How many CDs do you own?

[trancejeremy]

Probably about 400-450. Pretty much every classic rock album that has a song that gets played on classic rock stations. Which ironically enough, I don't really listen to anymore (since I pretty much know all those songs by heart). And I was getting to the point where I was buying solo albums by guys in bands I liked. Most of which were pretty bad.

And nowadays, most the music I listen to doesn't even come out on cd. Generally just vinyl. I do probably have maybe 50 mix cds or so.

The only real rare one I have is "Mason Profit - Come & Gone". They had 1 minor hit song that I really liked, "2 Hangmen". And some Manfred Mann Earth Band ones are pretty rare.

But my most prized on is the cd single of Essence - the Promise

 

[GlassJaw]

I have a few hundred (never counted) but honestly, I hate CD's. It's such a dated and cumbersome medium. I can't remember the last time I bought a CD. It had to be at least a year or so ago. I greatly prefer non-physical formats. I'd rather have 20 albums on a flash drive or iPod or something rather than lugging around an annoying CD case.

What I really want is a USB port in my car stereo. Now that would rock.

 

[Desdichado]

a disc of John Foxx "Metamatic" outtakes.

Oooohhhh! I wanna hear that!

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I have between 500 and 600 CDs, plus the equivalent of another 100 or so on in iTunes.

I don't know what I would consider the pride of my collection. I have a few imports that I tried to find for years to replace old casettes I had in high school, but I wouldn't run around declaring how great it is to have Chris DeBurgh's early albums or the first two Men Without Hats albums on CD.

 

[diaglo]

So, two questions:
How many CDs do you own?
What is the pride of your collection?

i have about 4 or 5 in my bank account.

i don't know if i have any pride in them.

they are just certificates of deposit.

i get one (around January) and use it every year for Xmas shopping.

 

[der_kluge]

Just over 1,200

I used to be a DJ, and worked as a body piercer (at that time) right beside a record store where the import guy new me well and new my tastes... At LEAST twice a week he'd show up at my work place with 2-3 imports that I *needed* at $25-$40 each.

So not only 1,200 CDs, but a fair number of them are rares / expensive imports. Blah.

In fact, last week, I finally started ripping many of them to mp3.

You'd better get a big hard drive! At 192 kbps (which I recommend), that's about 80 meg per CD.
1200*80 = 96,000 megabytes. That's almost 100 gigabytes for MP3s.

 

[der_kluge]

i have about 4 or 5 in my bank account.

i don't know if i have any pride in them.

they are just certificates of deposit.

i get one (around January) and use it every year for Xmas shopping.

You funny man, Dr. Jones.

 

[HellHound]

You'd better get a big hard drive! At 192 kbps (which I recommend), that's about 80 meg per CD.
1200*80 = 96,000 megabytes. That's almost 100 gigabytes for MP3s.

I'm keeping it down to 60 gigs (the size of the hard drive I had given to me this winter). So, to keep to that space requirement, I'm only ripping my fave tracks from these CDs. After all, a lot of these I bought because I was an Industrial DJ, so they have two or three tracks I like / love, and a bunch I have zero interest in.

Shouldn't be a problem holding them down to 60 gigs.

 

[megamania]

550 to 600

Lots of 80's Rock and 90's to current Hip Hop. I also have lots of soundtracks and some country and trance.

Wide variety

Have not bought much recently due to money. Last two CDs were NOW 18 and Eninem.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I've got about 500-600 purchased, and probably another 100 Phish/Grateful Dead/others that I traded for on the music trading scene (not illegal bootlegs, but bands that allow recording and trading of their live shows).

The pride of my collection? I don't know. I've got the Misfits coffin box set, which is pretty neat, both Travelling Wilbuys CDs which are out of print, the first printing of Nine Inch Nails Broken with the mini-disc, and CDs signed by Alice In Chains, Bruce Hornsby, and some other artists. I can't really say that there is any one thing I'm really proud of, but taken as a whole, I'm proud of my collection.

I used to have a buch of rare stuff that I sold that I wish I still had. Metallica's Garage Days Re-revisited and several CD single with rare b-sides, Slayers "blood" filled CD case for the Seasons in the Abyss single (they only made 1000, and I had one... http://www.slaytanic.com/images/covers/bloodpack.jpg)