I've been thnking, why are CD EPs so few and far between nowadays, if even available at all? I remember back in the late 1990's, early 2000's I'd use to go into the record store and pick up 3 or 4 EPs at $5 a pop, it was great. I always thought this was a great format, especially when the price was around $5 or $6 a pop. What happened to the CD EP?
Nov-14-2008 18:27
elFreak
Blood Diamonds and Salsa
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: With Juan Pachanga Eating Tacos. Ah Ha Si Mi Gusta.
it is more expensive to produce and there less profit margin than just using one of the abundant digital sites. There are still releases promo'd this way, but not as much as before.
With vinyl they have no choice because of the medium used to play them, cdj dj's can make their own cd's easily.
Registered: Sep 2002
Location: home or somewhere else
CDs are fucking dead, sadly.
i have about 1100 CDs (mostly singles, maxis and EPs), but i haven't bought much in the past few years as there's nothing available!
now i buy downloads instead and sometimes the occasional old CD or vinyl.
Registered: Sep 2002
Location: home or somewhere else
quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
From a DJing perspective. I'm pretty sure the CD remains the format of choice for mix compilations, and most artist albums too.
maybe. should have specified, that i meant CD singles, maxis and EPs as that's what the original poster is apparently talking about.
Registered: May 2004
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
From a DJing perspective. I'm pretty sure the CD remains the format of choice for mix compilations, and most artist albums too.
Even albums are really starting to go the way of the Dodo. From a mass consumer perspective, the notion of an album is really inconvenient and almost prohibitively expensive if you're only interested in one or two tracks. Now that people have the option to just buy that one song online, albums are slowly waning in utility. There's still a market for them as media for compilations and cohesive artistic concept projects, but that's always been a rather obscure market in the pop music industry.
Although it probably explains why "Indie" music has become so popular with big labels these days; the tendency for a self-proclaimed Indie band to produce a concept album is higher than for a rapper or Pop idol.
So yeah, there's my requisite cynicism for the day.
I just remembered, I was so anal about making sure that the side of the CD that's printed on is the side that's facing you when you turn the package around (to its back). Was anybody else like this? lol it's the most insignificant thing in the world but I just remembered it and was wondering if anybody else was/is the same.
