Anyone gotten rid of all their CD's?

Lauri

Nope. I will agree that 1) I'm an environmentalist and the plastic CD cases are made of is absolutely horrible to produce and worse to dispose of and 2) yeah that moving thing is a pain in the butt.

However, from the standpoint of a music fan, I like having the physical copy in my hand. I love record stores. I once heard an audio documentary type thing about the grunge period, and the guy's position was that one of the reasons we'll never have a big "rock revolution" thing like that again was that there is no physical thing to bond over, like with digital music you're not in the record store and the guy behind the counter is like "hey new Pearl Jam album, awesome choice" or you're not at your friend's house looking at his collection going, "dude, can I borrow that new Pearl Jam album?" The argument does make sense. Of course there's the argument that you can share more easily online, but I think there's a lot to say for having both media available to work with each other.

In Chicago the other night before Spin the Black Circle, Eddie said, "does anyone remember records?" It's getting to the point where he could have said "does anyone remember CDs?"

arq

I didn't want to get rid of my CDs but I had to... I miss them but now I'm only buy vinyls with downloadable content, if I want the hard copy at least I want the biggest one possible but so far I don't have too much time to listen to an album reading the booklet chilling, I'm old now I have to watch the news and make sense of my budget to travel to see pearl jam

but if your CDs aren't too much of a burden when you move, keep them if not get rid of them, that's my friend is my humble opinion :geek:

PJGARDEN

Brisk. wrote:

If you want your music digital then just buy a fucking cd and rip it, takes 3 minutes.

Yup! I like my hard copies. I have an ipod and an ipod connection in my car so I never actually listen to the CD itself. It gets ripped the minute I buy it but I still want the hard copy. About a year ago, I upgraded my version of iTunes and it lost all my music. Took it to the Apple store to see if they could recover it and I got about 1/3 of it back. It was a pain in the ass to upload that much music again but at least I didn't lose it. I now have a 1TB external harddrive to back everything up but I still want the hard copy. I'll even buy the imports versus just buying the digital releases.

I think the upside to the digital releases is there have been newer / lesser known artist that are able to get their music out there a little cheaper.

iamsam_pj

i got rid of all of the embarassing editions to my cd collection that i don't remember buying...i'm down to about 150 now, which are prominently displayed in my living room. most of my cds now are ones that i take from work once they're off the playlist...which reminds me that i need to grab deerhunter, the black lips, and telekenisis

j-bug

how can you not remember buying CD's?

there isnt one thing in my collection i dont remember where i bought,how much it cost etc. :oops:

soulsinging

Brisk. wrote:

Cant fucking stand all this digital downloading shit, it means nothing!

For the same price more or less i could actually get artwork, the actual crispy cd quality and everything. And like you say, its great to see a massive cd collection.

I don't believe that anyone but the most obsessive audiophiles with high end systems can actually hear a difference between a 256k mp3 and flac/wav. Besides, if you're harping on quality, shouldn't you be bemoaning cd's in favor of vinyl? I thought that was the quality thing?

As to artwork... I couldn't care less. I never look at it!

soulsinging

Brisk. wrote:

If you want your music digital then just buy a fucking cd and rip it, takes 3 minutes.

Actually reminds me of this kid maybe around 15 at the airport (was coming back for the uk shows) and he had a black t-shirt with big white bold writing on it saying - 'Legal downloads are killing piracy'. Made me facepalm, why not just buy a frickin' cd.

But then I have the case laying around uselessly... bad for the environment, pain in the ass to move when I switch apartments, etc. The whole point of going digital is to avoid that. I can download it and then burn it to cd and stick it in a book... 200 cd's in a book the size of a college biology text instead of a wall rack.

soulsinging

norm wrote:

j-bug wrote:

i miss spending my sundays making mix tapes.there was a real art to doing that.making sure that each song fit,the gap between was equal,that the gap at the end wasnt to long or to short.making compilation CD's just isnt the same.

it really isn't is it? :(

sometimes i'd spend an entire evening makeweight 1 tape...and this was when i didn't have almost a thousand discs to chose from :shock:

I agree with that. I often wish I still had a tape deck in my car. But since that's out and mix cd's aren't the same... I'm not sure what I'm holding onto!

stargirl69

I will never give up having the physical item to appreciate the art work,liner notes etc.I haven't even got rid of my vinyl,yet I haven't had a turntable for years.

