#i still buy cds

[gothedrals]

I miss you blockbuster I miss you cds I miss you little buttons that played song previews in walmart I miss you vhs tapes I miss you blocky tv with rabbit ears that only had 10 channels I miss you scratched dvds from the library I miss you envelopes of developed photos from a film camera I miss you flip phones covered in stickers I miss you physical media

#edit for clarification: I do still engage in physical media. i know many of these things are still around today #i still buy cds and vinyl and read paper books from the library and I own a film camera #this is moreso about the culture as a whole shifting to value convenience over experience #listening to cds on my own will not change the culture back to when physical media was the norm for everyone #I’m a nostalgia-ridden person there’s a specific feeling I’m missing that I can’t achieve by myself #g

[abbeyofcyn]

Spiderman across the spiderverse was AMAZING.

I loved it so much. They upped the artistic/ creative 2d/3d parts and I didn't know that was possible and BOY was it good.

Honestly, the colours and action in the rottmnt trailer was what made me watch rottmnt the movie and I think I just love color for someone who wears black 9/10 times and has no idea how to colour.

But that's totally unrelated. Watch spiderman if you can!!!

#spiderverse #no spoilers #not from me #rottmnt #crossovers make sense now kinda #they are both colourful and teen main characters and cool fighting scenes #and New York City #can't wait to buy it on blueray and own it forever #why is rottmnt the movie not on blueray #let me spend money and own what I love #I still buy cds sometimes just to show my love for my fav musicians #don't care if I never play them #ok enough rambling in the tags

[batarangsoundsdumb]

in my head kon's music taste is taken straight from pa kent's cd collection. the most recent music he listens to is off the 'best country songs of the year 2007' cd. he listens to his cd walkman during fights.

#tim tries to hook him up with spotify and the only time kon uses it is to look up songs he wants to buy the cd for #i have a kon playlist btw #and it was a really hard choice but i chose to delete like 90% of the joke songs #all that remain now are still joke songs and also some really accurate songs #and 70s rock music of course #kon el #superboy #conner kent #want to tag it connOr kent and see what ppl say #dc

[touboutenshi]

current collection of 2000s sanrio stuff

#sanrio #my melody #onegai my melody #kuromi #hello kitty #theres a bunch of old cds and such i have on my to-buy list when i can afford em #praying theyre still available when that time comes lmao #theres also a puroland cd from like 1993 i found but its stupid expensive......maybe someday

[n7punk]

honestly i could never use spotify because where's the control where's the ability to turn "b!tch" into "bitch" in song titles the ability to give songs covers that are the right color for them the ability to add cut demos onto extended albums the ability to give songs their genres when the one assigned to the album does not match it the ability to replace an album cover when it's gross the ability to group playlists into folder after sub folder. how do you cope just taking the sanitized corporate version a media conglomerate offers you we've been making mixtapes and hand-drawing art on them back to the cassette days and before music was meant to be loved and decorated and spotify was meant to sell ads. next

#mylife #i <3 making my music library mine #idgaf if the song is called 10 20 30 it's gonna have commas in that shit because it's ugly without them #im that bitch that still buys CDs lmao #i care about this too much for punctuation btw. cope w/ my insanity <3

[lulu2992]

Ask meme!

I was tagged by @strafethesesinners to share my Spotify Wrapped! Thank you :)

The thing is, I don’t use Spotify... So instead, thanks to the stats I managed to find in iTunes and Windows Media Player, what I remember listening to this year, and my Photoshop skills, I present to you my very own, entirely handcrafted and customized...

“Spoofity” Wrapped

(No really, I remade everything. The backgrounds, the logo, the URL... Everything)

More details and explanations under the cut because why not?

Songs

1 - Technically, I didn’t just listen to it, I watched this video. On repeat. In my defense, I was trying to learn the song and it wasn’t easy! Also, yeah, okay, I really like it.

2 - I didn’t listen to this one on my phone/computer in 2023, but since I’ve played Tears of the Kingdom for more than 235 hours and spent a lot of time either riding the dragons or watching them pass by, I must have heard this music many, many times!

