I live with a borderline hoarder (i didnt read the fine print in the background check before getting committed) so we have LPs and CDs coming out our butts. And we are playing them. The thing i tell myself is that these big companies end up being run by questionable money hoarding douchebags, looking at you "there's not enough masculine energy around here" Zuckerberg, or "i own a fluffy white cat that i stroke right next to the destroy a small country button" Musk. These maniacal douchelords are just as likely to cut off the service to the whole country because Susan from accounts in a small shipping company told them a few home truths on their own feed. Besides, the LPs in particular will come in handy during the zombie apocalypse (or so Shaun of the Dead has informed me). I figure if LP's are good for normal human zombies, i'm also keeping the CD's for that really outside bet of the Leprechaun Apocalypse. You get really good odds if you kill a zombie leprechaun with an Enya cd.
I kept my CD collection and have just bought a CD player. I am playing them all the way through one by one. Spotify will never give me the feeling I had when I first unwrapped a CD or piece of Vinyl and put in on the turntable, but that is the feeling I am getting now as I go through my life's back catalogue.
I have no regrets having done that. It felt saddest at the moment of tossing it into a box for disposal, in very much the same way I feel having to toss out a book, except for one book I have absolutely no regrets over tossing out. I would hang on to a book more readily than a CD too. That's why I have three boxes of books sitting in the garage.
We did have a stack of about 100 LPs to dispose of, but offered them up for donation around the family first. Someone took them all, and gladly too because they have an appreciation for them that we did not.
I had a collection of vinyl that I started selling on ebay for around $40 per album , but I got bored with the whole process. So I sold the lot to a record store for 100 bucks , was I ripped off? Probably. But most of the records were worn flat, and their rarity was the album art and catalogue numbers. I had most as either cd 💿 or mp3 on hard drive, some of them were bought as bundles of download, vinyl, cd and hoodie. And I hadn't owned a turntable since 96 and could never afford new needles. But CDs are precious, never wear out, they shine rainbows , stack well, and look great in my studio. I bought a high end cd player and rigged it up as pure digital line to the amp, and ...it sounded like weak piss in a tiled corporate pub toilet. The problem was solved by using rca into the amp through copper wire, and the sound got volume, bass and heavy through the sub properly. Which is great because I still buy CDs if I can , especially if they are on bandcamp, but if not, a digital download is great too. And I can put them on my phone or MP3 player. Which I recently bought , sometimes the phone sound hasn't got the heavy punk rock volume I like from dedicated mp3 players. But yeah band camp is my record store of choice now along with direct buys from the bands followed by ebay. The best place to buy CDs is at the merch table at a gig.
i just turned 50 and as i write am looking at the JVC system i got from my dad and its older than me. Down to an amp, radio, record player (no idea where the tape deck went). A bit worn around the edges but still cranks (was going to say "just like me" but then realised what crank can also mean, lol), 3 is too loud and it goes to 10. I intend on pushing that limit at the end of the world.
maybe we should do a gofund me to make an amp that goes to 11? It'll be loud and have a spinal tap joke that stupid young people and their oddly dull sweet pop music wont get.
I do the same with Mel Brooks. Actual genius and Soldier. The old comedian we need in the white house, unlike the joker the USA has got now. See also cowboys eating beans and farting. That scene in blazing saddles was banned in NZ for 25 years.
I only miss the CDs I had that are not available on any streaming service. Examples are Hothouse flowers live and Just a note, both local Aus/NZ editions, plus the original Gatecrasher black, red and blue sets as the Spotify mixes are the correct songs but wrong versions and they don’t blend.
I did backup all my CDs to iTunes then my Mac died.
From my cold, dead hands will my collection of CD's and DVD will leave my grasp. That goes for my books too.
I spent years building up my collection and I simply refuse to get rid of it despite the fact that I rarely use the technology to watch/listen to the content that I own. As most people have found, it's just easier to use streaming services to interact and appreciate music and videos etc.
However... (reaches for battered tin foil beret) I am of the slightly paranoid opinion that we're entering into an age of gated content that will slowly disappear behind paywalls/subscription services. YouTube used to be great for free music but since the AdApocalypse it's becoming exceedingly tiresome with the amount of ads thrown at you. Thus having and owning your very own physical media means you can watch and listen without being beholden to the corporate juggernaut who can giveth and taketh as they so choose.
The one final aspect of retaining physical media is you're able to loan it out if you want to share something with a friend because not everything is available easily on the interwebs.
While I love the tangible, I hate the detritus. When I stream music I normally start with a full album to set the tone and then let the platform take over and gift me songs that fit that mood.
And I can find those songs, albums, books, movies that I never would have found in a physical store. Not would I want to store them in my abode afterwards.
