a guilty pleasure of mine is watching clean house...you know, peoples houses are overrun with junk because people cant help themselves, so Niecy comes in and rescues them...I just saw one where a guy gave up his whole cd collection.

I thought about my own cd collection..i have a cd player at home, one in my car, one at work, and I don't listen to them anymore. I listen to sports talk radio on the way to work, and the news on the way home..or I listen to the top 40 station which does phone tap calls, just to start the morning off with a laugh. I have my favorites on my ipod...I can get any song I want...so now Im questioning the wisdom of holding onto cd's that I don't listen to anymore.

Certainly I wouldn't give up my beatles/stones/prince/ and a couple of other groups..

but do I really need to hold onto things I don't use?

The albums...well same thing. Do I really need to hold onto my Pablo Cruise collection?

I own not a single material piece of music anymore. Two years ago, I finished digitizing a collection I'd amassed since junior high, and I LOVE being rid of all that clutter.

some guy came to my yard sale last year and bought every LP I had, probably all my 7-inches too, even startrekkin!

so all that's left now are the master's INXS albums

ZombieKitten said:

some guy came to my yard sale last year and bought every LP I had, probably all my 7-inches too, even startrekkin!

so all that's left now are the master's INXS albums

no sentimentality attached then....?

BlackAdder7 said:

ZombieKitten said:

some guy came to my yard sale last year and bought every LP I had, probably all my 7-inches too, even startrekkin!

so all that's left now are the master's INXS albums

no sentimentality attached then....?

not really, I never had a record player

(I probably only had 10 records in total)

Around a 100 records I think, well over 500 CDs. I've no intention of ever parting with them.

I don't own any records (i'm too young!), but I do have a lot of CD's and even cassettes that I can't bring myself to get rid of. They're neatly stashed away in a drawer and every now and a gain i'll look through them ...but I never play them.

Do the people that have replaced all their music with digital files plan on doing the same thing with their books too? Imagine all the extra space you will have if you got rid of your library and replaced it with e-books.

sextonseven said:

Do the people that have replaced all their music with digital files plan on doing the same thing with their books too? Imagine all the extra space you will have if you got rid of your library and replaced it with e-books.

and comics!

sextonseven said:

Do the people that have replaced all their music with digital files plan on doing the same thing with their books too? Imagine all the extra space you will have if you got rid of your library and replaced it with e-books.

I'm a physical person, I like owning the hard copy of something, especialy music.

ZombieKitten said:

sextonseven said:

Do the people that have replaced all their music with digital files plan on doing the same thing with their books too? Imagine all the extra space you will have if you got rid of your library and replaced it with e-books.

and comics!

That's crazy talk.

Lammastide said:

I own not a single material piece of music anymore. Two years ago, I finished digitizing a collection I'd amassed since junior high, and I LOVE being rid of all that clutter.

We still have tons of cd's but we got rid of the jewel cases and stuck them into notebooks. But I really prefer getting rid of clutter as well.

sextonseven said:

Do the people that have replaced all their music with digital files plan on doing the same thing with their books too? Imagine all the extra space you will have if you got rid of your library and replaced it with e-books.

Novels, yes. Coffee table-type artbooks, no.

sextonseven said:

Do the people that have replaced all their music with digital files plan on doing the same thing with their books too? Imagine all the extra space you will have if you got rid of your library and replaced it with e-books.

I've actually thought about it and I'd LOVE to! In my ideal world, ALL of my media -- except maybe my fledgling art collection -- would be digitized.

Many of my books are rather obscure, old, etc., though, so there's next to no hope of finding them in a digital format. I'd have to somehow get scans of the content myself, and I'm not (yet) that anal retentive.

sextonseven said:

ZombieKitten said:

and comics!

That's crazy talk.

ZombieKitten said:

sextonseven said:

That's crazy talk.

Honestly, I often consider getting rid of many of them and keeping the reprinted hardbound books of the best ones. I could never go digital though.

sextonseven said:

ZombieKitten said:

Honestly, I often consider getting rid of many of them and keeping the reprinted hardbound books of the best ones. I could never go digital though.

