Starting a CD collection over from scratch....

[ZombieHavoc]

I have purchased upwards of 1500 or so CDs in my life, but about 2 and a half years ago I sold everything because I quit my job and went back to finish school. Now I'm working again and really missing those trips to the record store.

So, before I sold my CDs I burned a ton of them. I won't be rebuying those any time soon, just stuff that I don't already have to listen to.

But it's going to seem weird to have a CD collection that doesn't contain actual copies of all the staples and essentials...stuff like The Who, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Kiss, and so on.

I will likely eventually by all that stuff again, when I can spend money more indiscriminately...but for now I just want to focus on stuff I don't have.

I guess the whole point of this thread is that it will be weird to have a CD collection without those staples.

[Jonathan Bogart]

I know the feeling, even if what we would consider essential is pretty different. I realized the other day that I no longer have a physical copy of A Love Supreme, or Remain In Light, or Abbey Road, or (here's an overlap) Zoso, all of which were pretty foundational records when I first bought them.

[Jonathan Bogart]

Oh, and I have Who's Next on vinyl only. At one time I would have called it my favorite album ever. But it's not even on my iPod.

[Adam C]

Oh, and I have Who's Next on vinyl only. At one time I would have called it my favorite album ever. But it's not even on my iPod.

Ditto, except that I don't even have it on vinyl. I had jettisoned the physical copy for space considerations since it was a copy of the Deluxe edition I bought second hand...but I almost never listened to the bonus tracks.

And for the longest time I didn't have any Beatles and Stones albums in my collection, largely because my listening and purchasing habits were diffuse and myt serious appreciation of music began through proto-punk/punk/and Ameri-indie (largely punkier things like the Replacements and Husker Du). I also don't have any physical copies of several canonical albums like Culture's Two Sevens Clash, This Mortal Coil's It'll End in Tears, Albert Ayler's Ghosts and Kode 9's Memories of the Future because I got them all off eMusic.

[howyadoin]

And for the longest time I didn't have any Beatles and Stones albums in my collection...Back when I had vinyl, I had 22 Beatles albums. But since they're priced so ridiculously high, I only have 5 Beatles CDs. I keep hoping that at some point they'll pull their heads out of their collective asses and remaster the original albums properly.

Or y'know, let the Purple Chick people handle it.

[Shellhead]

Every time that I have switched formats, I have generally moved onward instead of be-buying everything in the new format. My vinyl was mostly classic rock. My cassettes were mostly '80s pop, alternative rock and blues. I sold all of my vinyl and a good chunk of my cassettes. My CDs were heavy on the alternative rock, but when they got stolen, I only replaced some of them and then went on to buy different stuff later, including more jazz and . The MP3s that I've been getting in more recent times are heavier on reverb stuff like surf rock, and some electronica.

[Buried Alien]

Back when I had vinyl, I had 22 Beatles albums. But since they're priced so ridiculously high, I only have 5 Beatles CDs. I keep hoping that at some point they'll pull their heads out of their collective asses and remaster the original albums properly.

Paul, Ringo, Yoko, and Olivia have all expressed their eagerness to see these out in the shops soon too, but somehow, it keeps running into some kind of contract problems between Apple and EMI. More likely than not, it's a money issue, but nobody makes ANY money if these aren't available for sale.

Apparently, the work has already been done, and the products are ready to be pressed, but the contractual fog needs to lift first.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[howyadoin]

Paul, Ringo, Yoko, and Olivia have all expressed their eagerness to see these out in the shops soon too, but somehow, it keeps running into some kind of contract problems between Apple and EMI. More likely than not, it's a money issue, but nobody makes ANY money if these aren't available for sale.

Apparently, the work has already been done, and the products are ready to be pressed, but the contractual fog needs to lift first.Ridiculous that they can't see what a cash cow this could be. If they remastered the original albums and sold them at a price that wasn't the equivalent of anal rape, I bet every one of them would go platinum again.

[Jonathan Bogart]

Ditto, except that I don't even have it on vinyl.
And I just realized I have Abbey Road and Zoso on vinyl too. Apparently I got into used vinyl just before the local record stores realized it could be a cash cow -- prices have shot up in the past few years.

[leonaozaki]

Ridiculous that they can't see what a cash cow this could be. If they remastered the original albums and sold them at a price that wasn't the equivalent of anal rape, I bet every one of them would go platinum again.

I agree, but I wonder what beans the bean-counters are counting. It would be kind of interesting to know, say, how many units the Dylan and Stones remasters moved, in this context.

That being said, I can't really believe that if Macca were to say, "do it!" it wouldn't happen. He made that pointless Naked exercise happen, didn't he?

rob

[Spike-X]

Paul, Ringo, Yoko, and Olivia have all expressed their eagerness to see these out in the shops soon too, but somehow, it keeps running into some kind of contract problems between Apple and EMI. More likely than not, it's a money issue, but nobody makes ANY money if these aren't available for sale.

Apparently, the work has already been done, and the products are ready to be pressed, but the contractual fog needs to lift first.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
Fuck's sake.

It's not the Internet that's killing the music industry, it's the suit-encrusted parasites who can't stand the idea of their snouts not being in the deepest part of the trough any more.

[hawkeye comeback]

Two albums off the top of my head...
Up the Bracket by the Libertines (the best band of the noughties in my opinion)
Dig! Lazarus, Dig! (Nick Cave and the best he's been in recent years)

[Slappy san]

Don't do it. Embrace mp3s. It's hard at first. I used to love hitting the used cd shops.

[DrewTheXenocide]

I only started my collection a couple years ago. I think I'm almost at two hundred. I don't care so much about buying "staples," as opposed to what I happen to be liking/ interested in at the moment.