I am moving to Canada and my partner wants me to consider converting my 2000 c.d collection to digital then sell them.I can't do it so they'll be shipped over.
They'll be got rid of when I'm no longer here .... not before.

decides2dream

Lauri wrote:

Nope. I will agree that 1) I'm an environmentalist and the plastic CD cases are made of is absolutely horrible to produce and worse to dispose of and 2) yeah that moving thing is a pain in the butt.

However, from the standpoint of a music fan, I like having the physical copy in my hand. I love record stores. I once heard an audio documentary type thing about the grunge period, and the guy's position was that one of the reasons we'll never have a big "rock revolution" thing like that again was that there is no physical thing to bond over, like with digital music you're not in the record store and the guy behind the counter is like "hey new Pearl Jam album, awesome choice" or you're not at your friend's house looking at his collection going, "dude, can I borrow that new Pearl Jam album?" The argument does make sense. Of course there's the argument that you can share more easily online, but I think there's a lot to say for having both media available to work with each other.

In Chicago the other night before Spin the Black Circle, Eddie said, "does anyone remember records?" It's getting to the point where he could have said "does anyone remember CDs?"

great post......and yea, that last statement, *sighs*.........i am no vinyl afficinado, but i did grow up on vinyl, so there is nostalgia.....and still some albums flaoting about my home, even sans turntable nowadays. that said, my husband and i have had quite a few discussions about this topic, about kids today more than likely growing up not buying physical albums of any form, and even on itunes....buying often just a handful of tunes, not really experiencing the full effect of truly listening to an album in it's enitrety. it's a whole new world! i'm glad i had the experiences i did.

soulsinging

stargirl69 wrote:

I will never give up having the physical item to appreciate the art work,liner notes etc.I haven't even got rid of my vinyl,yet I haven't had a turntable for years.

I am moving to Canada and my partner wants me to consider converting my 2000 c.d collection to digital then sell them.I can't do it so they'll be shipped over.
They'll be got rid of when I'm no longer here .... not before.

Holy shit, 2000? I thought I had it bad! I think I'd like to get down to 150 or so like someone above. That seems a reasonable amount.

norm

soulsinging wrote:

norm wrote:

j-bug wrote:

i miss spending my sundays making mix tapes.there was a real art to doing that.making sure that each song fit,the gap between was equal,that the gap at the end wasnt to long or to short.making compilation CD's just isnt the same.

it really isn't is it? :(

sometimes i'd spend an entire evening makeweight 1 tape...and this was when i didn't have almost a thousand discs to chose from :shock:

I agree with that. I often wish I still had a tape deck in my car. But since that's out and mix cd's aren't the same... I'm not sure what I'm holding onto!

obviously for you you don't need to keep the physical copies...but it was at about your age that i started to think about getting rid of the physical music and just be digital...and now i regret it

decides2dream

norm wrote:

soulsinging wrote:

I agree with that. I often wish I still had a tape deck in my car. But since that's out and mix cd's aren't the same... I'm not sure what I'm holding onto!

obviously for you you don't need to keep the physical copies...but it was at about your age that i started to think about getting rid of the physical music and just be digital...and now i regret it

now you just sound old.





in all seriousness tho, i agree. obviously conor does not place the same value as many of us do on the aesthetics of albums and all that encompasses....but even seeing how he sold off some books and now is rebuying some, while different.....similar ideas, and i too agree he may regret it down the road.


and hey, iamsampj.....i have some 'questionable' CDs in my collection, that's part of the fun!

