Do people still buy CDs?

I only buy CD's of my favourite artists.

the only cd's i buy now are from my fav band, FEEDER, i buy albums, all the singles and also rare, unreleased cd's form ebay

You sound like you're a die hard fan.

I used to be really into just downloading off of iTunes, but I went to a week-long jazz workshop where Juilliard professors taught us how to play jazz for a week, including jamming and concerts and listening sessions. They encouraged us to start building a collection of physical records instead of just digital downloading.

I owned a few real CD's, like Weezer's Pinkerton and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, but when I came back from the workshop I started buying CD's like crazy. I spent well over $100 on CD's in the next few days and about that much on digital downloads when I couldn't find the CD's I wanted. I bought tons of jazz albums (and a few rock albums from my favorite bands like Switches and Low vs Diamond), but I quickly cleaned my local f.y.e. out of all of their good jazz albums so I turned to my friends iTunes and Amazon for digital downloads to continue building my collection.

Basically, even though they're essentially obsolete, if I can get it in CD format, I will because I love the shape and feel of a CD and a CD case and I like having the booklet and the liner notes, something you rarely ever get from digital downloading. I have no problem with digital downloading though and I love to just grab a new album from the iTunes store when I'm feeling in a Miles Davis mood or a Charles Mingus mood or a Coltrane mood or whatever. So, either way, as long as I get my music.

Really, a CD is not that much more expensive than a digital download. Especially jazz CD's. Nobody likes jazz so the CD prices are usually lower (around the $9.99 of a digital download - sometimes up to $13 but not usually), so I think it's worth it.

Originally Posted by Midnight Queen

What are your opinions about it?
Should a CD be just a box, or should bands try to improve them, besides their music.
Do you fell the same collector's pride in CDs as with your vinyls?
What should bands do to improve their CD covers?

I still and will continue to buy cds forever. Good ablum art is nice but thats not why you should buy the album. If you are a fan of the band/artist then you should want to have the album because you like the music. I buy cds so I can have hard physical evidence in case anything happens to my Ipod. Bands should stop putting a picture of the band on the cover.

I normally buy/import CDs, and rarely buy off of iTunes. I love having the actual CDs instead of just a picture and a file on my mp3 player. It's fun to collect all the different singles and studio albums and just be able to say that I have them. And the style and art are always unique.

Besides, I usually can't find most of the artists I like when I search iTunes or something similar to that. xD;