There’s no tangible artist product on the apps. The sleeve notes thanking their connections. The lyrics in wild typefaces or handwritten script. That’s the real fix for me, absorbing the whole product. Sure I can get my graphic design fix these days choosing a craft beer in Uncle Dans, but I love album artwork, fights were certainly had over a lot of those.
Couldn’t bear to ditch my collection…part hoarder, part respect for the artist and part “hey I spent the equivalent of a house deposit in the 80-90s on this stuff so I’m gonna goddamn drag it rom QLD to WA”! I’ve moved around the country a bit in the last 25 years and found cds were always a packable. We compressed them into those folders with 250+ cd pockets. 5 folders, alphabetical! I removed the art sleeve and disc and ditched the crystal case. Smaller 10 or 20 disc folders for in my old Ute where I can still play CDs.
I still have lots of discs around and probably need to buy more folders for storage. I pick up nice freebies through my local buy nothing group. You can fill old gaps for free!
I've kept it all with no regrets. Am going through them (too) slowly now. I will probably get rid of some random vinyl but for the most part each one resonates and matters.
Maybe have a look around Op shops and markets for used CDs to see if you can pick some of them up again. Warning, you will have to wade through all the classical, folk, Kenny G and Susan Boyle albums that no one wants.
I still have most of my CD collection, and a few DVDs - never been big into buying video. Bought a lot of them from the cheap tables in Newtown, back in the day, but I’m still tight fisted. I did a little winnowing with moves, but not much.
I think I’ll eventually pull my finger out and buy an HDD to copy them all to so I can find stuff a lot easier. Just need to research the right apps to strip the biggest files, and for playback through the computer to my AV unit. Yeah, I’m definitely trailing edge when it comes to my music tech.
I miss my DVDs the same way that I miss VHS tapes. Not at all.
I'm well aware that CDs are nowhere near the sound quality of vinyl. But CDs are my generation, so I have them and I cherish them. I think about subscribing to Spotify or similar mainly so that Little Miss W can keep her wiggles on her own playlist, and not pollute mine. But I'm not there yet.
In preparations for a possible move next year I have been going through old physical media - some being saved selected by others so that they can guard against the sort of losses you have enumerated and disposing of the rest. For myself I am more sanguine about getting rid of it. Whilst I agree there will be stuff I remember watching/listening to that I would appreciate if I watched again, but the sheer volume of the new stuff I can not keep up with so for my future I have no doubt I will be able to find some new media to occupy my attention, while the world burns.
I live with a borderline hoarder (i didnt read the fine print in the background check before getting committed) so we have LPs and CDs coming out our butts. And we are playing them. The thing i tell myself is that these big companies end up being run by questionable money hoarding douchebags, looking at you "there's not enough masculine energy around here" Zuckerberg, or "i own a fluffy white cat that i stroke right next to the destroy a small country button" Musk. These maniacal douchelords are just as likely to cut off the service to the whole country because Susan from accounts in a small shipping company told them a few home truths on their own feed. Besides, the LPs in particular will come in handy during the zombie apocalypse (or so Shaun of the Dead has informed me). I figure if LP's are good for normal human zombies, i'm also keeping the CD's for that really outside bet of the Leprechaun Apocalypse. You get really good odds if you kill a zombie leprechaun with an Enya cd.
I kept my CD collection and have just bought a CD player. I am playing them all the way through one by one. Spotify will never give me the feeling I had when I first unwrapped a CD or piece of Vinyl and put in on the turntable, but that is the feeling I am getting now as I go through my life's back catalogue.
I have no regrets having done that. It felt saddest at the moment of tossing it into a box for disposal, in very much the same way I feel having to toss out a book, except for one book I have absolutely no regrets over tossing out. I would hang on to a book more readily than a CD too. That's why I have three boxes of books sitting in the garage.
We did have a stack of about 100 LPs to dispose of, but offered them up for donation around the family first. Someone took them all, and gladly too because they have an appreciation for them that we did not.
I had a collection of vinyl that I started selling on ebay for around $40 per album , but I got bored with the whole process. So I sold the lot to a record store for 100 bucks , was I ripped off? Probably. But most of the records were worn flat, and their rarity was the album art and catalogue numbers. I had most as either cd 💿 or mp3 on hard drive, some of them were bought as bundles of download, vinyl, cd and hoodie. And I hadn't owned a turntable since 96 and could never afford new needles. But CDs are precious, never wear out, they shine rainbows , stack well, and look great in my studio. I bought a high end cd player and rigged it up as pure digital line to the amp, and ...it sounded like weak piss in a tiled corporate pub toilet. The problem was solved by using rca into the amp through copper wire, and the sound got volume, bass and heavy through the sub properly. Which is great because I still buy CDs if I can , especially if they are on bandcamp, but if not, a digital download is great too. And I can put them on my phone or MP3 player. Which I recently bought , sometimes the phone sound hasn't got the heavy punk rock volume I like from dedicated mp3 players. But yeah band camp is my record store of choice now along with direct buys from the bands followed by ebay. The best place to buy CDs is at the merch table at a gig.
