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"I really don't like to listen to Drugs are Nice by Lisa Suckdog/Carver,"

Just bought the book!

And rofl at cringing at yer past taste because it's CONSERVATIVE. There's nothing wrong with Modest Mouse nor Tori Amos. Keep those CDs, who knows, maybe you'll *devolve* again in a few yrs when you turn old and, like, senile.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 25 June 2006 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I should clarify that I get rid of CDs all the time, mostly of stuff I never had a connection with. But if you really enjoyed something once, I say hold on to it because you probably will again down the road. But if you thought it was just alright first time around then sell it. Can't just have CDs piling up forever.

― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 25 June 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm, I like the idea of leaving cds in random places and running away.

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Sunday, 25 June 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

but I looked back and cringed that somehow I had bought cd's like Feist

this only came out like a year ago! yeesh you are fickle. in two years you'll probably only be listening to country or something and be embarrassed at all your avant-garde music.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 25 June 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I do have jewel cases for most of them actually. I used to arrange my cd's by booklets, but over the last year I've put a lot of my newer cd's on a glass shelving unit, and I just put up 2 new shelves a couple months ago. It's made things much easier to find in general really. Re: Feist, she has a perfectly lovely voice, but I find her music just isn't really that exciting, and It's become more overexposed than anything for me - I work in music retail and I used to hear it everyday, so it may be just a matter of staying away from it for awhile. I honestly regret some of my cringing comments, as I realized this isn't quite accurate of the reaction I have to them -- I did love these cd's at one point or another, so the money is not a waste.

― ross m (Snorb), Sunday, 25 June 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Should I get rid of my books?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 25 June 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

On the topic of Modest Mouse, the only one I truly don't enjoy is their newest, really. (I feel like a hypocrite.)

― ross m (Snorb), Sunday, 25 June 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Rockist, when you say in that thread "being a librarian has made me less sentimental about books" that's what I feel like about being in music retail for 3 years. Especially when our staff has the choice of store mixes, and a lot of people put the same albums on (let's just say I've heard "Dummy" by Portishead a 1000 times, as great as it is it's tiring).

― ross m (Snorb), Sunday, 25 June 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Never mind CDs, I have tapes I can't bring myself to get rid of. I thought that when I had more disposable income I'd replace them all with CDs, especially as I don't have a cassette walkman to make them worth the while, but many of them being things I bought with my pocket money or the wages from the record exchange I worked in...I can't really do it. There's probably no real kudos in your Smiths albums being on Rough Trade or your copy of George Best having the original Reception catalogue number, but these were things I hunted down or waited to turn up.

― Mippy (Mippy), Sunday, 25 June 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

x post

Why do you have to run?

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Sunday, 25 June 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus, I've spent the past year or so re-buying stuff like Carter USM, Drive like Jehu, Wedding Present, Prolapse - even Free Kitten! Noslagia is a powerful and undeniable force. You'll be back for that stuff you sold...

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 25 June 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

The sad thing is I sometimes think I can get past the sentimentality of losing an album, but I know I've came back to many other forms of media with a refreshed joy over time. I wish I could edit my initial post actually, I've thought about what the best thing to do is, and holding onto the discs seems majorly the preferable option now. Sometimes discs that become less interesting over time can be worth it for the one or two spine-chilling moments or exceptional tracks.

― ross m (Snorb), Sunday, 25 June 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh is it cool to have Harry Partch in yr collection? I'll keep it then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Only if you also have Tori Amos!

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Keep them until you have a child and then sell them to pay for the nappies, etc.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Or sell your child to buy more CDs.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Monday, 26 June 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope to open a chimney sweep agency for that purpose.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Smart people often go through a phase in their 20s/30 that causes them to intellectually divorce themselves from what they actually like.

They abandon the music that gave them unselfconscious pleasure in their youth, cringing at what it seems (somehow) to reveal. Instead of merely following their hopelessly out-of-touch hearts & ears, they develop a purely intellectual interest in "cutting edge" sonics. This leads to a period of exploratory indulgences and an unfortunate tendency to play weird music at parties until someone with more sense puts the Missy Elliott record back on.

