GAME - What CD's have you actually bought this year?

I haven't bought any. With iTunes, I don't have to.

I still buy CDs on occasion. Sometimes you just NEED that booklet with the words and artwork, that plastic box, that smell! Remember when you bought a new LP, that awesome smell when you opened it up?? I don't remember exactly what I've bought this year, but it's been a few. I'll "probably" buy one next week, in fact (LOL!). x

I generally download from iTunes as well, unless I'm giving a CD as a gift. The last full CD I downloaded was Daughtry. I'm looking forward to yours, but I will probably download it as well. How does that work out for the artist? Is it better for you if we purchase the actual CD, or is it the same for you if we download the album?

See...a question for the artist...where but Gather can you ask a question?

downloads from iTunes

soundtrack to finding neverland
soundtrack to charlie and chocolate factory
wicked the musical on broadway cast

and actually cds

greenday
john mayer
mig

I still buy lots of CD's. Do you mean in the last year or in 2007?

Apathy~Eastern Philosophy (I've known the lad since he was born)

Avenged Sevenfold~City Of Evil

Stone Sour~Come What(ever) May (one of my favs!!)

The Pink Spiders~Hot Pink (for Monkeyboy)

We only buy CD's that we REALLY like. The last one I bought was Mary J Blige. The rest of the stuff (Staind, for example) we just download for 99 cents a song from ITunes.

The Modern Day Saint~...And Tomorrow We Will Have Nothing (for Monkeyboy)

HelloGoodbye (for Monkeyboy)

Flyleaf

Fort Minor~The Rising Tied *sic

Music from the motion picture Eurotrip (for Monkeyboy)

Daughtry

Kenny Chesney~The Road And The Radio

SugarLand~Twice The Speed Of Life

I usually buy singles from itunes - too many to list probably

But hard copies or whatever that I was bought or given
Maroon 5 - bought for me
Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet - Bought for me
How to Save a Life by the Fray - Bought for me
Fall Out Boy - Bought For me

I only buy itunes but the hubby buys me cds as gifts.

Breaking Benjamin~Phobia

Army Of The Pharaohs~The Torture Papers

Gary Allan~Tough All Over

Kenny Chesney~LIVE

I haven't bought too many CDs yet this year though I've had a couple on pre-order since October from a certain new artist *cough* not to mention both foreign releases, but I digress...

The most recent CD has been Meds by Placebo...going to see them later this month!! Woo!!

I've downloaded a few songs here and there but not whole albums.

Julie, I totally remember getting LPs! There is nothing like the distinct smell of vinyl records. In high school, my friends and I would also go to all the used record stores for old treasures from The Who, Bowie, Stones, Aerosmith, etc.

Sadly, times have changed in the music business and it seems it's a lot harder to get that gold record or to even measure an artist's success properly. I sure hope that TALENT still stands for something with the buying public...if so, your CD will fly off the shelves, MiG.

Disturbed~Ten Thousand Fists

I buy a lot of CDs and have never downloaded a song yet. But I may.

There is not enough space here for me to list them all, but I will try to select a few, since you said this year. Last year, I bought too many.

"Amazing Grace" - Mark Forrest
"Betania, Hail Mary" - Betania Choir
"Amazing Ordinary Things" - Ann McCue
"Dangerously in Love" - Beyonce
"Dim Stars, Bright Sky" - John Doe
"Elvis at Sun" - Elvis Presley
"Exitos de la Coral Betania" - Betania Choir
"Flowers of My Heart" - Lani Misenas
"Full" - Jon Dee Graham
"Metamorphosis" - Gina Alston
"One Rose, One Heart" - Marty Rotella
"The Phantom of the Opera" - Original Cast
"Ronan" - Ronan Tynan
"Such Things Are Finely Done" - Michael Smith
"Tales From the Tavern, Vol. I" - Dave Alvin, Peter Case, David Crosby, Michael on Fire, Sarah Lee guthrie and others.
"We Will Rock You" - original cast
"Whisper of the Wind" - Marty Rotella

and.... I have 7 copies of the new CD "MIG" on order at Amazon.

