Best Places to Buy CDs in 2024
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- There are many places to find that hidden gem or that favorite album you've been hunting for. In this video, I go over the places I visit to procure CDs for my collection.
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0:00 Intro
1:38 Record Stores
3:56 Thrift/Charity Shops
5:47 Big Box Stores
7:15 Online Stores
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I'm 13 and i am absolutely obsessed with cds!!! i only have 25 but i plan to collect more. The nearest cd shop for me is HMV which is over an hour away and so i usually buy them when we go on shopping trips but i also order from their online store. There is just something so fascanating about flipping through the sections to find your fav artists! i wish more younger ppl enjoyed collecting cds like i do. 💿
Thank you for sharing your love for CDs! It's awesome to see young collectors like you keeping the love for physical media alive.
so cool
Never look back now !!!! Cd’s is the best music format period for sound quality & they’ll last 4ever whereas vinyl & cassettes won’t !!!!
Get to garage sales !
Wow! 25 CDs? I had only 7 when I was 16 back in 91.
In 2000, we had 17 dedicated music stores in my city. I was a manager of one of them (Camelot Music). That 17 does not include stores such as Walmart, K-mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. If you counted every big box store, there were easily over 30 places to buy CDs. Today, we have the pitiful selection that Walmart still carry and one single used book store. So very very sad.
Small town life. We have dozens of thrift stores, used book stores, pawn shops, and several music stores specializing in CD's. (Orlando area). And I'm not counting Walmart or K-Mart.
Here in Savannah Ga we have currently 5 record stores & that’s not including all the thrift stores
@@georgierockwood2355 Record or CD? We still have several hipster "Record" stores.
@@Scott.Hughes all the stores here in Savannah carry all formats….records..cds..cassettes..8tracks…reel to reel…also new releases in all those formats too
You & I have the same passion for cd’s….I haven’t bought vinyl since 79 / 80 when I bought my 1st CD player in ‘80 for $999.99 & im still using it…I’ve been buying cd’s since ‘80 & never have looked back !!!!! Cd”s are the best sound quality period !!!! Over vinyl !!!!! No snap crackle & pop…..
CDs didn't come out until 1982.
@@drwisdom1 oops my bad….brain freeze yep ‘82….
@@georgierockwood2355 I have 30 feet of LPs I got from before they were discontinued in 1989, so I was a big fan of LPs in my younger days. Back in 1982 I was standing outside the Dallas airport and struck up a conversation with a guy smoking nearby. He was in the music industry and told me CDs would be coming out soon and it would wipe out LPs. That was the first clue that my hobby of collecting albums would collapse.
I think LPs have always sounded much better than CDs, even with the imperfections. But in the instances where I buy music today I always buy CDs. In the old days I bought LPs and recorded cassettes for the car because I knew LPs would last and cassettes are fleeting and can be rerecorded. Similarly, I get CDs because I can rip them to MP3s and play them in the car and off my server at home. It is way too much work to convert an LP to digital while it is easy to rip CDs.
I love that static sound on records, but all I’ve been buying since 1993, since I was eleven are CD’s. No skipping, easy to put in places and will just last longer. I love it.
I go to thrift stores in Denver all the time for CDs. 3 things you have to look out for: A) look inside to make sure there is actually a disc inside. This may seem obvious, but quite often the more desirable CDs are stolen from the cases or sometimes they are donated as empty cases and they just arent checked when put on the shelf. 2) Make sure it is the correct disc. For reasons unknown I have seen completely wrong/random discs in the case and I have also seen backup/copies of the discs in the case. 3) Check the underside for condition. You learn over time the difference between just being dirty to lightly scratched to heavily damaged. Often superficial scratches are ok, but the deep ones will almost surely cause skipping. Scratches in a ring pattern seem to be some of the worst.
I bought an entire box of brand new empty CD jewel cases. 100 or so for $4. They come in handy when you find a CD with cracked/scratched/fogged jewel case. Just slip the printed material and CD into a new case and it looks like a brand new CD.
Exactly...I'm in Lakewood...Greenmountain area..love to hit up Arcs and Mile high. TWIST and shout is cool...but far. Angelos Broadway, 2nd and charles wads and Colorado mills mall, Whale Store, Jeffco Belmar etc libraries have 1 buck cds. I love the hunt. #thriftshoping is great..luck of the draw.
It was so funny one time I found an Enrique Iglesias cd inside a Megadeth cover, and I had actually been wanting that cd for a long time. , I wanted to find it cheap, not that it was rare or anything.for a long time. So it was a good find for me.
