CDs Are Booming Again With 17.5 Million Units Sold in the First Half of 2026
CDs Are Booming Again With 17.5 Million Units Sold in the First Half of 2026
Fedigest
Fedigest
CDs Are Booming Again With 17.5 Million Units Sold in the First Half of 2026
Sweet, I love it. Best form of physical media next to the record, but records have gotten damn expensive. Keep it goin!
i got rid of my dvd collection once streaming became a thing, but not my dvd collection -- maybe it'll appreciate too. lol
I pulled out the CD Burner and we're gonna buy a pack of CDs next time the kids are here so I can show my youngest the ancient technology she heard about 😂 she's got a CD player she jams with all the time, obsessed with the damn thing, so it'll be fun to show her how we used to do it. Her jaw dropped when I told her about the books of burned CDs we had, all downloaded from Napster and limewire til torrents finally came around big time and we could get discographies at a time.
I imagine kids being amazed at this when theyve only known YouTube kids and Spotify. It must feel magical to them !
What? Optical discs are a horrible storage medium. One slight scratch on the film and the whole thing can be ruined.
Hard drives are a horrible medium. One drop and all your data is gone 😉. Discs are actually superior for data longevity if youre really hardcore. I dont use them for that myself.
And if they get scratched you resurface. Some of y'all didnt grow up with discs or didnt take care of them. Unless you mean the top film, which is valid, but ive never once had that issue. Unless youre knifing the tops of your discs
I did specify the film when I talked about scratches. I grew up with CDs and had plenty that were ruined by a scratch on the film, often from being dropped while in a CD player or accidentally left out.
Optical discs are not a superior form for long term storage by any stretch of the imagination. Most consumer CDs only last 5-20 years. The film can start delaminating if they're not stored in ideal conditions.
I have CDs that are 30-40 years old and play just fine. CD-Rs may have more issues (though all my 20-year old burned discs still play), but commercial discs can last a long time if you keep them in a case of some kind and don't leave them in humid conditions. They probably won't last centuries, but I expect most of my CDs will probably outlive me.
If you scratch the topside you're done
In handling thousands of CDs in my life I never once have scratched the top. Are you offroading a dirtbike while jamming to limp bizkit on your portacd or what?!
I learned it when a guy I knew had his car broken I to and they tried to take finger prints off the top and they took they digital silver shit leaving a clear disk...
And when I was a teen I definitely put CDs upside down when being too lazy to put them back in the case, thinking it wouldn't scratch the CD. I was incorrect...
I do have multiple limp Bizkit CDs that are over 25 years in my possession.
Just CD's? That's just an USB but worse
Can’t load up a usb in most cars without spending money on a new unit first. Also can’t go to Walmart and steal a usb with Music already loaded on it 🤘
Thank God there are dumbasse's willing to spend money on dumbassery!
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