What to do with CD's

justjeepin86

justjeepin86

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I have a metric shit ton of CD's that I need to get rid of. The wife says to throw them in the trash, but I just can't make myself. Is there any better thing to do with them? Do people still buy CD's?
 
You can sell them in a couple different ways. Find a big music store that will buy them at maybe .10 each maybe less. Pawn shops still have them in them. I see cd lots on ebay too. Hell I kind of collect music. Have about 400 lp's and probably 400 cd's or more. If you were closer I'd come look and take what I liked and didn't have off you hands.
 
ghost said:
Hell I kind of collect music. Have about 400 lp's and probably 400 cd's or more. If you were closer I'd come look and take what I liked and didn't have off you hands.
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This.
I actually still buy music on CD, and rip my own audio files.
Why?
1 - that way I actually OWN the music and can move it to whatever device I want, and if needed can re-create the digital files. Yes, I do stream music occasionally but I prefer actually "having" it for cases where streaming isn't an option.
2 - ripping your own, you can often get much better sound quality. Amazon etc don't use the best quality codecs to convert the music b/c it is a more space-efficient method. I can really hear the difference in in/minimally compressed tunes. Maybe that makes me sound like an old fogie now but it's true (and there's real physiology to agree with it)

If you were closer I'd dig through the collection and buy them cheap.
Now what to do with them after ripping... I just have a giant box that sits in the basement. The days of keeping a rack in the living room are long gone.
 
49willys said:
What type of music? The shop has had the same 3 cd's playing for years, might be worth the ride to change at least one!
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this is me in cassette...jeeze!
 
I still buy CDs. I guess it's that same excited feeling I get when I order a CD online from my favorite band and listen to it beginning to end for weeks that keeps me going. I've been a fan of certain bands for going on 20 years, if nothing else, I feel like I own a part of that legacy; I bought every single album new.
 
49willys said:
What type of music? The shop has had the same 3 cd's playing for years, might be worth the ride to change at least one!
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Honestly, a bunch of shit.
80's and 90's country
90's rock and alternative
Some 90's rap
Some classic country

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At my last job I worked with a lady that listened to the same Bob Segar CD, EVERY DAY!. I worked there for 9.5 years and that's all she listened to lol. You could donate some CD's to her lol.

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VortecJeep said:
Target practice.
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This makes me want to cry......

RatLabGuy said:
This.
I actually still buy music on CD, and rip my own audio files.
Why?
1 - that way I actually OWN the music and can move it to whatever device I want, and if needed can re-create the digital files. Yes, I do stream music occasionally but I prefer actually "having" it for cases where streaming isn't an option.
2 - ripping your own, you can often get much better sound quality. Amazon etc don't use the best quality codecs to convert the music b/c it is a more space-efficient method. I can really hear the difference in in/minimally compressed tunes. Maybe that makes me sound like an old fogie now but it's true (and there's real physiology to agree with it)

If you were closer I'd dig through the collection and buy them cheap.
Now what to do with them after ripping... I just have a giant box that sits in the basement. The days of keeping a rack in the living room are long gone.
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Yep. And why I buy vinyl.... I do need to go pick up some leaf springs from the Raleigh area.....
 
I feel the same way about keeping them. I pull one out every now and then. I don't even have a working CD player, other than in the car. Mine in the shop took a crap. I like looking through them and seeing a band that I haven't heard in a long time.
 
justjeepin86 said:
I don't even have a working CD player, other than in the car.
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My new car not only doesn't even have a CD player, but the way the dash and "infotainment system" is made there's not even any way to put on in, lol.
No CD player on the amp in the entertainment center in the living room, nor on my laptop. Shit, now that I think about it the only way I can even rip music from CDs anymore is to use the old PC we use as a media center.
 
One whole wall of man cave wall art.

Matt
 
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