records/tapes/cds/mp3s that you have actually thrown out a window/in the garbage/used as frisbees/deleted any trace from yer computer, etc.

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c'mon there has to have been at least ONE.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

I spent an hour artfully destroying a copy of Yes' "Tormato" once

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

1) the winger rekkid w/ "purple haze" -- this was thrown out of my sister's bedroom window immediately after being played (she looks back and laughs, but not then)

2) the lightning seeds best-of. don't honestly know what prompted me to buy the fucking thing in the first place.

3) the franz ferdinand CD -- downloaded before prospectively purchased, decided that it was total crap, and disinfected my hard drive.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

i bought tom petty's greatest hits but the cd inside was just one of his albums. it didn't have "the waiting" on it so it went in the bin.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

i have used multiple copies of my own albums as frisbees

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

that one song on tormato -- where jon anderson puts his then 5-year-old son on the record -- inspired so much retching that i was incapacitated (ergo, no defenestration or destruction).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Dashboard Confessional (the first album, pre-MTV2 coolness), along a deserted stretch of highway heading toward Austin.
Jimmy Eat World (pre-"The Middle"), along a deserted stretch of highway heading back from Austin a couple of days later.

Once through I could handle, putting either on repeat for three hours was just torture.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

these were unpopular actions with my emo-lovin' then-GF, who made me buy many bad CDs as penance.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

One time, I was frisbeeing 45s across the fence to my neighbour for fun. I reached for what I thought was Tina Turner's "Steamy Windows", a record I had no love for and chucked it. My neighbour dropped it. At this point I realised it wasn't TT at all, it was actually my much-played single of Kate Bush's "Babooshka". I cried! (NB: I was six years old).

Also, I smashed up "Could've Been" by Tiffany for a radio competition where you had to destroy the worst record in your collection to win Smashing Pumpkins tickets. (Tho the Tiffany was actually my brother's. Obviously I would never have destroyed "I Think We're Alone Now".)

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

emo bands -- and ESPECIALLY major emo bands -- should themselves be tossed out of moving cars and into deserted stretches of highway leading through texas deserts.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

an undergrad friend of mine was fined for throwing his CD version of sonic youth's dirty through his dorm window and into the courtyard outside of the dorm. when i got around to hearing dirty myself, i understood why!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

For a while, I was a junkie for the free stuff listings on Craigslist. One of the better scores was from this dude who decided to give away a bunch of stuff his old roommate ad left behind. He just started pulling things from his garage and putting them on the lawn. I ended up taking this storage tower full of CDs, many of which I kept, many of which I sold. There were a few, though, that were both terrible for musical purposes and unsalable due to scratches, so I destroyed them. I shattered a copy of Creed's Human Clay in my parking lot. It was incredibly satisfying.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 9 June 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

"an undergrad friend of mine was fined for throwing his CD version of sonic youth's dirty through his dorm window and into the courtyard outside of the dorm. when i got around to hearing dirty myself, i understood why!"

Why he was fined or why he threw it?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 June 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

why he was fined, of course -- those motherfucker could decapitate someone if they're thrown hard enough!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

???

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 June 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

goo was a piece of shit! sonic youth was a 3-album band!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

duh, dirty i meant. i kinda like goo.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

Now I am even more confused haha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 June 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

whatchoo actually LIKE dirty?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

Haha no I don't understand why the fact that Dirty was bad made his being fined easier to comprehend.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 June 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

it was a bad attempt at a joke. it's 2:15 AM here so cut me slack :-)

seriously, this was the CD where i officially stopped giving a shit about sonic youth.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

In the last year alone I've killed Northern State, Baby Dayliner, MC Lars Horris and probably 10 others.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

I bought what I thought was Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert from a store in Baltimore about six years ago. It was from the $2 "no bitching, no returns" section. I got it home to discover there was actually a 1979 Cars album in there instead. Took it back, got a dismissive "read the f-ing sign" from the saleschap, went outside, snapped Cars CD in two.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

joanna newsom. I gave the CD away within 24 hours of owning it and deleted it from my computer for all eternity.

― breezy, Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

The only CD which I have ever thrown away was a Ministry Of Sound quote-unquote "chill-out" monstrosity from late 2001, which came free with a national newspaper. I threw it away because it had ruined my Sunday morning.

I have never thrown away any vinyl or cassettes.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

I shattered an unplayable copy of Umma Gumma in my room, against the door. That was fun.

