CD no more produced?

@gawdbless  stereotypes can be dangerous. I can often be found smoking a pipe (quality tobacco blend, Holy City) and wearing slippers while listening to the Butthole Surfers or Jane's Addiction. ;-)

Someone mentioned HD Tracks as an alternative to CDs. I've purchased one album from them. I did this for two reasons: 1) There was a discount offer and 2) The album I wanted was Gary Clark Jr's first album the CD of which is overly compressed. The HD Tracks version was little less compressed and higher resolution than the CD. I don't think the resolution makes that much difference to be honest but the lower degree of compression did.

Having said that, even with the discount the album was around $17 whereas a used CD would be about $5 or $6.

As far as I am concerned HD Tracks simply isn't worth the money even for a marginally better recording.If it is a far superior recording then maybe. Plus, if you lose the file or it is damaged you're out of luck. They do not 'keep' your purchases for you the way Apple does. Backup is critical.

@n80- 
 of course old punks never die, they are just not as active, and like to wear slippers and smoke a pipe whilst cranking the stereo and spitting on the ceiling......those were the days of misspent yoof.lol......

Appreciate the mention from "brauser"  mentioning secondspin.com. I'll check that out. 

There's also CDBaby.com  Which can be a pretty good source to check out good, new independent music  (which I'm always on the lookout for). It's fun to go in there and root around in the various sub-genres to find the gems. Most of the CDs they offer there have :30 sec sound samples of all the tracks on the CD. 

And, of course Amazon for used CDs.   

I was in the habit at one time of going into the streaming services such as iTunes or Spotify not to stream the music but only to discover new music, and when I came across something I liked, I'd then check the used CDs on Amazon to get the physical CD.   

The upside to CDBaby is they offer an outlet for new, "off the beaten path" musicians.  The downside is that a lot of the material that they offer isn't available anywhere else, so you're looking at paying full retail price for the CD on that site.   

 

Another thank you to "brauser" mentioning secondspin.com. Ordered my first group of CD's from them on Sunday & they were delivered today.