I rarely purchase or listen to CDs anymore. Currently every CD I purchased in high school that I didn't sell to Record Exchange for more beer money in college is tossed in a big rubbermaid container. And there's a lot. We've moved so I'm all about organizing and de-cluttering our life of stuff at the moment.

How do you store yours? I'm trying to avoid CD towers standing around as that would defeat my de-cluttering purpose. Do you use a fancy shelving system? Organized neatly in a closet or drawer? Or did you mark em all for $0.10 and sell at a yard sale?

The yard sale gal in me wants to sell em all...but then I stop and wonder if my CD collection is going to be like my dad's vinyl collection and coveted by my kids when I'm older.

8/26/2011 2:28:18 PM

Rip them all onto a hard drive and put them in the attic. Throw out the burnt CDs, sell the ones you regret buying and keep the others in a box

8/26/2011 2:36:56 PM

CDs are basically dead. They're not cool shelf items like LPs, and they aren't as small as an iPod. Unless you have something rare (which is unlikely if you're not a nerd), rip them and sell them while you still can still get a couple bucks each from a used store.

8/26/2011 2:39:35 PM

CDs are worth shit now and will be worth shit less in the future. You're kids aren't going to covet your Green Day and Third Eye Blind. Dispose of them post haste and save yourself the trouble. Physical media is a dinosaur.

8/26/2011 2:42:36 PM

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"Rip them all onto a hard drive and put them in the attic. Throw out the burnt CDs, sell the ones you regret buying and keep the others in a box"

That's what I've already done over the years. So they really are coasters in a box at the moment. I'll go back through em and pull the ones I absolutely can't part with and sell the rest per yours and other posters' suggestions.

thanks ya'll

8/26/2011 2:46:26 PM

^^^

[Edited on August 26, 2011 at 2:46 PM. Reason : ^^^]

8/26/2011 2:46:35 PM

Just make sure you rip them in a lossless format.

8/26/2011 8:17:14 PM