Most folks eventually outgrow it. For this reason, I suggest that you hold on to everything that you once liked. ESPECIALLY the stuff that you feel kinda embarassed of. That's the music you'll get the most mileage out of over the years...

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a time when I was in junior high school, where I decided to sell off a whole bunch of LPs and CDs. I think I did it because I wanted money to buy some expensive bootleg LPs. I cannot express how much I regret having sold off so much good music just to have some bootlegs that I hardly ever listen to. I don't know what the heck I was thinking. It's been nearly 20 years since then and I'm still pissed!

Think before you sell - if there is any chance that you think you may want to listen to those CDs at any point in the future, don't get rid of them! Only do it if you absolutely hate the music and if you know you'll never ever want to hear it again.

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Fuckfucking - I do agree with you at points, but in following my collection over the years I've much less music I don't like, then music I do, which I'm happy about. Like I said earlier, I'm not purely into avant-garde - I still like all the Parliament, Funkadelic, Kate Bush, Scott Walker, Tom Waits, Stereolab, Cocteau Twins,Yma Sumac etc. which was the middle of my cd collecting years. There's just some cd's that seem to offer little (though in time I can see what you mean about the "mileage" of them) , but I'm still open to music of all genres. I don't want to overstress this, but I'm definitely not someone who is purely into only experimental.

― ross m (Snorb), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The only time I think I've ever seriously regretted getting rid of CDs was when I sold my Secret Chiefs 3 collection, only to realise later that it was only their first CD that I didn't much care for and having to go buy it all again.

Come to think of it, it seems that I might've given all my Tom Petty to some friend real cheap back when I was in high school, which I came to regret, but the two disc anthology along with "Wildflowers" has pretty much caught me up on all that I need in that area.

― vartman (novaheat), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuckfucking has it nailed, I'm finding myself at the tail-end of this sequence of events (coincidentally at the age of 22).

Most older people I know that have sold stuff that they thought they "grew out of" seem to really regret doing so. I'd keep it.

― Adam Martin (paid in cigarettes), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll third that. I sold my vast vinyl collection 20 years ago to help fund an overseas trip and it hurts. Real bad. It's not worth it for the sake of a few bucks/quids that you'll get for selling 'em so hang on to the lot. Except The Avalanches though because they really suck.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm 21 Ross, and would never ever consider selling my cds, even all the ones I feel a little of ashamed of. The problem for me is dragging the bastards around, I invested in 2 256 cd wallet/book things and left the cd cases and booklets behind when I went to college. I've found that really unsatisfactory too, I'm far more likely to pick something out I've not heard in ages if i browse the spines than going through the awkward wallets. The cds are more likely to get scratched, especially if drunk friends are putting stuff on at a party. I find I stick on mp3s all the time because it's more convenient, and all cds (which I don't buy so much nowadays) are neglected.
So I'm just going to have to start a ripping project and leave them all behind come septemeber when I'm back to college.

The only phase of destroying music I went through was on the cusp of adolesence a long time ago, when I destroyed the one or two Bryan Adams albums I had, an Ace of Base album and an East 17 album... I have no regrets.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

And for that we salute you.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Never. Ever. Sell. Your. Record. Collection. You will regret it.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you go through the booklets chronologically? If so, did you happen to notice when the AAD/ADD/DDD symbols disappeared? (were they left off suddenly or were they phased out slowly?)

Not important, just wondering.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link

How would you have noticed if they were ' phased out slowly ', weaker ink?

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost yeah having worked in book stores, record stores, record shows, reviewing, I too thought I was getting "less sentimental," but (despite having sold-awapped-given-donated-dumped) a shitload, I still have a lot. It'll happen. But xpost speaking of Tori etc, keep some not only for your future self, but also significant others.

― don (dow), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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