Recent Music Deleted/Sold/Trashed

[ewok20t3]

Use this topic to post any music you have recently parted with. I don't have anything to add just yet, but hopefully I will soon.

[murlough23]

I rarely part with music that I have physically purchased, but I did donate a fairly huge pile of CDs to Goodwill when we moved half a year ago. (The move was all of two miles, but still, the music collection accounted for some of our heaviest boxes, and that was just the stuff I kept.)

In terms of deletions from my iTunes library (and thus my hard drive), I recently got rid of Katy Perry after reviewing her, and Joanna Newsom, who is talented but I just don't get her.

[ewok20t3]

I rarely part with music that I have physically purchased, but I did donate a fairly huge pile of CDs to Goodwill when we moved half a year ago. (The move was all of two miles, but still, the music collection accounted for some of our heaviest boxes, and that was just the stuff I kept.)

Feel free to also post music you didn't purchase, but decided to delete.

In going through my own collection and trying to figure out what CD's I would be okay with getting rid of, I've become interested in what other people deem unworthy to be in their collection.

[bloop]

I have a delete key?

[Ian]

I never delete music.  I have plenty of room on my hard drive, no need to get rid of any of it.  Plenty of room in my closet for physical CDs, plus those are impossible to sell for decent prices.

[ewok20t3]

This topic is accomplishing the opposite of what I thought it would for me. 
I thought I would see that other music lovers have no problem getting rid of music they rarely listen to and i would have an easier time getting rid of some CD's, but apparently that isn't the case. I guess I'll just buy another CD shelf. (Sarcasm) Thanks alot, guys! (/Sarcasm).

[Wildcatblue7]

When law school finals wrap up I want to go through and delete music which I consistently skip.  Like right now I'm supposed to be studying (lol) and i keep getting distracted because I have an enormous number of songs/albums/artists that i hit skip for EVERY TIME.  Drives me insane.

Eric, my general test for whether it's time to delete something is whether it gets skipped in all forms of media--so if I skip it in the car on CD, if I skip it on my Zune, if I skip it on my computer, all the time, it's time for whatever it is to go.  Life is too short to listen to music I don't like.

[ewok20t3]

When law school finals wrap up I want to go through and delete music which I consistently skip.  Like right now I'm supposed to be studying (lol) and i keep getting distracted because I have an enormous number of songs/albums/artists that i hit skip for EVERY TIME.  Drives me insane.

Eric, my general test for whether it's time to delete something is whether it gets skipped in all forms of media--so if I skip it in the car on CD, if I skip it on my Zune, if I skip it on my computer, all the time, it's time for whatever it is to go.  Life is too short to listen to music I don't like.

I filled my ipod to capacity and had to start unchecking songs awhile ago, so that saved me from pushing the skip button as much as I used to. My problem is I go through phases. I may not be a big fan of something I own right now, but who knows if I will be this time next year? That's one thing keeping me from getting rid of music.

[murlough23]

I will often remove stuff from my iPod and re-add it later, so I don't delete it from the hard drive. One example is all the Christmas music I just loaded back on it after taking it off back in January. More commonly, if I have a stray album by an artist I haven't listened to as much lately, and I need to make space for something new I'm digesting, I'll kick the old artist temporarily, but probably bring their old album back along with their new one when it releases.

[olivertsu]

I delete an album or even an artist from time to time.  Most recently would be...
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

Both albums by artists I love a lot and still own earlier albums by.

Um, also dumped a few albums by Stars (kept Heart and Set Yourself on Fire though), Tori Amos entirely, Mae and Project 86 (old favorites I hadn't listened to in ages and finaly decided to part with).

Just in case, I usually burn a physical copy of anything I delete in case I end up wanting to listen to it later for whatever reason.

[murlough23]

Interesting. I'd keep the mp3s sooner than burning a disc if I wanted the backup, since the hard drive will probably outlive the disc. Though I will often delete older music if I have it on the actual recordings released by the artists, assuming I can always re-rip from the hard copy. That will eventually degrade, too, but not as soon as the CD-Rs will.

[ewok20t3]

Mae and Project 86 (old favorites I hadn't listened to in ages and finaly decided to part with).

That kinda makes me sad.

The Everglow and Songs To Burn Your Bridges By have been such important albums to me. If I could only keep 30 albums they would both make the cut.

[Wildcatblue7]

I have quite a few old favorites which I always skip now...but I just can't bear to part with them, at least not yet.  Maybe I should just pare down to what I actually still like?  Half the time there's three songs I still love per album...and the rest can go.