My roommate used to work in a record store, and he brought home a bunch of really bad promo records - LPs. They flew really far as frisbees, and if the wind caught them just right, they did some cool aerial tricks. Jermaine Stewart's "The Word is Out" came about two feet from hitting some guy's Camaro. Man, that would have been poetic.
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― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Also, I gave away some Ute Lemper Cd ... I had heard good things about her, without ever really hearing what she sounded like. I gave it to someone and said, "maybe you'll like this." He came back a week later and asked me if my opinion of him was really that low.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I was hit in the head by a flying Whitney Houston cd and had to be taken to the hospital to have my forehead glued back together.

― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

my friend bought the andrew wk cd a few years ago at a service station while we were doing a long-haul drive, and within ten minutes it had met its end somewhere along i-80.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

in the mid-1990s, my mate and i considered starting a record label and advertised for demos. we got about 20 tapes' worth of utter, utter shit, so we smashed them all up with a baseball bat instead. it was great.

i wonder if any of the bands ever got anywhere? i doubt it: they all seemed to be fucking goths.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

joanna newsom. I gave the CD away within 24 hours of owning it and deleted it from my computer for all eternity

Good for you!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

I've done this to three cds.

Some male singer-songwriter guy who DUPED me into thinking he was brilliant. I heard a song of his on CKUA, a great public radio station, that sounded like Gene Clark circa White Light. I was so enamoured with this song, I hunted down the CD. I played about 4 songs, which were terribly produced with wretched performances, before I got out of my car and winged it onto a nearby roof.

The Now - I bought this ep at an all-ages show off of some trucker-cap dude with a distro. We were talking and I asked him if this was any good, because it was on Robotic Empire, which released that killer Daughters CD. He said it was really good. I bought it, played it in the van on the highway, and promptly threw it out the window.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

There are many, many CDs I own -- promos and bought stuff -- that I will someday destroy as an emotional release because I can't sell 'em/give 'em away and throwing them away wouldn't be enough.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

that 1st the vines album...

and countless promos

― b b, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I think FatherFucker was in the trash in 10 minutes after opening.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I used to be on the mailing list of many an otherwise clueless record company when my dubious writing was more prolific and would get sent stuff all the time (maybe one out of every seventeen packages contained something I'd actually want to listen to). In any case, both these albums acted as both coaster-turned-clay pigeon after a very short order.

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There was alot of bad music in the 90's.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

No Lilith Fair for Alex in NYC.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I like some of Sarah McLachlan's stuff.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

a couple black keyes albums.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I torched a thirty-count box full of that one Spin Doctors album and then drove my bosses car back and forth across them.

― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

It would take a whole lot to get to to actually throw out or destroy an album. I'd invaraibly try to give it away to someone who might like it or sell it before I'd simply throw it out. For me to destroy it, its mere existence has to offend my very core.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

It would take a whole lot to get to to

It would take a whole lot to get ME to...blah blah blah..

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

For me to destroy it, its mere existence has to offend my very core.

Have you ever read any of your posts here, dude?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

To my great shame I once destroyed Captain Beefheart and Sun Ra LPs. I was 14 or so, and it wasn't that they were too weird for me, but that they weren't weird enough, in this 14-year-old's idea of weirdness, anyway. I was a Zappa fan and was expecting similar from the Cap'n, and had read that Sun Ra was really out there. The Sun Ra was called Space is the Place (or had that song on it), and the Beefheart was Safe As Milk (which seems to be many ILXors favorite!). I bought them cheap (cut-outs probably, don't think I had discovered used at that point) and I guess I didn't realize I could sell them. I have since replaced the Beefheart, and am still weighing the Sun Ra recommendations here.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Also I downloaded a Pearls Before Swine LP after hearing about them for years, and after two plays (in case I just wasn't in the mood the first time) I deleted it. Blecchhh!

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Back when I was able to raid a certain radio station's bins full of promo CDs, I'd take stuff that was obviously shit, cannibalize them for unbroken jewel cases, and toss the discs. That is how I owned an Ani di Franco record for a day.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Nobody OWNS Ani, okay, Napolean?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

For me to destroy it, its mere existence has to offend my very core.

Have you ever read any of your posts here, dude?

Yeah, but I've never owned an album by Good Charlotte or Destiny's Child or Scout Niblett or Joss Stone, so I've never had the opportunity to destroy one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I like some of Sarah McLachlan's stuff.

Manufacture's "As the End Draws Near" to thread!

