Well, this is just silly - streaming, even plain old Spotify, is not "elevator quality" music! I love my legacy media, but streaming for ~$16 a month is a huge value that I'm unlikely to ever give up - and, sound quality via normal playback with a decent DAC, is indistinguishable from CD Redbook quality for 99.95% of people...
I guess you didn't see the LOL after the elevator remark? Besides, I'm entitled to my opinion as much as you are, even though you to think it's silly!
You can take a different perspective however. You can think of it as a library to be drawn on - certain things you listen to more often while certain others perhaps rarely, but by the same token, you may still very well listen to them at a certain point when you're thumbing through things and have a pleasant surprise at that point. This seems like a more enjoyable way of thinking about it than 'Oh, I've bought all this music and now I've got to listen to all of it from beginning to end in order to make it worth the money and time I've put into acquiring it'. Now if you really are starting to run out of space, then you probably do really have to start to thinking of some solution, such as culling out the least desired ones and either selling or donating them, or else getting another space to put those ones in. Otherwise, they may start to close in on you. But if space isn't an issue, what's the problem? Still, there's nothing wrong with taking a break from the buying too.
I really already think of my collection like that. I feel like the whole point of having a large collection is that one doesn't need to listen to the same music over and over again, which I get kind of bored with, even listening to favorites. Many of my lesser played albums are ones that I think of as fitting a niche that I may rarely be in the mood for, but when I am, really hit the spot. There are records too that I feel are flawed in one way or another, yet are interesting enough in some way that I'm inclined to pull them out every once in a while. Still, even with some of my favorite artists, there are records that though maybe not actually terrible, I would always pass over for something else and I would never buy that kind of stuff just for piece of mind that I own their entire catalog. The whole collector's mentality of "owning the whole set" isn't something that's ever inspired me to buy music. I'm endlessly curious about all kinds of music and am constantly discovering new stuff, so I really don't want to tie up money or space on something that isn't likely to be anything I would enjoy much, but only to round out some collection...
That's impressive! A dime apiece, huh? A lot of those are titles I own and that I really dig. My library has a spot where they sell old CDs for cheap, but I don't remember them being that cheap. I just bought several CDs for $3-$5 each and felt that I was getting a good deal. I actually got a better deal than that, because I ended up being undercharged by the store when I bought them and a few vinyl LPs that I got at the same time. I might have been honest and said "did you mean to give me a discount?" but I just handed my credit card over without thinking about it and only looked at the receipt when I got home. Either way it wasn't much money for what I got, though it pales compared to your deal...I remember getting great vinyl for from free to $1.
I got piles of classic vintage gear from free to ridiculously cheap.
What I've been doing the past year or so. Taking advantage.
10 CDs for $1.
The CDs at The Friends of Library, keeps piling up and I can't keep up. Each photo is just one trip of many. Only a few duds.
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It's been crazy. There are still 1000s of CDs, even though I've cherry picked through them. They have lots of crazy deals on books ($1) and LPs too!
What I do with my CDs is to listen to the albums of one artist, pick out the songs I like, burn them in a listenable sequence on a single CD (sometimes I need two CDs), and then sell the original albums. That way I get rid of the songs I don't like, and my burned CD does not take the same space that the albums I sold did. For example, I listened to all of Metallica's albums, and ended up keeping only 11 songs on one CD. Here's my sequence:
well that's interesting. I wonder what material they're using to carry the data layer......
Honestly, to my mind, that approach doesn't make a lot of sense. I like collecting physical media largely because of the added cover graphics and liner notes, so if I really wanted to make these kind of playlist/compilation type things, I would just do streaming. I get it though, everyone has their own recipe for how to collect and listen to music and I'm sure that so much of how I do it, doesn't make logical sense to others... We all have our own rituals.
I have no idea. Apparently some of these clear CDs were problematic. Mine works great!
There's only one place near me that sells them for $1 each which is still not as good of deal as that. The problem is that they're uninteresting ones (to me, that is), so I typically don't find any that I want among those. Once in a while though, I'll score with 1 or 2 interesting CDs from those racks. I guess that's what makes it fun to keep going back every now and then. Thrift stores like Goodwill & Salvation Army haven't had $1 CDs for quite a while now. The going price at those places around here is $3 for a used CD.
There are three Friends of the Library stores here on Maui. I go to two of them occasionally. I found the Friends when I went to donate books, laserdisc, DVDs and other media.
I started doing that with cassettes back about 1970, it let me avoid some of the record cleaning hassles, at least reduced them, and I pruned the filler cuts off a lot of albums so I didn't have to hear a song/songs I hated very often. When I first started burning CDs, I began selling off my albums, making 2 copies of them, one to keep in a good environment for future duplicating, and one to go into the car where I expected them to deteriorate, but that hasn't really happened, at least with the good quality CR-R's. About 10 or so of my CD's burned in 1994 for my car are still "alive and well" 30+ years later. Other than ones that were damaged due to flying apart, getting stepped on, or scratched really badly due to my clumsiness, all the good quality blanks have survived the heat and cold of the car for many years. I have to admit I'm surprised they've done so well.
I made plenty of mix tapes in the era when I was dealing with cassettes. I thought that once recordable CDs came along that I would be doing the same with them, but that never happened. I have so much stuff on vinyl that ultimately I would have wanted some kind of system where I could record from another CD or digital file as well as from LP and I never got that together. A number of various artist comps I own (an underrated thing, I feel!) as well as what I hear on the radio (there are some very good stations in my area) kind of serve some of the same need as mix tapes.
I don't care about the album covers. I'm into the music. As for streaming, they could cut you off at any time. If you don't own a physical copy, you're screwed. I don't want my possessions to all be digitallized. You know, like they're doing to our money.
I remember getting great vinyl for from free to $1.
I got piles of classic vintage gear from free to ridiculously cheap.
What I've been doing the past year or so. Taking advantage.
10 CDs for $1.
The CDs at The Friends of Library, keeps piling up and I can't keep up. Each photo is just one trip of many. Only a few duds.
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