Anyone Else Think Physical Albums Are Bad?

Imo one is fine, it's good to have hobbies, it makes life interesting and helps promote creativity in the world. But hoarding/bulk buying is a big ass no.

You don't owe the artist anything to be guilt tripped for and vice versa.

Eh I have the money, buying them brings me happiness, and I feel like I'm supporting my faves even if it's only a little. So why not? Though I don't feel obligated in anyway, I buy them when I want to. As for being paperweights, I like displaying them among other crap I collect.

Ppl who buy like for their own collection I don’t see anything wrong with it. That’s just another hobby like any other.

But people who bulk buy and discard them all for sales records : they’re scum.

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They are wasteful and bad for the planet, and anytime I ever bought one they just sit in my room.

A big, glorified paperweight.

And all these rich celebrities and companies guilt trip you into saying they make more money off of them. When I'm pretty sure I needed the money, I spent on the albums far more than the labels and artist did.

The dopamine hit from buying the stupid things lasted a few hours at most.

Now I just listen to music for free on Youtube and if I want to support a struggling indie artist etc I just watch an advertisement etc.

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Ah the answer of a Gen z. The reason album buying was a thing for generations was because the technology for digital only albums were not a thing, and when they were the prevailing wisdom of the time was to always maintain redundancy and ownership of things. A digital album can disappear if your Internet goes out etc, or a company refuses to keep supplying that content on XYZ platform.

This has already happened with Sony, Disney and a few other companies where people legitimately bought movies and music, but it was later removed from the customers library because the companies were in a legal dispute over e rights, these people were not financially compensated either. Just think about buying a car and 6momths later the company that makes car tires has a falling out with the company that made your car and as a result they come to your house and take the wheels off the car you own. That's the type of bs for why people still want to buy albums, it's not a waste when I actually own what I purchased not something some dick can take away from me whenever they feel like it

i have only ever bought one album and i just let the organizer keep it

luckily for me my favorite has a youtube subscription so i just do that

i think triples objekt system might be the future

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Ah the answer of a Gen z. The reason album buying was a thing for generations was because the technology for digital only albums were not a thing, and when they were the prevailing wisdom of the time was to always maintain redundancy and ownership of things. A digital album can disappear if your Internet goes out etc, or a company refuses to keep supplying that content on XYZ platform.

This has already happened with Sony, Disney and a few other companies where people legitimately bought movies and music, but it was later removed from the customers library because the companies were in a legal dispute over e rights, these people were not financially compensated either. Just think about buying a car and 6momths later the company that makes car tires has a falling out with the company that made your car and as a result they come to your house and take the wheels off the car you own. That's the type of bs for why people still want to buy albums, it's not a waste when I actually own what I purchased not something some dick can take away from me whenever they feel like it

good point except digital stuff can be stored physically too which should be the way it is but it's not common anymore

There are other things that are more wasteful than buying a copy of kpop album.

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good point except digital stuff can be stored physically too which should be the way it is but it's not common anymore

Yes digital can be stored physically, but then you go back to the same issue 🤡 you can buy physical media be it hard drives,USB stick or blank CDs to burn your music to, you just did album buying with extra steps😂😂😂. Everything going digital is one part control because companies can screw you will leasing instead of selling you a product.

u know streaming and digital purchases also pollute. So as long as everyhing is moderate.

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Yes digital can be stored physically, but then you go back to the same issue 🤡 you can buy physical media be it hard drives,USB stick or blank CDs to burn your music to, you just did album buying with extra steps😂😂😂. Everything going digital is one part control because companies can screw you will leasing instead of selling you a product.

yea but you can do it on your existing drives! but i agree with you mostly

I do enjoy the photobooks and photocards, but I find it pointless to buy multiple copies of the same albums. It would be nice if the digital version of albums included more stuff because I would prefer that over the physical cd version

mate that can be said of any collectable good or any product

does that mean you'll never listen to a song ever again because listening to music consumes electricity and that's bad for the environment

does that mean you never post on AKP because coming on AKP consumes electricity and that's bad for the environment

In 2023, there were 1.17 billion shipments of mobile phones, this is the "cheapest" device needed to stream music. I doubt if there were a billion CD players sold in the last decade which is the minimum device needed to play a CD.

There are some Game Consoles that have a CD Attachment for Games, that can also play Music CDs but the Digital Music Retail Market slaughters the Physical Album Music Retail Market suggesting the need for a mobile phone is far more likely over a CD Music Player.

Some of us like to have something tangible when spending money, it's the one regret of buying a game on Steam as they all feel like throwaways. I have bought every version of TWICE's Korean CD Albums but feel like I was ripped off buying their Nemo Albums which was basically a link to digitally stream the album. Which naturally I haven't used because there is Youtube and JYPE uploads their albums.

I haven't own a CD Player since 2012 when I needed to install Windows on my new computer :P