Cold~A Different Kind Of Pain

Godsmack~Faceless

Godsmack~The Other Side

Lifehouse

Nickelback~All The Right Reasons

Shinedown~Us And Them

Trust Company~True Parallels

Enter The Haggis~ Soapbox Heros
Kaite Trotta~ Release
Mindy Smith~ Long Island Shores
Great Big Sea~Courage & Patience & Grit

I download many, many songs from iTunes but the last two CD's I bought were Sam's Town by the Killers and Light Grenades by Incubus.

I don't purchase much music but when I do I like to buy the CD's because I like the booklet and the physical disk.
This year I have only bought Live at the Sunset Room and MiG (Phils edition and Oz edition).
Downloads from I-tunes....
Baby, I Love Your Way. Couldn't wait for the CD.
Thank God It's Christmas. Needed it for my Queen music collection.
I Play Chicken With the Train (Cowboy Troy... good for the treadmill)

I haven't had much time to get out and even see what's available recently. Busy with college, family and church. And homework! Trust me...lots of homework!
I don't download any music.
My kids are likely to share with me. However, I did buy one CD this year. It was right in front of me, and put out by one of my top favorite singers on earth. It's "Growing in the Lord" by Nick Naylor. He is eleven years old, attends my church, and if he was on a TV talent show, I know he would be right at the top.
The first time I saw this little boy getting up to sing, I thought, Oh how cute, a little boy is going to sing" In about two minutes, I was thinking, Oh how cool, this little boy CAN SING! I mean, to use an old fashioned term, he opens up and "belts out" a song like any great performer. I'm sure he'll have a great career in music.
Now to end, I have to let you know, that I am going to buy your new CD in a few days. I'm really looking forward to it! My taste in music is pretty eclectic, like the rest of my life!

I've pre-ordered MiG's, of course! Can't wait...just a few more days!
Ive purchased: James Taylor Christmas, Chris Daughtry,
I've downloaded songs from Yahoo Jukebox and paid for them! Which included: Clay Aiken's (most from his new CD - had to get Susie's McNeill's vocals in there!)
several of Bryan Adams
James Taylor and Alison Kraus - How's the World Treating you
Selected songs I liked from Rockstar: Supernova
MiG's Baby I Love Your Way

MiG,
Some of us are still old school -chuckles- I we have old school kids who we have rubbed off on (my son actually found my stash of albums and found that our turntable still works so he is ALL into listening to stuff on vinyl), so while I think the recording companies who depend on CD sales may run into some money issues I don't think those of us that prefer to buy the entire album..er..cd...will ever totally go away!

I've been replacing some cd's I lost in a house fire so most of mine are 'oldies' such as Phil Collins Greatest Hits, The Eagles Complete Hits stuff, Rod Stewart's Storyteller, etc.

Of course I HAD to replace my Garth Books Sevens cd and all my Eminem -huffs-

yes..yes...all-over-the-map would best describe my musical tastes.

Well, I love getting the hard copy of CDs because my second favorite part of listening to a CD is getting to read the booklet at the same time. I hate downloading entire CDs online because I don't get to read them! I still regret buying my movie version of the RENT soundtrack that way. :(

But, let's see what I've got:

iTunes download:
*RENT soundtrack
*Pink - I'm Not Dead album
*Collective Soul - Home (live album)
*Various other songs including some Nelly Furtado, Gorillaz, and of course the BILYW single ;)

CDs in plastic:
*Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics
*Daughtry (self-titled)
*Evanescence - The Open Door (yessss!!!!!)
*Nickelback - All The Right Reasons

And more recently, I've been borrowing some Panic! At The Disco, Green Day and Fall Out Boy CDs from my good buddy Emma. Was kinda forced into it, but listening to the Green Day one made me regret not buying it before she did. ;)

And I'm running to my local Borders on Tuesday to get my MiG fix!!!

