Pruning your physical music collection (CD, vinyl, etc.)... thoughts?

I've prolly sold as much as I own -3000+ LPs- over 30 years, usually through straightforward poverty. Some big regrets now: TG 2nd annual report, Alien Soundtracks, Deceit spring to mind, but there's many more. I sell stuff I think I'll get money for, which means what remains is often what no one would buy, so the bottom few hundred of he collection are either unsellable because they're shit or for condition issues. I've gotten good recently at dumping stuff in charity shops, although it spoils the digging experience for me in that shop for a while.

I've never sold a CD because, a) I don't buy very many anyway -300-400? - and b) I can't really believe they're worth anything. If someone was to offer me a euro a throw for all of them I'd take it....

I've yet to purge any of my collection, even the embarrassing crap I bought when I was 15. More laziness on my part than anything.

Giving it all away wasn't as painful as I thought.

I am a robot tho.

i sold all my cds for rent/food $ several years ago. then kinda kept swapping things out when i was working for a music store (where it's so tempting to just pick up anything, given employee discount and 8 hours at a time looking at records/cds). never could be bothered to sift through my records because the stuff i want to get rid of ain't worth putting up on ebay. and i really don't want to haul this crap around and have a store reject 1/2 of em or whatever. i'll probably get around to it when i move next.

Once while moving I left a box filled with Prince bootlegs and 12"s in the old apartment...huge bummer