Off Topic CDs

[GLP]

I'm sadly moving to the digital era. Getting rid of my relatively eclectic mix of CDs circa 400 - just in the process of copying onto iTunes and then onto a hard drive.

Anyone shifted a load of CDs and what sort of price? It's going to be a sad day, but they just take up too much room.

 

[Party Hull!]

What have you got? List them. Might be some of interest.

Otherwise I'd say keep them! I know they're not trendy like vinyl, but still you won't get nowhere near back that you spent on them.

 

[GLP]

What have you got? List them. Might be some of interest.

Otherwise I'd say keep them! I know they're not trendy like vinyl, but still you won't get nowhere near back that you spent on them.

The list would take forever! I'm only half way through loading them up. It's soul destroying.

 

[Party Hull!]

Don't sell them to Music Magpie, you'll get a fraction of their worth.

eBay is best but of course a lot of work for 400 cds.

 

[augustatiger]

You will be lucky to get £2 each as a job lot unless you have some rare ones.
Ones with decent inserts with lyrics fetch more but seldom more than £3 each.
400 CDs equates to approx £5,000 salary.
More to the point what are you doing with your CD player and how will you play them from iplayer?

 

[Paul Jewitt]

The list would take forever! I'm only half way through loading them up. It's soul destroying.

I went through exactly the same when I moved to a smaller house, but when I found out how little I could get for my CD's I thought I'd rather keep them.

If you want to sell them as a job lot you'll probably get up to 50p per CD album and I couldn't be bothered to sell them separately on Ebay or the like.

 

[Quill]

I've just kept the hundreds of CDs I have, have them on the shelving with my LPs. Would be too much of a task for so little reward to sell them, unless you managed to sell them in bulk.


Hold onto them, in 25 years they might become popular again and you'll be quids in

 

[GLP]

You will be lucky to get £2 each as a job lot unless you have some rare ones.
Ones with decent inserts with lyrics fetch more but seldom more than £3 each.
400 CDs equates to approx £5,000 salary.
More to the point what are you doing with your CD player and how will you play them from iplayer?

I've got a bose unit with Bluetooth connect. So you can just stream music. Thinking of a sonos system.

All these CDs used to be in the lounge - gradually the Mrs has scuttled them into a Welsh dresser in the office - they've been in their for about 3 years now and I've been streaming from my phone since then.

Part of the pleasure was the CD and extra detail on the insert. But times are changing and I do like the convenience of how accessible digital music is from downloading and playing.

 

[Quill]

I've got a bose unit with Bluetooth connect. So you can just stream music. Thinking of a sonos system.

All these CDs used to be in the lounge - gradually the Mrs has scuttled them into a Welsh dresser in the office - they've been in their for about 3 years now and I've been streaming from my phone since then.

Part of the pleasure was the CD and extra detail on the insert. But times are changing and I do like the convenience of how accessible digital music is from downloading and playing.

One of the great things about LPs at the moment is that they almost always come with a digital download code too.

I love being able to take my music anywhere with little fuss, but I do like having a physical copy too.

 

[GLP]

One of the great things about LPs at the moment is that they almost always come with a digital download code too.

I love being able to take my music anywhere with little fuss, but I do like having a physical copy too.

It's liberating and traumatising in the same breath. Some of these albums evoke great memories. But, got to move on - I'm sure I'll keep some - all the Kingmaker albums for a start

 

[Quill]

It's liberating and traumatising in the same breath. Some of these albums evoke great memories. But, got to move on - I'm sure I'll keep some - all the Kingmaker albums for a start

Ripping music onto a computer is a horribly tedious and depressing thing. When I switched to my most recent laptop I didn't even bother doing it again, I just got Spotify Premium instead.

 

[Paul Jewitt]

It's liberating and traumatising in the same breath. Some of these albums evoke great memories. But, got to move on - I'm sure I'll keep some - all the Kingmaker albums for a start

Kingmaker. Among many of their gigs I remember them being supported at The Tower by a new band going by the name of Radiohead. Thom Yorke dedicated Creep to me and my brother and our girlfriends/wives as we were "the four people who have bothered to dance"

 

[GLP]

Kingmaker. Among many of their gigs I remember them being supported at The Tower by a new band going by the name of Radiohead. Thom Yorke dedicated Creep to me and my brother and our girlfriends/wives as we were "the four people who have bothered to dance"

I watched them at the Mill in Preston Lancs supported by Elastica

Bizarre as it was my first week at Uni and a band from back home, actually one from the same village were playing in Lancs.

 

[Paul Jewitt]

I watched them at the Mill in Preston Lancs supported by Elastica

Bizarre as it was my first week at Uni and a band from back home, actually one from the same village were playing in Lancs.

I also remember having a lengthy discussion With Loz about the poor quality of one of their tour shirts in Spiders one evening. Cheeky twat tried to blame it on my mum washing it.

 

[GLP]

I also remember having a lengthy discussion With Loz about the poor quality of one of their tour shirts in Spiders one evening. Cheeky twat tried to blame it on my mum washing it.

Still got an eat yourself whole T Shirt in a drawer somewhere. They deserved more recognition. Brilliant band.

 

[Paul Jewitt]

Still got an eat yourself whole T Shirt in a drawer somewhere. They deserved more recognition. Brilliant band.

Agreed. With the spate of recent "reunion" gigs by bands from that era I'd have liked to have seen them do a gig or two (the full trio, not just 'Kingmaker for a day')

 

[GLP]

Agreed. With the spate of recent "reunion" gigs by bands from that era I'd have liked to have seen them do a gig or two (the full trio, not just 'Kingmaker for a day')

Lived next door to the drummers ex Mrs in North Cave for a few years.

 

[Paul Jewitt]

Still got an eat yourself whole T Shirt in a drawer somewhere. They deserved more recognition. Brilliant band.

And I got told off at work once for wearing the "F*** me it's Kingmaker" t-shirt, so I stuck a bit of tape over the offensive bit with "Deary" written on it.

 

[x]

I'm sadly moving to the digital era. Getting rid of my relatively eclectic mix of CDs circa 400 - just in the process of copying onto iTunes and then onto a hard drive.

Anyone shifted a load of CDs and what sort of price? It's going to be a sad day, but they just take up too much room.

the problem is that if you copy them to another format and then sell the CDs, you have no legal right whatsoever to your copied versions. i copied mine and there were more than a thousand discs to wade through. those CDs will have to be prised from my cold dead hands to leave my possession. i know the under 30s think you shouldn't have to pay for stuff you steal, but be a man and keep the discs, there's a love.

 

[bum_chinned_crab]

Took me months to digitise all mine but I'd never get rid of em. That's my yoof right there and they're neatly stored in ****loads of shelving in my gym, where I also have a CD player.