CDs, Cassettes And Vinyl 

Vinyls for me are like, "I love this album so much, I want it taking up space in my house"

The only problem with vinyl is people price them way too high

Call them "records" to avoid pissing off the vinyl snobs.

Vinyl will always be my favorite way to listen to music, it's just a vibe ya know

I absolutely love CDs man. It's so nice when you've collected a bunch of them and can display them next to/on top of each other, whenever I look at them it is just a great feeling. I'm 15 year old so I don't have a lot of money and that's the reason why I don't buy vinyls, but when I'm older I wanna collect vinyls too. Remember guys: buying music, in whatever way, is much better for the artist than streaming it or, even worse, illegally downloading it. Buying your favorite albums doesn't cost that much (if we're talking about buying them digitally or CDs) and can support the musician a lot.

Physical media is something that i will always have a soft spot for. I remember getting a Motown single for 50 cents at a thrift shop. To this day one of my greatest finds

I collect vinyl cuz i like the pretty pictures on the covers :)

I always love music on CDs, despite what people say, if you keep them in their case and don't play them wrong, they'll actually last LONGER than records. In addition, CDs have higher sound fidelity and aren't prone to wobble.

Absolutely loving this new series of videos. Great stuff.

I used to prefer vinyl but now I started preferring cassettes. I love listening at home on a cassette deck or listening on the go on a Walkman. Making custom mixtapes is also fun but my favorite is going to shows for smaller bands and buying their cassettes, something about having a full cassettewith album cover and everything for a small band is really cool

There’s just something so special about physical formats of music, especially vinyl. There’s something for me to hold my hands on, and look back at, reflecting on the memories that album gave me. And while listening to an album, I can look through the art within the sleeves and cover for it.

Not only is the way that vinyl records amazing, but also the way cassettes and CD's work too. The music on cassettes is both recorded onto the tape and played off it using magnetic waves. Because of this, a refrigerator magnet can actually erase a tape. In fact, some old tape recorders had an "erase mode" which basically was just a little fridge magnet that would activate. And the way CD's work blows my mind, especially since it's 40-year-old technology. It has a little red light shine onto the disc, the red light reflects onto a computer dire thing, and it picks up microscopic dots and dashes and turns them into 1's and 0's, like morse code kinda, and it somehow can turn those 1's and 0's into music.

I would say cd is probably my favorite format.I like it because it takes up less space,is cheaper,and I can pack as many as I want into a car!Although,I do also like cassettes and vinyls.Vinyls allow you to see the artwork and listen to it better,and cassettes are cute little tapes that you can play on cool-looking tape players

For finding/exploring new music, streaming is great, but it’s when you rlly love something (or it’s marked down in price at the local goodwill) that you get a physical copy (vinyl/CD/cassette). It has that collector element to it that’s always prevalent in fan culture, yk? Not to mention the sonic differences per each medium

5:56 The attention to detail... A Fantano judge

I'm CD,cassette and vinyl record guy,I'm a fan of all physical music media.

sometimes i love CDs is because it helps me focus in the music that i am listening too, yes RU-vid and Spotify is good but there just too much distraction.. With loads of notification and new music that keep popping up, i find it difficult not to jump from one song to the other, However listening to a CD it keeps me locked into the band and their music with totally no distractions from any other source. thus CD is why i purchase them it keeps me focus Stay safe

This man literally writes whole screenplays for these videos, this should not go unnoticed 🤧❤️

had to double-take at 7:24 for the no more parties in la soundbite, really clever lol

I lived on the reservation and having service isn't guaranteed in most places on the road. I started collecting CDs incase my phone dies and I'm glad I did! I love the collectables that comes with it. One of my favorites is the WOLF deluxe set that came with a patch and a calendar!

This 'alternative' music commentary is dope dude! Glad you're deciding to do something different!

I love CDs, there are a lot of em nowadays being practically given away. One that I found during a college event was being given away by the radio station amongst a bin of other random CDs, and it’s absolutely fire. It’s like this nasty album cover with jpeg compression around like a setting moon with papyrus font for its title, but the music is like… so evocative of that late 90s early 2000s jazzy spa almost vaporwave vibe. It’s impermanence by Michael Manson for those curious. Just some random thing that turned out to be awesome

Huh, wasn't expecting to find old boy 1 Grit at 4:16. Nice hiding spot too

haha, onlysmallbites is so funny!!! He makes me want to merge without looking

"BUT ITS VINYL NOT VINYLS-"[death] Good video as always, man :D

I was laughing throughout this video, your content is unmatched. Loving the new series, cant wait for more!

I absolutely love vinyls, CDs, cassettes,etc. I actually recently started my own collection!

