We haven't bought a new CD since 2007 ( possibly because my mom hasn't had so much time for listening to music anymore ), and of course the post-CD-player lifestyle has made CDs a sorta non-option (with such a big collection). but guys, I found some insane gems in the 'rents CD box; some of the best stuff I've heard in a LONG time. why aint anybody tell me?

I burned my vast CDs collection to MP3.
 
My kids refer to it as "the hardrive."  My daughter and all her friends now are big XTC, Clash, Squeeze, Ramones, Pixies, etc.  fans.  I could not be prouder.
 
I am curious, what insane Gems did you find?

 
And lol, I was asking myself why I didn't mention any in the first post. My parents were never fans of rock on any level so there's pretty much none of that! But I did find a lot of really good swing like Kings of Swing, Sinatra, got a Glenn Miller, got a Coltrane CD, a (Christmas) Manhattan Transfer album, among a lot o' others. 
 
i like my jazz.

forgot to mention a vast collection of classical, baroque, and some great march composers. plus a couple flute virtuosi

I think the last CD's I bought were at least 6 or 7 years ago. At the time I was buying a lot of the Naxos classical guitar discs. They were great value for money and featured some stunning music, very well recorded too. I ended up burning them to MP3's. Recently I decided to sample one of them for a fun track I was playing with, and was amazed at how annoying it seemed to have to get it down off the shelf, open the CD draw of my tower and put it on the platter. I almost gave up halfway through.

haha, sharke, that may've been what got me! We have these two big red bins full of cased discs. I ended up burning about half of the ones I picked out to mp3 and putting them on my iPod anyway. Still got another half-stack to go through (about 15-20 discs), but it's already been worth it for me!

davdud101
We haven't bought a new CD since 2007 ( possibly because my mom hasn't had so much time for listening to music anymore ), and of course the post-CD-player lifestyle has made CDs a sorta non-option (with such a big collection). but guys, I found some insane gems in the 'rents CD box; some of the best stuff I've heard in a LONG time. why aint anybody tell me?

ROFL .... I'm still getting rid of the LP's ... even Craig doesn't want to see it and remind himself of all the insane poop in them vinyl frisbees!
 
Just this week got about 20 CD's, and about 12 LP's are now gone!
 
I do have quite a few of these MP3's, but the doing so from a LP is a headache and I gave up! Love the turntable, though!

jazz and classical, my kids have not gone to those yet.
 
exhibiting signs of good and varied taste 

I'm not that big a fan of MP3's.  I found a player that I can load WAV files on and put them on a 32G SD card.  Thee's plenty of room on it and I cog an unexpected benefit in that I just copy the files--no conversion needed. 

I make a point of grabbing one or two CDs every week when we drop by at WalMart or when I order stuff from Amazon. Everything is ripped to .wav and imported into iTunes.
 
It's been 10 years since I got rid of my last CD player. Everything goes through the computer. My home studio is also my "man cave", so I listen to music in this room mainly, though I do keep music on my iPhone which I use with a speaker/dock downstairs (which has also become one of my go-to places to check mixes).
 
My interest for the physical medium died in the transition from vinyl to cd, but I still like to have the best possible audio quality.