POLL: How Many REAL (unburned) CD's Do You Own?

compuwiz1

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I've got about 350 cdr's plus another 100+ cdrw's. I bought out a closeout about a year ago. Too bad they are all 8x max speed. :(
 

Supermercado

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Probably between 60 and 80. All the stuff I really like, though, I've ripped into MP3s.
 

polypterus

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Jan 14, 2001
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Not many, a couple dozen maybe. But I have hundreds of cassettes (remember those?) from back in the day.

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djheater

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A more relevant survey would be of ownership/age/income.

I enjoy collecting things. I own several hundred CD's maybe 280-320 or somewhere in there. If a download a sufficient number of mp3's by an artist I will often end up buying an album.

<---posterboy for why file sharing is good for artist exposure
 

GooberPHX420

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thats cool, djheater. And this isnt any sort of OFFICIAL survey, just wondered how many cd's peeps own..
 

poopaskoopa

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Probably near 200s. Right now, I wish they were all CD-Rs(sorry, RIAA :(), because that'd mean I didn't pay $13 per fricking disc. But no, can't screw over Sarah McLachlan and Van Halen...
 

aphex

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300-400

Damn BMG sucked me in multiple times.
 

DaveSimmons

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Aug 12, 2001
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I lost count after 1,000 -- probably at leat 1,200 by now. I've been buying them since '85 (still buying about 5 a month) and I've had a decent enough salary for the last 8 years that I can buy pretty much as many as I can listen to.

I suspect that after you young whippersnappers :) graduate and start making a decent salary you'll be more willing to support the artists you like, instead of just taking their music off the p2p.
 

Freejack2

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For a moment I thought you mean blank cd's (which I have a thing for buying whenever there is a sale. I estimate I'll use all the blank cd's I have in about 50 years.)
As for real cd's, between my wife and I, I'd say a few hundred.
 

bunker

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I've got about 400. Then again, I started buying them about a year after they were first released, before mp3's *GASP*
 

Vadatajs

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<< Um...hehe...um...Let's just say I have a moral problem with buying music...:D >>



I bought most of my 200 cd's before the RIAA went insane (napster). I now have a moral problem with buying music too.
 

areohbe

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i'm pretty sure i have over 100 cd's. but of course i haven't bought too many since i got my first burner a few years back.