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Who has gotten rid of their CDs -- and how?

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arbalest

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I am very eager for more space at home and a better sense of "mobility" down the road. So I have been thinking about finally getting rid of CDs. Reading other posts here I see that I shouldn't count on getting even $1 for them unless I were to attempt to sell them individually in some way. And I will not do that.

Who has gotten rid of their disks? How did you do it? Is there a way to recover some of the cost without it turning into a part-time job?

This motivation of recovering living space and streamlining my life is also behind my posts about what kind of system James Bond might have today as well as questions of evaluating all of my speakers in a near-field way.
 
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The only space saving solution I would look into with out selling your CD collection is just getting rid of the jewel cases and put them in the book or file style cases . If you are ripping them into a hard drive you must still own the physical media to be above the law .
 
So about how many are we talking about here? And what kinds of genre's?
I have a few suggestions for you but would be easier to toss them out if I had an idea as to what you are looking to unload.
 
given most of mine to charity shops, let someone else enjoy them,think it would be wastefull to just chuck them
 
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For $1 trade in (why bother)... I would opt for a CD storage book. Throw away the jewel cases & keep the CD's stored.
This is if you absolutely need the storage space.
 
I’m on the other end of the rush to get rid of CDs. I’ve bought around 2500 over the last few months, rarely paying more than 50c per disk and often a lot less.

That said, I see advertisements quite regularly from people looking to get around $4 per disk, sometimes more. Whether they have any success, I have no idea, but you can’t lose by trying.
 
I am a buyer/collector as well (LPs, CDs, Cassettes). Here in Houston $.50 to $2.00 is the going rate for used CD's at thrift shops, garage sales, etc. I only pay more if its something that's just harder to come across in the wild, but that's not often.
 
You guys do realize that according to the law, you are required to delete any copy of a CD that you no longer own.

With that said, I buy CD's (LP's too) and immediately rip them (CD's) to FLAC on my music server. I keep the CD's. They are stored.
 
Never really though about that, but I rarely record them unless I make a mix tape (cassette or R2R) for personal use. I prefer to have them displayed so I can flip through them to select what I want to hear in my music room.

arbalast, there are several Facebook pages you can sell them on and make a bit more than selling them to a flipper.
 
Rocket_Tx said:
So about how many are we talking about here? And what kinds of genre's?
I have a few suggestions for you but would be easier to toss them out if I had an idea as to what you are looking to unload.
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Less than one thousand, maybe 500. Pop / Rock/ Jazz/ World(all kinds) / Classical / Ambient / etc
 
If you bundle them up by category, you could probably sell them in fewer chunks. Some Facebook pages allow auctions. Blues, Rock and Jazz are what most are looking for. Hard to sell classical because there are piles of it at every thrift store. Don't know much about the World stuff, you can get a ball park of what its worth on Discogs.
 
Here in Central Florida used CD's go for $.50 to $1.00 at Thrifts or the occasional Garage Sale. You don't see them all that often at Garage Sales anymore, I think most folks here rip them and donate.

So, I've been taking advantage to increase my collection. I have used the cases like @Condorsat showed, but I only keep my computer related disks in them. I'm old fashioned enough that I like the Jewel Cases and will even replace broken or cracked ones on the Thrift CD's I buy.

Mark Gosdin
 
Don't get rid of them, hide them. For example, here's a view of a hallway closet with a mirrored door. Note there's a space between the wall and closet.

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Now peer down the side of the mirrored closet, where you don't normally look:

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A rack of CDs!

Essentially invisible to any casual viewer, they're accessible should I want to rip them again.
 
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