Why do people buy CD's from Amazon?
814711
i relly have no idea.as you rightly say they are much cheaper elsewhere
322468
Niether. Online file sharing is a boon to artists. It drives the record companies nuts and is killing CD stores. The reality is downloading music is a more natural form of distrabution. It is what people have wanted to do with music for years. No more buying a CD for a single song. \n\nMore importantly it opens up the market to independent artists. No longer can the record companies strangle what music we hear. If we want to hear new music in the style that the record companies think is out of date we just look up indie artists who still make 60s style Rock or sing Folk music or do classical or Metal or Punk or the hundreds of other sub-genres the record companies keep attempting to kill. \n\nArtists except for those who have been around forever and are popular enough to demand a record contract suffered under the old system. Most went bankrupt after making millions for the record companies. Those days are over. Today the artist has a change to make a fair share of the proceeds. True there will be less money to share in. Still long term the market that is shaping up is pro-artist and will give music lovers more variety, more choice and less cost for the same music. \n\nThe biggest problem with the music industry today and the film industry to a lessor extent is a lack of creative vision, fear of taking risks and the attempt to limit what audiences want to hear and see. Out of all the movies release by major studios in a year there are only a few a year nodays I have any interest in seeing. The last one I eagerly stood in line to see in a movie theatre was the Return of the king. Most movies today are tired sequals or remakes. Movies you can predict the plot of from a trailor and often you've watched all the good parts in a movie just by watching the trailor.  \n\nMusic released today is pale copies of independent bands that forced their way onto the scene. Radio is bribed to hype and play certain artists and those same artists are dumped a year or two lator for the next fad. As such I buy few CDs any more. I buy mostly from indie sites. I've included a couple good ones in the sources section. It does mean sorting through some really bad artists to find the really good ones. Still there is some top notch music out there released by indie artists. \n\nThere is also a growing movement that believes music and film should be free. How people will make a living creating this work is another story if this movement takes hold.
1132797
Has it come out yet?\n\nIf it did recently, you may have to wait a little until they start stocking in stores like Wal-mart, Maybe try ebay or amazon.com first if you dont mind used cd's.
360678
I work retail. It's to keep them from getting stolen. Lots of $$ has been lost from CD's and DVD's and such being stolen. But, it's sad that even cashiers have a hard time taking that plastic around them off. Some really struggle and they even have the device that's meant to help lol
264074
look at an electronics store, or target or something, if u have to, look om ebay, but half the time, the cd's are old and used
811794
If you're truly a "punk" then I wouldn't go selling out to the authorities about a local video store renting out their screeners. \n\nI buy CDs from a local music store that sells the pre-release sample CD's they get sent, and I don't have a problem with it. They all have the same or similar warning. \n\nDo you have a personal grudge against the store, or just feel like being an annoying customer?
22915
They are based on the following things:\n\n1) Items you have purchased from Amazon.\n2) Items you have told Amazon you've purchassed from someone else\n3) Items that you add to your wish list\n4) Items that you've added to your shopping cart, but abandoned in the past.
88003
Because the prices are outrageous. I can spend $15-$20 on a CD, where I'll probably only like or know 3 songs, or I can download the songs singly for 10 - 99 cents from the web.
983413
I think they will always be here. Trying to stop illegal downloads is a lot like prohibition. Although it would be for the best, it has gone too out of hand and somehow someone will find a way to sneak it in, especially with how advanced our technology is today. Our technology is only going to get better too, and CD burners would produce the same effect as illegal downloads. Wouldn't you rather get your music for free instead of for a couple of dollars?
782236
If you don't have to sell them online, call up a local used music store in your town.  I've sold cds of mine to those kind of shops before.  \n\nIf you must sell them online, try www.craigslist.org\n\nYou can buy, sell, trade pretty much everything on there from furniture to music to cars.  It is categorized by location so make sure to check it out, you never know, you might have the cd that someone is dying to find!
933025
The same amount used to open a newly-purchased CD.
269944
Proabably.  If their uploaded in such a way that people can download them, definitely.  If people can only stream them and not keep them, almost definitely.\n\nSorry.  When you bought those CDs, you bought a license to listen to them yourself, not to give the content avay to others.
288545
If all of the above suggestions don't help check if the CD you  would like to listen to is crippled. The music industry did experiment with different technologies to make copying of music CDs impossible. One way to achieve this is by not following the CD standards and adding certain faults on purpose. These faults are corrected by most CD players but not by CD ROMs in PCs.
987533
are you being serious? It means to make a copy of a CD.
83005
Back when CD players were new technology, it became a status symbol to hang a CD from your rearview mirror.  It indicated that you were "fresh" and had spent a bunch of money aquiring this new gadget.  Yes, it doesn't make much sense, but these are the kinds of people that spend 30k tricking out a Camry worth $500.
12156
I think people who sell used stuff just send it themselves to whoever buys it.  Amazon just provides the website to sell through.
93823
Hmmm, to support pirates or artists? Quite the quandary. Should one support the owners of Intellectual Property? Or the theives who have stolen it? To purchase through legal or illegal channels?\n\nI honestly have no idea what the implied second side might be.\n\nBuy originals and only originals. Purchasing pirated CDs, DVDs, bedlinen, whatever, is not only stealing from the legitimate owners of the IP, but is supporting the careers of the scum who steal it.