Although I love the convenience of streaming having a physical copy of your music and being able to hold it is really cool, great vid dude keep it up 👍

Soo happy I just found this channel such a good video!! The abundance of sound effects really do keep it engaging and fun

just bought a tyler the creator cd recentlaly. it was flower boy. i got it mostly for the album art. also u deserve more subs!

I actually originally found you out from this type of video essay content before the Basically series, cool to see that you still do them here and there.

I've been watching since the most expensive music records, the animation quality really gets better every video! Great to see you going back to your talking videos.

Those MD sales were mainly from Japan. But I'm surprised it was only 22 million since everyone and their dogs in Japan had something to play MDs with back in the days.

This is the most refreshing stuff right here, can’t get enough bro, love the sense of humor. Please don’t stop 😂

I don’t know why but 6:45 is just hilarious 😂. Keep up with the work SmallBites!!

Song at 8:27 is called "Fade to Black" by Metallica

my favorite thing in the whole world is collecting cd's. they can be sooo cheap too and be in great condition! i've never had to buy a cd for more than $25 and most of the ones i've bought were $5! it's great!

Bro, I'm incredibly blind but I've seen the cover of Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below SOOO many times, so it stood out like a sore thumb.

You're always gonna get me with that intro.

While I enjoyed the animations a lot, I'm glad you're doing more essay type/ topical videos now, peace :)

for a channel with only small bites this is a pretty long video! *laugh track*

I literally just watched your last video for the first time and I was like "hey, this is amazing, can't wait for this guy's next upload" Then I go back to my home page is this was uploaded 20 minutes ago. Seriously though, you're hysterical dude. This new series is amazing

I collect CDs cos they’re more compact also you can play on dvd players, xbox, or old hi fi systems perfect for cars too!

ITS VINYL

I shared my Cd collection two months ago and I like it when they come with mini posters. I've only gotten two so far

IT'S VINYL THE PLURAL OF VINYL IS VINYL AAAAA

All of the best bits from this video 2:21 vibing in the Ritz car 2:53 R.I.P guy (got attacked by a floating truck) 3:01 CDeez .. 3:39 family reunion 4:19 bites on a game show 5:08 failed meeting 5:20 bites rages at a guy doing something wrong 6:11 bad guy madness 6:45 drake dance 7:00 basically macamora's thrift shop

Cassette nerd here. ( I still collect some cds as well) but I like how tapes are small, cool looking and are easily portable unlike cds. Plus I enjoy working on Walkmans

I've been into vinyl for a couple years now, and it's so satisfying to put so much "effort" in deliberately playing an album you want to listen to. Here recently my grandparents sent me a huge collection of cassettes. I even purchased a Walkman. Needless to say, I think I'm going to be on a cassette kick for a bit! (P.S. I've just realized I'm going in chronological order! Next up is CD's, haha.)

Love the new series man. Keep it up!

You better know this is a onlysmallbites classic

waiting for the comments about "vinyls" 3:19 wait was that the how does it feel rim

The use of the plural vinyls makes me wanna break into your home and eat all your food

IT IS VINYL NOT VINILS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PLURAL TO VYNIL IS VILYL!!!!!!!!!! subscribed

Loving this series, great work!

I love physical copies of my favorite albums and artists, it makes me feel one step closer to the artists and I also love seeing all the credits and photoshoots! Listening to them is even better, wish new vinyls were cheaper

The fade to black joke caught me offguard and I loved it

A lot of the music I like to listen to is not being sold digitally, so I tend to prefer CDs. They've got a good balance of having music I like, being durable, having good sound quality, being physical, and taking up the right amount of space. They fit quite well on my bookshelf.

I will cherish my vinyl collection forever and always. It's a much more, for lack of a better description, "intimate" way to listen to music. It's always fascinating to watch that record spin as the needle vibrates between the grooves, through some bizarre science creating some of the best music known to man.

The process of creating your own playlists goes back way further than cassettes. Record changers that allowed you to stack multiple records to be played in succession have existed since 1927, and before that some portable record players had compartments store multiple records inside. Later on with the success of the 45 small record booklets with handles became popular amongst teens in the 50s, and after that 8 tracks were the first true first form of general consumer tape that people would create playlists on

i am a cassette collector bc i just love those little guys :)

Vinyl are really just for novelty. I collect Vinyl and I like to display the album art on my wall and will occasionally listen to the record. But 90% is for collection and display purpose and 10% is to play the music.

Me and my friend are trying to get all the mainstream audio types, I’ve got the most CDs, but he’s got a few vinyls, a fair amount of cassettes, and even 2 8-track tapes. There’s just something about listening to music on these old physical and niche formats that’s so fun and interesting, even if the audio has no low frequencies and the rest is covered in scratches and artifacts, we just say that the piece of media has “gained character with aging like fine wine”. Hence why if we wanna listen to music nicely, we buy CDs of it. But also being invested in music production and DJ-ing thanks entirely to Daft Punk and friends, we also wanna get lots of records later someday to be able to DJ oldskool style

the 1 grit touch. loved it.

