What are the best places to purchase music either digitally or physical CDs. Personally as convenient as Apple Music and Spotify are I prefer to own my music but find many places still charge what I personally feel are too high a price to purchase. While it is easy enough to just use iTunes since it has pretty much all the bands I want to purchase they just simply over charge which is stupid given how I think they price their movie selection much better.
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Sanity's range sucks though and are quite sparse in NSW (I think my nearest one is a good 35 minute drive away and I live in metropolitan Sydney). I prefer JB Hi-Fi for range and iTunes for my digital music.
I prefer JB Hi-Fi for range
Yeah that's true, but they can charge so much!! Sanity might not have the best range, but they have got quite good prices :)
Eh there isn't many Sanity stores around me. There is one at Garden City here in WA but AFAIK its the only one left at the major shopping centers. But the range at Sanity is lacking as opposed to JB who can also overcharge for music. Even with Wicked Wednesday this week with 20% off RRP a lot of prices are still way too high. Microsoft has great prices on the Windows Store but they are shutting down Groove which means no more music purchasing come the end of 2017.
Yeah, I think sadly CDs are being priced out (or pricing themselves) of business…
Sanity is like a treasure hunt, you can either find gold there or just waste ages looking through all the tables.There was a reason music piracy sky rocketed in the early 00s with Napster and the Music Industry hasn't exactly made changes to stop the issue. While we may have streaming services for reasonable prices its still just "renting" the music until you decide to cancel the sub to either of the big three services. I should not have to be paying $22 for The Black Album by Metallica in 2017.
@AirJordanFan93: Unfortunately, like many things in life, its the good people who suffer. The ones that spend $22 on a CD (like me, which I'm not exactly pleased about) while others burn it to a CD for free, paying next to nothing for a blank disk.
@pennypincher98: I would say very few people are doing the whole burning to CD thing in 2017. People are still getting music through illegal means though. Maybe it doesn't help its Australia and we end up getting huge markups especially with music for whatever reason.
@AirJordanFan93: Yeah very few people are doing the whole CD burning thing because not many people use CDs these days. They just illegally download it and keep it on their phone/computer. If one wants to put it on a CD though, there is no stopping them really, unfortunately.
Yeah I don't know why we have to pay so much more for everything!
@pennypincher98: I have just come to the conclusion that is Australia and we just have to. The US version of Amazon has great pricing on CDs and even the MP3 downloads are priced pretty good. A lot of CDs are bellow $10 and you really only pay above that if its "rare" or a multi-disk.
I move between Amazon US and Amazon UK, and sometimes use Amazon France and Amazon Germany for jazz/classical.
Their standard prices are excellent, and if you find stuff on special the prices can be amazing - especially with box sets.
I would never buy in Australia.
Amazon marketplace is great too - you can often find some rare stuff on there.
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Good question.
I'm looking for the answer to this as well, but atm I'm just cycling through free GP Music trials (3-4 months). What I also like about GP Music is that it allows you to add your songs it may or may not have into your library.
No idea about Perth, but in NSW there are stores like Sanity which are quite reasonably priced.