3 - This song came out this year, and apparently, I’ve listened to it 6 times.

4 - This one is actually a video. It’s a cover of a 1979 song originally sung by Dalida that was (and still is) very popular in France. I don’t particularly follow Bilal Hassani or his career, but I stumbled upon this performance and thought it was really beautiful. I probably listened to it 4 or 5 times in a just few days. For context, because I think it matters, around that time, he was scheduled to perform in a deconsecrated basilica (that now holds concerts and other cultural events), but the show had to be canceled for security reasons because he, and by extension his fans, received threats from “far-right Catholic groups”. The lyrics say, “Let me dance and sing freely.”

5 - I listened to this 3 times this year because I wanted to cleanse myself of the sped-up version I was tired of hearing in almost every video on the Internet at the beginning of 2023.

Artists

1 - I’ve listened to her new album, Gag Order, a few times. “Happy” made me cry.

2 - She’s probably in my “Top 5” every year, honestly.

3 - I often listen to the FFXV soundtrack. It’s amazing!

4 - Aside from Tears of the Kingdom, I’ve also played HITMAN: Freelancer for many hours this year... which means I’ve heard the soundtrack a lot. It’s good too!

5 - Disney soundtracks in general are also in my “Top 5” every year, I think.

Podcasts

I realize the list makes it seem like I’m really into the supernatural, but really, I just follow Jesse Cox and Kesha :’)

301 vues (“301 views”) is a French podcast hosted by YouTuber Cyprien and described as “the show that talks about the Internet”. Each episode has different guests.

And YouTube isn’t a podcast, but it’s what I watch (or just listen to, depending on the video) most of the time, often in the background when I’m eating, working, or drawing :)

#wow. I spent... way too much time making this #working on details most people won’t even notice :’) #the designs look quite kitschy but so do the real ones #'spoofity' wrapped #I like this name haha #I don’t use spotify because I still buy CDs #I was shocked to learn that some teens had no idea what they were #I guess I’m officially old now #ask meme #wish #disney #ariana debose #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #manaka kataoka #kesha #bilal hassani #lady gaga #hitman world of assassination #niels bye nielsen #ffxv #yoko shimomura #chilluminati #jesse cox #crendor #cyprien #my edit #my art #well that counts I think

[swallowedabug]

Pink Floyd : Echoes (The Best Of Pink Floyd) (2001)

Artwork by StormStudios

#keios #album art #another one by storm #he's done most of the covers for pink floyd #the references to the previous album covers in this one 👌 #i actually don't own any pink floyd albums except this compilation on cd.. i should fix that #i remember using happiest days of our lives/another brick on the wall as bass/subwoofer test tracks when i was buying my first 2.1 setup #the velodyne is still going strong - as are my main sonus faber speakers that i also bought back then (about 20 years ago) #but i don't own a dedicated cd player anymore #i just have this portable usb player that i use with my desktop setup #i have an external dac that's connected to my main av receiver and i use foobar with wasapi which has a great sound quality #i used to use the dac mostly with my headphone amp setup but i haven't really been listening with headphones any more #i could sell some of them but. i might get into them again so i won't lol #oh and i meant to say external usb player #i mean it IS portable in theory but i have it attached to a desktop so. not really ideal for lugging around lol

[pilotstreets]

burnt some cds today!

#YES i misspelled tracklist but kept it bc it's funny #busted out the typewriter and crayons for this bc im so dedicated to the craft #anyway i've burnt 7 cds in the last 2 days and i wanna keep going but #i ran out if blank cds :-( so i gotta buy more #but my cd collection is at 13 cds now! hazzah ! #actually at 14 but i lost my vessel cd years ago but still have half the broken case so i count it as an owned cd #i own it..... Somewhere. don't know Where. but somewhere #twenty one pilots #;malls;

[sortanonymous]

I know expecting Congress to get anything right these days is like expecting to see a triple rainbow in the Arctic, but if we could just get sticky, scratchy, awful cardboard sleeves for physical media discs illegalized, that would just be lovely!

