How do you decide which albums to keep?

[JayKeeley]

Seriously, if you make a list of albums that you love, and you find that these make up only a small percentage of your entire collection, then why keep the rest (unless they are very rare collectors items)?

Give me logic.

:Spin:

 

[NAD]

Average albums have their time and place, and aren't worth getting rid of even if just once every two years you're in the mood for it.

 

[Caelum Adustum]

Excellent question, I probably have 2 90+ CD towers of CDs I don't even touch

 

[lizard]

to me its not completely rational. there are CDs I have a sentimental attachment to that I keep even though I almost never listen to them; then, there are CDs I've bought which just sucked so completely that I pull the liners and the cd and I have a shoebox full of that crap and I can reuse the cases. those CDs are obviously not in my regular shelving.

 

[NAD]

The streets shall flow with the blood of lizard's crappy CDs.

 

[lizard]

I'm going to carve them into shurikens and go on a bloody rampage of death.

 

[Under a Stone]

Sometimes i try to let records that i'm not too fond of grow on me but if that fails i'll just sell or trade it.

 

[NAD]

I'm going to carve them into shurikens and go on a bloody rampage of death.

You can join BWD when he throws those crappy 80s King Crimson albums at small children and the elderly.

 

[Hell Mike]

I keep everything

 

[lizard]

You can join BWD when he throws those crappy 80s King Crimson albums at small children and the elderly.

ha I may need them to battle the burgeoning immigrant population here in Columbus. ethnic cleansing shall commence at Oh-dark thirty!

 

[R.I.P.2]

I keep everything

Same, and I don't know why.

 

[Hell Mike]

Me neither, though I am willing to trade crap against good stuff, but not many are willing to trade good stuff against crap.

 

[Henrik Main]

I keep everything

Ditto. Larger collection = larger penis.

I only have about 200 records.

 

[unhinged]

You can join BWD when he throws those crappy 80s King Crimson albums at small children and the elderly.

throw them at me instead

I have a fair number of cds that really should be filtered out for swapping but for some reason I can't part with some of them

maybe I think they'll be great someday
I do find it hard to swap stuff that's been given to me by a band
I think thats rude, I usually just give that to someone who'll like it more

 

[NAD]

I sold a handful of CDs 9 years ago and bought them all back since because I missed them. I'm selling CDs for the first time since then, but made sure to only sell CDs that I know I can't stand, because I was unable to listen to them even once the whole way through. Hence why I'm keeping stuff like Himinbjorg, Harakiri, and new Sepultura because even though I don't like it all that much, I don't hate it and may want to pick it up later in life.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

I keep everything as well. I keep on meaning to trade off some of my shit albums for better ones, but yeah, too much effort. Who knows.... someday maybe I will feel the need to listen to In Flames - Reroute to Remain again..... only to turn it off in disgust 30 seconds minutes later

 

[Profanity]

I never get rid of any.

 

[Profanity]

I never get rid of any.

I don't buy albums which one day i'll want to get rid of.

 

[Ayeka]

You never know when you might want to dig something out or be in the mood for it. Some albums take ages to grow on you eventually. So I keep everything.

Dunno when I'll be in the mood to listen to Slipknot's second album or Kittie's debut again though

 

[Profanity]

I've got a load of Nu Metal CD's I want to get rid of though.