The skipping issue is actually complex. Singles can take a lot of beating thanks to their low playtime which also means the tracks occupy less space. Another thing is that it really depends on player. One player can give up on a deep scratch whilst the other can read a CD full of shallow scratches. There was a post on CD collectors subreddit which showed a CD full of holes being playable. Shows you how reliable error correction got over time. The only way to pronounce a CD “dead” from cursory looking is if it got a triangular pattern of gash on the innermost ring or deep scratches all over it (though in the case of former there can be listenable stuff left over)
I've never streamed (aka renting) music, movies, etc. Finding super cheap used CDs online is awesome!!
I actually just looked up cd or vinyl shops around me and found 3 really close by! I am going to have to give them a visit soon! Awesome video as usual!
Best Buy has already abandoned physical media movies. CDs are the greatest form of physical media that had ever been widely produced. SACD had to potential to eclipse the CD. But it debuted the exact same year as Napster and file sharing. We, as Americans, are so disappointing in our choices. Most would rather have crap quality in exchange for convenience. It's the same reason Craftsman Tools - Made in the USA - Guaranteed Forever... is no longer a thing. People decided to get cheap Chinese disposable tools than invest something their children will use.
Best Buy is a dead store. Hopefully, they continue to go out of business 😂
Thanks for the video to bring awareness to the importance of stores and locations to buy CDs. As consumers we have the biggest impact on retailers. If we buy it, they will stock it. So let’s continue to buy what we can afford to buy in addition to streaming. I love the reissues that Rhino and others continue to produce of classic albums. Interesting that they have been adding vinyl along with CDs to the box sets to draw in vinyl buyers. Keep leading the CD charge on You Tube!
Thanks for making this very informative video. Like you, I love collecting CDs and I am vert glad to hear that your list of places to purchase is almost an exact match to mine. Fortunately, the Orlando/Tampa area has a number of great record stores that sell both new and used CDs along with other formats. By the way, I also picked up a number of CDs from stores who sell on Etsy. I only wish that record companies would sell both new releases and reissued titles on ALL formats and not just vinyl. I guess they are just trying to make the most money possible. Long live the physical formats of music and our independent record stores as I dread the day if all purchases had to be made on digital platforms. There is just something about holding the music in your hands as you listen to it. Its magical and words cannot truly describe that euphoric experience.
Advice from a old guy with bifocals. Bring a magnifying glass with you to read the edge labels on a shelf full of used CDs.
Agreed!
And a flashlight. Lol
Why?
Nice video! I share your love for the cd. I find them to be the best sounding and most convenient physical medium. And speaking of finding, I've had much luck with flea markets. You never know what you might find- perhaps nothing, perhaps some esoteric treasure!
I’m so disappointed in the flea market in Denver, no CDs :(
Hey Mike, looks like I'm heading to Denver at some point. Here in Canada(Alberta) there is dick all for any stores that carry cd's. Literally, it would be easier to fly to the US, do my shopping and FedEx it all back to Canada, eh !!! (Couldn't resist). Great video sir. Have an awesome week.
I’m a cd fanatic too!! I have vinyl, but it doesn’t compare to my cd collection!!! I will collect CD’s until I can NO longer buy music period! It’s so addictive it’s like being an alcoholic!😂Shop at thrift stores and half price books. Barnes and Noble is cool, but a bit over priced. However, I do check anyway!
Hello !! Michael . I live in Denver too and I go to Black and Red store in the Arvada area , they have a very good selection of used CD and they have and offer that you get 3 for 2 on used CD . It is a great place and the prices are not that bad . Great video as always .
Oh man I’m going to have to check that place out!!
I frequent Black and Read. It's ok, just OK. Their inventory isn't very well organized and the store is a mess. With that said, I have found a few jems there.
Flea markets will sometimes have a booth that sells CDs. My local flea market has one that carries them, with DVDs, Blu Rays, vinyl, and video games. Got one of my unicorns there this past weekend, but they had a pretty solid selection of used in good condition at $4-6 per.
I used to stream, got tired of it fast. Only cd's now and travel around between Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. No desire to stream at all. I do use Spotify and Pandora to check out tunes and artist on my phone while shopping. Great video!
Thanks for showing me twist and shout! ill have to hop by there.
It’s an amazing shop!
In Houston, Half Price Books has decent used cd dept. You gave me the itch, might go in the morning.
Love searching out those early jazz CDs. They sound amazing. Same for early jazz viynl pressings.
