I have friends who have sold off their entire album collection in order to extricate themselves from the weighty, unweildly burden of CDs. What recessive gene do they have that allows them to be blind to the difference between digital music and the experience of sitting with a CD for the first time? For me, I love the various textures of CD paper, the smell of ink, the unfolding of the booklet, and the whole ritual of having a new music experience. I can't imagine giving that up for something as intangible as digital music.
However, the 47 trillion pounds of useless plastic that's sitting in my basement is starting to wear thin. To compromise, I've decided to downsize to a disc/cover art archive system. Does anyone reading this have any suggestions to help save my organizational sanity? Ideally, I want to keep the disc, the cover, AND the back insert intact. Of course, I don't have a clue as to what to do with the digipaks...stupid trendy cool packaging!...but getting rid of the plastic would be a huge step in the right direction.
And as a last note: With record stores shutting shop, there is a pit in my stomach that's the size of an elephant's toenail. Yes. An elephant's toenail.
Poor, T. I went through the same thing. I still buy physical CDs (how else would I have gotten a whiff of that wonderful, infamous, odor covering the Dresden Dolls' "Yes, Virgina" CD?).
My family is still trying to figure out a way. We have a music sever. It's an external hard drive full of every CD we collectively own. This totals a few thousand. Cassette's are next. Then vinyls.
That's all I can offer you.
Love,
Chelly
xoxo
Posted by: Chelly | on January 13, 2007 07:18 AM