Just bought two games,Heart Of Darkness and Silent Hill 3 both CD's but for music I go mostly digital.

I want to change my answer.

NO! NO! NO! NO!

My accountant is Charles Schwab and Charles Schwab says in today's economy with the recession leaving stock holders in the toilet, flushing our banks, leaving consumer confidence in the FDIC a joke, and it's turning CDs into a fool's a dream!

DON'T BUY THEM!

BUY GOLD!

INVEST IN BULLION!

All my discs which I hide well before going to college are in excellent condition and plays well but those which I left under my parents supervision are either dead or missing!
Same thing happened to my comic collection. :(

I keep hearing this all the time but it's simply a lie. Just moments ago I ripped a CD from 1996 (with an accuracy of at least 99.99% according to Exact Audio Copy, the same result I get with new CDs) and my parents regularly listen to CDs they bought in the late 80's or early 90's. Also all my oldest PC games on CD, some ranging back to 1994, continue to work properly. And I never even cared much about cool or dry storage.

Anyway, I'm kinda glad to see that I'm not alone. :D Interesting to see that some, like myself, continue to buy CDs even if they end up only using them for ripping.

I feel almost the same, although, if I don't buy new video games' physical copies anymore (except niche wargames), it's mainly because of DRM (the "big ones", Steam, Origin and UPlay). If most PC video games were DRM-free or DRM lite (CD key in the manual for instance), I would gladly buy new physical copies. But instead, I have gone retro gaming (for PC and consoles), and GOG for new games (and old games for setup convenience, but here, I like to have the physical copy too when available and affordable), and Matrix/Ageod wargame once for a while.

Concerning music, since I never really liked listening to radios, I don't like streaming either, and while I like having FLAC tracks from my CDs, I do because I want to preserve my CDs, and because I don't currently own good hi fi equipement (but I believe that it is something I will reconsider in the future).

I pretty much stopped listening to music in disgust back in the early 2000's or so when they experimented putting DRM on CD's. Things like intentional disk errors to confuse PC drives, and of course the Sony rootkit fiasco. I think they since gave up with all that, but I haven't really started listening to music again.

Actually, what had expelled me out of the retail gaming world into the digital gogland was the issue of localizations. Game boxes are most often very unclear about the available languages, and quite often only the cheap french translations (and its weak voiceovers) are available in my region. Going digital was the only way to ensure that I get games in original versions, with the real actor works and voicing efforts included (and if anything, bad voicing in a foreign language is more bearable than in a too familiar one).

Thank god the dvd/bluray film market includes original versions by default (except for some rare creepy editions). Without that, I'd probably have gone full digital movies-wise too.

I found this article about life span of disc.
It's little old.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/cds-truth-cddvd-longevity-mold-rot/

Well there is an issue I haven't had in 15 yrs.

Never.

All of my Humble/Groupees/bundle sites purchases most likely contain OSTs of the games I buy, therefore I most likely don't need to buy anything else (my music preference is strictly anime and game osts).

If I want something specific e.g eden* soundtracks I will google it and download the FLACs. I settle no less than 320kbps (if no other choice) or FLAC (a must).

I also don't want to store physical discs anyway - waste of space.

Yes, if I'm going to purchase music, I will buy the physical CD.

I don't like the current market for digital music. The industry still favors MP3 over lossless, and they rarely give you the booklet/material that is included with the CD.

It's practicality over snobbery.

I actually started buying CD/DVD-ROMs again a couple of years ago or so, only older games, pre-Steam/GFWL, even bought some DOS games. It's pretty much the only way to go if you want older games like NFS Underground and such.
Though tempting, I stayed away from buying big box games, I leave those for the real collectors.

As for music, I am interested in buying a few CDs but I haven't bought any in years and even those were a gift.

That's one of the advantages Bandcamp offers, you can you choose the album's format, so it can Mp3, or lossless.

I still buy physical CDs, mostly classical CDs from Barnes & Noble, and the occasional physical CD from Bandcamp. Unfortunately a lot of the bands I like aren't able to release CDs due to being stuck on the local scene, or because they're defunct and their rights are held by some tiny label that can't afford to do anything, so I'm stuck with digital downloads of their stuff.

I don't buy physical stuff. I typically don't care about booklets bonuses and shit anyway, but there's one much bigger reason why: shipping fees. Last time I actually looked at buying music CDs NB had 28 fucking euros shipping fee, from Germany to here.... Yeah, not gonna happen.