i used to buy CDs regularly when i was workin. now i just download stuff. i usually download things from an artist first if i'm not familiar with them tho.

yeah and really why would you even bother if you can get it FOR FREE

Besides, I could never find any of the music I like in any CD store around here

I download lots of music but I also buy music.  I listen to actual cd's in my car and I just like to collect them.  For example, I am trying to collect Tangerine Dream Cd's.  I have about 35 (and they have like over 150).

I regularly buy vinyl but I can't remember the last CD I bought. I never really got a 'thrill' from buying shit though.

I buy albums, I download stuff and buy what I like, I buy stuff that's too obscure/limited to download, and I impulse buy. I can buy albums I've never heard of before if I am familiar with the artist, or if it's in the sale and I think I would like (I got herbie Hancock's headhunters because his name sounded familiar, and no other reason... I love the ablum!)
Amazon is great because you can pick stuff up cheap and shit, so yay, Crazy World of Arthur brown! yay, obscure Daevid Allen releases that're to rare to find a download for! Yay, Acid Mothers Temple releases with great artwork!

I really enjoy owning a physical copy of the music, and most good musics (most, not all) tend to go way over the top with numerous bonus tracks, cool booklets with great gatefold artowrk(that has been kinda badly shrunk from lp case to cd size) and such. It's nice to sit there with like, I dunno, Love's "Forever Changes"(an impulse buy, I brought that and "The forever changes concert" at the same time even though the latter is essentially the whole album but just... live, I'd 100% recommend them both to everyone) and listen to the music, whilst reading about the artists' thoughts about what went into it.

I have well over 200 albums on CD( 40+ of them Zappa). Some of them like ELP's Tarkus(brought because I like the cover, and the name rung a bell) ended up being a disappointment, some like Pink Floyd's Saucer full of Secrets ended up a really nice suprise(I'd thought Piper... was their only psyche album) Stuff like Captain Beefheart was a mind-blowing suprise. I'd heard about him but didn't know what he soounded like until I impulse brought Trout Mask Replica.
It might seem risky to spend money on something you don't know you'll like, but shop around, and when you hit gold it's great, much more satisfying than downoading from some random blogspot.

If I want the whole album, I buy the CD.  If I don't know if I want all of it or I just want a few songs, I download them.

i download a crap load of music because my desire for music is far bigger than my wallet right now. but when I have money, I buy music.

Lately I've been buying most albums I've downloaded that I enjoyed. I bought alot of albums when I was young too and
the smell of a new album booklet is like the greatest thing ever. I usually download stuff I never heard of or stuff that I
can't get anywhere without importing it for 10 times the normal price (first three Alice Cooper albums are N/A in sweden ;_;)

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oh and thanks to downloading, I've found lots of cool music that I wouldn't have simply because it's 1000x harder to find if you wanna buy it.

most of the music I have been getting into lately is out of print so no cds for me

but yeah I've never had much discretionary income in my life anyway and cds are really overpriced so I've never really bought cds much. before I got an mp3 player I bought a lot of blank cds but yeah.. basically ever since my family got broadband when I was like 12 I've been almost exclusively downloading my music

I buy a select few CDs when they are released from my favorite artists, or albums that i feel are absolutely essential to have.  For the most part though, I have already downloaded the album I bought before purchasing it, and really only listen to the actual CDs when I'm making long car trips (which is really only when I go home for breaks)

If I was gonna buy music (I don't )I'd buy vinyl cause there's something way more satisfying about slipping that shit out of its sleeve and layin it down than fiddling with a nasty little plastic case

mmmm jhust love the sound of plastic against a laser

i haven't bought a cd in years, whats the point of having a useless piece of plastic if im gonna put it on my pc/mp3 player anyway.