#cd #cd collection #cd collector #physical storage media #physical media #dvd #blu ray #sorry to spoil that collection post i was just teasing but my beatles red and blue remix albums just came in #and both blue album discs got so messed up by damaged sleeves that it feels like a miracle that the flac files seemed to be ripped properly #it seems they basically changed nothing besides the back text and booklet from the packaging of the 2010 cd versions #not good since at least the white album and 1 remix cd's had digipak slots just how it should be #(don't know about the other remix cd's since i only have white album and the version of 1 with the dvd but still) #i have a few sleeve cd's like this but none nearly as bad this #and don't even get me started on dvd's and blu rays like this! #i can't even count how many dvd's and blu ray's i've either bought or wanted to buy separate replacement cases for #(although admittedly a good chunk of them aren't sleeves but just bad cases or disc holders) #please better apple (or sony or paul and ringo or giles or whoever handles these cd's) never do sleeves again #the beatles #bad packaging

[thistaleisabloodyone]

I think Soldier Love is off Spotify now. I told Spotify to hide the song from me, but I could still see the album cover and shit when I went to check and now it's gone entirely from their artist page. I was able to find a page for it by specifically searching 'spotify soldier love the rampage' on Google, but the song can't be played.

It is also no longer available on YouTube - I found the video by going through my history (because I left a comment on it re: ... everything) and the video is unlisted and unavailable.

Which - good call, wish you could've done that a liiiiiittle faster there, LDH.

#the rampage from exile tribe #rmpgfext #ldh's legal department is probably having a Fun Time Right Now #with the kororo contract #because the kororo ads with soldier love are still up on their youtube channel #could be they haven't come down yet #because it seems to be taking them a few days to get it all down #and i would not be surprised if they're negotiating with kororo regarding those ads #like goddamn that feels like a lot of departments got fucked over #well done ldh #pr/communications #legal #marketing #(seems to be swiveling from 16soul to 16pray as the album they're pushing - also now fighting an uphill battle to convince people to buy) #i would have started printing cds and lyric booklets as soon as the tracklist was in place with all songs recorded #or at the very least more than a month out from ship date #so anything printed in advance is no longer good #so whoever handles the publishing and distribution also got fucked over #i think the announcement of the delay came from ldh japan #because no other department or part of the company had the power to make that call #i think it also is like - look we're taking it seriously #we escalated the problem up the command chain #it's not just these idiots handling the problem #it is people with authority and power #we went 'we have a problem' #they went 'let me get the manager'

[airlock]

y'know, I've been hearing about the new Zelda's $70 pricetag a lot -- but I've also been enduring a rough patch at uni, so I haven't been able to do any of the thinking or researching that I'd want to do before throwing my lot in there. regardless, there are two... fragments of points that I've had bouncing around in my head for a while, and I never see anyone getting close to them, so I figured I might as well lob them out to the internet to see if they'll bounce around enough to inspire some completed thoughts in anyone

the first thing: while Nintendo was the one that decided to take the first shot here and now, with a very highly anticipated title in one of its absolute flagship franchises, the matter of fact is that bumping up the Standard AAA Game Pricetag -- and to $70 exactly, even -- has been a talk in the industry for many, many years now. it's not a coincidence, or even just the industry's typical unparodiably vulture-like behavior, that as soon as Nintendo took the first shot, other studios were tripping over themselves to pin their next big releases at $70 as well.

(if you ask someone speaking for the studios, they'll probably tell you that $60 has been a downright generous pricetag for a long while now given how much production costs have soared in that time, and even $70 is still a steal all things considered. a less charitable point of view would invite you to consider why production costs are increasing so much anyway, despite that consumer satisfaction has long stopped increasing proportionally to that metric. is it an oversight, or a decision in the service of someone besides the consumer? that's not a rhetoric question, incidentally -- I did say these aren't finished thoughts.)

the second thing: first worlders have been much worried about what a price hike in games would mean for children, and to that I say: you may have more insight on the present situation if you look to countries where this sort of thing already has or still does happen.

