"You a stewardess? Good, ma, I fly, too" - Cam'Ron, Down and Out (w/ Kanye West & Syleena Johnson)
I've debated this with myself for awhile now. I don't know when I ever actually use my CDs. Once I've digitized the entire collection and backed them up appropriately, what's the need? I haven't done it yet, though. I'm not sure I can do it. Could you?
MediaPost Publications - No Attachments - 01/31/2006
ONE NIGHT LAST WEEK, I sat at my desk in my home office loading CDs into my computer. The CDs came out of a long-neglected cardboard box. After the music from each disc went into the computer, the actual CD went into the trash. I saved only discs I knew were out of print, or those with sentimental value--given to me by the artist or by someone close to me. In the end, I threw out over 300 CDs.
No way!!!!
Although that subject comes up quite often, not listening to the CDs themselves, they still get some use sometimes. Like in the car if you don't want to deal with the Itrip not finding the next station when you're on a road trip!
Plus there is something about having the insert from the CD that is just cool to look at sometimes! It must be our generation, the younger ones have no issue hving only the download!
Maybe we're getting old. hahaha
The idea honestly gives me chills, no matter how well I could back up my files.
I love to look at mine, as creepy as that sounds. Not having some physical representation to stare at or put on display just doesn't seem right. I don't pick my cds up often, and I've gotten to the point where I rip my favorites to stick on my ipod, but I just can't get rid of them. I'm way too lazy to rip them all anyway.
I'm with Gwen, when I read the line, "I threw out over 300 CDs" I cringed. No back up is infallible plus I love looking at my physical collection, that's not something that I can do with with my digital one. My CDs and records are like books and artwork, as lame as it sounds, their display is like a benchmark of my cultural literacy. Yeah, that does sound pretty lame. Anyways, if you'll excuse me I'm off to get up a double-half-caff latte and pick up my turtle necks at the dry cleaners. :-p
aahh i dont think i could either...but ive been having a hard time finding some of them. Which makes me realize that i miss them...and im a really paranoid person, so i know eventually im going to need to re-load my mp3 player. TOOOOO much money spent on them to just throw them out, i need back-up..i need back-up to that back-up, and i need more back-up after that..
Just in case
I've sold CDs, and given my "why did I buy this" ones to friends, but there is no CD tossing in my world. I agree with everyone who's commented. I need something I can hold in my hand. And 300 CDs - such a waste. I would have made an CD curtain or something.
I haven't caught on to the mp3/ipod craze, so I have to keep my cd's.
Even thought I have a ton at home that are doing nothing but collecting dust. I can't bear the thought of throwing them out.
That seems like a waste. Why didn't that person give them to the library, or the Salvation Army, if he wanted to get rid of them?
Yes, they should have donated them to some place, a library, a lowly-college radio station - tossing them was a bad idea.
I already know I cannot part with my cds. I already did as a poor college student and I cried and cried which I am not afraid to admit at all. I still buy vinyl so that tells you where I'm at!
Oh no way. I can't get rid of the CDs. Especially since I've already had to get my iPod replaced once, and it looks like I'm going to have to replace it yet again.
I'm actually leaning towards hot (with the caveat that my cds go to a good home). My music collection is completely virtual. I listen to it entirely through my computer or ipod and the many ways my ipod can play music (through the car, on tiny speakers, in full fledged stereo systems, headphones).
I buy CDs now only when I want to get them early or if they aren't available legally and digitally and then it is only to digitize the music and then never to listen to them again.
There is a benefit to sharing CDs that isn't always available digitally but there are ways around it. All the liner note and album art is usually available online. Itunes has even taken to including digital booklets with purchases.
So why do I need the stuff?
I'm all about not having stuff.
my files are well protected on my hard drive. My guess is that sooner rather than later, most middle class homes will have central servers as media hubs and backups.
If I don't keep paper copies of every document I create, why do I need the CDs?
I totally get keeping vinyl. The music experience is different. The artwork is large enough to truly be displayable. Vinyl records are true collectibles.
CDs not so much i'm starting to think.
I agree about records. Artwork and liner notes alone are reasons to collect and hold on. I just purchased an external 300 gig hard drive just for CD storage. It's the throwing away of the mini media pieces that makes me cringe as well. Can't yet do it.
I agree about records. Artwork and liner notes alone are reasons to collect and hold on. I just purchased an external 300 gig hard drive just for CD storage. It's the throwing away of the mini media pieces that makes me cringe as well. Can't yet do it.
Man, you could have sold those and made some money!!! If a used record store or book store just gave you 50 cents for each of them, that's $150!
Next time you have the urge to just throw money away, please send it to me.
Trula
PO Box 110393
Cleveland, OH
44111
Trula - I wasn't the one who tossed 300 CDs. The author of the piece I linked to did.
I'm sorry Jason! My bad, I guess I should learn toread, huh? LOL!
only rich americans throw things away. if you really don't want to store your cd's anymore at least sell them so you can put the money back into your high interest earning ING account or something..
I don't know if I'll ever be able to get rid of my CDs. As others have stated 1) I've got way too much money invested in them. 2)There's a ton of emotional attachment there.
Sure all of my music listening is virtual now. I've got the external hard drive just for music, the ipod, the whole nine. All of that will never take the place of holding a CD case in my hand, holding the booklet by the edges or putting on gloves so you don't get finger prints on the glossy paper, and simply looking at the physical representation of your collection sittinng there for all the world to see (if they happen to stop by your house). On the rare occasion that I do buy a CD nowadays, it's immediately ripped digitally and stored with its older brethren on my CD rack.
I remember the circumstances surrounding the purchase of almost every CD I've bought. In some cases I even remember the date of purchase. That's some serious attachment. As somebody else stated above, I was distraught back in the day when I was a poor college senior and had to sell some of my CDs just to eat. Felt like I was selling members of my own family.
CDs were the music delivery vehicle of my generation much like records were for previous generations. That's a hard connection to break.
I don't know if I can throw my CDs out, either, although I hate them when I'm moving (CDs are light on their own, but thrown 100 in a box, and you've got a hernia). I, like Shaft, must be too paranoid. I love my iPod, but it's a hard drive and they crash and burn just like people. Until they learn to make perfect technology, I'm going to hold on...just in case. I mean, if I had held on to my Garbage Pail Kids, I could be gettin' rich on e-bay right about now, ya know? One never knows what the future will bring.