CD format dying on the High Street
THE COMPACT DISK is dying along with the concept of the cheap CD store, according to AP.
While punters are rushing to buy their music online, the days of budget CDs bought from a discount shop are fading fast.
Second hand CD shops? Nah they are history too, apparently.
The final New South Wales franchise of Dirt Cheap CDs has shut down meaning Aussies can't get $10 CDs any more. Six years ago it had five stories in Sydney.
Walter Lehne, the owner of the chain, says the market has changed completely and a huge amount of music is now legally downloaded.
No one is interested in second hand CDs either and shops are shutting up faster than Jonathon Woss under a ten-week suspension.
All that is left are the big-chain CD retailers who still have a lot of buying power these days, AP reports.
But specialising might be the key to survival. Some CD retailers who have refused to sell the latest Coldplay album are making good money flogging unusual stuff. µ
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Hardly. I've bought over a £1000 worth of Vinyl this year alone and sho no sign of slowing down ;)

Pez

Although, I would argue that this is not solely down to the ability to legally download music. There has been a change in the means of purchasing all sorts of things in recent years - and yes, it's the internet.

Compact discs do still sell quite well [the majority of music lovers will agree that there is still something nice about having a physical product to hold] - only now it's the convenience of purchasing with a few clicks rather than have to brave the high street.

Most of the people who have swapped their music purchasing model to a total download delivery method are the kind of folk who know nothing [and quite frankly will never learn] about quality, compression, or what it means to be a sheep.

Shonky.
Vinyl will be around longer than CDs.
Analog, baby!
This was a bad time to start buying quality speakers. When I had Bose, I could barely tell the difference between CDs and MP3s. Now, though, I've picked up some decent-- "Audiophile gateway" speakers, let's call them. Anyway, now I can tell the difference between decently and poorly made CDs and MP3s are unlistenable. I've actually started buying a LOT more CDs, SACDs, and DVD-As because they actually sound better.

And, no, I don't buy monster cables or any of that other hocuspocus crap, these are just clean, flat, efficient speakers driven by inexpensive power amps. This is going to be a sad time for music unless a new medium arrives.
Last I checked Vinyl had been on a resurgence since the 90s. Its the principal medium for dance music releases as well as much other stuff. CD is definitely not going the way of vinyl in that case :).
This is like record companies complaining about tape sales declining in the face of competition from the new CD format. Its kind of silly if you don't wholeheartedly adopt the new medium.
Since when did the vinil die? They're still around. Heck in the techno/dj scene you need vinil to load your 1200's. They sound better too. Why would the cd format die if you still need to burn stuff to cdrom so you can play it in your car? Actually if anything changed, its the fact that everyone can publish theyre own cd's. Witch means its grown to the point where it is overlooked.
This would mean you could buy an MP3 at the airport, plug it into their "internet". Log on to the site which you buy your music from, and all your music is copied to the device, or any device you own.

A bit like itunes I suppose, but smaller, faster and on any device supporting all formats (or an open one).

I would love to know that all my music could be accessed by me on any device at any time over the internet.

Maybe even live streaming to my car stereo?

Is this a good idea?