norm

decides2dream wrote:

now you just sound old.

when don't i?!?! :P :ugeek:

i've been a crumdgeon since i was 18..ask my friends and they'll tell you the same :P

decides2dream

norm wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

now you just sound old.

when don't i?!?! :P :ugeek:

i've been a crumdgeon since i was 18..ask my friends and they'll tell you the same :P

a crumdgeon?
i always thought you a curmudgeon.


it's ok, i love you anyway........

norm

decides2dream wrote:

norm wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

now you just sound old.

when don't i?!?! :P :ugeek:

i've been a crumdgeon since i was 18..ask my friends and they'll tell you the same :P

a crumdgeon?
i always thought you a curmudgeon.


it's ok, i love you anyway........

i'm too old to spell correctly :P

soulsinging

decides2dream wrote:

kids today more than likely growing up not buying physical albums of any form, and even on itunes....buying often just a handful of tunes, not really experiencing the full effect of truly listening to an album in it's enitrety. it's a whole new world! i'm glad i had the experiences i did.

How long was that really the case though? I mean, the Beatles become huge by singles... nobody bought albums until the late 1960's. It was just singles like now. And that was if you bought music at all. And I think there may be a lot to be said AGAINST albums... think of all the bloated prog rock indulgences and unnecessarily long heavy metal crap out there. With cd's it's gotten worse... an album used to be under 40 minutes, now people feel compelled to fill them with bloated runtimes and lots of filler (thus why I'm not concerned with PJ's new one being so short). I mean, you can fit Rubber Soul and Revolver onto one cd. Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour on another. Harvest and After the Goldrush. Don't get me wrong, I love a good album. But I just don't think there's anything necessarily alarming about people not going for albums like they did in the past few decades.

That said, I do find I enjoy listening to an actual album far more than I like an ipod on shuffle or even the greatest hits compilation cd's I have.

soulsinging

norm wrote:

obviously for you you don't need to keep the physical copies...but it was at about your age that i started to think about getting rid of the physical music and just be digital...and now i regret it

That's what gives me pause. I've gone through plenty of binge and purge cycles in the past. And I never listen to any of the burned cd's I have (usually greatest hits collections and the like). Thus why I'm still talking about buying stuff online but burning it to cd... to still listen to the album as an album. But I rarely listen to even the albums I have like that.

decides2dream

soulsinging wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

kids today more than likely growing up not buying physical albums of any form, and even on itunes....buying often just a handful of tunes, not really experiencing the full effect of truly listening to an album in it's enitrety. it's a whole new world! i'm glad i had the experiences i did.

How long was that really the case though? I mean, the Beatles become huge by singles... nobody bought albums until the late 1960's. It was just singles like now. And that was if you bought music at all. And I think there may be a lot to be said AGAINST albums... think of all the bloated prog rock indulgences and unnecessarily long heavy metal crap out there. With cd's it's gotten worse... an album used to be under 40 minutes, now people feel compelled to fill them with bloated runtimes and lots of filler (thus why I'm not concerned with PJ's new one being so short). I mean, you can fit Rubber Soul and Revolver onto one cd. Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour on another. Harvest and After the Goldrush. Don't get me wrong, I love a good album. But I just don't think there's anything necessarily alarming about people not going for albums like they did in the past few decades.

That said, I do find I enjoy listening to an actual album far more than I like an ipod on shuffle or even the greatest hits compilation cd's I have.

doesn't matter how long, it's simply mine and my husband's personal history, thus why we were discussing it from our own persepective. also, we are both big fans of progressive rock...one of the first albums i have ever owned, and still love and listen to now....yes fragile. also, peter gabriel era genesis, pure genius imo, so yea....i *heart* brilliant albums. also, it has nothing to do with it being 'alarming'....it's simply aknowledging the change.

Nothingman54

i dont buy cds anymore. its kind of a joke now. im selling all my unoffical pj bootlegs on ebay.