i just turned 50 and as i write am looking at the JVC system i got from my dad and its older than me. Down to an amp, radio, record player (no idea where the tape deck went). A bit worn around the edges but still cranks (was going to say "just like me" but then realised what crank can also mean, lol), 3 is too loud and it goes to 10. I intend on pushing that limit at the end of the world.
maybe we should do a gofund me to make an amp that goes to 11? It'll be loud and have a spinal tap joke that stupid young people and their oddly dull sweet pop music wont get.
i watched spinal tap again not too long ago. It still holds up, which is rare these days
I do the same with Mel Brooks. Actual genius and Soldier. The old comedian we need in the white house, unlike the joker the USA has got now. See also cowboys eating beans and farting. That scene in blazing saddles was banned in NZ for 25 years.
I only miss the CDs I had that are not available on any streaming service. Examples are Hothouse flowers live and Just a note, both local Aus/NZ editions, plus the original Gatecrasher black, red and blue sets as the Spotify mixes are the correct songs but wrong versions and they don’t blend.
I did backup all my CDs to iTunes then my Mac died.
everyone knows Cassette mix tapes are the only way to listen to music
From my cold, dead hands will my collection of CD's and DVD will leave my grasp. That goes for my books too.
I spent years building up my collection and I simply refuse to get rid of it despite the fact that I rarely use the technology to watch/listen to the content that I own. As most people have found, it's just easier to use streaming services to interact and appreciate music and videos etc.
However... (reaches for battered tin foil beret) I am of the slightly paranoid opinion that we're entering into an age of gated content that will slowly disappear behind paywalls/subscription services. YouTube used to be great for free music but since the AdApocalypse it's becoming exceedingly tiresome with the amount of ads thrown at you. Thus having and owning your very own physical media means you can watch and listen without being beholden to the corporate juggernaut who can giveth and taketh as they so choose.
The one final aspect of retaining physical media is you're able to loan it out if you want to share something with a friend because not everything is available easily on the interwebs.
Yeah. Still have tons of DVDs, etc. But this is sheer laziness.
While I love the tangible, I hate the detritus. When I stream music I normally start with a full album to set the tone and then let the platform take over and gift me songs that fit that mood.
And I can find those songs, albums, books, movies that I never would have found in a physical store. Not would I want to store them in my abode afterwards.
There’s no tangible artist product on the apps. The sleeve notes thanking their connections. The lyrics in wild typefaces or handwritten script. That’s the real fix for me, absorbing the whole product. Sure I can get my graphic design fix these days choosing a craft beer in Uncle Dans, but I love album artwork, fights were certainly had over a lot of those.
Couldn’t bear to ditch my collection…part hoarder, part respect for the artist and part “hey I spent the equivalent of a house deposit in the 80-90s on this stuff so I’m gonna goddamn drag it rom QLD to WA”! I’ve moved around the country a bit in the last 25 years and found cds were always a packable. We compressed them into those folders with 250+ cd pockets. 5 folders, alphabetical! I removed the art sleeve and disc and ditched the crystal case. Smaller 10 or 20 disc folders for in my old Ute where I can still play CDs.
I still have lots of discs around and probably need to buy more folders for storage. I pick up nice freebies through my local buy nothing group. You can fill old gaps for free!
I've kept it all with no regrets. Am going through them (too) slowly now. I will probably get rid of some random vinyl but for the most part each one resonates and matters.
Maybe have a look around Op shops and markets for used CDs to see if you can pick some of them up again. Warning, you will have to wade through all the classical, folk, Kenny G and Susan Boyle albums that no one wants.
I still have most of my CD collection, and a few DVDs - never been big into buying video. Bought a lot of them from the cheap tables in Newtown, back in the day, but I’m still tight fisted. I did a little winnowing with moves, but not much.
I think I’ll eventually pull my finger out and buy an HDD to copy them all to so I can find stuff a lot easier. Just need to research the right apps to strip the biggest files, and for playback through the computer to my AV unit. Yeah, I’m definitely trailing edge when it comes to my music tech.
I miss my DVDs the same way that I miss VHS tapes. Not at all.
I'm well aware that CDs are nowhere near the sound quality of vinyl. But CDs are my generation, so I have them and I cherish them. I think about subscribing to Spotify or similar mainly so that Little Miss W can keep her wiggles on her own playlist, and not pollute mine. But I'm not there yet.
In preparations for a possible move next year I have been going through old physical media - some being saved selected by others so that they can guard against the sort of losses you have enumerated and disposing of the rest. For myself I am more sanguine about getting rid of it. Whilst I agree there will be stuff I remember watching/listening to that I would appreciate if I watched again, but the sheer volume of the new stuff I can not keep up with so for my future I have no doubt I will be able to find some new media to occupy my attention, while the world burns.