Vote

With today's high CD prices, used provides good value, with a money back guarantee for unplayable discs. More music for less money—how can you lose?

I am fusy with the quality of second hand cds - if there are marks it will soon give grief to my home AVI S2000 cd player or Nakamichi CD45z car player.

It's just not a very convienient option.

You can spot scratches in a second. Great deal.

I will buy used as often as possible.

If I can find the music I like used and the CD is in good shape, Why Not?

With a new baby in the house and car loans, I always look for "loose wrap" CDs at my local store. Also I'll only buy the latest remastered version. I bought the expanded version of Bob Marley and The Wailers "Live" at the Lyseum used for $7.

Duh!

Where I live, I have a great selection of used CDs. I can usually get what I want by waiting a week or two after a release. On that note, I remember a time shortly after CD audio arrived where I could get CDs at an average price of $11.99. The recordings appeared to be better (I listened to rock mostly) because they didn't have the life compressed out of them by some producer mixing for his kid's boombox. Now I step into my local retailer (who shall remain nameless)only to see the prices of new CDs "towering" to $18.99. Well one thing can be said about the recording labels, they probably don't have to cook their books to show increased revenues!

I've never run into a used CD that I wanted to buy. My tastes in music are not that common.

I also like to use the stores that have listening available. Have purchased many disks that I would have otherwise without listening to them!

Since I won't buy pseudo-CDs ("protected"), soon the only CDs I will be able to buy will be used.

Antyhing I can find used, I'll get used. If it plays, I'm happy. The problem is, either no one else buys the stuff I buy, or everyone who buys it keeps it, so good used finds are relatively rare.

Why not?? If they are in decent shape and are the pieces you want at lower prices than new, it certainly makes sense to buy 'em.

Many of my favorite CDs were purchased used.

I get to try really interesting music inexpensively.

Try www.spun.com for rare and out of print CDs. They will also buy your used ones. It's a great service.

I buy a ton of used CDs, but I buy way more used vinyl.

The price of new CDs is ridiculous. The only times I buy them are: 1)If I absolutely cannot find the CD I want used (Typically, it takes months of looking before I come to this conclusion), 2) They are on sale in the $10 price range, or 3) it's a CD that I absolutely MUST have right now and I therefore don't care about the price (rarely happens).

It depends, I used to live near a great used store in DC. I haven't found a similar store in NY, but I never had any problems with discs I bought, and the price allowed me to try bands I never would have bought new. Especially not at $18 a pop. I would buy new over used at $10-12 for new discs, but those days are gone unfortunately.

Once in a great while. Usually of a group i'm really not into.

Surprisingly, it is a great way to get out-of-print and hard to find titles (and I can listen to them first). Plus the more money I can save the more I can buy.

I buy cheap CDs. New, but, cheap. Mostly.

Best bargains around. I just don't feel like shelling out $15 for a CD unless they are from respected labels.

Seems like most of the stuff I'm looking for these days is out of print, so I don't have much choice.

Absolutely, but only from retailers that allow me to inspect the CD playing surface. Usually this same retailer, also provides CD players to assess questionable ones.

The old saying,"one man's trash is another man's treasure" definitely holds true. I have been finding many classic rock CDs for my collection and saving a bundle in the process.

Sure, it's an easy and cheap way to get those Reference Recordings, Chesky, and Telarc CDs into your collection for about $5.99 a pop.

It's about the music not the money. Less is more if the goods are the same.

Used is the way to go to find the hard-to-find titles that are either out of print or never released in the US. This way I bought CDs by Icehouse, Chris de Burgh, Don McLean, among others. For favorites, I buy on the day/week of release; for price, I buy from the club.