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Damn right!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

OK Computer went out my bedroom window the second time I attempted to listen to it. I got up to track 8 or so before I physically had to harm it. What an asful album.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 10 June 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

i destroyed a copy of Hatful Of Hollow in a rage, and i have never by choice listened to "how soon is now?" since.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 10 June 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

OMG ESOJ!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 10 June 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

seriously, jim, i never would've thought that you were a smiths hata.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 10 June 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

oh i'm not. but that song infuriates me to the core.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 10 June 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

today i threw out a cdr of
oasis - don' beleive the truth
new order - waiting for the sirens call
billy idol - devils playground
finn brothers - everyone is here

these artists were brilliant until these pieces of crap.

― rachel tweedy, Friday, 10 June 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

-- geyser muffler and a quarter (right.knewi...), June 9th, 2005.

serioulsly i want jermaine stewarts debut lp would you sell it -
i have his other on lp,cd and tape and a few singles
paul australia

― paul wilson, Friday, 10 June 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

me and my friend sean 'sacrificed' his old oasis cd when we were about 14. we did a full-on ceremony, donned robes and poured cologne all over the disc as we scratched it up.

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Friday, 10 June 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

once driving home i found the song from the sisters of mercy's "vision thing" where andrew shouts INCOMING! over and over so obnoxious i ejected the tape first from the stereo and then from the car.

a few days later walking to the bus stop on my way to class i saw the tape and picked it up. i picked it up because i felt guilty about littering... i tossed it in the trash at the bus stop.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 10 June 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

once driving home i found the song from the sisters of mercy's "vision thing" where andrew shouts INCOMING! over and over so obnoxious i ejected the tape first from the stereo and then from the car.

Eldritch will have his revenge.

Similarly, after playing only the tiniest bit of my cassette copy of The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution. The Solution = Let it Be by Crispin Helion Glover, my friend wrenched it out of the tape deck and tossed it out of the sun roof. I guess not everyone finds ol' Cripin funny.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

...this was in a moving car, by the way (hence sun roof).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Promotional CDs I have smashed:

The Kelly Family (8-piece German brood inna soda jingle pop-rock stylee)

Adam H (godawful indie Canuck pop rapper who combined the worst elements of Marky Mark and C & C Music Factory about 8 years after both acts had stopped selling records, somehow roped old soulsters The Manhattans into singing on a cover of "Shining Star")

Jesse Camp & The 8th Street Kidz (vanity project by space cadet MTV veejay)

Cartouche (Euro-pop dance duo concocted to cash in on the success of Technotronic & Culture Beat, only with much worse rapping and singing)

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

i was looking at the empty case for that sisters tape and wishing i had it the other month, because i wanted to give it a spin.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I've never thrown away any CDs. If I wanted to get rid of something, I'd find someone to sell it to.

― GLC (ZakAce), Thursday, 5 October 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

Tantrum's description of Cartouche kind of makes me want to hear them.

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

I left A Man Called E in some random person's mailbox after buying it on Q's recommendation. Took me years to listen to Eels as a result of that abomination.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

It took E years to make another album after "A man called E" anyway!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

I got a free Black Eyed Peas CD from Princeton Record Exchange several years ago (this was way before Fergie), and just threw it in the back of my car...I've never opened it, and to this day I use it to scrap ice off of my windshield...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I was hit in the head by a flying Whitney Houston cd and had to be taken to the hospital to have my forehead glued back together.

"Houston! Houston!! We have a Whitney head problem!"

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

slaughter's 'the wild life' got put in the garbage i think

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

mp3 deletion happens all the time, but the most recent ones were by cansei de ser sexy.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Mm... mmm, MMM... i have also thrown outta my window a few cd's in my time. some sonic youth's - it hadn't actually anything to do with how good the cd's were or weren't in my 'pinion, rather more the reason was m'son(of a gun-f-f-f-fodder), really.
...and a bunch, quite a big bunch, of different cassettes went in the big trash can outside, once.

and this thread suddenly reminds me of a "made in yugoslavia" - and bought somewhere in Belorussia - western-jazz-rock-ish compilation that, about thirty years ago, me and my friend tried to disfigure so as to witness weirdo instances o' "extremely funny"
record skp-p-p-pping -- which, no matter hard we tried, somehow never quite transpired.
now, i realise, i've bought some of those same songs on cheap compilation cd's, bearing names like "thriller jazz" and suchlike, from my hometown's malls.
ol' unfunny world, yeh.

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

somewhere along US Highway 15 lies a copy of a Belladonna album that i jettisoned at 90 mph after hearing the opening bar...why was it in my car? I may never know.

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

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