Much love, Lizzie

Great question- made me realize just how many cds I've bought so far this year :(
I've bought 17 hard copy cds and downloaded 7 from itunes. I prefer hard copies because I too like to read the booklets. I'll just list a sampling of my puchases ( too lazy to type that many titles)

Hard copy- Jack Johnson - Curious George and On and On
Pat Benatar- Greatest Hits
Bee Gees -Love Songs
Keith Urban- Love, Pain, and the Whole Crazy Thing
John Mayer- Continum
and of course MiG!

download- Yusuf Islam- An Other Cup
Matt Wertz- Somedays
Silly Songs with Larry- Veggie Tales

Last CD I bought was "Deep Harmonica Blues" from those Cats on the ACE label.
I mostly buy Vinyl records, the music I dig was meant for a turntable...
At a rough estimate this past year I have purchased around 30-35 CD's and 25 Vinyl 45rpm's and 5 Vinyl LP's.
My last 45rpm I bought was "Automobile" - The Stickshifts, and my last LP bought was "Country Christmas" by Loretta Lynn

Bought Daughtry

Will be buying MiG in 5 more days

iTunes - I bought Daughtry, Lucinda Williams- West, Van Morrison- At the Movies, Hinder- Extreme Behavior....plus about 50 more singles

I buys CD's for my daughter..Hannah Montana, Vanessa Hudgen, 3 Rascal Flatts

Every few years I get caught up on CD's I wanted a few years ago! Some soundtracks(a Knight's Tale, LOTR), Some children's(Kenny Loggin's Return to Pooh Corner--kid at heart, what can I say), and dig around for old blues or jazz albums that if you don't know the titles, are a bitch to find!
I don't mind downloading, but my pc ain't the greatest...it has it's benefits since you don't have to have every song from one album, especially if you only liked two or three. I still prefer getting them 'the old fashoioned way'. :)

I don't download. I prefer the actual CD in my hand. This year we bought... oh shoot - brain is going dead... well we did buy several.

How was The Fratellis? I was thinking about it. I download and I buy on CD (especially if I'm at a concert and want to get it signed - probably 25% of my discs are signed). I just bought hardcopies of the latest from Corrine Bailey Rae and Patty Griffin. I saw Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky in concert, but neither had copies of their new CDs to sell. And I brought extra cash.

I bought Chris Tomlin's newest CD in February. I think it's called Arriving.

I bought Tim McGraw's greatest hits CD. Other than that, if I want a song, I usually download it off ITunes so that I can just put it right on my iPod for walking to class.

CD's purchased (New and/or Used.. mostly new)

Rancid – And Out Came the Wolves
Soul Coughing
Sloan – Never Hear the End of It
The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
The Shins – 1st and 2nd albums who's names I don't recal
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
Lilly Allen – Alright Still
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Sank
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
Eels – Blinking Lights and other Revelations
Eels - Shootenanny
Cheap Trick – Dream Police
Unknown Prophets – The Road Less Traveled
The Decemberists – Picaresque
Tenpole Tudor – Best of
Marvin Gaye – Best of
Barry White – Best of
Louis XIV – Best Little Secrets Kept
Beck – Odelay
U2 – Joshua Treee
Bon Savants – Post Rock Defends the Nation
Camera Obscura – Let's Get out of this Country
Chris Isaak – Chris Isaak
DeVotchKa – Curse Your Little Heart
DeVotchKa – 1st album
Echo and the Bunnymen – Siberia
Echo and the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Daniel Lanois – Acadie
Daniel Lanois – For the Beauty of Wynonna
The Replacements – Best of
Jim Noir – Tower of Love
Kraftwerk – Minimum/Maximum
MOrningwood – Morningwood
Arctic Monkeys – 1st album
Ok GO – Oh No
OK GO – OK Go
Primal Scream – Riot City Blues
Tom Waits – Orphans
The Mountain Goats – Get Lonely
The Beatles – L ove
Beastie Boys – License to Ill
Teddybears – Soft Machine
Stray Cats – Best of

