs on the whole CD. When I download I can put whatever I want on one CD.

i don't download illegally and i am very into buying cds on itunes...

i hate how people treat music like flavors of skittles... its like you pick all the red and leave all the purple in the bag.. why don't you just eat all the skittles? Why only listen to ONE song by a particular person and move on to the next big hit? You won't understand a person's music that way or have a personal connection with the musician or artist... okay sure an album may have fillers but that's part of the whole thing isn't it? excuse me for i am a very sentimental person but i just have to point out that people are just too i dunno.... what's wrong with CD's? the best songs aren't even the most popular!!

I have over 50 CD albums and maybe 3 downloaded albums. The advantage I think to buying the CD is that you get all the songs, versus if you had downloaded via Limewire, you get the booklet/cover art. hardcopy of the music, and don't have to worry about errors downloading, etc.