Convince me not to sell this cd

Anyway, I wanted to trade it in, because I simply never listened to it -- it was almost emotionally taxing to do so. I respected it and thought it was profound, but there was something about that album that just made me say to myself, "well, this is something you could probably do if you had the time and the energy." I wasn't filled with the sense of awe that for whatever reason I felt obliged to have.

Why are people more possessive/materialistic with music than movies?

humor me, ILX -- should I keep any of my Blur CDs? i mean, i can't really say i liked more than the odd song after Parklife (perhaps including Parklife) and i'm not even sure i can stand to listen to the early albums after an embarrassing decade of Gorillaz & other trash projects... i mean, the thought of giving any of these albums a spin makes me wince a little bit. plus the cover art is really really bad (i'm into cover art lately, what can i say?)

I feel like I have given it a shot and am ready to sell it, why should I keep it?

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, February 22, 2004 9:57 PM (7 years ago)

should I keep any of my Blur CDs

Yeah, sell your cds now before you're not able to anymore. Some people/stores still buy them, but that market is shrinking rapidly.

ehh i'm pretty much aligned w/ Fastnbulbous on that issue. CD = best quality sound, good market to buy right now (everyone's selling) and i can wait for bargains and get music cheaper than via download (always had a moral conundrum downloading...)

downloading for free, that is

anyway: not selling ALL of my cds, not even close, but working toward purging 15-20% or so that i don't really feel strongly about anymore. which is precisely where blur come in. i guess i just answered my own question then?

Don't sell them. I predict that in the not so distant future, CD's will be worth even more because they will be the highest quality recordings available.

blur cds are kinda dirt-cheap anyway, don't sell for much. so this isn't "does ilxor want to get rich off blur cds" so much as "does ilxor value $2-3 per CD more than hearing damon albarn sing to him in his living room"

in 10 years you may regret selling cds/lps. You can get fed up with albums but years later get back into them.

Charity shop is your best option

in 10 years you may regret selling cds/lps. You can get fed up with albums but years later get back into them.

right, of course. but at what point, as a mostly former fan, do you say "enough is enough" - throw in the towel and never go back? or do you leave albums open to revisitation til you get old...?

I sold off my entire vinyl collection several years ago and I miss it sometimes, but mostly I wish I'd waited until now when the prices were higher. I could've bought a new car with the $.

For some reason, I don't foresee cds appreciating the same way vinyl has.

I've got little to no sentimental attachment to my CDs, almost all of which are slowly selling on Discogs, but you can pry my vinyl from my cold, dead hands.

johnny/anyone who cares- i'm not attached to money, nor to format... just music. that's it. don't care about the cds themselves, i'd do vinyl or downloads if that was as cheap as selectively buying used cds. that said, i guess my question is: as a onetime fan, when do you give up on an artist/group you once enjoyed and stop listening/buying -- and in the case of this thread, when do you sell off what you've acquired over the past decade or so?

when do you give up on an artist/group you once enjoyed and stop listening/buying

Uh, when you decide it's time, I guess. I don't think there's a hard and fast rule on this like "the fifth album, no matter how good or bad it is, is a dealbreaker."

When that time comes, rip them to mp3 (if you even care) and sell off the cds.

yup, have mp3s - havent bothered ripping anything in CD quality audio, though (someday i may? who knows)

I wish I had not sold the s/t blur cd years ago. It's probably 1 cent for a used copy on amazon, though.

sell them, it's only blur

you can use the money to buy some gorillaz

Hang on to them! They might only be worth five cents each now, but in twenty years time, their value might easily double.

ehh i'm pretty much aligned w/ Fastnbulbous on that issue. CD = best quality sound, good market to buy right now (everyone's selling) and i can wait for bargains and get music cheaper than via download (always had a moral conundrum downloading...)

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, March 9, 2011 2:40 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark

it's pretty easy to rip to FLAC or some other lossless format (same quality as CD) and it's infinitely more convenient, plus it's a lot easier to get good sound out of a computer than it is to buy a fuck-off cd player

yeah it's easy to rip a couple CDs to FLAC but how about converting an entire collection? like, would take years of time, probably. not to mention fixing all the ID3 tags again... ugh.

anyway, h8ers gonna h8 but my AAC rips sound fine on headphones, i don't care too much about it