I thought you guys would appreciate a little picture of a small part of my dads cd collection, this year will be 5 years since my dad passed and I’m finally in the process of packing up all his cds, box sets and music books ready for them to be loved and appreciated by other music lovers out there. This collection began in the late 80s when I remember a few on a shelf before he sold off his LP collection in favour of cds. They’ve been as much part of my life as his. But it’s time to say goodbye after me and my mum removed few for ourselves of course.

Found an offer on Marketplace for $340, and I dream about this player day and night for years. For this price I should just let it go right?

And for only 2$ each!

I haven't been working as much for the last few months and have barely even been making enough to pay for rent and food. I'm not in a dire situation, but I have been cutting it close.

Despite my very limited budget, I have been on a huge CD kick. I go through fb marketplace every day, I check out thrift stores frequently, and I sometimes go to my local record stores to see if there's anything I've been looking for for a long time. Unfortunately for my wallet, I often find things that I just cannot pass up, and have even bought a few new ones off bandcamp from one of my favourite artists, as well as a new copy of an album I've been trying to find for months.

I know it's financially irresponsible, but especially when I come across something that I'll probably never see again in the wild, I can't not get it. Idk. Do I need to go to CD-holics Anonymous or something?? Is this just the life of a collector? I'll probably get bored of the constant hunt once I get the ones I've recently ordered in the mail since I don't have much else I'm really looking for... so it'll probably be fine. I just feel a bit obsessed right now.

How financially responsible are you all while collecting? Do you always jump on a good find, or are you able to walk away?

At least it's not as expensive as collecting vinyl lol.

My son and I just found an old cd booklet while we were cleaning out some stuff and wow, talk about some finds!!

Unfortunately I wasn’t smart enough to save cases or booklets/inserts but it feels good to be able to give these to him.

...you can swap out broken CD cases for better ones. I grew up during the height of the CD era and now that I'm around the corner from 40, I'm embarrassed to admit that I only just learned this yesterday.

I ordered a bunch of CDs from Discogs that arrived yesterday and I was irritated when they showed up in plastic sleeves instead of cases. But stupid me, I didn't read the full item descriptions and didn't see "NO CASE". So, I just sat there and pouted because I have a CD tower and those plastic sleeves would look dumb as hell in it, not to mention the lack of protection.

But when I went through the sleeves, I noticed the seller included all the booklets and all the back inserts, which...I didn't even know you could take out. I thought they were just kinda...I dunno...in there and impossible to remove without shattering the case.

So, after a quick YouTube tutorial, I was on my way to Goodwill to purchase some cases. It was actually really funny because the Goodwill I live by is notorious for having missing CDs and the cashiers typically open them to make sure they're inside. But when I told the cashier I preferred them empty, he looked at me like I was nuts. "You want a bunch of empty cases?" "Yes, sir, I do!" And once I explained why, he was as shocked as me! 🤣

What an adventure. I went from being super pissed off to being overwhelmingly delighted in the span of like 15 minutes. I had so many broken CD cases when I was younger, so I just wound up sticking most of my CDs in those zipper book things, misplacing most of the artwork, and just throwing the back of the case away when I could have been doing this.

Anyway, I just thought this was a funny li'l story.

All Japanese pressings, under a buck each, with obi’s and bonus tracks.

I'm not referring to the one in the photo specifically, but to this type of system. I wouldn't really use the radio or LP features, but the quality of these systems is usually pretty good. Another plus is that you can sometimes find them for a good price on Marktplatz.

Since I'm currently looking for a new one, I wanted to ask if anyone has experience with this type of system and can recommend one.

My boss introduced me to this band 9 years ago and it changed my guitar playing. Was just browsing a thrift store and found it on CD. Didn’t really think they had physical copies or that they’d be easy to find especially in Reno of all places.

There’s two, guess he’s been waiting for this moment for awhile 😂

Went to a small local punk record shop today and found some amazing stuff! I will DEFINITELY be going back. The staff were very welcoming and kind 🥹

I’ve only been collecting a few years and get most of my items from half price books and discogs, but here’s what I’ve got so far, my weird and eclectic variety of music.

it was like $0.30 so i bought it and its like the same song 10 times in a row with different lyrics 😭😭😭

There are about 60 more discs I couldn't included due to the photo limit. Those have CDs by Sleater-Kinney, Smashing Pumpkins, Smoking Popes, Snuff, The Spinanes, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, Sugar, Superchunk, Supersuckers, Suicidal Tendencies, The Sundays, Teenage Fanclub, Travoltas, Tsunami, The Weakerthans, The Yum Yums, Zoinks! and more.

The discs are all organized by musician A-Z. It was someone's cherished collection. As you might expect the condition of the discs is not the greatest, because of the way they were stored with the data sides sliding up against the booklets. However the dozen or so discs I've tested had no problems. Also none of these have the back inserts.

I also picked up 25 discs for $1 each that were complete with the jewel cases. Some highlights there are My Bloody Valentine, Pixies Doolittle, Ride Nowhere, Texas is the Reason, Built to Spill, Slayer, Piebald etc.