Downloads/ ITunes
Time Zone – World Destruction
The Offspring – Come out and Play
The Offspring – Self Esteem
Alice Cooper – Clones (We're All)
David Sylvian – Backwater
Liz Phair – Supernova
Depeche Mode – Dreaming of Me
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
Tenpole Tudor – Wunderbar
M – Pop Muzik
Jim Noir – Eany Meanie (Fatboy Slim remix)
The Kings – This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide
Tuxedomoon – East/Jinx
Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow's Parties
Siouxie and the Banshees – Kiss Them For Me
Loreena McKennitt – The Mummer's Dance
Donnie Iris – Ah! Leah
Sparks – I Predict
Band of Bees – Chicken Payback
Cake – Never There
Cake – Rock and Roll Lifestyle
Mint Royale – Blue Song

Wow! You guys are really passionate about this subject! So interesting to hear about all the downloads. iTunes is such a wonderful way to buy songs you want, rather than the album of stuff you might not want. However, not buying the album might mean you may miss out on the really great stuff you have never heard of, or songs that were not promoted as singles. I find that the songs I REALLY love on albums are not the truly popular ones or ones that are the singles.

This is the world we live in where the internet really has become the focal point for so many aspects of our lives. With the rapidly decreasing real estate of where to sell music, the internet has become the #1 avenue to sell music. The music industry has never been in such a bad state, and we have to think 'out of the box' to see how we can best serve musicians and music lovers.

As an artist, I beg people not to download illegally, but I cannot stop anyone, nor blame anyone, especially since so much is available for free. To answer Sue S,'s question, artists do get a percentage of money earned from iTunes. But the thing about downloading illegally is that we as artists have no idea of who is actually listening to us, where to concentrate our energies, who to play to, etc. As a breaking artist, I will probably not be making any money from my debut cd anyway, but to know people listen to it, love it, and will buy more music or go to a MiG concert is information that is priceless. If there's a way where illegal downloads can give a count to how much is being downloaded, it would give us artists so much more encouragement and confidence to continue to make music.

Believe me, I'm not preaching. I get some promo cd's from my label, which is kinda the same thing as I get it for free, and I understand how expensive music can be. If I could give my music away, I would, but my label would drop me!!

I am just beginning to understand how this industry works, and I must be crazy to be releasing a cd in this music climate, but I must do this as I have come too far to turn back now.

I hope you enjoy my music. I am truly honoured to be the featured artist on gather.com. I think this community is truly awesome and love being a part of it.

MiG...thanks so much for taking the time to answer the question. I love the CD already just from listening to the sampler and I just played it for my 22 year old daughter and she loves it also. It is going to appeal to a wide range of people and age groups! We can't wait!

I download (including Baby I Love Your Way) and also buy CDs. It's still cool to have something tangible to hold on to, with pictures of the artist, their words, and sometimes lyrics. CDs I've bought this year are -

Nickelback - All the Right Reasons
Mylene Farmer - L'autre...
John Mayer - Heavier Things
Bellylicious (I know, I know, but it's fun and has a great beat!)
MiG - Philippines/Australia version and soon the US version

MiG, I agree there are a lot of treasures to be found on CDs that will never be available for download. And you can get more of a glimpse into the artist with a CD. It's a richer experience. People of all ages love your music, and many of us still buy CDs, or will be convinced to, if you made them.

It is so true that albums hold some surprises that you don't find when you download single songs. For example, many of my favorite Queen songs never released as singles nor saw radio play and I would never have had the pleasure of experiencing them if I hadn't purchased the full CDs. How many on Gather have ever heard of Queen's "My Melancholy Blues" or "Ride the Wild Wind"?

I love CDs and what I didn't say before was that I also love the liner notes and especially the lyrics in the booklets. I have one CD by Bradley James, a friend, where the lyrics are the words of Mother Teresa. He was the only person authorized by her to set her words to music. It is beautiful and it is called "Gift of Love".

On the other hand, last year I bought CDs of The Doors, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, the Rolling Stones and the Best of the BeeGees. Also bought Classic Jazz, Funk Party, 's70 R&B, Things Are Swingin'- Peggy Lee, The Complete Norman Granz Jam Sessions, A Jazz Odyssey - Oscar Peterson, Il Divo, The Ultimate Collection - Michael Jackson, and lots of Rock collections.