I am with you thank you.
Craigslist is always worth checking too. Often you'll find someone selling box loads of music. Some will let you buy what you want or they may require you to buy the whole box. I've had some good luck with CL. Always worth a peek.
I found an entire set (15 or so) of Legendary Blues Artists (Leadbelly, John Lee Hooker, Son House, etc, etc)on a label called Blue Dog Records for $3 each at Big Lots (at the time called Odd Lots). They had a CD display near the front of the store with a wide range of compilations , soundtracks and other oddities. It was fun to look and see what was in there.
Yes! Mike I agree! This was a mint condition Ponta Box Modern Juzz! Very hard to find! Anyway it arrived in great condition! Haven't listened yet!
Enjoy it!
Collector's Choice Music online is one of my favorite sources. Extensive selection and hardcopy catalogs available too.
CDs cost much less than their vinyl counterparts. FYE has plenty of CDs for sale. I also buy CDs on eBay and discogs, and sometimes Amazon, too!
Hey Andrew! Great to see you are in Denver. Come and check out Gold Sound on South Broadway sometime!
How could I have missed a music shop?! I’ll come check it out
It's a bad situation here in Augusta GA as well. Yes the Walmarts/Targets have CD's and we do have a Barnes & Noble still at the mall. It's slim pickens after that. Downtown there are a couple of record stores and we have a 2nd & Charles (like a Barnes & Noble, was a Books-a-Million) that has CD's but they are usually new and just what's popular.
I think as a CD Collector and Kpop Fan, I think CD collectors should look in to KPop CDs, their albums are worth the money for how much is included and the music is decent. They are surprisingly available in a lot of places in the USA, like Target, Walmart, and Barnes & Noble, Just be aware of albums that the shrink wrap has been slashed, people steal the inclusions in them.
I was headed to Target to get the new Judas Priest CD but was across town and near an independent record store. They didn't have the expanded edition like Target but I was able to get the stock version and the new Bruce Dickinson CD for about $25 - same price as the expanded Priest was at Target. So shout out to Record City in San Diego for saving the day!
If you live in, or have a chance to get to Japan, you will find that the CD is alive and well. In fact, it has never stopped flourishing. Not even mentioning the Tower Records, Disk Unions, or HMVs, but Book Off and tons of locally owned stores sell all kinds of music on CD for incredible prices
I also buy cd's from band and or label's websites. Also from when I see them live.
I find expanding my cds is thrift stores, people selling via marketplace. I've been able to buy used on the regular 1 or 2 dollars canadian per cd. Have fun hunting
thank u sir
You are welcome my friend
Silver Platters is the best place to shop for CDs in the Seattle metro area. They have 3 stores plus you can order online from their website. I just scored a bunch of great titles for as low as 99 cents.
A soundtrack you need too find is the wraith soundtrack..
66 years old and I was a diehard vinyl fan dragged kicking and screaming into the cd Revolution. When new vinyl was no longer available. As time went on I realized how much more CdS were more useful than vinyl. The biggest two reasons the storage space, and the crisp clear sound for the most part no skipping or scratchy sound. I pillage my local Barnes And Noble at least twice a year
CDs is apart of my childhood
I have found MANY good CDs in my hometown at thrift and pawn shops fro 50¢ to $2 each.
I used to collect Vinyls in the 80's but shifted to CDs in the 90s. I think Steven Wilson of Porcupine Trees says it best that CDs are superior to Vinyls when you need a very quiet background like when listening to ambient kind of music and dont want to get any pop corn sounds from the vinyls. I support both physical formats. I use spotify to identify music i like and then out for the physical format. So i guess streaming is also beneficial to us in a way as it allowed you to gain access to music at zero/low cost in the beginning.
I agree with this whole heartedly
I love my CDs , when I fly to visit family in Europe is when I stock up . I love to have my favorite albums, physically in my hands as opposed to some empty download. A download has NO liner notes people ..
we have one store that has a little and I have checked surrounding towns. I also just went to a ministry concert and they had records but not cds for merch! I don't find much in the florida thrift shops that is my taste either. It is all country, gosple , or orcistra maybe some like rb or blues. It has become so very hard to find any cds let alone what I want.
I get so mad when artists neglect CDs at shows.
There is only 1 chain store left selling cds stationary in Poland:( . However, with a poor selection on shelves,but you can order a cd provided that a release is quite new. The older the harder to get.
I am drom Denver, he basically described my own weekend routine.😂
If you are in Denver, also check out the poace called "the antique mall".
