Thrice

Most of mine is. I buy about 50 CD's a year nowadays. If it is something I can't find at our local record store or FYE, then I'll purchase it off the artists' site if possible. Occasionally, I'll eBay some CD's if I can get them for a dollar or so. There is also the method of being a youtube/last.fm etc... whore. I have hit a few people on MB up for an album that I've wanted.

Also, when I was on a LAN in college, we all DLed 'ourtunes' which allowed us to rapidly transfer songs from out iTunes library. I milked that for all it was worth.

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Mancini Scratch

I'm in the "holding the thing in your hand" Camp.

I buy physical copies of both CD's & Vinyl.

Because of my age I'm not bothered about getting new stuff as soon as it hits the shops or becomes available to download.

The last band I tried to get albums asap was during Oasis' releasing albums.

I must admit I do a lot of sifting in Charity shops and Cash Generator shops for other peoples unwanted music and in many cases I've unearthed some real gems both on vinyl and CD.

As I buy a lot of second hand music I realise that this is not financially rewarding the bands in question... but TBH I don't care.
On a positive note I'm actually recycling music and this can only be good for the enviroonment.

People have commented that downloading is probably the death Knell for physical albums. Quite possibly, but with "The Young uns" downloading so much I feel it has brought the cost down in places like HMV & Fopp and the like. Not always on new releases but on newish albums.
BTW... If an album comes out after year 2000 I consider it new!

I did have a phase about 3 years ago of downloading obscure Reggae & Dub which I'd probably never get on physical format. The problem I've since found with several of the burned copies is a very short life span and even when fresh an inferior quality of sound.

I saw highlighhts of Glastonbury 2009 on TV and buzzed off Maximo Park's performance prompting me a few days later to buy "A Certain Trigger" on CD. This was inspired by the tune called Apply some Pressure. After hearing the album I digged at least 5 tracks and subsequently bought "Our Earthly Pleasures". A great album for me.

If I'd have downloaded Apply some Pressure as a single unit I may not have explored Maximo Park in the way I did.

For me I like having the CD/Vinyl in my hand. I like the ritual of dropping on the turntable or pressing play and hearing it come through my speakers on my HIFI or Stereo. I don't get this computer thing that all your songs are on a big list.

Also I hate when "DJ's" turn up to do a night somewhere with a friggin Laptop and plug it in and away they go!
If anyone does that on here and makes a living from it then fair enough... but I think it's Lazy TBH.

Seltzer

Given that I just bought Aladdin Sane, the Man Who Sold the World, Station to Station, Hunky Dory and Scary Monsters in the last week, my answer is obviously yes. I suppose I just prefer to have a tangible entity that I can fiddle with and chuck on a shelf.

I currently have 60 CDs and a couple of records which may not seem like much but it's not too bad when you consider that I only really started buying music in the last couple of years and I'm still a poor student. I basically download media as I want it and buy it as my financial situation permits.

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LoathsomePete

That's pretty much the same boat I'm in right now. Usually I will opt to buy a shirt when I go see a band live because a shirt has more uses than a CD. I'd like to start collecting vinyl again, but I'd prefer to get repressed and sealed stuff from now on because A LOT of the vinyl I use to have was in shit condition, which pretty much means I can't start collecting vinyl again until I move back to a major city where record shops are more present. Here in good ol' Reno if you don't wanna go to Best Buy, you're stuck going to Recycled Records which is only as good as the stuff people feel like selling.

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big jambo

for collecting, yes! I don't have many records but I did go through a wee phase of lookin for rare vinyl which led me to picture discs and coloured discs and other rare ones. These will never be played though, they're just for the pleasure of owning them.

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jenneym

Most of the time i download music from web, but definitely i buy Albums too sometimes.

TheCunningStunt

50/50, well I have a few more downloads than CDs.

I reckon it's 60/40 in favour of downloads, but I went for the 50/50 option.

music_phantom13

I chose mostly download, but I'm trying to change that to mostly physical copies. When I download music, I find myself getting far too many albums. Then I don't end up enjoying them enough as I should because I feel like I need to move onto other new music. My goal is to actually fully listen to the loads of crap I have.

I still buy a lot of music when possible, though I love vinyl and I don't think there are any record stores near me in Pensacola.

IHuman

I've just got an ipod touch and will be soon selling all but a few c.d's like i sold all but a few vinyl albums which i'm keeping for posterity.

youngbridge

I buy vinyl. I'll sometimes purchase CDs. I mostly download. But yeah, I like having the physical product with the artwork and everything plus quality so with the albums I really like I buy on vinyl.