imo there's a 50/50 chance that the missing ones are just ones someone who wasn't a supercollector grabbed to listen to, like the missing items are all of the zepplin/rolling stones variety
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
The CDs have been upgraded to Very Good Condition (some even Mint). They have recently been inspected, cleaned and graded by an Expert of 40 years in the business.
― dollar general (am0n), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
cleaned
Noooooo
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
they wiped the cat piss and spiders off
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Good, related thread re: wacko pricing on LPs: the pathos of unsold stock
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
― sleeve, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:11 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this. when I see that something has been 'cleaned' I don't bid on it. Just leave it alone, grade accurately, and let me clean it if i choose to clean it once it's mine
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
i love dirty finds, i found a dusty and dirty early issue copy (no name on the cover) of Neil Young's s/t album and cleaned it at home and it came out sounding sublime. same thing w/a copy i dug up of 'mr tambourine man' by the byrds. both of them a buck apiece.
― nomar, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
big difference between cleaning LPs vs. "cleaning" CDs
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
you'd get a weird stockholm syndrome and then maybe buy something that was only 2X normal price instead of 20X normal price
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, January 31, 2017 2:06 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah exactly, thx i wasn't familiar w/that term
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
yeah for sure...an expert with a bottle of windex and a paper towel i'm guessing. over 40 years in the business of cleaning cds, cds having been around for 32 years.
― nomar, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
oh, gotcha - I was thinking more of those "sand it down" type of operations, kiss of death for CDs imo
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
ugh yeah those. not sure why cleaning is very necessary beyond getting some gunk off, cd players from twenty years ago would skip bc of a speck of dust, the newer models will play through almost any defect that isn't a gouge ime.
― nomar, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
over 40 years in the business of cleaning cds, cds having been around for 32 years.
― nomar, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 4:10 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he was part of the beta program
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
so those buffing/sanding things aren't good for CDs? i was thinking of picking one up ...
― the late great, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
We used to do resurfacing at a record store I worked at. It wasn't bad really, although really deep gouges and I imagine repeated use would not be ideal. But it saved some scratched-up discs of my own.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
xp more that is ruins any resale value, it might be of use in extreme cases of scratching
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
i don't even sell CDs that need to be cleaned. they should be clean already!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah that is kind of the catch-22 here, if this is a well cared-for collection and stored in the little sleeves, how the hell did they get to the point of needing cleaning?!
see above cat pee and spiders comment
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
here's the thing. especially online. if a CD is actually worth more than 5 or 10 bucks than the people buying them want a copy that's like new. anything less than that ain't gonna be worth much. its not worth the aggravation to sell scratched CDs. they'll sit online or in my store forever.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:56 (seven years ago) link
Remember too that itunes has scratch doctor thing for importing CDs--it's slow, but it works.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link
Got a pile of cds, dvds and books delivered today and it still makes me so happy. I could save a fair amount of money by going more digital but I love this too much.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 3 February 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
― the late great, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 5:26 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ime they do not work and in fact have ruined discs
― marcos, Friday, 3 February 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
(i've never owned one but i saw them used in a media library at a university where i worked)
― marcos, Friday, 3 February 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
Best Buy Isn't
Best Buy has just told music suppliers that it will pull CDs from its stores come July 1. At one point, Best Buy was the most powerful music merchandiser in the U.S., but nowadays it's a shadow of its former self, with a reduced and shoddy offering of CDs. Sources suggest that the company's CD business is nowadays only generating about $40 million annually. While it says it's planning to pull out CDs, Best Buy will continue to carry vinyl for the next two years, keeping a commitment it made to vendors. The vinyl will now be merchandised with the turntables, sources suggest.
I was killing time before an appointment at a Best Buy not too long ago; went looking for said vinyl and finally it in a dusty corner of the store in a stack on a shelf next to some Crosley turntables. So...Good Luck With 2 More Years Of That.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
vinyl sold with.... turntables? an idea just crazy enough to work.
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 3 February 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
we still order & rip the CD version if it’s available
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 February 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Kind of wondering if there even will be a Best Buy in 2 years.
