What formats do you buy?

hopper · Post by **hopper** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:33 am

I was just thinking recently about how CDs sell in the modern market, and I thought I would create a poll to see everyone's leaning. I would have thought that the appeal of the CD is in serious decline with people who prefer convenience going for mp3s and music purists sticking to LPs.

kizza2435 · Post by **kizza2435** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:46 am

I never ever purchase mp3s. My mentality is that if im going to be spending money, I want a physical product i am able to hold, so its vinyl, CD, DVD, or nothing. Downloads = Free!!!

boomstix · Post by **boomstix** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:55 am

i don't buy any music really.

for me there's so much good free music to listen to before i need to buy any.

but i have paid for samples when i really wanted them, ie buying a cd to as an easy way to get a clean sample or buying a dvd full of samples to save time over downloading them

joni_speedbass · Post by **joni_speedbass** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:45 am

wheres the dubplate option ?

id be interested to know
appart from all the big time dj's
how many smalle time dj's are putting money into cutting dubplates n promoting the smaller lesser known / up n coming artists

dj ld · Post by **dj ld** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:03 am

Im surprised at how much people pay for mp3's. I only buy vinyl,but just had a look at Shetme after seeing it mentioned so much. For instance 16 Bit "Twice" has 3 tracks which would make it £6 for all three tracks. I'd rather pay £6.49 and have the record personally

felis · Post by **felis** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:10 am

Dubstep = Vinyl
Techno = MP3 / Vinyl

shaan · Post by **shaan** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:20 am

dj ld wrote:Im surprised at how much people pay for mp3's. I only buy vinyl,but just had a look at Shetme after seeing it mentioned so much. For instance 16 Bit "Twice" has 3 tracks which would make it £6 for all three tracks. I'd rather pay £6.49 and have the record personally

yeah true but it's more for convenience, esp for me living in NZ it takes up to 3 weeks to get vinyl here vs, 5 minutes (and it's often warped), plus you edit tunes as you want - don't have to lug vinyl around - as much as i still love playing with vinyl i'll stick with mp3's for the meantime.

not to mention being able to play antiwar dub and other seminal tunes with out paying through the nose - plus free tunes, remixes, dubs etc - no one's gonna hand out free vinyl.

being able to check up and coming producers - esp. from this forum

kizza2435 · Post by **kizza2435** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:44 am

Shaan wrote:being able to play antiwar dub and other seminal tunes with out paying through the nose - plus free tunes, remixes, dubs etc - no one's gonna hand out free vinyl.

being able to check up and coming producers - esp. from this forum

This is true, I think I might move to Serato for mixing, and use real vinyl for anything thats released, and the Serato coded vinyls for playing 320s forum members are trying to get played. Think thats the way its gunna have to be.

crypt · Post by **crypt** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:47 am

Strictly vinyl for me.. Though I buy some CD's occasionaly but not for playing out, just for home-listening

Mostly non-dubstep also..

dj ld · Post by **dj ld** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:49 am

living in NZ it takes up to 3 weeks to get vinyl here vs, 5 minutes (and it's often warped)

I'm surprised someone doesnt license tracks and press a limited number up. Does this happen?

brasco · Post by **brasco** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:01 am

This.

Crypt wrote:Strictly vinyl for me..

My mates using downloads keep telling me that if i invest in CDJ's i will make the money up through the savings of buying 320's instead of vinyl.

But im not convinced, i just prefer vinyl. i do use a cd deck, but i would say in a normal set i will use 1 mp3 for every 10 vinyl. and thats usually only when ive missed out on the 12 inch version

teknotik · Post by **teknotik** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:41 am

I personally think that MP3s and other downloads are just a stop gap between physical media and something more like Spotify. In the future I don't honestly believe we will actually be storing huge amounts of music ourselves and will most likely have some sort of license or subscription to stream any music whenever and wherever we want. At the moment this isn't much good in a club or on the move, but I'm sure it will be. I'm sticking to vinyl and CD for the time being until it's clear what sort of real lasting technology there is going to be for digital music and then I will think about actually paying for a non-physical product.

crypt · Post by **crypt** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:41 am

I started DJ'ing about 4 years ago and never played any format other than vinyl..A lot of mates of mine also trying to convince me to play cd's because otherwise technology will catch up with me or smthing

But, tbh I would NOT feel comfortable playing cd's to people and being comfortable in what you do as a DJ is one of the most important things to me.. So I'll stay with vinyl as long as I can

I also couldn't imagine just clicking away and downloading mp3's, burning them to cd and playing them out

I love to receive a fresh package of vinyl & putting them on my decks with a smile on my face

joni_speedbass · Post by **joni_speedbass** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:47 am

Realisticly how much money is there to be made in digital releases ?
every tom dick n harry seem to doing the digital thing but is there any real money to be made of it ?

