Are CDs making a comeback?

Discogs seems to think so in their newsletters. They have over 20 million CDs listed for sale and 1 in 5 items purchased from the site is a CD.

It makes sense.

CDs can be produced a lot quicker and cheaper than vinyl and the current prices are dirt cheap. So it makes them very attractive to music consumers.

The thing is, I don’t have a CD player anymore however I am looking for one similar to the stand alone vinyl turntables with their own speakers.

If you know of any brands let me know as I have a lot of CDs I would like to play

And I saw a post on the Top 25 most expensive items sold on the site. Black Metal at its core is or was opposed to Christianity however it was also a movement against political correctness, consumerism and globalization.

Well the commercialism aspect didn’t bother a Black Metal fan who parted with $5200 for two Mayhem albums; the original vinyl pressings of “Deathcrush” and “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas”. Regardless of ideology and ethos, anything to do with music is a business.

And a 7 inch single from 1981 by a hard rock metal band called “Fallout” sold for $2400. I saw that it was a limited 500 pressing.

But.

I had never heard of the band and that surprised me however a fan of theirs was parting with some serious money.

And who said punk fans are a bunch of anarchists because they sure like collecting rare punk records.

One thing I don’t understand on the site are the delivery fees for a item.

They are so damn high especially when a lot of eBay items I buy from the US, the UK and Europe come with free postage.

I am looking for a few albums on vinyl and while I am happy with the vinyl price, the delivery feea are ridiculous.

Case in point.