How much would you pay on new Album release?

[madmurray]

If there is a release that you want, do you pay for it right away on week of release or do you wait until it comes down in price?

I mean this more for Cd's as I still buy them, but sometimes if not most of the time, I wait until they come down in price.

At the moment, I want to buy the brilliant soundtrack of Bright, but they are wanting £13 odds for the cd, for which a man of my finances think is too dear. This is why I wait till it comes down in price and stick with streaming it the now.

What would be your buying price for a standard album? Most seem to be £10.

[TheThorne]

I find albums are cheap when they are released I rarely pay more than £9 with my Amazon Prime preorders . Even if an album is £13.99 when I order it it is usually only about £8-9 I am charged due to low price guarantee

Bright is £9.99 On Amazon

[madmurray]

Jan 4, 2018 10:22:22 GMT 1 TheThorne said:

I find albums are cheap when they are released I rarely pay more than £9 with my Amazon Prime preorders . Even if an album is £13.99 when I order it it is usually only about £8-9 I am charged due to low price guarantee

Bright is £9.99 On Amazon

Its coming up as £13.19 for me on Amazon.

I never seem to get new music for £8/9, especially from Amazon.

[TheThorne]

Jan 4, 2018 10:40:04 GMT 1 madmurray said:

Jan 4, 2018 10:22:22 GMT 1 TheThorne said:

I find albums are cheap when they are released I rarely pay more than £9 with my Amazon Prime preorders . Even if an album is £13.99 when I order it it is usually only about £8-9 I am charged due to low price guarantee

Bright is £9.99 On Amazon

Its coming up as £13.19 for me on Amazon.

I never seem to get new music for £8/9, especially from Amazon.

Oops yeh that was MP3. I always do as if I preorder an album as soon as it is announced , the price will change several times for months and they will then refund me the difference if I paid more than the cheapest amount. And if I do get send an album for £13 very rare I just return it and buy it later but only done that a couple of times.

Ok Bright definitely £10 at HmV.com

store.hmv.com/music/cd/bright-the-album

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Compilation albums

I get Sainsbury’s

Now that I call Music normal around £13
Ministry of sound around £11 and £12
Rest normal £10

So never know why now cd most expensive

[-Big Dan-]

I would have paid up to 15 quid at one time for a CD, nowadays I probably wouldn't pay more than a tenner.

[o]

They should be £5 imo, but I have paid £10-15 if there's an album I really want to listen to in my car.

[Hupin]

For me, it all depends on what it is. If it's an artist that I love it probably wouldn't matter too much of the cost. For most I don't really need it right away and it might be quite a while until I get round to buying the CD. In the meantime I just listen to it on Spotify.

[borneoman]

I think Spotify has kinda killed the need to buy anything on week 1
even for my top favourites, I always buy but no need to rush

[madmurray]

Jan 4, 2018 15:29:22 GMT 1 borneoman said:

I think Spotify has kinda killed the need to buy anything on week 1
even for my top favourites, I always buy but no need to rush

Agree, as that is how I am getting by, although as o said above, unless its for the car.

[Laurence]

I haven’t bought an album for a couple of years - certainly no need with Spotify Premium. I don’t know if I’ll join the vinyl boom though - opened a huge vinyl specialist stores near me and I can see the appeal as it’s such a middle class middle age hobby.

Doubt I’d go back to CDs though!

[borneoman]

I joined the vinyl thing a couple years ago, vinyls are amazing from a collector's point of view
I love buying them but I'm never in a rush to

[madmurray]

Jan 5, 2018 0:28:44 GMT 1 Laurence said:

I haven’t bought an album for a couple of years - certainly no need with Spotify Premium. I don’t know if I’ll join the vinyl boom though - opened a huge vinyl specialist stores near me and I can see the appeal as it’s such a middle class middle age hobby.

Doubt I’d go back to CDs though!

I had a spell last year when I was constantly buying vinyls and trawling through charity shops etc. I love my vinyls, the sound, the smell and reading the covers.

However it faded as at night I was becoming tired and couldnt be arsed getting off my butt and changing over after only 6 songs and thats when the passion faded.

Will still pick it up one day. Need to as place is full of vinyl..lol.

[TheThorne]

I want to stop buying physical music but I just can’t help it. I cut back to about 50 albums last year and I want to stop but I know I will have to buy The 1975 or Chvrches etc etc

At the moment though I have no preorders yet so let’s see if I can hold out

[madmurray]

Jan 5, 2018 13:01:52 GMT 1 TheThorne said:

I want to stop buying physical music but I just can’t help it. I cut back to about 50 albums last year and I want to stop but I know I will have to buy The 1975 or Chvrches etc etc

At the moment though I have no preorders yet so let’s see if I can hold out

I keep saying the same as I have to keep re-jiggling things around to store or show the cds.

I have thousands and thousands of mp3's, especially for my gigs now that I have switched to laptop but I feel mp3's get lost in memory. Yes they are there, in alphabetically ordered folders etc but it just isn't the same as having that physical content.

Like yourself, I don't have any pre orders, but still won't stop me buying something randomly at any given time, especially if any sales are on.

I had to put my cd albums alphabetically as I started buying duplicates. Not a good sign...lol

[TheThorne]

Lost in memory! That's it exactly and same thing applies to Spotify.Music you have on a shelf is not forgotten Mp3s from 2009 are.