Okay, CD's you own but never play and don't want to sell:

For me it's a near complete run of Little Feat including a Japanese pressing of Lowell George's solo album. I bought all those titles because they were critically acclaimed, but I find that I never play them. I think I only remember one song, "Representing the Mambo". But I'm going to hang on to them, because I'm afraid I'll regret it if I sell them. Also, my taste might change. Who knows, I might warm to them eventually.

That's funny (for me). I was a huge Little Feat fan in vinyl days but with the exception of the box set some years back, I've resisted getting the CD titles. I became excited again when MOFI issued the first album a few months ago. Now, I'm on to re-collecting the Lowell George titles with the band and have everything except Last Record Album and Down on the Farm. Hang on to 'em Googa ... you never know!

All of them.

In particular, let's say Jamming With Edward, which I've never played all the way through, but must have to satisfy my Stones' completist obsession.

Sadly, MOST of the discs in my collection sit on shelves and in boxes and never find their way into my CD player. Still, I won't part with them. I know that, some day, I will again find the time and enthusiasm for sitting back in my easy chair, really listening to and enjoying music as much as I did when I was younger.

I bought a whole bunch of U2 albums through a Record Club for my then girlfriend.
I finally got them on a weekend when I was home from college. I opened one, and
dubbed a "live" version of a song she hadn't heard from them (she loved those guys
by the way; couldn't stop talking about them). I took the cassette tape (as she had no
CD player) back with me to college. She had her friend stop by on that Monday to
deliver me a "Dear John" letter, breaking off with me.

Nearly twenty years later, I still have the CDs, and still don't play them.
Rather sad, actually.

And thus began my first post in ICE.
Others may follow, but I'm not much of a music guy.

Actually, I have moved MOST of my music from my CDs to various hard drives on various
computers. So, I almost never play my CDs anymore, but I won't sell them either (and not
just for legal reasons). I treat them as the backups that they are, and I occasionally thumb
through the liner notes.

I keep a few albums in my car, since I have a six CD disc changer, and no audio
input in my car stereo.

Does anybody listen to The Cars anymore?

Sure, once in a blue moon. Only got the Greatest Hits, though.

Sure! Played "Panorama" almost all the way through the other day

I have their first Greatest Hits album (the one with "Tonight She Comes"). I'd like to listen to "Candy-O" and "Heartbeat City" again someday (I might still have my old vinyl copies packed away out in the garage) but just haven't gotten around to tracking down CD's. The first album was good too, but it seems to me I've seen several "deluxe" versions of it on the shelves over the years, and none of them ever enticed me into an impulse buy for some reason...Funny you should ask that question--I definitely recall that they had some pretty good album cuts that never made it onto the radio or on the best-of collection that I have.

I don't play "Sgt. Pepper's..." any more-haven't for 20 years or so.
I never liked it, but I gave it a spin now and then just to see if it kicked in.The few songs I liked I put on a Beatles tape I made.
I won't sell it in hopes that one day I may hear what many other people hear, but at this point I doubt it. Maybe the mono CD version will do it for me.

Hi Jimbo,
I have Jamming With Edward and I have played it through all the way a couple of times. LOL!

Renny will love this...

After picking up the expanded version of "Live At Leeds" back in 1995, I then stumbled across the deluxe version, which was a 12" re-creation of the original LP packaging containing all of the inserts and another copy of the expanded CD. I bought it, too, and 13 years later, the still-sealed CD is still in the packaging.

I do take the time to play just about every other one of my CD's at least once a year. I may not sit there and bring the rest of my life screeching to a halt so I may listen attentively as they play, but I do pop them in. However, I know that my collection is dwarfed by most everybody else in here.

I have too many CDs that I own but never play. Its kinda sick in a way. But its comforting to know if I ever get in the mood to hear The Fly's for instance, I'm covered.

We are collectors -

I have vinyl that I never play. I think the last time I put something on my turntable was 20 years ago. Many it's been 30 or more years ago. Jamming with Edward has to be at least 35 years.

I rarely listen to my cds more than a couple of times (except Zappa) - some I listen to for a week or so and pack them away again (Captain Beefheart/Alex Harvey/Little Feat/NRBQ)...a few I buy and never yet have opened (the last batch of Elvis Costello re-re-reissues of a few years ago). I used to buy lots and lots and lots...over the last three years - not much. I bet I only purchased around 20 - 25 cds last year (if that many)

but I would NEVER sell them

Thats the only good thing. I've slowed down to a crawl my CD purchasing now that CDs are a mature format.

It would take 3 lifetimes to listen to all the music I have in my house (many of it still wrapped in cellophane)

Several hundreds of CD singles, soundtracks, tribute discs and the like that I purchased for one or two songs each in order to maintain complete collections of everything ever recorded by a few dozen "pet artists." Once those songs are compiled, I never listen the original discs again. But I can't get rid of them, of course, in case a compilation happened to get damaged at the same time the hard drive failed that contains the backup copies. In 23+ years of owning them, I have broken a grand total of one CD, but you never know when that second one could be doomed...

I knew you were going to say that, even before I scrolled down the thread!



What Jon said.



Sure -- I like the Cars. I even made my own little "odds & ends" set of their handful of non-album tracks.

I've got a lot of my music on my MP3 player, so I don't need the CDs, but I like the idea of having them as a backup just in case.

As far as keeping certain discs because of their "collectibility," the ones I've got that immediately come to mind are the original first pressing Beatles Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 1 and 2 with the monochrome covers (the material on them is duplicated elsewhere), Beatles Anthology Vol. 1 with promo "stickers" printed on the disc - proof that these specific discs were original first pressings, and yes, dare I say it, Milli Vanilli.

You're psychic!

I would probably put my Smithereens 21 CD megaset on this list. My typical MO is to play my CDs at least once before putting them in my permanent collection but this thing is so voluminous, I'm not sure when I'll get all the way through it. That said, it is so rare (relatively speaking) I'll never part with it...

I picked up a lot of lounge/space-age-bachelor-pad type music when various labels were reissuing it in the mid-90's, including the Ultra-Lounge and Space Age Pop series and plenty of one-offs. I really enjoyed them at the time but I almost never play them now. I do most of my listening in the car these days, and the music isn't quite what I want to here when I'm driving. They're a bit too goofy to play at the office, and despite their "bachelor pad" origins they were never something I would play for a romantic evening in either my bachelor days or now that I'm married.

Still I hold onto them, convinced that I'm going to re-discover this music again some day.