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CD sales exploded in the first half of 2026 (17.5 million +45.7%)
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Date: September 17th, 2026 12:59 PM Author: Irradiated soggy roast beef CD Revenue: $171.1 million (+58.6%)
Roughly half of CD buyers do not own a CD player. |
Date: September 17th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: animeboi (.) it was inevitable after the LP boom dies out. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140535) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 1:53 PM Author: Irradiated soggy roast beef cr the discogs sellers have jumped the shark I'm not paying $150+ for a record
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:02 PM Author: At-the-ready black reading party The problem with vinyl is that it's expensive, cumbersome, and ultimately it doesn't sound as good. It's difficult to produce and procure. I knew a boomer guy who did QC for vinyls for one of the major labels for decades. They had to bring this guy out of retirement because the demand shot up and he had a rare skill. But that all factors into cost and availability.
But I think the even bigger problem is with streaming. People are sick of being treated like a commodity. The other day just to test a theory I put a CD into my Xbox to play it. Disaster. I had to download Windows Media Player which took forever for their servers to decide to send me 5 mb. And then the sound quality was just awful through all this tech bullshit.
The other thing that sucks completely is Bluetooth. All these phones use to have 1/8" headphone outs. You could Aux into a car stereo. Then they said people don't want that feature. Took it away. Bluetooth is noticeably worse than wired.
I think people are sick of Playlists, commercials, fees. They just want to listen to the same shit they love over and over. Finding out your music sounds worse and you're paying a tech oligarch in time money and attention for a convenience you don't even want sucks. And vinyl sucks. And buying CDs supports bands way more. The only downside is carrying a physical disc around but in every other way it's better. Big Tech can never alter or restrict the tunes on the disc. It's simple and easy. |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:03 PM Author: costumed smoky parlor Pioneer CDJ used by every single dj now made vinyl obsolete (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140657) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: Irradiated soggy roast beef cr
playlists are also stuffed with pay to play and now ai generated tracks for ad bucks.
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:21 PM Author: At-the-ready black reading party That's a really crucial point. There's no AI or Spotifycore downtempo ambient slop on my copy of Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water. There's no microtransaction where some tech company is getting a subpenny every time a low level interpolation of a song you think you remember plays at the dentist's office. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140745) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:27 PM Author: Irradiated soggy roast beef (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140779) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:08 PM Author: Wine Community Account Incel certificates of deposit (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140676) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:13 PM Author: animeboi (.) lock in a 4.1% rate for 12 months today! (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140703) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:13 PM Author: dashing milky personal credit line therapy (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140704) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:14 PM Author: Irradiated soggy roast beef (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140707) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:16 PM Author: Rose location "Roughly half of CD buyers do not own a CD player."
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: Irradiated soggy roast beef gen z want to touch something (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140739) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:23 PM Author: At-the-ready black reading party This has to be flame. Surely people have USB disc drives or an alarm clock or car with a CD player. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140751) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:24 PM Author: animeboi (.) I have a CD player in storage somewhere but otherwise I have no optical drive of any kind. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140756) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:25 PM Author: At-the-ready black reading party I'm about to purchase an Onkyo 6 disc changer from Amazon fwiw (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140764) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:17 PM Author: hot parlour MP3s have no chance (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140728) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: razzle self-centered persian (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140741) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: Irradiated soggy roast beef xo book rec: How Music Got Free" by Stephen Witt (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140769) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: At-the-ready black reading party You can give people CDs. You can't really give someone a playlist. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140768) |
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Date: September 17th, 2026 2:27 PM Author: Irradiated soggy roast beef (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904622&forum_id=2#50140777) |