Are Jazz CDs making a comeback?

[GA Russell]

1 hour ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

Not sure I follow your logic here.  Yes, the fact that an album is available for streaming today does not ensure it will be available tomorrow.  But if it is streaming, it's almost certainly also available for download too.  Which makes it exactly the same as a cd: get it while you can because it may go out of print at any time.

But everyone prefers a professionally made CD to a homemade CDr, right?

Yes, you can put your download onto a portable hard drive, and then burn it whenever necessary; but I am not referring to people who would do that sort of thing.  I am thinking of the typical adult who bought LPs before 1990 and CDs after.  He has stopped buying CDs.  And apparently (I'm guessing) he stopped buying CDs about the time that the BMG Record Club went out of business.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, GA Russell said:

But everyone prefers a professionally made CD to a homemade CDr, right?

Wrong?

It depends.

[Dub Modal]

13 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

FWIW, the argument that today's younger music fans aren't willing to buy equipment and have an actual stereo setup doesn't hold water when you consider that they are also the generation that has supposedly caused a resurgence in LPs.

I remember that report from a couple of years ago that cited half of LP buyers didn't have a turntable to play them on. Maybe that trend has changed a little since, but I'd be surprised if CDs ever catch back on domestically enough for a spike in demand for players. I'd be all for it, but seems like a long shot. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

8 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

I remember that report from a couple of years ago that cited half of LP buyers didn't have a turntable to play them on. Maybe that trend has changed a little since, but I'd be surprised if CDs ever catch back on domestically enough for a spike in demand for players. I'd be all for it, but seems like a long shot. 

I think you are right. I just saw a news report that stated (how they got the number, we'll never know) that 37% of young LP buyers are using them as art decorating their walls.