Ok, I keep all my music on my computer or iPOD's now.  I've either sold or given away all of my CD Juke Boxes and I no longer have my nice stereo anyway.  So...
 
I've got boxes and boxes of CD's (in old printer paper boxes) sitting in storage which is costing me a lot.  Are there really any good reasons not to sell them to a used CD store?  I have no idea what you can get for them, but even $3 each would be over $4,000!
 
What do you guys think?
 
(And, if anyone has experience in this, I'd love to know the best method for selling them: In one big sale or one by one, etc.)

Collectors may be interested but, who buys CDs nowadays (aside me and I'm not a collector)? And I still have my "NAD" HiFi stereo with the truly amazing "Mission" speakers (over 20 years old).

I actually just found three places nearby that pay between $0.05 and $4.00 per CD (obviously based on quality and whether they already have a couple of hundred of a title).  Since all of mine look like they were just bought new, I only have to deal with the second part.  Still better than shelling out money each month to keep them in storage...

Chances are that it will never come up, but I thought I read where having a copy on your hard drive is "fair use" if you own the CD.  If you don't have the physical copy and the RiAA lawyers find you it's considered piracy since you can't prove that you bought it.  

If you re-sell/give away the orriginal CD then you're required to delete/distroy any copies you may have made.

I'm going through a similar dilemma...planning a whole bunch of new shelving in my living room, and I'm working out how much I need, and I see my CD collection and think "aw, do I have to figure in room for those?"

Same goes for my DVD's - 99% of them I have watched once and never watched them again. Why am I keeping them? As some kind of trophy to commemorate things I have watched?

And then there's the books...I was always brought up never to get rid of books, but why do we keep books that we're never going to read again? There's a bunch of Carl Hiaasen novels that I really enjoyed but I will never read them again. And my God, all of those outdated computer manuals. Outlook 2007. A guide to Excel VBA programming for a project I never actually started. Macromedia Fireworks MX....my, these should have been thrown out years ago!

Heh...  I used to have two 3' x 7' bookcases full of computer manuals (including one just for the ENTIRE set of DEC VAX/VMS manuals).  Got rid of almost all of those when I had to move out of my house.

well, it can happen same as with vinyls, they may become classics and hard to find hence expensive in few years.
On the other hand CD players slowly going away so...who knows. I personally prefer to have a record with 
box and color cover then just mp3 folder... 
Would you like to have a virtual girlfriend you cannot touch or open? I don't think so...

Old55


Chances are that it will never come up, but I thought I read where having a copy on your hard drive is "fair use" if you own the CD. If you don't have the physical copy and the RiAA lawyers find you it's considered piracy since you can't prove that you bought it.


Karyn


If you re-sell/give away the orriginal CD then you're required to delete/distroy any copies you may have made.

Those were the concerns I used to have which is why the CD's are still taking up so much space in my storage unit.  I no longer care about this aspect (having over $650k of your hard-earned money stolen because you were the only one playing by the rules can have that effect on you).  The RiAA lawyers are primarily concerned with movies now and even there they are being stonewalled.  That said, I probably could prove that I paid for the music anyway if it ever really came down to it...  The main thing for me is that I KNOW I did pay for them and that's enough.
 
I'm mainly wondering if I'll ever end up with some huge jukebox for fun to put them in.  I used to have three Sony 400 disc jukeboxes, two 300's and a 200 (plus other 200's that I gave to my parents or to friends).  I had two remotes that could each control three of the jukeboxes daisy chained together.  Unbelievably clunky (and heavy!).  I can't believe how much better having them on the PC is (especially now that Chaos Choir has turned me on to MediaMonkey - iTunes is history!).

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Would you like to have a virtual girlfriend you cannot touch or open? I don't think so...

So you're saying I have to sell her too?  Damn...