Hmmm, well, if you are open to serendipity and not particular, thrift stores are great. However, if you really want a particular CD and/or want a higher quality selection, go for the record shop.
Ah yes, when I went in to Twist and Shout, I go to find a cd I can't find anywhere. That was close to 30 years ago but that is the Mecca for vinyl enthusiasts. The owner looked like a hippie from the 60's and was so helpful.
My local town has about 20 charity shops, 2 dedicated (2nd hand) record shop that do used CDs, an HMV and a big boot fair every so often. I'm going to the boot fair tomorrow, hoping to buy a few hundred at under 50p each (UK). Wouldn't be a first time to buy that many! I still buy around 1000 a year but the ones I'm looking for seem further and far between. The dedicated record shop is usually the place to go for specific titles. Often better prices than the charity shops!
I’m jealous you have that many options
the only way to support cds is to buy new releases which are usually $10-20. That's not really bad at all. I hope to see the survival of the format. Also good portable cd players are on sites like amazon at reasonable prices. Best buy, along with cds, has sadly now stopped carrying movies.
My area doesn't have a local record store. The only place to get my music is Target. Amazon is my secondary to get CDs.
Walmart and Target have dropped their CD selection to the bare minimum. (Also their DVDs and BLURAYs) I walked into Target looking for the new Judas Priest album and they basically only had KPOP and Taylor Swift in the NEW section.
Personally I'd love to open a store selling Cd's and movies. I typically get all my cds on Amazon as it is hard to find a decent record store anymore. Just got a new CD in the mail today as a matter of fact as an Easter gift from my friend.
The best place I have found for new CD's is Tower Records is in Tokyo. I go at least once a year and stock up on music that I can't find or is prohibitively expensive in Canada. I also frequent Disk Union in Tokyo for used and new CD's.
That would be fun to visit
I have bought records on Discogs from sellers in Italy and they send them from Holland. The important thing is to have received what I bought
In SW Florida best place is Goodwill. 2.00 apiece
Can’t beat that price!
Based in Germany, I can recommend ordering at JPC. However, a lot of independent artist shops I've encountered lately do not ship to abroad destinations anymore since the last increase in US postal international shipping fees.
Postal fees are out of control
@@mykandrew Thanks for the reply. Well, what more can I say?
Can you recommend a very good cd player that I can put on a dresser or desk, don’t have the space for a stereo unit, I have a Bose wave cd player but I really don’t care for the sound?
I still buy cd's n records. I get em online coz i live in a rural area n there's no more music store near me anywhere
I’m 19 I just got a car and it comes with a cassette player and a cd player I was gonna replace it but nowadays if someone gets into my car and is like “yoooo lemme get the aux” imma be like “it’s not like that, you can pick from my cds” and it’s just cheaper in my opinion because spending monthly adds up but one copy lasts you a lifetime or more
I live outside of Denver and have 30 feet of LPs from before they were discontinued in 1989. The concept of putting them into discogs scares me. I would be dead before I got done.
That’s how I feel about my CDs 😂
I totally agree with u !!!! I’ve got thousands of cd’s & I just don’t have the time or patience 2 log them all down on discogs so I just go on memory
My experience is there is about 100 per foor. That makes just 3000 LPs. I've Discoged over 10,000 in my collection (not counting the few thousand on top of that for sale), ande completed a few years ago. Now I can keep up with new purchases. It's not a big job, but it does need dedication. But then I've been on Discogs for almost 20 years!
I'm a "CD-SACD-fanatic" also. I buy them all the time. Got a double CD and 2 SACDs today. Yes, I only buy new ones since I don't have another option.
You can make an SACD Selection filter in Discogs, and add other conditions to the filter like country, price category, genre etc and buy them 2nd hand
@@robbar1963I live in Sweden and only buy here.
You do have an option mate, visit your local dump re-cycle shop. They give CDs away FREE!
The Barnes and Noble stores around me are phasing out their music sections. The only real places around here are the used places. There are a lot of them. FYE in the mall stopped selling music and videos altogether.
I solely buy at thrift stores from..99 to 1:99. Pawn shops used to be a great place to buy cd’s.
If you mentioned these forgive me for being redundant ( I have it on CC with the sound down because I’m late night YouTubing)! I’ve had luck with some used bookstores finding CDS, vinyl and cassettes also libraries will sometimes cut their inventory of CDS to borrow and sell them for a buck a piece.
Sorry - did I miss your comments on Decluttr ??
