Official CD Collection Thread Revisited(No Download)

[identity-x]

You bought all that stuff?

You must be rich....

Hardly.

95% were bought used and I've never paid more than $7.99 for a used CD. These days it's a rarity for me to pay more than $3. It's all about hitting up eBay, pawn shops and scouring the clearance bins at stores (I try to go to one every time I'm in a new city).

From 03-07/08 I used to sell rare or out of print CDs that I'd find for $2-3. Once a month or more I'd find a copy of of something like Soul on Ice or something by G. Rap/Polo for $5 then flip it for $80-100. I once found a copy of a Kansas City Original Sound CD for $6 and sold it for $425 (a year prior it would sell on eBay for over $1000). You can't get half that for most out of print hip hop CDs these days so it happens maybe 2-3 times a year for me now.

The only thing I pay full price for are new CDs, and almost always the first week when it's $10. I get maybe 6-10 new CDs a year.

 

[identity-x]

Yo, I see you got that Kool and the Gang, but do you have Kool and the Jazz Gang, I got the CD and the original album

nah. there are TWO record stores in the city where I live and the vinyl selection is pretty limited in both.

If I lived in a city that was bigger than 100k people I'd have probably amassed a collection of vinyl the same size as my CD collection by now. Meh.

 

[king hassan]

nah. there are TWO record stores in the city where I live and the vinyl selection is pretty limited in both.

If I lived in a city that was bigger than 100k people I'd have probably amassed a collection of vinyl the same size as my CD collection by now. Meh.

Check out this place homie, they ship vinyl and cd's to where ever you are, I usually go up there to cop things, its on the north side of the CHi, www.dustygroove.com you can find a gang of shit. And also hit up re sale shops or check the paper or the net for garage estate sales, you can come up seriously

 

[identity-x]

Check out this place homie, they ship vinyl and cd's to where ever you are, I usually go up there to cop things, its on the north side of the CHi, www.dustygroove.com you can find a gang of shit. And also hit up re sale shops or check the paper or the net for garage estate sales, you can come up seriously

Part of my reluctance to make the switch to vinyl is the feeling of investment I've put into CDs. I'm not an audiophile. My wife makes remarks about the space my CDs take up (and I don't even have them in jewel cases...see my post earlier in this thread!) so I can't imagine where I'd put CDs.

Really, I just love "digging". I'm sure the feelings associated with it are the same as those who go record digging...the feeling I get when I find something I've been looking for forever or when I find a super rare CD or when I find a CD by "totally obscure artist" that I purchase only because it has a feature from or was executive produced by another artist I know (or by another slightly less obscure artist that I've heard of and like). I love walking out a a CD store after an hour and a half and my thumb and forefingers are filthy from digging through all of the shit that nobody has touched in years.

Plus, I get to listen to it and look through the liner notes as soon as I get in my car instead of when I get home.

 

[king hassan]

Part of my reluctance to make the switch to vinyl is the feeling of investment I've put into CDs. I'm not an audiophile. My wife makes remarks about the space my CDs take up (and I don't even have them in jewel cases...see my post earlier in this thread!) so I can't imagine where I'd put CDs.

Really, I just love "digging". I'm sure the feelings associated with it are the same as those who go record digging...the feeling I get when I find something I've been looking for forever or when I find a super rare CD or when I find a CD by "totally obscure artist" that I purchase only because it has a feature from or was executive produced by another artist I know (or by another slightly less obscure artist that I've heard of and like). I love walking out a a CD store after an hour and a half and my thumb and forefingers are filthy from digging through all of the shit that nobody has touched in years.

Plus, I get to listen to it and look through the liner notes as soon as I get in my car instead of when I get home.

They sell cd's also. But I've been buying records since the 80's

 

[JokerzWyld]

I feel ashamed of myself. You guys are crushing my lil collection right now. I gotta step my game up. I need to start investing in Out Of Pint CDs though.

 

[Madbeats]

Wow, sick collection bro. I only got about half of what you have.