Then I stopped buying from BMG, because I wanted to save up for MiG's music. Unfortunately not soon enough to order MiG's Philippine and Australian CDs, but hope to get copies someday. But the MiG CD in the US will have some of his originals on it also. So each version is different.

Only a few more days. I wonder how long it will take for Amazon to get MiGs CDs here. I can't wait to give them to my friends.

I just bought the Christ Daughtry CD. It's actually pretty good.

I just downloaded these three songs tonigh (and yes, legally!):
Robin Thicke "Lost Without U"
Gym Class Heroes "Cupid's Chokehold"
Marvin Gaye "What's Going On"

Generally speaking, I don't like to buy CDs here in Japan, because I like to have the liner notes and song titles in English. I've occasionally ordered CDs on line, but I prefer the physical browsing in record stores, so I tend to stock up when I travel back home. Bottom line: no CDs so far this year, but last September I bought some souvenir CDs during a trip to New Zealand: a collection of Maori music for myself and some record shop clerk's recommendations for my kids (gave them away and don't remember the names now). I also chose some CDs as the "thank-you" for supporting FolkAlley.com's fundraising drive last year -- some really great stuff: Eliza Gilkyson's "Paradise Hotel" Pat Donohue's "Profile" and Mark O'Connor's "Thrity year Retrospective" collection.

My wife was in Honolulu when she learned that Tower Records was holding its big bankruptcy sale, but most of the stuff she would have wanted was already gone by the time she got there. She did manage to snag "Emerson, Lake, and Powell," though, which she had been wanting for some time. I also would recommend to ANYBODY the simpy WONDERFUL WONDERFUL WONDERFUL Grammy-winning "Slack Key Guitar" CDs, both vol 1 and vol 2: some utterly gorgeous stuff there.
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Jim Swan's "None-Too-Great Hits" now on iTunes.

I'm going to be dull and say the last CDs I bought were the soundtrack to "Words and Lyrics" (because I wanted to hear Hugh Grant singing) and the London cast recording of "Dirty Dancing" (so I could hear my friend Chris Holland singing "In the Still of the Night").

I will admit to never having downloaded anything from iTunes - yet! But even without that my iPod is very happy with all the songs currently in it.

I think that from the beginning of time, people have wanted ways to have single songs available to them. It doesn't keep them from buying entire CDs (and, MiG, you're right, the songs I love the most on an album are rarely the singles). If the labels had been on top of the online music explosion, they could have made singles available from the start for a buck and sharing sites wouldn't have become the standard.

Chris, nothing prevents copying for any reason. I always make copies of my cds to play and I keep the originals safely tucked away in their cases. And if you give someone a copy, yes they have a free copy, but if they like the artist they will often go get the cd themselves so they can have the liner notes, or at the least will buy the artist's other cds. As you say, one hopes it will spread the word.

I have recently purchased Chris Daughtry and also Alison Kraus's new CD. Did you know that John Waite is singing on a song with her. I just saw the video and boy did it bring back memories of seeing him in concert.

I just realised I didn't type a 't' for 'THIS' in the title of my article!

It should read

GAME - What CD's having you actually bought this year?

Duh!!

Sorry guys. I love your input on my question. Very interesting.
As long as there are people who love music, there will always be musicians.

I just wish we knew how many people, and who actually does love my music.

We love and adore you and your music!!!!!
Je t'aime
Je t'adore
Quelle vieux mieux encore?

MiG- you can edit the title-go to your articles and use the edit feature....

Sheeze, I never really noticed the mistakes. I guess I am used to the Sistah's typos. LOL

*raises hand* I love your music!

OMG!
Just realised the 'HAVING'...!! What is wrong with me! Alzheimer's already setting in.
I happened to have passed English with honours...

Honest!

whats worse is people like me who read it and didnt notice the typos!

honour is spelled correctly! proper english!

right mig?

oh and spelking....tim? lol! we def need edit features on comments!

