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Younger people of Lemmy. Would you buy a CD at a concert? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm 40, and when I was a teenager, EVERY band had CDs. And I know a lot of music has shifted to digital. So much so that I heard Best buy stopped selling CDs. Presumably because nobody buys them.

So I wonder what musicians sell besides t-shirts and posters at concerts. Do the kids have ANY CDs? Do they buy mp3's? Do they just use pandora and spotify? Do they even own their own music?

I've given up on trying to understand the lingo. Other generations lingo sounds stupid to me, but still understandable based on context.

I have NO idea what a skibifibi toilet is....sounds like a toilet after some taco bell and untalented jazz, but maybe I can try to understand their thought process on media consumption.

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[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I'm 38 and man, you sound like you're 75 🤣

I'm assuming you haven't been to a concert in a few decades? I went to see Pantera and Lamb of God about 6 months ago and the only merch being sold was overpriced t-shirts, like $45-50 USD.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

That's probably just because those are old acts that have the benefit of charging fuck you prices for a shirt. The last time I saw disturbed, their shirts were priced like that.

Other I saw alestorm and gloryhammer last year and the shirts were like 35, CDs were 20, and I got a rubber duck captain thing for like 15. mc chris had similar prices, but he also had a full discog flashdrive for like 100, and as much as I'd love to support mc on that, I have all but like 2-3 albums so it's just not worth it to me.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

40 meaning 49 years old

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