Anyone on here buy or collect physical media?

[Finder]

Nah, I don't like things cluttering my house and a lot of stuff is hard to even get locally if I wanted it. Why should I give something like a DVD a certain percentage of my house when I might watch it once or twice a year?

I guess I will very rarely buy something if it's impossible to find online but that's the one exception.

 

[Anus Lemonade]

I like to buy the vinyls of small time bands that I like, or from bigger bands that I really sperg too. But I still don't have a vinyl copy of...

 

[Scale Smerch]

Definitely books, I'm old enough that I cannot stand e-books for electronic format for anything textual. It's also great insurance for posterity (not to mention the wonderful smell of printed pages) in case TPTB decide to "adjust" printings of certain material since your precious e-book story is not immune if the author decides an "update" is necessary. I firmly suggest retaining a physical copy of Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto if you're into political reading for that reason.

As for music I always download digital but keep it on an external hard drive with backup. CDs just take up too much room and if I want to blast stuff from a stereo I can just burn a new CD. Would invest in vinyl but it's just to much of a hassle when half the fun is listening whenever you want (like when driving around).

I like to buy the vinyls of small time bands that I like, or from bigger bands that I really sperg too. But I still don't have a vinyl copy of...
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Thank you for reminding me I haven't listened to Scream of the Butterfly or Venus Blue in years. BRB going to rectify that egregious slight.

 

[Picklechu]

I sometimes buy DVDs and blu-rays. Some stuff just isn't available via streaming, can only be streamed on some shitty service I don't want, the rights are likely to change, and/or is something I really like.

I always buy physical media for console gaming. The only exception is if something is only available digitally, or there's a really good price on a digital sale.

I hate e-books and legitimately cannot read them. I'm kind of mad that one of my textbooks this semester is only available as an e-book.

 

[infamousbeing]

Fuck yeah! I always make the effort unless it's something related to my PC purchasing the physical media. DVD's, Vinyl, CD's, Cassettes, Boxed Games, Books (in particular). It kind of doesn't count but I prefer all my music equipment physical as well, like my 8 track, synth, etc.

It just feels like a better sense of accomplishment, like I worked and have *insert thing* in my hands, it feels amazing.

 

[Pee Cola]

I used to buy vinyl and CDs, but now I've moved over to just CDs. There's not quite as much a sense of occasion and tactility as there is with vinyl, but it's enough to scratch the itch. There's still cover art, and often there's a little booklet which is nice to browse whilst listening. 1980s and 1990s CDs (pre Loudness Wars) sound amazeballs through decent speakers or cans too.

They're still cheap and plentiful in thrift stores and secondhand shops, although the prices are starting to creep up a little bit now. The days of buying 3 CDs for $1 are over. Vintage CD players are starting to get a bit spendy too, but you can make do with a DVD player assuming it has basic transport controls on the front.

 

[EmperorNihilus]

Trying to start a collection of vinyls.

I started doing the same earlier this year, but the other media formats I collect took higher priority and I just have a couple Vinyls currently. My problem with the format is finding a place to store them until I move and have more space

 

[EmperorNihilus]

I buy physical whenever possible. Books, music, movies, games, software. It'll seem like a pointless extravagance... right up until the moment it's not

I have been the same way the past couple of years, with it starting out just with movies and slowly expanding to hardcover books, vinyl and comics. The only thing I don’t currently collect is video games, since gaming isn’t something I do much of anymore.

 

[crestfallen]

I think physical books are still, and will always be, the norm.
I usually stream/download music, but I buy vinyls of my favourite albums.

DVDs and CDs provide a too digital experience. I don’t see the point of keeping a physical copy of something that is ultimately just a computer file.

 

[Turd Cow]

I Burn DVDs of my ganes I have so I don't have to download them off the internet again every linux distro hop.

Also, I'm planning to buy musuc CDs sometime in the future so I don't hace to rely on the ibterbet as much.

 

[qu_rahn]

Soulseek is still a great way to get music btw

 

[Richie Richard]

Some DVDs. You never know what's about to get #cancelled. I'll watch Gone With the Wind (sans disclaimers) as much as I like thank you very much. Mammy is a very endearing character, I don't care if it's problematic, I still love her.

 

[Jump]

Some DVDs. You never know what's about to get #cancelled. I'll watch Gone With the Wind (sans disclaimers) as much as I like thank you very much. Mammy is a very endearing character, I don't care if it's problematic, I still love her.

Holiday Inn is a Christmas tradition in my house. They can't cancel that on me. I own the DVD.