LoL! and it took me a few times to notice it!!!


but yeah, honour, colour, favourite, etc... proper english, we are not used to it here in America. and I think the reason we don't always notice typo's, even ones as bad as MiG's (lol luv you MiG!) is because our minds seem to fill in the gap.

I think MiG needs a grammar hug.

*hug* :)

No need to stress over one or ten spelling mess-ups, I think the stress is making it worse! ;)

And *I* got an award in English last year. Boo. Ya.

Oh, and I just noticed:

*OMG* Well, look who's txt-talking. ;) hahaha

MiG,

It doesn't surprise me that you passed English with Honors.

I've been a proofreader since I was 15 and I missed the his instead of this and only saw the having instead of have. But everyone understood what the question was, didn 't they?

And MiG, everyone who hears your music will want to have it and buy it. Remember, don't worry and be happy - it will happen. Your music is as special as you are. I've never heard rock music so beautiful and I still haven't heard the CD only the clips! They should make a classic rock muscial starring you on Broadway.

Queen, did you hear that?

Well...to tell you the truth, Aerosmith, Honk'n on Bo-bo was my FIRST Cd I bought for myself! Well, other than Christmas music. Oh, and some Nat King Cole, Big Bands, Glenn Miller (Did I mention the BeeGees) and, well, you can see I'm a little diverse in my listening and, just got the hang of CD's not too long ago. ( I couldn't figure out how to re-wind or to NOT flip it over, haha) I was still using Cassettes! hahaha.
So, I figure, MiG-Debut CD will be the VERY first one that I'll ever have gotten for myself and KNOW the person!
I don't download, I don't have an ipod and probably never will. I like the 'listening experience' and, like you said MiG,....if you don't get ALL the songs on a CD, you could really be missing out on some great stuff!
I remember when the Beattles came out with a 45 (ok,..Don't laugh...I DID buy 45's) I can't even remember th HIT song that I 'bought', but, my friends and I 'discovered' on the flip side "You Can't Sit Down"...well....that was our FAVORITE form that record and not even in the top 100 I don't think until word got out. So, there ya go,...just never know what your tastes can run to when you Don't listen to the 'fad or critic' on what the 'hot' tunes are to just download Those.
We ALL have different tastes and opinions. I want the WHOLE THING and then....WAIT FOR THE SECOND CD from the MiG-ster! :) RM

We'll have our own English Honours for Mig-Spelling! :) RM

Thank for the edit info Lily! Tim S., thanks for the 'SPELKING'. Makes me feel better. Did you do that on purpose?

Thank you for all your responses. I was just curious, honestly.

HAVE A WONDERFUL EASTER EVERYONE!

Always,

MiG
xx

For all my proofreading, I also made a typo in my comment on the word musical. And MiG received honours and I received honors.

Actually I started out writing most words more like the Bretish than American English, because my parents were Canadian and my grandmother was from Scotland, so I have a most eclectic way of writinga dn write words interchangeably -sometimes like behaviour and sometimes behavior.

I also have a very eclectic CD collection!

Actually words like Tim's spelking make us smile, so I think it is a good thing!

Spelking makes me thing of spelling in a cave! Sorry, Tim, I guess we are going to run that one into the ground!

I just bought 5 CDS...GNR, Simon & Garfunkle, Dead or Alive, Daughtry and Van Morrison (I have very eclectic musical tastes). I pay for downloads once in a while , usually when I just gotta have "that" song

Hey MiG,
Happy April 10th! You can be sure I will be buying the CD of MiG today!
Last ones I bought were "Seal"--mostly because I loved the way you sang "Kiss From a Rose" and "Leave the Light On" by an old friend of mine named Chris Smither.
I look forward to your NEXT CD with lots of original material.
All the best. I hope to see you perform here in L.A. soon.

Oh geesh, I can't even remember what I ate for lunch yesterday or if I even ate lunch. Lessee...I know I bought Green Day and Jakob Freely (an indie group from my hometown who describe themselves as "drop it like it's hot acoustic pop" -- they are awesome, check 'em out at www.jakobfreely.com -- and as soon as I get over my case of slack-assed-ness, I'll write an article about them). Oh and of course, I'll be buying MiG's CD. :)

As for downloads, I just got an iPod this year, so I've been downloading like crazy and paying for them all. First of all, as a starving artist myself, I would never dream of stealing music. I ain't that poor that I can't flop down a buck for a song I like. Secondly, my profound fear of the PO-lice, and all things jailbird orange, prevents me from breaking the law. LMAO!

