HOW DO YOU GET RID OF YOUR OLD CDs?
 

mine are just taking up space. :(

what do the second hand shops say about CDs these days?

Funny you should ask...

First, I'm keeping all originals, but tossed the jewelcases. That freed up 10x the amount of space previously taken up, then I placed them on a spindle.

just this morning I "donated' nearly 1000 burned discs (audio and data) to a friend at work.

Last night, what few cassettes I had left were also donated to someone (who is overjoyed at now owning Kate Bush on tape).


Consolidate->donate

Ebay is a horrorshow and used cd stores won't give you shit. I've been paid in happiness.


The vinyl....ask me in a few months...

no idea-- i don't have one nearby. i think the one went broke... but wouldn't they pay dirt anyway? they have to mark it up...

i was thinking of digitizing all to the NAS but with spotify i don't even bother using up my hard drives except for the things spotify doesn't carry. ADHD and collections don't mix well (collections are the realm of obsessives, and i'm not it).

and you're way nicer than i am. i don't want people's happiness-- i want their cold hard cash. but who will pay? ha! but i think some gifts would be cool though. true true true.

if it's been a pain in the ass to sell an $800 tape deck on ebay, i can't imagine the horror of selling cds, $3 at a time. i'd sooner blow my brains out.


i feel the same way!

I didn't. They are all somewhere around here.. I have condensed them into a pocket full of flash drives for long term storage, I must admit it is quite nice. I still don't like to download when buying music, I like to have a disc and the artwork if even for a brief moment of reflection. I so sometimes miss two things about discs (a) how you had to select and choreograph the music for each day by choosing which discs to bring with you instead of having most of it on your iPod and (b) having to physically change discs when changing albums, it is a ritual and you get to see and feel and experience the album. However, I don't miss all that enough to abandon my iPod, I used to have to carry backpacks on the metro just to throw my disc player and some albums in it, now I just seem to have a backpack for the fuck of it, but all my music conveniently fits in my pocket. Fucking Steve Jobs you bastard, just like these tablets with MP3 players is just ANOTHER idea you stole from PCs ;)

MP3 players and tablets came out in the 1990s but until Apple made them sexy people could care less. I'm old school, I used to have MP3 disc players with all my files on 800MB discs..

@ suchfriends-- i like the artwork too and all, but as i am perpetually relocating i am tired of carting the furniture and paraphernalia of old media, and since i'm moving this month, i have the urge to clear some space.

i still pack cds for the car, which is old and doesn't have an aux port, so i go through that backpack routine regularly. but the car repertoire is limited because i don't take anything in it that could put me to sleep or derange my nerves (it's a safety thing---otherwise i appreciate aural extremes very much)

but i'm gonna install an aux port in the thing. so everything must go (well, not everything...)

vinyl is another story so it stays for now... but fuck, i am tempted... that would hurt though. agghhhhhhh....

ps- also, the first pda/tablet (that i know about) was the apple newton.

I was born in the late 80s, my first music was on CD and MD. I keep those at my parents house. I've done away with most of everything else except for some vintage software (mostly videogames).

I still store everything on a NAS, but yeah, I've been using my DAAP server less and less.

I'm slowly in the process of selecting the stuff I want to upload to icloud and google music.

This thread is depressing the fuck out of me.

My "vintage software's" "in the bin".

////// <-- my arm

My mother threw out a couple of baskets full of floppys with stuff my brother pirated out of bbs's.

I still have with me a bunch of MO disks and Zip drives.

I threw away all the jewel cases, and kept the inserts and CD's in a giant, very heavy, leather CD binder. It sits on the bottom shelf of the unit I store my vinyls in.

I also have uploaded most of them to a 1 TB external drive, so I can rock them on my phone.

that sounds like a good temporary solution though i'd rather sell--and without the jewel box, won't buyers reject it?

i think i'm going to put a mat on the floor of a public space and wait for the american pickers to show the fuck up.

yueah, you gotta have a non-broken jewel case, but CD's are so disposable, no one wants to pay much for them at all.

lol@finding a buyer

People won't even steal cd's anymore.

Spindle 'em, or stick 'em in a binder (full of women).