I can say at the very least that, for a solid while here in Brazil -- that solid while having peaked around the 00s -- economic factors made the seemingly reasonable pricetag worldwide an oft-unthinkable one for most consumers (and the few that could actually afford videogames straight-up were still a stingy lot regardless). and what we did about it was... rampant piracy. and I don't just mean downloading shit, I mean that parents were buying their kids the sketchiest disks you can imagine to pop into their PS2s at home that probably weren't 100% the legit article either. owning a completely legitimate copy of any game was seen as some sort of Collector's Edition kind of rarity, even. anyway, I'm not exactly making predictions about how your first-world markets are going to adapt when/if videogames seriously slip out of the average consumer's grasp -- again, unfinished thoughts here -- but if you've been thinking about it, then this kind of thing may be worth studying up on.

#my stupid text posts #and in case anyone's wondering how the situation developed since that peak: #the local economy was steadily improving right up until certain foul political developments of the mid-2010s #and with some delay this trickled down to the consumer base -- although whether this will perdure or improve or reverse... depends a lot #anyway the intl gaming industry also started to realize that this country is absolutely chock full of people who want to and will buy games #just so long as they can be reached with anything remotely resembling sane prices #(not to mention other possible adjustments; more and more games are starting to include Portuguese language options to name another thing) #and last but not least the people who can actually afford legal games have also been growing too Gentry for the Sketchy CD Stand #so all put together our days of rampant piracy in broad daylight are past us now #but y'know. we still never became TOO loyal to the idea of paying full price. #so it's going to be real interesting seeing how the industry decides to play it next around here #one wrong price hike and I bet a lot of us still know a guy who knows a guy.

[deus-ex-mona]

#though~~~~~ if you have a link to even a single one of these voice messages~~~~ i have some good news for you~~~~ #just replace the last digit of the url with a number from 1-3 and you’ll get access to the rest of the messages #(​you’ll just get a broken vid link if you replace it with a ‘4’ though lol) #it seems to be the same deal as the monaraji codes that came with mona’s album back in the good ol’ days #in any case!!!!!!!!!! they’re all so cringe lmao #but ig you can experience what it’s like to be lxl’s currently ill daughter named ‘julieta’ in the third one #bc why else would you invite lxl over to look after you while you’re sick????? #hello im already unwell i dont have energy to be a third wheel :(((( #freakin’ yujiro and the ‘yeah feels like 38 degrees up in here’ just by touching the poor julieta’s forehead though #guess he has thermometer hands or something idk #or maybe that’s just his ✨mom energy✨ coming out idk #it’s cringe but it’s free ig??? well not really free since you technically had to buy a cd to get it. but. still. #aaaaa pls talk to me about the voice messages i need validation that these are indeed as real and cringe as they sound— #染BODY ONCE TOLD ME—

[zippityzap]

Found my old MP3 player and after replacing the battery, it still works!Judging from the presence of the High School Musical 2 soundtrack on it, I’m guessing I haven’t used this thing in at least 12 years

#lol I remember when I was about 9 I tripped and injured myself pretty bad and to make me feel better my mum bought me the ost cd as a gift #I still have the actual cd but forgot I put it on my MP3 player too #I can’t find the lead that connects it to the computer but I’ll figure out what I need and buy another one #and once I do imma create a playlist old school style

[94erz]

"iT dOeSn'T mAtTeR tHat J-hOpE dOeSn'T hAvE cDs, ThAt WaS hIs ChOiSe!!! It DoEsN't EfEcT hIm AnYwAy!!!!" 🙃🙃🙃

#Sab talks BTS stuff #the fact that I could go into a wal-mart or target or B&N store and buy any of these albums except JITB breaks my heart #like it's not even JUST that he's the only one without a CD with this #it's the total lack of availability for ANY version of JITB #because it's confined to only Weverse #so no store can even stock the WVA or vinyl #his distribution was and still is so fucked up