[ewok20t3]

I have quite a few old favorites which I always skip now...but I just can't bear to part with them, at least not yet.  Maybe I should just pare down to what I actually still like?  Half the time there's three songs I still love per album...and the rest can go.

I'm with you on that. I have so many crappy nu-metal albums that have 1-2 songs that I can still enjoy if I'm in the right mood. I think I'm too much of a completist to trash all but two songs on an album, though.




Just curious, has everyone here gone mostly digital with their music collection?

[Wildcatblue7]

I'm all digital (Zune FTW) except in my POS car, where I predominantly listen to CDs.  Well, except for long road trips, where I have to bust out my ghetto radio station tuner for MP3 thingy. 

...i love my car, I love my car, I love my car...

[murlough23]

I'm all digital (Zune FTW) except in my POS car, where I predominantly listen to CDs.  Well, except for long road trips, where I have to bust out my ghetto radio station tuner for MP3 thingy. 

My car's old CD player crapping out on me turned out to be a blessing in disguise - I replaced it a good year and a half before I finally got myself an iPod, but the stereo's new enough to have an auxiliary input, so all I needed was a cord with a jack at both ends to hook the iPod up to the car stereo when I got it. No more lugging that big-ass book of CDs on road trips! (And when I wake my wife up during a long drive and ask her to DJ for me, she just scowls at me, shakes the thing to shuffle it, and goes back to sleep.)

[Wildcatblue7]

Yeah, my POS is 11 years old...even though the CD player malfunctions constantly no way in hell am I putting any more cash into this car.  haha.

[bloop]

At least musically, both of you probably have it better than me in the car. Neither the front nor rear left speaker works, and music nowadays isn't in mono. At least to me, it's too distracting to listen to music, particularly when I can tell exactly what I'm missing (half of the time), or when it just sounds thin (the rest of the time).

[murlough23]

At least musically, both of you probably have it better than me in the car. Neither the front nor rear left speaker works, and music nowadays isn't in mono. At least to me, it's too distracting to listen to music, particularly when I can tell exactly what I'm missing (half of the time), or when it just sounds thin (the rest of the time).

I would hate that too. In college, before the days of the mp3, I had a stereo with a crapped-out left speaker, and I didn't realize it for a while. I didn't have a car, so it was only on the rare occasion that I played one of my CDs tapes on someone else's stereo that I'd pick up a guitar or vocal part that surprised the hell out of me, since I thought I knew the song by heart.

Now that most of my listening happens through headphones, it's much more apparent to me when I'm missing a speaker (and when producers do the gratuitous panning thing).

[ewok20t3]

At least musically, both of you probably have it better than me in the car. Neither the front nor rear left speaker works, and music nowadays isn't in mono. At least to me, it's too distracting to listen to music, particularly when I can tell exactly what I'm missing (half of the time), or when it just sounds thin (the rest of the time).

I feel your pain. My two front speakers and one of my back speakers are blown. That's why I just listen to ESPN radio 90% of the time I'm in the car.

[murlough23]

I wonder how The New Pornographers would sound, coming from blown speakers.

[ewok20t3]

I gave Aerosmith's Just Push Play and Rooney's self-titled album away to friends. Maybe this is the start to me slimming my collection a bit.

[ewok20t3]

Just sold 110 CD's to the bookstore. 30 or 40 of those were singles and most of the albums were pretty awful (Disturbed, 50 Cent, Will Smith, etc.). They still gave me 37 dollars, which is about 27 dollars more than I thought I'd get. 

[murlough23]

Just sold 110 CD's to the bookstore. 30 or 40 of those were singles and most of the albums were pretty awful (Disturbed, 50 Cent, Will Smith, etc.). They still gave me 37 dollars, which is about 27 dollars more than I thought I'd get. 

The used CD store near me used to be too snobby to buy back most of the obscure crap I'd try to hawk when I wanted to slim down my collection, so when I moved I just donated a huge pile of CDs to Goodwill.

In related news: The used CD store near me went out of business.

[ewok20t3]

The used CD store near me used to be too snobby to buy back most of the obscure crap I'd try to hawk when I wanted to slim down my collection, so when I moved I just donated a huge pile of CDs to Goodwill.

That's why I didn't bother taking them to FYE or the local music stores. I wanted to get rid of the whole box. The bookstore I go to will literally take anything. They took sampler CD's that ONLY had song snippet's on them. I think I may take my cassette's to sell next time.

[bloop]

I've only sold used music to a local shop once. I've traded in video games more. I was kind of surprised they wouldn't take DOS-based games (I tried to sell them Tomb Raider, I think).