I don't think digital books are quite "right". I converted easily to digital music though, so maybe later down the track I'll be eating my hat

LittleBLUECorvette said:

sextonseven said:

Do the people that have replaced all their music with digital files plan on doing the same thing with their books too? Imagine all the extra space you will have if you got rid of your library and replaced it with e-books.

I'm a physical person, I like owning the hard copy of something, especialy music.

Me too. I like being super geeky and looking at production credits. Besides, MP3 sounds worse then CD (and generally CD worse than vinyl but still 10x better then MP3). We are going backwards sound quality wise LOL. All for convenience. People who say MP3 is as good sounding as CD's needs their hearing testing.

I have about 200 records and 550 CD's.

I have to hold onto my Pablo Cruise Collection BlackAdder7, "A Place In The Sun", "Whatcha Gonna Do?", and "Love Will Find A Way" are great songs.

hundreds

BlackAdder7 said:

a guilty pleasure of mine is watching clean house...you know, peoples houses are overrun with junk because people cant help themselves, so Niecy comes in and rescues them...I just saw one where a guy gave up his whole cd collection.

I thought about my own cd collection..i have a cd player at home, one in my car, one at work, and I don't listen to them anymore. I listen to sports talk radio on the way to work, and the news on the way home..or I listen to the top 40 station which does phone tap calls, just to start the morning off with a laugh. I have my favorites on my ipod...I can get any song I want...so now Im questioning the wisdom of holding onto cd's that I don't listen to anymore.

Certainly I wouldn't give up my beatles/stones/prince/ and a couple of other groups..

but do I really need to hold onto things I don't use?

The albums...well same thing. Do I really need to hold onto my Pablo Cruise collection?

yes. there are some things in life we never, ever discard from our lives. pablo is such a thing

I have no idea how many.

I have a black narrow bookcase that I bought at Home Depot years ago and put it together myself. It stands 6 feet high and is full of record albums. It is packed so tight full of albums that it is hard to take one out and put it back in and the cardboard backing to the bookcase is bulging and stretching up next to the wall behind it. On the floor I have a big cardboard box full of 12 Inch singles and it is also packed as tight as it can get. In the cabinet underneath the entertaiment center, it is full of stacks of 45s, eight and nine stacks as tall as they can be stacked in the cabinet.

My vinyl is the only thing I keep in the living room with the stereo and entertainment center. I'm always worried about deadbeat lowlifes that might steal something when I'm not looking and not many people have vinyl these days anyway and if they wanted to steal it, it would be too big for them to hide. As for my CDs, I have about eight or nine boxes packed full of them. When I recently moved, I didn't even unpack them. I just put them in one of my upstairs bedroom closets, left them there, and pull them out one by one if I have the urge to listen to them but they are all scanned into the computer anyway. I didn't put them in the living room because first of all, records are unique since not many have them anymore so they are something that you would want to display. CDs however, are common so all they would be is clutter. Plus they are little and easy for company to steal. If anyone asks if I have any CDs, I tell them that I gave and threw them away after I skanned them into my computer. I don't let people know I still have them because they are too easy to steal.

Would I ever get rid of my records and CDs. Hell naw! Yes, I have all the songs I want from them, both vinyl and CD, skanned into my computer and my computer is plugged into the stereo so it can thump. My internet is on my laptop. The computer that contains my music has never had internet and will never have internet because I will never take the chance of getting a virus and either losing my music or having to rescan it back into the computer. It took me years of skanning and recording vinyl onto CDs to get all my music in there. Yes, I have all the physical backup if that should happen but who wants to do all that again? Another reason to never part with my vinyl and CDs is, what if someone broke into my apartment and stole my computer? I would have NO music then and if I had to listen to the bullshit that's on the radio these days, I would end up going crazy and going on a shooting spreee somewhere because I absolutely despise new music these days.