It's just art for me. If u were to walk into someones house and see "in the aeroplane over the sea" on someone's wall you wouldn't even know there was like music for it

Long story short, most CDs are going to give you the best quality possible, vinyls are great to listen to original mixes and not modern blown out mixes, they also have their own tone since it's literally a needle dragging across a disk. Vinyls also got amazing covers and custom disks.

Bites, killer video as always. I love your style, your pacing, humor, and commentary!!!! Please keep up the great work. Could you please tell me what you use to make these animations?? I tried digging for the info so I didn’t waste your time asking!!! Or if anyone else in the comments knows what software this is??? I would love to know!!!

I'm more of a cassette's and CD's guy, i have both and they're still in great condition. Cassettes sound great too (depends on the quality of your cassette player.) Cassettes also offer album covers and pictures of the artist as well as lyrics to every song you can read.

Love the resurgence in vinyl popularity. Some old fellow sees an opportunity to make a quick buck, thrifts it, and I get my Van Der Graaf records for like $5 at best. Then there's King Crimson which somehow never sells below $30

i love cds collecting them is so fun and filling

To me listening to vinyl is like an experience. You have to take it out, you look at the beautiful packaging and the artwork, sometimes the vinyl is colored which I absolutely love, you place the needle on it, you cannot skip a song or go back (not easily anyway), and then you gotta turn it halfway. All this on a home sound system, no bluetooth. Which means if you're going to listen to it, you will stay in that room and you will interact with it rather than just listening to a playlist on a bluetooth speaker and not paying much attention

man i’m really loving your new stuff (:

Anybody else love the feeling of vinyls in their hands?

Another great video, my favorite part was 6:44, please keep making videos🙏

Hey man, love this vids….keep it up!!!!🔥

I love the details in this video, like the light 6 on MBDTF at 5:56

I heard a second of Happy Valentine's Day from Outkast in this video. Am I mistaken?

Shoutout to the tiny ATCQ sample at 8:07.

as an artist who does physicals at home, there's interesting and notable noise styles that come from each player especially if the quality's low. for example vinyl likes to crackle, cassettes like to hiss, and cds also sometimes hiss depending on the player you use. i find it adds to the aesthetic of my music in particular which nowadays tries to mimic found footage recordings.

Haven't even watched the video yet and I'm already liking cuz I just have that faith

My best vinyl memory came today. I was shopping in Target and i saw TPAB so I picked it up and payed for it. I then walked into Marshal's, which was where my mom was shopping. I was looking for her when I walked over to the fitting rooms, and the female worker had her coworker friends there. They struck a conversation up and we talked for 7ish minuets, and I looked down at my valued album, and I looked at the workers and in that moment i decided to donate it to them, so I asked the group "hey, are any of you a fan of Kendrick Lamar?" And 2/3 said no, the 1 that said yes, I handed TPAB to her and I backed up. Her coworker friend said "wait why did you do that?" I said "why not? Have a nice day." I have never seen someone so excited over a vinyl. Thanks for reading

I like vinyl records and cds. I like cds for their durability and the fact that I can use them in my car. Plus they’re cheaper than dirt. I feel they get a bad wrap that’s pretty undeserving.

love you're videos!

Loving these vids, man!

Based POGO album art above Bites' head at 9:05

i, myself still collect CDs and vinyl and I occasionally listen to em :p

God damn dude I remember the last time I saw your sub count it was like 100. Good work love your vids!

Bro this video was extremely entertaining

inject this serotonin of seeing an onlysmallbites video, into our mf veinsss

Started on cassettes 2 years ago and I'm not turning back

Love Cassettes Man The Sound The Size The Equipment Of Showing Via Beautiful VU Meter To A Bright Digital Meter The Format Is Underrated

8:54 And also getting alternative artwork makes them more appealing. The vinyl version of Vs. has a different cover btw (as well as Riot Act and Avocado + Ten's is the full unfolded CD booklet).

Dude, I started collecting vinyl and CD's after watching your videos. You legit sparked a hobby for me.

This is Scott the woz X music and I am now screaming in excitement

dude youtube recommendations finally showed me a good channel

these videos just banger after banger

If it's brand new, and it's someone I like, I buy a cd. If it came out on cd at all and it's cheaper than an lp, I get a cd.

Some vinyls cost more than Lil Pump's lean & my house combined.

IS THAT POGO ON THE SHELF AT THE END?! YESSSS

I see the weeknd trilogy on the shelf in his store, you sir are a man of taste 🔥