So last week I said I would have theme weeks instead of one huge theme for the month because it mixes things up a bit, and I get a little more freedom on what I want to share with you good people. This week’s theme is “Other Stuff Chris Collects.” I will write about four other hobbies I have where I usually buy stuff for it. I thought I would start off today’s BaD with an article I read while still in bed earlier this morning before my alarm went off.
Best Buy To Stop Selling CDs
It’s sad to see retailers move away from physical media but they have to do what’s best for their bottom line and folks like me have the ability to take our business elsewhere especially now with online options like Amazon, or some music stores like Amoeba also offer online sales as well as being one of the biggest independent music stores around. Anyways for today’s BaD I want to talk about my love for the compact disc. Yep that plastic disc that comes in a crappy plastic jewel box with a little book and provided endless hours of entertainment…until you scratched it.
Growing up I’ve always been into music, and I got my first portable radio when I think I was in the 5th grade. My mom got me a skinny one that I could put in my pocket and my dad got me a bigger one that had a speaker. I drove them nuts asking for money for batteries. I didn’t get a CD player until my pops gave me his old boom box with a CD player on top. Only problem was I didn’t have any CDs. I think I saved up for a couple of weeks and my first CD was SWV’s It’s About Time, that I bought from Circuit City. I bought this album because of the single Weak, which is such a killer song. From then on I went to buying CDs full time with the exception of every so often I would buy a random cassette because it was cheap and I could make mix tapes with the singles from it.
When I went to college the first things I packed where my CD books (I had three at the time: two for albums, and one for singles) along with my Discman (I went through at least five or six of them) and that trusty boom box my pops gave me. I kind of moved away from the physical media when the file sharing craze hit and didn’t get back into buying CDs full time until years later.
Currently I have around 2600 CDs, I think maybe 200 of them are CD singles (I haven’t updated my list in months) and I dabbled in records but I don’t have the same love for them as I do the plastic discs with the crappy jewel cases. My 2000th CD was Passion Pit’s Kindred in 2015, and my most recent CD pickup was at Target for $10
Yep I finally got around to buying Metallica’s newest album. I have a digital copy that I will eventually replace once I rip this CD.
My current CD collection is mostly in books and about 50 of them are in a bag that I haven’t placed into books because well I ran of them and I haven’t gotten around to hitting up Amazon. I also have a couple that were packaged with DVDs or Blu-ray's so they live there, a couple that came with video games, and I have some that are sealed. One of my goals for 2018 was to back them up and the digital versions live here
They live there along with audiobooks, podcasts I want to keep, and any random audio files. So that is the story of my CD Collection. Tomorrow another random thing that Chris Collects!
That’s all for now, more tomorrow!
-Chris
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