Anyone who needs someone on RUclips to tell them where to find CDs must be having a pretty rough time with life in general 😄
What’s the name of the song you play when you go to the record store?
I don’t nobody think about this what about if streaming music go down how is everybody supposed to listen to music I still buy cds streaming music is not gonna be going on forever So I still buy CDs 😊
I believe you forgot "Record Fairs". Though i find here in the UK you mainly get Vinyl dealers at the Record Fairs these days. It's a shame about CD sales. They sound pretty good compared to streaming online, and no snap, crackle, and pop.
We got one shop on the island ,and mostly I end up ordering online 😢
For Me~Only Online...Target & WalMart Has A Sad Arse Selection...WorseBuy[Formerly BestBuy]Discontinued CDs...
I buy used cds at 3 local shops. Price range is 2$ at Savers and other two regular used music shops charge $2.95 to $5.99 per disk.
5 k cds..i love my collection ❤❤❤❤
Nice...now take a trip to the re-cycle shop at your local dump and pick up unlimited CDs that are being given away for free. The younger generation have no idea what they are missing.👍
another store had a good CD section is Amoeba music in los Angeles.
Michael.... you are a lost brother. I am also a lover of CDs, cannot understand why people have resurected the LP curse. Nothing comes close to the benefits of music CDs. I like also the "Thrift Shop", as you guys call them. In Australia we say "Op Shop". But they do get picked over pretty much by the older guys into this stuff, and the "disc thieves" (dont you just hate them!). Love your vids mate, and Brendans. Rock On Brothers!
When a record is perfectly mastered with a fantastic turntable yes vinyl can sound incredible. But so can cd. I like both.
I really like music CDs and movie DVDs as well. I have a nice collection of both. 😃👍🏻 I do NOT like streaming media of any kind. :(
eBay has had just about every CD I have wanted
Hey Mike, Discogs is interesting! I just purchased a CD I have been wanting for awhile! I got it on Discogs but the seller was supposedly in Japan but it showed the shipper was in Switzerland! I was charged in Swiss Frank's! Which cost a bit more! When the CD arrived it was from Japan! Why did they charge me in Swiss Frank's? Makes no sense! Any reason? Thanks, larry
That’s interesting 🧐 Perhaps a Japanese pressing from Switzerland? I try and buy primarily from the US unless it’s something I really want
Buy direct from artist websites that way they actually get the money
I have 4 boxes of CDs, full range, classical, new age, oldies all the way to 70s, 80s up to the some of the latest 2020s. Anybody interested, let me know. It's only US$4 a piece.
For used CDs travel to Florida, aka God’s Waiting Room, and buy dead man’s CDs at the thrift shops you spoke of.
Why do new cds not work on cd players from the 90s?
Barnes and Noble + reasonably priced should never be muttered in the same sentence. 😂
CD's are $1.99 at Salvation Army.
I wouldn’t even consider physically going out running around looking for CDs. Not happening lol. Between Amazon and eBay I find everything I’m looking for quick and convenient. Anybody that would rather run around looking for them has way too much free time on their hands.
I hit thrift stores because I buy and sell, so why not look through the cd’s while I’m there?
I buy most of my cds at thrift stores for 1 to 3 dollars.
Buy CDs. Say no to Spotify.
Bring back cd's... Bring back physical media
I've never heard anyone say the words "used content" before and I hope I never do again! :P
In 2024 CDs are no go, unless they do DSD/DSF....
CD and vinyl scratch melt too easily
8Track tape are best not cassette,vinyl,reel to reel,4track ,downloads
Answer: My eBay store!
CDs are not dying as you say but there is a reason for the popularity of vinyl records today The CDs compressed sound is one reason why listening to vinyl is a better option for many I would hardly call vinyl records antique as they are more popular than ever right now
Newbury comics still selling cds, but mostly vinyl. Good call on the thrift stores 💯
Why are you letting out our secrets??
nothing wrong with wanting more people to discover how amazing cds are & create a bigger demand for them.
Its a little comical how humans wiggle around trying to make money out of and off of music....cd's sound better and last longer than any medium to date with no fashionable noise to ignore cuz humans are easily influenced.....I never stopped buying cd's. I made an attempt to return to vinyl with a $2000.00 TT & cartridge 10 years ago....if sound quality can make anyone pay $40.00 for vinyl then this society based on an economy instead of common sense wins again.....did I say that ?
You are right
Fye has gone diwn hill. ENTERTAINMART at Bowles Wadsworth mall