5 bucks each no? i could buy a motorcycle!

thanks man.

if you are lucky you get 5 bucks, and then think about the cost of shipping them (if you sell far away), but if you go to half price books or some reseller, they will give you $1 per CD I swear!

the local used record store gave up and started selling shitloads, and i mean shitloads and shitloads (10,000 or so?) at a buck a cd
they dont even want them anymore
they manage to survive on selling blu-ray and videogames & of course vinyl

what would i do with the 2000+ cd's i got
back them all up at least 3 times onto hard drives
and then throw them all into the firepit and burn them motherfuckers

i really dont even know why i even buy blank cd's anymore. other then i like making mix cd's to send out to people. but even that's getting old and boring, so i've switched to making mix tapes in the computer instead. alot of my friends dont even want to own cds anymore.

i often wonder what the hell would make a band want to put out cds anymore?
haven't they gone the way of the 8 track?

2K CDs at $1 each = $2K.

would you burn money?

anyway, people still buy new CDs-- evolghost bought a deerhoof EP I could have sold to him used.

maybe the trick is to sell via amazon. since people who want CDs go there anyway, just offer the used one. hmmm.....

trash <=> treasure

Yo, my shit was wax....not a cd.

How much is your time worth?

On minimum wage (say $10) it'd have to take you under 6 minutes each to make it cost-effective.

people who want CD's use AOL

Minimum wage is $7.25

$2.50 if you are a server/waitress working for tips.

a candy bar costs $1.25

:(


i can spend a morning at a local flea market and sell the shit out of old things while i eat cheese and drink beer. i've made over $100/hr in the past. the only problem is the demographics are wrong for my music.

btw i went to that website, entered the code for 4 random cds, and the total offer was $0. one had no code, another had an incomprehensible code (prolly old), the other two were unwanted.

ha ha, to think i bought so many of these with credit cards, probably paid interest, now they are worth nothing. investment!

Are they making CDrs better quality nowadays? Or will they flake off like the old ones?

And do DVDrs have this flaking off problem?

I once dropped an external hard drive and lost everything.
Clouds are too small or too expensive.
Technology sucks.

At the risk of rampant hipsterism, why does playing vinyl lp's offer such a more rewarding experience? The tactile sensation of flipping it over? The participation of blowing off the dust? Bonding experiences.

tactile sensations
The absorption of modulated sound, full wave structure
the analog delight of no lasers

anything that forces the listener to sit and listen, instead of a readily available fast forward or skip button, is cool with me.

so many great songs are tossed off as "filler" by people with no patience and a desire to only hear the hits.

I like the way that LP's sort the music into two "suites", and if a band is thoughtful about it, and many were and are, they create two distinct sides of music, to be enjoyed.

I also like the extra images and stuff on the sleeves.

I have held, and gone to, many "record nights" where friends and I bring a few LP's and we all rock out and get wasted and check out our latest faves and latest buys, and make each other jealous with our choice vinyl platters and rare shit.

I have never heard of anyone having a "CD night" or a "let's share the contents of our iPod" night.

sonic nerd....

This Spotify ad blocker I'm running feels pretty rewarding.

my ad blocker is only $10 a month and works on the phone too plus i can get offline files, etc.

Napster turned the big-game trophy hunt into pokemon.

Why couldn't I see??

Great isn't it? Now they just have to make it available here and I'll gladly pay for it.

what? isn't -- aren't you in a eurozone country? or did you move to angola?

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ps - just saw the spotify website. what useless fuckers! sorry man.

Nah, I don't blame them.

Like you pointed out we have a single monetary market but it's useless in this case because each country has its own set of bureaucracy and licensing requirements. I know first hand the fucking pain in the ass it is for european startups.

They took the right decision by focusing on bigger markets. Besides, I hear the service will be returning sometime this month, so...

shit man, off topic at this point but i thought european companies could freely operate within the common market. whata fucking drag!

'MERICA!

just sayin'. ha ha ha.

but no, seriously, what the fuck. half-ass "union".

Not getting rid of my Cds at all, got rid of all the burned cdrs, but i have a pretty comprehensive indie and more collection that i would never sell. I still buy a CD or two of music that i really like but never owned when i find it real cheap. But after some time slacking because couldn't afford it, i'm back on the vinyl quest! Making it grow slowly but quality only...
Last additions include Big'N, Bastro and Caesura LPs!

That's true, but if you put some perspective on it and look back 50 years you'll see that it's actually quite an accomplishment.


Anyway, CDs...

Donate them to a local library.

i smoke weed, so yes i do.

ha ha-- good point