Should I sell my Pink Floyd CDs on ebay?

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I used to luuurve Pink Floyd, but now I'm not a depressed teenager, I have no need for them, and I hardly listen to them. I rekcon that I've got £50 worth of CDs.

Shall I cash in, or keep jjust in case? And does everyone else hang onto old albums, even though they've grown out of them?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Keep them.

Yep, I keep pretty much every album I buy, mainly because I'm too lazy to get rid of them.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm currently shrinking down the collection, but not before creating mp3s first. Easy way to prevent later pangs of regret (which I've been remarkably free of when it comes to stuff I let go, though).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Keep them for when you become a depressed adult. The nostalgia will bolster your spirits, plus you'll have saved some money for drugs.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

mp3 them and sell them, that's what I'm doing. well maybe keep meddle.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

MP3 don't last at all. You wont't 'archive' MP3's. They'll be gone in a couple years, I guarantee.

CD's = maybe 20 years? Too early to tell.

Vinyl = sounds good for 75 years. Sell your cd's, buy used records. Or just hold onto to "Relics", it's really all you need.

― andy, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

If you mean "there'll be a better and more popular compression technology than mp3" the yes, that will be true (and already is, I reckon -- I've saved all my stuff as AACs), but why on earth would they be gone? Obviously there will be programs that play them, etc.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

MP3 don't last at all. You wont't 'archive' MP3's.

eventually I guess the hard drives will die but by then I'll be too sensible to worry that I don't have any pink fucking floyd to listen to.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

everyone in the world should.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

How much bigger are AACs? Do iPods like them? etc.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

iPods LOVE them. And they are SMALLER.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

those are them "m4a" fings, right?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yes

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

If you mean "there'll be a better and more popular compression technology than mp3" the yes, that will be true (and already is, I reckon -- I've saved all
my stuff as AACs), but why on earth would they be gone? Obviously there will be programs that play them, etc.

What Casuistry said -- and again, what I'm mp3ing right now are things I really haven't touched at *all* in many years. They were taking up space just as much as all the books I got rid of (and don't miss) in the last move were. I would be burning to AAC myself if it weren't for the fact that my multipurpose player with the stereo doesn't play them, just mp3s.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone burned their vinyl and gotten rid of it? I'm contemplating this - I just can't move it around any more.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I sold all of my CDs on ebay last year (complete collections of most of the classic rocks bands and 90s Matador etc) and I tell you, I totally regret it now. Of course as Ned says I transferred 10 gigs of my faves onto my hard drive, but it's just not the same. Now I have a new apartment and a new wall-mounted stereo and dammit I miss them.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 25 March 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

make them ACCs then burn them to DVDs!

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 25 March 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone burned their vinyl and gotten rid of it? I'm contemplating this - I just can't move it around any more.

it is my intention to do this, but i can't shake the feeling that i'm going to regret it later if i buy a better turntable or a loricraft..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

What exactly do you miss, Nick? Could you burn them back onto CDRs or whatever?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 March 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with Casuistry, what do you miss?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

on a different tack but within the remit...

Would you get owt for your old CDs on ebay anyhow?

Yeah, I've sold a few dead rare things there for plenty dosh, but a common/garden "Dark Side of the Moon" would get, what, £2 if you were lucky?

(I'd search on completed auctions, but it's a 'banned' site round here...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i would be well richer if ebay was banned at my work

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

(i'd be richer if they didn't...)

It's a buyers market, for certain things...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I was kinda hoping Floyd = canonical rockist "essential" item = $$$

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 25 March 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, jim surface.. can you check this for a waiting nation (or two)?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Just had a check - by the looks of it, the wall is £15, and DSOTM and Animals are both a fiver. I reckon that I've got a night out of Floyd in my CD racks.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 25 March 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

floyd cds ain't worth a bean unfortunately. all in print, and most at nice price. i got my copy of "piper" for A$10 (approx £4)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got a well-proportioned, prefectly balanced head.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, wrong thread.

Don't you hate it when that happens?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

What thread was it? What do you balance Prefects on?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

On my head.

It was on the "Are you ugly?" thread?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned and Caustistry, it sounds corny and materialistic but I miss having them as originals, even if, as Robert Pollard puts it, they are just 'paradise plastic, cheap and fantastic.' CDRs just aren't the same as the real things. I did get probably $1k for all of them between half.com and ebay though, at a time when I wasn't working, so no complaints in that department. Getting rid of them an aspect of a kind of experiment I was doing in seeing how far I could go without working and selling a lot of things I thought I didn't need to pay my expenses for as long as I could.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Which is the very experiment I'm embarking on right now, of course.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. In my case, I'm simply interested in opening up a bit more space -- it's not like I'm on the verge of selling all my CDs for sheer space reasons, but whatever wistful dream I had of my collection being some sort of archive for the future is mere fantasy (and in the download world, unneeded, when what is 'rare' isn't). I might get more involved with this over time, but for now, it's a bit of a healthy letting go.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 March 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I love this whole fear of music becoming more and more ephemeral - first of all you could see it on the bumps and grooves in vinyl, but then it went to cassettes and magnetic tape, then these untrustworthy CDs and now pure DATA - I'll be able to lick the next Basement Jaxx album off of the palm of my hand, but what will it do for my apartment?????

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

*shrug* I like artwork. And analog sounds better.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

what will it do for my apartment?????

Give you more room?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I'm just playing. So do I. In fact, I'm obsessed with artwork!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the palm of my hand???

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

this licking music of the palm of your hand thing, it's not gonna catch on.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

could be an icebreaker though.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

luddite

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

This week I have sold my gold cd remasters of wish you were here and dark side for a total of $100, which is something I highly recommend doing, because you never need to hear these albums again.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes you do! But probably not in gold-form.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

they will sound fine in mp3 form because the only time I'll ever listen to them again I will be stoned

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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