50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player

Re:50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player by reaperducer on Friday January 02, 2026 @05:29AM (#46463438)

Nobody loves CDs any more and I don’t get it.

Anecdotally, I see more and more stores that sell music now carry CDs.

Just yesterday I saw an entire wall of new-release CDs at a Barnes and Noble bookstore.

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Re:50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player by bartread on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:02PM (#46468136)

Yeah, I’m sort of hopeful it’ll experience a similar resurgence to vinyl.

Despite being terminally online for literally decades now I never got out of CDs just because it always bugged me that I could buy a physical copy with better (or, nowadays, usually equivalent) sound quality for the same or less money than the MP3 (or whatever format) album.

I’d then invariably rip to a compressed format for convenient on the go listening but, in 20 odd years, I’ve bought maybe half a dozen albums digitally, and half of those have been simply because no other format is available. (For context, I have maybe 700 albums on CD but I lost accurate count some years ago so it could well be more.)

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