What Should I Do with 500 CDs?
posted at 8:33 am
on Mar. 27, 2006
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In amongst the shipment of things that came up from Los Angeles, is our entire CD collection. There’s about 500 CDs in it.
But we don’t listen to CDs anymore, and in the past 18 months, we haven’t missed them a bit. We don’t listen to CDs in the car, not on the home stereo, nowhere. Our whole collection is digitized, and at 192 kbps or better, and I’ve made backups of the whole thing. So I don’t think we’ll need to re-rip anything ever, either.
At this point, I’m considering what to do with the collection. I’ve come up with the following five possibilities:
1) Sell everything to a used CD store. Pros: money. Cons: Boring
2) Donate the CDs for a tax writeoff. Pros: money (more than 1? Hmmm.) Cons: What do starving single-mom cancer patients need with CDs? Also, boring*boring.
3) Have a big party, give away the CDs to everyone who attends. Pro: See friends! Have fun! Cons: Do we want people to know how much Depeche Mode we purchased?
4) Keep some CDs in the car at all times. Every time I drive somewhere, hand CDs out to pedestrians who get close to the car. Pros: Make someone’s day. Cons: Is this really the best use of my time/money? If I hand someone a Wham! CD, will they be offended?
5) Keep all the CDs in my garage so that I can legally continue to have the MP3 files on my hard drive for when the RIAA comes kicking down my door. (Yes, I know the CRIA should be the ones to kick down my door, but they’re a little more level-headed, whereas I can totally imagine the RIAA coming across the border to get me.) Pros: Can’t be used against me by political opponents like the previous 4 options. Cons: Boring^boring.
So, what do you think? What should we do with our CD collection?