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:52 am

joni_speedbass wrote:Realisticly how much money is there to be made in digital releases ?
every tom dick n harry seem to doing the digital thing but is there any real money to be made of it ?

you ever done any research into the break even point on vinyl? LOL.

hopper · Post by **hopper** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:59 am

joni_speedbass wrote:Realisticly how much money is there to be made in digital releases ?
every tom dick n harry seem to doing the digital thing but is there any real money to be made of it ?

a lot, the percentage of profit you get is huge compared with releasing cd's and vinyls as you don't have to pay to produce, but for mastering costs etc.

joni_speedbass wrote:wheres the dubplate option ?

id be interested to know
appart from all the big time dj's
how many smalle time dj's are putting money into cutting dubplates n promoting the smaller lesser known / up n coming artists

I'm more interested in seeing what people are buying in terms of releases etc. I wouldn't have thought many people on here are cutting dubplates unless they're a popular DJ

teknotik wrote:I personally think that MP3s and other downloads are just a stop gap between physical media and something more like Spotify. In the future I don't honestly believe we will actually be storing huge amounts of music ourselves and will most likely have some sort of license or subscription to stream any music whenever and wherever we want. At the moment this isn't much good in a club or on the move, but I'm sure it will be. I'm sticking to vinyl and CD for the time being until it's clear what sort of real lasting technology there is going to be for digital music and then I will think about actually paying for a non-physical product.

not so sure there's a danger of this happening anytime soon, as people like owning things they can attend to at any point. streaming is limited to computer owners with an internet connection, people need music to be a lot more flexible than that so things won't change from what I can see.

personally, one of the reasons I started this thread was because I only ever buy vinyls - I barely think about buying CDs ever and haven't bought one myself in a few years I think. I think CD is the format with maybe the least appeal as it isn't the best sounding/looking nor is it the most convenient. However much I love vinyls though - I've been finding it can be a slightly frustating thing at times, like when a record gets scratched, is badly pressed, quality decreases with age and so forth. I bought the gang gang dance album a few months ago and somehow it's managed to get a big scratch on one of my favourite tracks and is difficult to listen to now for it. That's the frustrating thing with vinyl, you can pay a lot for it and things can go badly wrong, but I still wouldn't swap it for a CD. I do occasionally buy mp3 single tracks if the record is too expensive or anything, and I like the way that mp3s are profitable for artists as well

jimitheexploder · Post by **jimitheexploder** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:27 pm

Physical formats are for me at the moment. I don't really like the idea of having everything only on mp3 I've had to many computers break. Plus I have decks and have done for years, I can only really DJ with viynal at the moment. One day I will probibly get Serato or something but its a bit steep for now. I like the idea of one day being able to dig out, pass on or even sell my viynal. I'm pretty sure no one is gona be buying and colection second hand mp3's in the future.

joni_speedbass · Post by **joni_speedbass** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:33 pm

hopper wrote:
joni_speedbass wrote:Realisticly how much money is there to be made in digital releases ?
every tom dick n harry seem to doing the digital thing but is there any real money to be made of it ?
a lot, the percentage of profit you get is huge compared with releasing cd's and vinyls as you don't have to pay to produce, but for mastering costs etc.

thats interesting - seriously considering setting up a digital label to promote local artists - but i wouldnt know wear to start
yeah deffo cant afford to press vinyls

joni_speedbass · Post by **joni_speedbass** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:38 pm

sapphic_beats wrote:
joni_speedbass wrote:Realisticly how much money is there to be made in digital releases ?
every tom dick n harry seem to doing the digital thing but is there any real money to be made of it ?
you ever done any research into the break even point on vinyl? LOL.

no tbh i havent got a clue but i presumed it wouldnt be much - enlighten me ?
ps - was it u who remixed exile ?

fused_forces · Post by **fused_forces** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:42 pm

I buy around 5 to 20 cd's a month, an spent roughly £100 on wax, these days.