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Younger people of Lemmy. Would you buy a CD at a concert? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] VeganCheesecake 81 points 3 months ago

I've gotten a free CD at a concert recently. I don't have anything to play it on.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I dug out my Wii for it once... Which probably proves im not a young person anymore

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

Could the Wii even play audio cd's???

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 months ago

It had the capability (as with DVDs), so as long as you've got a modded Wii and the right homebrew software, yes!

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ahhhh not stock, only via mods.... I have the black "unhackable" Wii :(

[-] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Get an external drive, it's useful to have lying around for those rare occasions where you have something on an optical disc.

[-] subtext@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The weirdest one that we had recently that comes to mind is when my wife has an MRI recently, they gave us the scans on a DVD. We had no external drive or any other way to view it / transfer it to a USB.

[-] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Omg come to my house! I have a computer dvd-drive and a 4k drive for ripping. I have 3 gaming consoles with disc drives. And I have 9 portable CD players and 3 portable DVD players.

I am a collector. I have a hobby of making my own CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays.

[-] VeganCheesecake 3 points 3 months ago

That does sound fun. How far from Berlin are you, in rough terms? Can I walk over, or is it more of a cycling distance?

[-] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I'm about 6000km from Berlin I'm afraid.

[-] VeganCheesecake 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that's a bit of a hike, probably would throw my plans for the week.

[-] kewko@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

New York?

[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I'll bring the pizza and some two liters! Who wants what?

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

What 4K drive do you have, and how do you like it?

[-] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

It's an Archgon Md-8107-U3. I got specifically because the firmware could be updated to allow ripping with programs like Make-MKV. Works great.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I don't own anything that can play optical media. When downloading MP3s became a thing I just stopped using CDs.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Yep, last time I owned a CD drive was two laptops ago, around 2016 or so...

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Do you have a game console? Uhhhh......besides Switch I guess.

[-] VeganCheesecake 6 points 3 months ago

I have a switch emulator on my pc. Ones for other consoles too. Don't see much added value in a physical console, since I need a reasonably powerful PC for work anyway.

[-] VeganCheesecake 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Also, to touch on the other questions in the post, I have an Apple Music Subscription, but do have about 50 GB of flac files of my favourite music mirrored to most of my devices, in case I'm holed up somewhere without Internet access.

[-] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

This was my first thought as well, but disc drives are an option on them now, not a standard.

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