NoJ Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I was........but now that you mention it.......uh, I'll be right back... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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LouieB Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I am totally wacked. I got three new CDs in the mail yesterday after buying a handful of both 45s and 78s at a record store. Go figure. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
i'm only sleeping Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I need the object. Electricity/batteries-dependency is unavoidable but risking one of my biggest pleasures to the very existence of internet connection and streaming services is not my ideal of life. It's just that simple... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Griddles Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Depending on where I am dictates how I listen to my music. At home, where there is always an internet connection, its streaming either Pandora or Spotify. At work same deal. In the car, I have my iPod which has all of my cd's on it as is. Airplanes, iPod. just about anywhere else I don't really listen to music. I also do not really buy new cd's either. In the end, I think I was once like many of you, had to have the cover art, the jewel case etc. Or just didn't trust harddrives or the internet. Now I have fully embraced the wireless world. I think I am going to get rid of them. If any one in Denver wants to come peruse them before I take to the cd store send me a pm. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Wow, that's really nice. Seriously. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Depending on where I am dictates how I listen to my music. At home, where there is always an internet connection, its streaming either Pandora or Spotify. At work same deal. In the car, I have my iPod which has all of my cd's on it as is. Airplanes, iPod. just about anywhere else I don't really listen to music. I also do not really buy new cd's either. In the end, I think I was once like many of you, had to have the cover art, the jewel case etc. Or just didn't trust harddrives or the internet. Now I have fully embraced the wireless world. I think I am going to get rid of them. If any one in Denver wants to come peruse them before I take to the cd store send me a pm. PM Sent! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Nice, Moss. I'd pm but have "too many" discs as is. I'm with Griddles on the cd thing yet still buy them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DrNo Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I've been struggling with this lately as well. I sold a big load in December but still have 800 to 1,000 discs on a big bookshelf and in some boxes. They take up way too much room for something I rarely pull out. Also, it may just be because IKEA has made storing vinyl so cheap and stylish, but sometimes I feel like records take up less room somehow, even though they're obviously bigger. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobfrombob Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 I voted no. It's either too late or too early. If you had considered selling them 6 years ago, you might have got something for them. Pretty hard to sell right now for anything approaching what you paid for them. On the other hand, maybe they will appreciate in value in 10 years. I say keep 'em. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chriscolbert Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Keep 'em! My wife and I have thousands of CDS in shelves along the walls in our bedroom and I wouldn't want it any other way. I'm too lazy to rip them all anyway (I'll download torrents of things I already own out of convenience for my iPods). A couple of more reasons: 1) I want my kids (7 & 3) to have a physical connection to music. They each got a CD for Christmas and will get another for Valentine's as well. It's really fun to play the "go pick a CD and we'll see what you think of it" game. 2) Like someone said earlier, it's not like you can get anything for them anyway. Sure donating them to someone who wants physical media is a nice gesture, but I couldn't fathom getting rid of my CDs for next to nothing. Me and my wife are both former record store managers though, so I'm going to be biased. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 We are talking about CDs, here, right? keep them. when the cd age came out, vinyl was ignored - oh how things have changed! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Think of them as backup for your digital files.Keep 'em. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 how many people have VHS tapes sitting around? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 how many people have VHS tapes sitting around? some things that we taped in the early 80s from tv arent available on dvd at all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 i have a box or two of them but no VHS player. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brownie Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 I have a lot of VHS tapes, and I have a player, but sadly, I no longer have a TV that will accept the signal from my old VHS player. I bought an adapter, but the picture displayed on the TV is awful. One of these days I'll probably just dump all the tapes. What a shame, there's lots of good stuff that is impossible to replace. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 I have some old VHS. Probably will get rid of most of the commercial ones next time we move. Lots of personal ones. I shipped one to a friend a few years ago. He was going to digitize it. It was erased in the mailing process. Don't email VHS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleedorange Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 There is no reason to keep them. It's not like vinyl, which provides a different listening experience. CDs are practically obsolete already. They're certainly inessential. Back them up to a hard drive and throw them out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 And then when that hard drive just stops working one day...oops, you are S.O.L. I know people's solutions now are "have a backup, and another backup," but how many freaking external hard drives am I supposed to buy? They are just not that reliable of an item, in my experience, and at $100 a pop, they are not exactly cheap. Once it stops working, that is it. Take it around to a few shops, and when you hear what they tell you, you will decide to keep some of your most essential music in a format you can see. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chez Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Maybe we should consider renting a Via Chicago Self Storage place where everyone can bring their CD's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HungryHippo Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I downloaded the new Bob Dylan album off of iTunes first thing this morning. As soon as it was done, I sent the songs straight to my iPhone. Man, I was stoked for the morning drive. That was until I tried to play a song and it would stop 4 seconds in. I went through each song like this before I officially decided that digital music is not for me. Long story short; keep the CDs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hixter Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Tinfoil hat time: An EMP attack would likely kill our CD players, turntables, iPods and computers. Who knows how well the servers that make up "the cloud" would hold up? Everyone needs to hang onto their CDs and other physical media and build a Faraday cage to hold and protect a CD/DVD player, turntable and a solar power source and/or generator. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 And then when that hard drive just stops working one day...oops, you are S.O.L. I know people's solutions now are "have a backup, and another backup," but how many freaking external hard drives am I supposed to buy? They are just not that reliable of an item, in my experience, and at $100 a pop, they are not exactly cheap. Once it stops working, that is it. Take it around to a few shops, and when you hear what they tell you, you will decide to keep some of your most essential music in a format you can see.crashplan... $60 a year, unlimited. https://www.code42.com/crashplan/features/compare/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Griddles Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Well Moss got about 125 of them. I still have about 175 of anyone wants to see the list let me know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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