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.
The last time I bought a CD, I got excited to listen to it at home, then realized I didn’t have a disc drive anywhere lol. I guess sweatshirts is the way to go. I’d buy a flashdrive with the lossless music for the same price though.
Edit: oh crap I’m not younger
I still buy CDs. I have a player in my car and in my hifi. My desktop has a BR drive which I use to rip the disc and then I use it how I want when want. They also sound fantastic. Streaming is great, but you give up a lot compared to owning physical media.
This might answer some of your questions. Music isn’t the same. It’s mass produced entertainment that we can browse at our fingertips with infinite options. Music devalued itself by being so accessible and throwaway.
I mean…it didn’t answer my question per se, but it was a great insight into where an industry is, and how they got there.
I saw a 12 minute run time on the video, and thought “I’m not going to watch this whole thing…”
But the man makes great points.
In the 90s, if you played video games, and you played an SNES RPG, those were typically very text heavy, story driven games. The memory on an SNES cartridge was very data limited. So you couldn’t have a 9,000 page script. It simply wouldn’t fit on the memory allowed.
So developers would write a first draft, and find out they were over limit. So they’d cut it down by 30%. Find out they’re STILL over the limit. Cut it down by 5% and NOW it fits. Just barely.
And what you ended up with was a direct, straight to the point story that hits its plot points in a very matter of fact way. You get an oversaterated story that makes sense, and is pure plot. They cut the fat.
What I’m saying here is that limitations are frustrating, and require more effort to work around, but they also breed creativity. And that seems to be the main point this guy is making now with music. Sinatra is dead, his music three quarters of a century old, and still feel timeless. He had barrels of creative limitations, and he overcame them.
Or, not discussed here is Bethoven. I’m not even sure he was ever able to record any of his music himself, but he recorded the sheet music. Which means anytime you hear Bethovens work, you’re technically hearing a cover song. Yet despite not having a way to distribute his music, his works are still timeless centuries later.
But this video discussed more about music production from the manufacturers viewpoint. Fascinating stuff for sure, but I’m more interested in knowing from a young consumers viewpoint.
Although, I will admit, his video reminded me of Green Day. Simply because my sister bought me my first CD in 1994. I was 10. It was Green Days Dookie. I can remember listening to that cd over and over and over, studying the box art and booklette, just like this guy said.
No, definitely not. I buy music off of bandcamp occasionally, to support the artist and get the cool swag that comes with the album, but I don’t physically have a way to play cds.
I definitely do. Supports the band in question, and I get to rip the audio off the CD for my digital collection. Best part, if I lose my digital music collection and can’t access a backup, I still have the disc to rip from again.
They sell vinyl pretty often. CDs are a dead end tech though. They might be romanticized in the future like laserdisc and cassette but not nearly as much as vinyl.
No? I don’t have any way to play it. If I wanna listen to a song, I just do it on Spotify or I pirate the FLAC if I really like it…
E: I really don’t know why you associate younger generations with a “lingo” or “skibidi toilet”… Sure there are chronically online people who use it unironically but like… Cmon.
Sounds rizz to me, fellow young person
I’d bet on there being no gen alpha on lemmy
I am quite thankful for your compliment of my coquetry, fellow whippersnapper.
CD? No, I can get mostly the same sound quality, if not better via streaming. Vinyl? Yeah because it’s a set piece. It’s a great conversation starter to have a cool collection.
And Vinyl is also kind of a ritual. With taking it out of the sleeve and putting it on.
Oldest guy at the punk show here. The merch tables I see have vinyl records and occasionally cassette tapes. I’m waiting for 8 tracks and Edison cylinders LOL. I always try to support the bands so I’ll buy a sticker and occasionally a t-shirt. I think they should give away a code for a free Bandcamp download with every t-shirt sale but nobody listens to me
TBH I (23) have gone backwards. I love collecting signed vynals of my favorite bands
Can second this. Not only has it personal and collector value, you actually own it in contrast to the digital age where everything can be taken away by the host service even if you payed for it before. And no, “you only bought the license to stream it not the media content” is only legal rubbish these companies spout to justify the morally questionable bs they push to be the norm.
I like to buy vinyl for my favourite artists, but I wouldn’t do it at a concert because I’d have to carry it around for the whole show. I do also like to buy t-shirts at concerts
Usually the merch stand is still open after the show, so I buy mine just before leaving.
As someone about your age, you are more likely to buy vinyl at a concert instead of a CD nowadays. I’ve even been to two concerts where I got a CD mailed to me as part of buying a ticket to the event.
It is mostly T-shirts now, with some stickers, pins, and buttons.
I go to small venues, small bands. I’ve bought cassette tapes, vinyls, and CDs. Last cassette I bought was like early 2023. So it’s definitely not phased out completely
I’m 32, I bought a cassette at the last concert I went to. (I generally prefer vinyl, but I don’t wanna buy a vinyl before a show starts cuz then I have to awkwardly hold it for the whole show)
My car still plays CD’s, so if the price was right and the band actually got a solid cut of it, then yeah I would buy one.
I’m 29 and 13mo’s