I have recently bought 2 cds this year so far.

"Into the Blue Again" - The Album Leaf
"In a Safe Place" - The Album Leaf

Let's see, which one's have I bought this year?

Yours, Of course :D

Kelly Clarkson

Simon Keenlyside "Tales of the Opera"

Nelly Furtado

Rabbit Fur Coat Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins

Comfort of Strangers Orton, Beth

Brandi Carlile [Audio CD] Carlile, Brandi

Cello & Piano Sonatas Volume 1 Beethoven; Zuill Bailey.

There's more I'm sure, but I don't have time right now to dig them out of my e-bay achives. :D

Take Care,
Love,
Wendy J.

As an artist(not a musician) i try to be pretty aware of stealing intellectual property issue crap. I download free tracks (love garageband and insound) and trade mixtapes(cds) but mostly I buy traditional old fashioned cds. If you live in Syracuse or Baltimore try out the indie music store Soundgarden (good prices and fantastic selection)- a bricks and mortar store is the best place for browsing. I am a resistant holdout on iTunes. I don't even use it it to organize files- my music in windows does it for me.

As for what I've purchased this year lets see:
newest Shins album
The Kinks (greatest hits kind of thing)
The Birds and the bees (definite chick music- my boyfriend wrinkles his nose at the lyrics)

that may be it- I just recently purchased a new camera so my disposable income is pretty down

future purchase: Modest Mouse- new album sounds fantastic

I'm just now seeing this one MiG.. (doh)

I only buy hardcopies of CD's a REALLLY REALLY LOVE :) Mostly I do buy off of itunes now.. I listen to the clips and if I like 90% of the CD I'll buy the whole thing of itunes.. if not I'll pick the songs I want..

Here are the list of WHOLE CD's I've bought of itunes this year.

Downhere: "Wide-Eyed and Mystified"
several Harry Connick, Jr cd's
(I thought there would be more but I guess I pick and chose bunches of songs but not many albums..) I've bought many albums off itunes.. just not many THIS year.

CD's I've bought hardopies for THIS year...

Keith Urban - "Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing"
MiG - "MiG" see.. I REALLY REALLY love your CD
Rockstar Supernova

oh.. and the typos... look at mine! LOL
nah it's all good - mostly I just skip over typos and know what they mean .. sometimes don't even realize they are typos at all!

New CD's by...

Audioslave
Fall Out Boy
Kaiser Chiefs
The Fray
John Mayer

Excellent post MiG.
As a music buyer for all of the Borders stores, (I buy Mainstream Pop -Sarah Mclachlan, Madonna, Jewel, etc.-, Singer/Songwriter -Jack Johnson, John Mayer, etc.-, Dance/Electronica, Soundtracks and Showtunes), it is disheartening to see all of the ITunes responses, but ultimately, as long as music is being enjoyed , I am happy. (jeez, even I download from ITunes)!!!. An interesting fact about ITunes (or digital downloads for that matter) is the number of individual songs downloaded is staggering, but the number of full cd's downloaded is pretty small. Makes me wonder what the music industry will look like in 5 or 10 years. I wonder if artists and/or labels will focus solely on "singles" and will we have shorter cd's. In my book, cd's will still be around for a good while (I pray).
It's great to see all of the posts by music lovers. Keep up the good work. BTW MiG, I am the buyer for your cd!!! Thanks for putting out good work that is easy to sell. :)
A few things currently wearing out my Ipod/cd player are...
Amy Winehouse
Brandi Carlile
The Last Town Chorus (WONDERFUL stuff)
Lucinda Williams
James Morrison
Joan As Police Woman (out soon)
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (out soon)
Paula Cole (out soon)
Sinead O'Connor (out soon)

Best to all
David