CD Collection

For some reason I never feel content with just having a digital copy of music, I have to own the CDs for them whenever possible. I have about 1800 albums on disk. I'm sure I'm not the only one on Sup Forums who does this

I only have about 200 CDs. I buy tapes from local bands cause thats what they can afford, and I get vinyl for music I think would sound best on vinyl.

check out my meagre collection familios

I see that CD I got you

I have about 800 CD albums. I don't really listen to them, I just like collecting them, it's the closest thing I have to a hobby.

I check out an album digitally (youtube or piracy), keep the digital version around, then whenever i stumble upon the CD version, i buy that and replace the download with a rip. But generally if i want to listen to my music, i use my stereo straight off the CD. Super cozy.

As a result i have a pretty decent sized CD collection

OP here, that's what I started doing when I was about 12

r8 my tiny collection

I sold most of them a long time ago, but I recently started collecting them again so I could get high quality rips out of them

I do the same but rarely with CD and more with vinyl

Heck i goofed

ok rotation of images took on smart phones suck so I'm trying one more time and quitting

Updated pic of my shelf. There's several more rows below it, they're just empty. Also have some in boxes.

Where do you gays buy your stuff? Amazon?

local record stores/used media stores/amazon

Only if I'm having a genuinely hard time finding the album or it's a foreign release. Otherwise, I just go to record stores with a shopping list and look through the used sections. I hardly ever pay more than 5 bucks for a CD.

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youre not alone mate. im about 500 deep myself. cheap, high audio quality, and fun to browse music stores for

useful for musicians who are fags about uploading their complete discographies to streaming services (zappa, prince, neil young, alcest, to think of a few off the top of my head) also, comfy as fuck to look at a nice wall of physical anythings

Just started buying this year. Have 43 CDs and 22 LPs.

I only have about 40 CD's.

$1.25 each. Gotta love thrift shops

I actually started real late with collecting, i was 15

I live in the East Bay in California so I normally go to Rasputins or Amoeba (especially the clearance racks), also thrift stores/goodwill occasionally have some gems

Yeah, theres some on my wishlist (about 300 or so) that I can only find as imports and those are $40-50 each. However there are some used CD's on amazon that are only $4 total including shipping

Wish I could post my collection but I have no camera

You realize that CDs are already deprecated, and they're not cool like vinyl.

If you're going to be a pack rat, at least do it with vinyl like a badass.

This is exactly what I do today. I'll frequently pick up albums in the dollar bin blindly as well, often to find sample material. I sometimes end up with some cool albums I otherwise would never have known existed, like pic related.

CDs have a better feeling to me than vinyl. They're cheaper, easier to store and keep clean, easier to play them without having to flip over the record or having to move the arm and everything, they have the convenience of inserting them into your computer for the files (yes records have download codes, but not the older ones... I can't get that luxury buying them used, either). The sounds of jewelcases clinking as I rummage through the bargain bins is literally ASMR sex to me, it's lovely. Only downsides I can see in CDs is that they don't retain their value, but I don't plan on selling my collection anyway, so that rarely ever matters to me.

They sound better and they're cheaper. I don't care about being badass.

Vinyl also has better artwork, but other than that I agree. Me and my dad share a CD collection and he says if I ever move out, he'll let me take them with me, even though I don't plan on moving out anytime soon.

Amazon, Discogs, and occasionally I'll drive to the city and look for record stores. There used to be a Hastings near my college I'd buy CD's from.

what's top left?

I've got ~450 cds/cdrs. But it's night and I don't want to get a picture together.

Anyone have any favorite CDrs? Weird local stuff? Early releases from favorite bands? Stuff you're proud of that no one else cares about?

I have a nearly complete collection of early Locrian recordings.

the new carly rae jepsen ep that just came out has already almost doubled in price

Vinyl is sooo two years ago, if you were actually cool you would collect cassettes, moron.

I thought that was a digital download only. I definitely have to get it now

If something is vinyl only or digital download only, I'll usually download it onto a CD and print artwork for it.

Well that certainly is an eccentricity. I meant an officially sanctioned release from the band.

nah its some limited edition thing so its not exactly the best example but its really recent so I think relevant. As I recall it was originally sold on her website for $13 and someone has two for sale at $25 each. I really want it but I actually just kinda fucked myself on finances.

tbqh I do this occasionally. I did it for chuck person's eccojams

>make multiple bootlegs vaporwave CDs.
>plant them in the thrift-store CD sections.

it was actually good the first time because i can read the labels

My dad has about 200 Grateful Dead shows on CD and a bunch of Bob Dylan's outtakes/drafts/etc

I'm honestly pissed the fuck off by people that only collect vinyl and blacklist CDs like they're useless, the idea is to have a physical release, any form is equal for that purpose, though obviously if one does it out of fidelity then that may or may not be different

would you marry me?
please?

Charity shops, car boot sales, the cheap sections of record stores, sometimes I'll do a search on eBay for CDs ending soon with a price under £1.50 and see what comes up. I almost never look for a certain album in particular.

I've amassed this lot over about seven years, they probably cost me £1-£2 on average.