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What a sad world we now live in.......

What a sad world.....

Had to go to our local Wal-Mart for something for the wife and thought would check out CD,s while here.

Could not find them so asked where to be told they had decided to stop selling them in-store.

In fact the whole electronics section looked bare and desolate.

Pretty sure a sign of the buy online times we now live in.
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shkong78
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That is the reason why I had bought 1,000CDs at 2,500$ during last 6 months.

They are on fire sale now.

But after few years, they may be valuable items no longer made.

I enjoy new collections of CDs.

Now I have around 2500 CDs.

Thomas
david_ten
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Michael Lavorgna on the (related) topic, recently:

https://twitteringmachines.com/high-end-munich-2019-cries-whispers/


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uberwaltz OP
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Agreed Thomas.

On average our thrift/charity ships are offloading them at silly prices of 50 cents to $1 each.

A lot of dross obviously but a lot of good stuff still.
They do not take up much room storage wise either......
inna
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If you only do streaming you are not audiophile in any sense of it. You can imagine about yourself anything you like - this won't change the reality of things. As one aspect - cds when done right still sound better than streaming. 
This comes from someone who doesn't accept digital as a serious method of recording and reproduction.

david_ten
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Yr. 2000 U.S. Population = ~282 million

Yr. 2000 CDs shipped = ~942 million

Yr. 2018 U.S. Population = ~329 million

Yr. 2018 CDs shipped = ~52 million

Yr. 2000   3.3 CDs shipped per U.S. person

Yr. 2018  0.16 CDs shipped per U.S. person

Or 6.3 persons in the U.S. per CD shipped in the U.S. in 2018.  
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