Help! I'm buying more CDs than I can listen to!

I really enjoy visiting the used CD shops to fill out my CD collection. But, I've gotten into the habit of buying so many albums that I fear I am not giving each one the time and attention needed to really enjoy and appreciate it. I was never like this in the past, but used CDs have become so inexpensive that I find myself buying them 5 or 10 at a time.

How do you deal with this? Any strategies you use to make sure you are appreciating all the great, affordable music you are adding to your collection?

 

Join the club

 

Buy low, listen high.

 

It's a good time to be a CD nutter!

 

Welcome to the club, indeed. I have about 15 CDs still sealed and waiting to be played. But it's nice knowing they're there and I'll get to them soon.

 

It is a problem. In fact it causes me to not be familiar enough with my collection that I can remember what song is on what album or even what artist does the song I am looking for. So, I have decided to whittle down my collection so I can intensely enjoy what I have rather than to flounder about trying to decide what to play. I have probably sold over 800 CDs in the last 5 years or so. I still have over 4500 left. I would like to get it down to about 3000. I think I can handle that. Back in the day, I could locate any song in an instant being very familiar with all 2000 or less CDs.

 

In the same boat myself, one of those problems you don't mind having really.

 

Set a limited of no more than 4 CDs a month. Spend one week each month with one of the four CDs and listen to the album several times and see which songs you like or don't like.

 

That's just crazy talk.

 

Same problem but even if there are a just a couple of gooduns out of 10 I'm happy. But one thing I do, if you rip everything to iTunes that is, is order things by date added then every so often scan the last couple of months of new acquisitions in case something's been totally forgotten.

 

I go through phases where I feel like I'm buying too much music too. There is a sort of ebb and flow to it though. Right now there are a lot of things coming out that I want, 6 months from now there might not be. Unless you're neglecting essentials for you or your family, I wouldn't worry about it. You'll eventually get around listening everything you're buying.

 

I'll take them off your hands for free, problem solved.

 

My strategy? I never buy used CDs and only buy full-priced new CDs. Usually imports.

I recommend it.

 

We are proud of you.

 

I'm mostly with you. I like to buy expensive OOP used CDs as well

 

I had gone through this same situation a year or two ago, I just got tired of buying a lot of music that in the end did not end up interesting.
Many cds waiting to be heard and bought to fill those empty spaces in my collection. Finally I gave up being a completist and decided to stop.

It was not only an economic problem for me but a personal one when I understood that I was becoming an accumulator of "things"

Now my purchases are highly selective and I enjoy much more what I already own.

Now I buy one or two cds a month, other times just nothing. It was a personal effort and honestly it does not affect me to take things now any other way

More quality and less quantity, it is my new aptitude in this regard

 

You should stop doing that.

Or keep doing that. I'm not sure if this is an actual problem or not.

 

Damn you, Esoteric Recordings reissues!

 

I have the same problem... In my case, i think my memories of the '90s kick in when i used to scan the racks looking at $18 CDs and $100 4-CD box sets, so when i see near-new CDs in the racks for $4 a throw 20 years later, some type of "hoarding" endorphin starts flowing through my brain.

 

It's the same as I do, but it's a double-edged sword. Can work to some extent, it is better to be more selective.

 

Join the club as has been said on this thread already.

Cds & vinyls have become my addiction for many a year. I don't care if I have no more space in my place of residence. I'm always looking for deals on cds, cd box sets, vinyl & vinyl box sets.

Addiction my dear sir. Most if not all here on Hoffman are infected with this physical media addiction.

 

I'm not a CD collector myself, but if your getting them cheap, what the hell!

 

Nice to have a backlog of "new things" to listen to even if they aren't really new.

 

Send them to me.

 

Welcome to the rodeo, cowboy.