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I have found a few CDs at used stores that I never saw in the new CD racks. I don't regularly shop at used CD stores, but I know of a couple of great out-of-state used CD stores that I visit whenever I can.
Some folks have to hear the sound of the plastic wrap snapping off every time they get a new disc, while others just want to save some dough. Do used CDs find their way into your collection?
I rarely buy NEW CDs. They are over-price and I refuse to pad the pockets for the "pork-heavy" label executives who are more concerned about their profits than they are about putting a quality product out at an affordable price. Used CDs offer an outstanding value without compromising my sense of fair practice for the small business owners who are trying to make a living AND if the labels are successful at getting the anti-copy coding software through (degrading sound quality as well as insulting my intellence) I can promise the label executives and all invloved that I would never purchase another NEW CD and I would spend countless hours promoting the boycot of all labels who practice and promote this infringement on all of our rights. It should be about the music, not the labels' profits, which are fat enough.
Hell yes I buy used CDs! The price for new ones hasn't come down at all in the almost 20 years that I have been buying them. Whatever happened to all the promises of how prices would drop when more CD factories came online? What a load of crap that was! The record industry can kiss my ass!
Like everthing else, used is a way to expand my experiences in audio. Without purchasing used CDs and LPs, I would never have listened to as many artists as I have. Used is often the only way to get some audiophile pressings. They come and go so quickly, that one often has no choice but to search out the used ones. With everyday general releases, used allows me to round out and fill in the gaps of music I like, but would not usually pay new prices for lesser works by an artist, All in all, used is a very cost conscious way to help keep me happy, and my wife from divorcing me!
I shop mostly by mail order or the Internet, occassionally making it over to my Local Tower records. My son does visit the local used record store looking for new music available in used old records that did not make to the CD revolution.
It is rare that I find a used copy of anything I'm interested in, let alone a copy in like-new condition. Factor in a higher price for anything in nearly new conditon, and the bargain is lost for me. I have much better luck with used vinyl.
Yes. I buy them when it is convenient to do so,ie, when I am in a store that sells them. Thanks to the strong-arm tatics of the big record companies, "mainstream" stores cannot sell "used" CDs without suffering serious financial consequences from the big record companies.
I can't afford to always buy new CDs. Besides, it's nearly impossible to take that plastic off! What's with that extra but of plastic on the top with the sticky glue? The pull tab to remove it always breaks before it's completely off. My food isn't even wrapped that well.