But, whether I had music in a computer or not, as I said before, as far as I am concerned, you don't truly own a song unless you have it on vinyl. Cassettes were never a good replacement for vinyl because you can record them yourself and it's stupid to buy something that you can record yourself. Then came CD recorders. You can record CDs yourself also. The music that it's the computer, you can record and scan it there yourself. You can't record vinyl yourself, plus it just sounds better.

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vainandy said:

you don't truly own a song unless you have it on vinyl.

I don't agree, but there's something really cool about this statement. Mind if I put it on a T shirt?

ZombieKitten said:

sextonseven said:

Do the people that have replaced all their music with digital files plan on doing the same thing with their books too? Imagine all the extra space you will have if you got rid of your library and replaced it with e-books.

and comics!

Somewhere above 10,000..................It is hard storing all of this stuff.

sextonseven said:

ZombieKitten said:

Honestly, I often consider getting rid of many of them and keeping the reprinted hardbound books of the best ones. I could never go digital though.

no

no

and

no.

they are not comics. they're collected works. don't ever get rid of your single issues.

outlooks like that are going to kill the monthly comic mang!!!

Graycap23 said:

Somewhere above 10,000..................It is hard storing all of this stuff.

Im telling you, man, change this:

to this:

Just be sure to keep multiple backups, and you're golden.

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Lammastide said:

Graycap23 said:

Somewhere above 10,000..................It is hard storing all of this stuff.

Im telling you, man, change this:

to this:

Just be sure to keep multiple backups, and you're golden.

[Edited 1/28/11 7:07am]

Lol.............I have both. I just have a hard time getting rid of the original stuff.

BlackAdder7 said:

a guilty pleasure of mine is watching clean house...you know, peoples houses are overrun with junk because people cant help themselves, so Niecy comes in and rescues them...I just saw one where a guy gave up his whole cd collection.

I thought about my own cd collection..i have a cd player at home, one in my car, one at work, and I don't listen to them anymore. I listen to sports talk radio on the way to work, and the news on the way home..or I listen to the top 40 station which does phone tap calls, just to start the morning off with a laugh. I have my favorites on my ipod...I can get any song I want...so now Im questioning the wisdom of holding onto cd's that I don't listen to anymore.

Certainly I wouldn't give up my beatles/stones/prince/ and a couple of other groups..

but do I really need to hold onto things I don't use?

The albums...well same thing. Do I really need to hold onto my Pablo Cruise collection?

I find your post very interesting. It raises a couple of questions in my mind ...

1-Your post reads as if you listen to a lot LESS music than before. Is that right? And if so, what are your reasons for this? Age? Different lifestyle? Lack of new and strong material from your favorite artists?

2-Isn´t there any kind of emotional attachment to your old music, whether it´s on CD or vinyl?

3-A lot of people seem to be unhappy with the quality of mp3 sound and miss the good old days of the warm analogue sound or even uncompressed CD quality, yet at the same time many more people seem to have no problem with getting rid of all their old sources for that kind of sound and even risk losing a lot of their music since mp3s often get lost, hds crash, data is lost for good etc.etc. What is your stance on these issues?

I still own a lot of vinyl and I still buy CDs once in a blue moon (because I like a physical CD with additional info and artwork though they put less and less effort into that) but I can totally relate to most of what you wrote....I listen to less music these days and sometimes have to force myself to put on some old CDs or connect my laptop to my stereo´s loudspeakers for more volume and often find myself asking "What went wrong? Somewhere along the line, I lost interest. WTF?"

And then I ponder on the various reasons or have my phases where I intentionally listen to more music whereas in the past, it was an automatic thing like breathing to play good music all the time.

The clutter thing and wanting to get rid of it is another interesting topic but I don´t want to stray from the main topic of this thread.

Graycap23 said:

Lol.............I have both. I just have a hard time getting rid of the original stuff.

I have to admit, I do miss the accessibility to production credits and packaging art. Those things haven't yet been optimized in digital at all.