Younger people of Lemmy. Would you buy a CD at a concert? - eviltoast

I’m 40, and when I was a teenager, EVERY band had CDs. And I know a lot of music has shifted to digital. So much so that I heard Best buy stopped selling CDs. Presumably because nobody buys them.

So I wonder what musicians sell besides t-shirts and posters at concerts. Do the kids have ANY CDs? Do they buy mp3’s? Do they just use pandora and spotify? Do they even own their own music?

I’ve given up on trying to understand the lingo. Other generations lingo sounds stupid to me, but still understandable based on context.

I have NO idea what a skibifibi toilet is…sounds like a toilet after some taco bell and untalented jazz, but maybe I can try to understand their thought process on media consumption.

  • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Pins, patches, vinyl, tapes and very rarely CDs.

    My band is planning out our merch for the fall and we’re planning on two shirts, four larger patches, 2 to 6 pin designs, logo patches and a 7-inch (TBR). It’s a street punk band.

    My death metal band has a slightly different table, but it’s those things in general.

    A band we play shows with often has hot sauce they produce for sale as merch.

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      3 months ago

      Yo, the Elder hot sauce is great, though. I went online to buy more a few months after I saw them, lol