As for the Target part of the article, they're gradually remodeling the ones around here, adjusting the stores with floorplans had the Electronics Dept.* by the front entrance to a smaller spot in the back. There's a modular rack and half of a short aisle with an endcap rack of CDs in those stores now.
*Which these days is more of a Pop Culture Dept., with much shelf space once devoted to DVD/BluRay/CDs now housing Comic Book/Star Wars/Disney licensed merch (clothing, books, posters, Funko etc.).
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
it's been my impression that Best Buy has been doing better, esp online salesthey are actually better priced on a lot of stuff like tvs than Amazon
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
I just hope I can continue to buy CDs from somewhere going forward [(I mainly buy from the one independent shop near me (and Amazon, of course)].
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
Best Buy/Target has had a terrible CD selection for a decade plus in my neck of the woods.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
this music dude who moved out upstairs last week left behind tons and tons of stuff in the giveaway pile. i gratefully took fifteen LPs, some 7"s, and a handful of DVDs that i'll watch once before passing them on. didn't touch the books - too much space per item. but i've been eerily fascinated by the CDs. hundreds and hundreds by artists big and small. things i would have snapped up for a dollar or five dollars back in the day if i found them at a thrift store or something. grandaddy, enon, 70s beach boys, all kinds of shit that's up my alley. i keep passing them in the foyer and there's a muscle memory that makes me want to browse through but, like, i don't collect CDs anymore. where would i even put them?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
in your CD player!
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
hmmm well that will be the first problem
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
my who with the what now
― mh, Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
superdrives are like $30 now
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
doesn’t countI mean, arguably I have three computer drives that are “cd players” but I only ever rip CDs with them. I’ve got a PS4 but it’s hooked to an a/v setup I stream music to. I have a neat muji wall CD player that is decorative but I now very seldom useso I’d say I do have one “cd player” in that the function I primarily use it for is to play compact discs, but it’s not even plugged in
― mh, Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
actually my laptop does have a CD drive now that you mention it. feels so awkward and flimsy though and my computer's not plugged into the stereo so i really don't use it for listening.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
"I’ve got a PS4 but it’s hooked to an a/v setup" I don't think ps4s play CDs either, from what I remember. maybe they've updated since the last time I tried this but they didn't a year ago which was baffling to me.
― akm, Saturday, 3 February 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
oh yeah there’s something weird about that, right?
― mh, Sunday, 4 February 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
What's the problem again
― brimstead, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
Craigslist usually has amazing older audiophile CD player for peanuts now
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 February 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
hmm I may still have a PS1 in a boc
― mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
*box
Clearing out my father in law's house, this last visit I found two rather audiophile looking portable CD players which I am looking forward to fucking with.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
having a 2006 car w/ no aux port or bluetooth was 90% of the reason i continued w/ cds, (the other 10% that we have a pretty good local used cd/record store chain) that car is totaled now and im looking for a new car. i still feel attached to cds though, way more than i ever have w/ vinyl. feel sad but spotify is a better deal then buying these things
― marcos, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
hmm, I did neglect to mention the car because I don't think of it as being "at home?"
I've got a six disc changer in that thing that I haven't stocked for a while -- the problem is the stuff I listen to in the car is the kind of thing I'd tend to stream, like podcasts, dj mixes, pop singles
― mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
at some point I will just permanently affix six lana del rey albums in there and then seal the access port
i went a bit crazy last month and bought a brand new cd player in the january sales. probably won't fully get back into buying new releases on cd other than nice reissue/archival stuff, but i have been having fun idly rooting round in charity shops and buying used cds for pennies
― faust apes (NickB), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
this music dude who moved out upstairs last week left behind tons and tons of stuff in the giveaway pile.
Funny that hauling all that media to a second-hand music store wasn't worth it, by the original guy. Back when I was culling the collection every few years, Everyday Music in Portland was great for taking everything I brought, even as the payouts declined. Didn't really care if a cd only generated .50, I just didn't want to be handed a pile of unwanted discs. Now I take the odd duplicates and unwanted discs to work and add post-it "FREE" stickers.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
I still fondly remember trading in CDs for $10CDN credit back in the early 90s. I now have a dozen banker boxes full of them, which will stay with me until I finally accept that I can't get more than fifty cents apiece from the local merchants.
― doug watson, Monday, 5 February 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link