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So I've recently been using Half.com a lot to buy/sell video games, and I've started buying some music (CD's) from there, as well. I've got my own massive collection of CD's (probably 250 - 300 or so) just sitting around collecting dust as I've ripped everything digitally and just take my Zune with me everywhere.

But I've still got a minor "attachment" to all my tangible CD's. They've been a big part of my life (cheesy, I know). But they really are just sitting in binders (I threw out most of the jewel cases a few years back), and the binders are literally collecting dust. I know I won't get as much since I don't have the cases for them, anymore, but I figure most of these will sell for $1 tops, anyway. I'm mostly torn between having them all for nostalgia purposes, or maybe making about $300 and "growing up" a bit more.

So I pose the question as to whether any of you have experienced the same conundrum and how you approached "solving" it.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Don't sell. Keep them for nostalgia and in a worst case you can show your kids your CD collection like your father might have shown you his record collection. In a best case scenario CDs will become a hot collector item a few years down the line when they are harder to find like vinyl or 8 track sometimes are now.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

I wouldn't sell them either - just put them in storage and keep them for nostalgic purposes, like Cole said.

[BFG]

I went through my CDs almost a year ago and gave away the ones I hadn't listened to in years. The only difference is that I've kept the cases, so the ones I've kept can be displayed nicely. If you can't do that...you may ant o get ride of the media collecting dust.

One thing that I've done, and I hope more are doing as they realize they don't listen to CDs, is purchasing digital media.

I listen to music on my PC, iPhone, or on my iPod stereo in the bedroom. Jokes about me being a slave to Apple, I really think that between iTunes, the Zune marketplace, and Amazon there's enough ways to get music legally and without DRM.

[Sportsguy]

I agree with the "keep em" camp, if for no reason than if your laptop/PC dies, you have the cd's on hand to reload the hardrive on your new one.

[Deleted]

Yeah, I've decided to keep 'em, and mostly for the reason SG just said. I mean, I've got them all digitally "backed up" about 4 different ways, but there's just something to be said for still having the "source", too. Call me an old fuddy-duddy in that regard if you will.

Not to mention my wife made the excellent point that they're really not taking up much room at all (and she'd be the first to complain if they were) since I no longer have most of them in the cases.

And BFG, most of the music I actually buy now is of artists I already know I like, so I get the CD's when they come out. Usually comes out to being cheaper per song that way, and I have the "backup" CD, as well. And for the single songs out there I might like but would never even pay $1 for, I go to a place like this:
www.bomb-mp3.com/