 

[seri0us]

Holiday Inn is a Christmas tradition in my house. They can't cancel that on me. I own the DVD.
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[TheRedChair]

Short answer YES. Long Answer.

A book will last you for hundreds of years. CD's and DVD's will last decades. Information from the past is essential to counter the re-setters in the Digital age. I just picked up a 16 year DVD of a old horror movie from the 50's.

Youtube wanted money to rent it. As soon as you go digital you are not the owner of anything.

My RPG collection from 70's and onwards is worth some serious money now. So are my Sega Games and system. I got repair books so I can look up on how to do things with my hands instead of looking at a tiny screen on a cell phone for the same type of information.

I bought cook books from the thrift store that helped me save $18,500 last year by cooking (yea I've checked those numbers again from my expenditures of 2019 and 2020. Wife and I went out every day and it was a real eye opener on saving just by cooking).

I just made good old fashioned Roast beef with onions and mushrooms, buttered garlic mashed potatoes and brown sugar candied carrots that costed me a total $7.87 for 2 people, with left overs for the next day. This includes my electric bill (have a watt meter so I do the math for cost).

Compare that to today's fast food... It is neither fast nor it is cheap.

Going into this digital economy for the sake of convenience is one way generation FAIL giving the chains to those corporations. The Wage Slave Generation.

As I am stated before. In 30+ years, all of my friends have been hacked because they went digital with their finances whereas, I go Hard Copy as much as possible.

Which is why I have real tangible assets. Something I can sell, trade, or barter with. In order to succeed in life you have to have something of real Tangible value in your hands. Once you have that THEN you can play around with the digital world.

I'm not a luddite by no means. I'm going to transition to Linux and a VM set up so I don't have to deal with Micro$haft.

I just never want to be a slave to anyone, anything, or any concept that others that try to push. Being able to purchase physical media, means I control my own entertainment, without dealing with the Bullshit of commercials nor the progressive shit that they call a show.

 

[XANA]

Depends.

I only buy physical media if I know I will definitely treasure and actually play more than once - otherwise to me, it takes up way too much space in my tiny apartment and I'd probably be better off storing it digitally. That being said, I'm a sucker for art and will collect posters and vinyl sleeves if I think it's interesting. Maybe I'll collect more when I move to a bigger space.

 

[cummytummies]

Any movies, music and games that I own are packed away somewhere in the attic.

The only physical media I buy are books, but I typically try to get them from the library if at all possible. I sometimes buy ones I really like physically to support the author and to have it on hand, I guess that qualifies as collecting.

 

[fuckidunno]

I buy, but don't collect (I have a 'library' of stuff that I like, but I wouldn't say it's a collection as in the hobby of collectin)

DVD/blu ray -- I keep stuff that is...rare? I mean not super rare in the collectible sense but maybe isn't that interesting enough to the main-stream to be consistently available.
OR content that'll probably get "twitter cancelled"(i noticed that Netflix has a notice about all episodes of community...except one..where Dr Ken is in blackface -- IIRC that was part of the joke, I think he was a black elf -- which I think was a send up of someone in a cosplay docu a few years back who was a black elf -- fuck that rattle)
drawn together I doubt could get made, Hell - Strangers with Candy was pretty edgey at times before Colbert went his current direction
(even Jim Jeffries has gone down that hole)

Music, the same as far as unpopularity type rarity, but not on being edgy
vinyl, magtape, etc I'll do

books, well I don't think they really have a digital counterpart.
there's reading experience and note taking etc and just being away from the screen
Oh, I *WANT* to like ebooks, but this whole, license so-no-first-sale kills it for me. esp with something like amazon where the savings is often negligible
Oh, I'll get the occasional free one or a throwaway $1.99 type thing on ebook.
but not in general
and Jesus does amazon need to fix their self pub platform...the 'passive income' shit-mill (hire 6 dudes in Laos to mine web pages to CnP) on that has wrecked the service...I once downloaded a vegan soup recipe book...first ingredient in first recipe -- Chicken broth.
quick text search showed ALL the recipes were indiscriminately lifted ( which, apparently isn't uncommon esp in how to type books)

 

[Product Placement]

I used to buy a lot of blu rays, but I've slowed down, now just buy movies I have already seen and liked a lot. Mostly torrent to see if I like something first.

I will start getting 4k blu rays once they get cheaper and I get round to replacing my plasma tv, but if I do will be from smaller labels like ARROW.

 

[Three Halves]

I collected a few big box pc games 8 or 9 years ago when you could get them for $1 + postage on most things that weren't Fallout 1 or 2.

Too expensive these days, people want $20 for any old tat in poor condition.