Do you have too many CDs?

[Ataraxia]

Yes.

[The new erato]

Everything is relative. So yes - and no.

[Ataraxia]

Sorry, I meant yes, I have no space.

[Brian]

Sorry, I meant yes, I have no space.

Ditto. Living in a one-room has its drawbacks!

[71 dB]

This year I'll try to restrict the amount of classical music purchases. I feel I have so many classical CDs already. What's the point of buying more really? Replacing really bad performances with great ones is one reason. Exploring new interesting composers/works is another.

I don't know why, but classical music isn't entirely as important to me as it used to be when I "found it" some 15 years ago. Nowadays I find most classical music almost boring! Only a small portion (still a HUGE amount of music) of it all seems to be interesting to me anymore.

The most recent classical music CD I got December 18, 2012 was Carl Nielsen's chamber music volume 1 on Dacapo. Finally I got a performance of the amazing Wind Quintet, Op 43! This very fine disc cost me only 4,58 euros delivered (used, in good condition). After this purchase I haven't bought classical music. I have been buying old Doctor Who DVDs, Blu-rays of various movies, Tangerine Dreams' concert DVDs and Herbie Hancock's funk jazz albums from early 70's.

I don't care about the new Doctor Who series but the old ones (especially Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker eras) are insanely lovable! Ultra low budget, bold imagination and wild creativity makes these stories extremely entertaining. In Finland these old Doctor Who stories were NEVER shown until recently on a scifi pay channel were I discovered it few years ago. What a revelation!!!  My Doctor Who DVD collection take almost 2 meters of shelf space.

Tangerine Dream is the now five years old discovery of mine that changed my life as dramatically as Elgar did 15 years ago. My collection including Edgar Froese's solo works consists of 126 CDs and DVDs.

I am updating my DVD collection to Blu-ray. Fortunately Blu-rays aren't that expensive if you wait a little after the release date. I pay about 10 euros for them. Unfortunately most Blu-ray releases are the kind of movies I couldn't care less. I probably need to wait many many years before all the movies by my favorite director, Steven Spielberg, are available.

Herbie Hancock is a new discovery for me. He is really confusing musician! According to my exploring on Spotify Hancock seems to have made amazingly bad music after about 1975 but before that he seems to have made really interesting and good things. His funk jazz from early 70's is my kind of music. The hip hop/disco/vocoder stuff later on is just horrible. 

What's intresting to me right in the world of classical music? Not much really. I like keyboard music (organ, harpsichord and piano) nowadays...

[TheGSMoeller]

I would say yes, although if I had original hard copies of my MP3s then it would almost certainly double.
Several times this year I have purchased OOP discs that I already owned    I don't catalog mine, thought my mind was sharp enough, but poop on me.
Oh well, they make great gifts.

[petrarch]

Tangerine Dream is the now five years old discovery of mine that changed my life as dramatically as Elgar did 15 years ago. My collection including Edgar Froese's solo works consists of 126 CDs and DVDs.

I was a huge fan from the mid-80s all the way up to the late 90s. I lost count how many LPs and CDs I had. But I did have very nearly all of the music, including all solo works of each of the band members.

[mc ukrneal]

This year I'll try to restrict the amount of classical music purchases. I feel I have so many classical CDs already. What's the point of buying more really? Replacing really bad performances with great ones is one reason. Exploring new interesting composers/works is another.

I don't know why, but classical music isn't entirely as important to me as it used to be when I "found it" some 15 years ago. Nowadays I find most classical music almost boring! Only a small portion (still a HUGE amount of music) of it all seems to be interesting to me anymore.

The most recent classical music CD I got December 18, 2012 was Carl Nielsen's chamber music volume 1 on Dacapo. Finally I got a performance of the amazing Wind Quintet, Op 43! This very fine disc cost me only 4,58 euros delivered (used, in good condition). After this purchase I haven't bought classical music. I have been buying old Doctor Who DVDs, Blu-rays of various movies, Tangerine Dreams' concert DVDs and Herbie Hancock's funk jazz albums from early 70's.

I don't care about the new Doctor Who series but the old ones (especially Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker eras) are insanely lovable! Ultra low budget, bold imagination and wild creativity makes these stories extremely entertaining. In Finland these old Doctor Who stories were NEVER shown until recently on a scifi pay channel were I discovered it few years ago. What a revelation!!!  My Doctor Who DVD collection take almost 2 meters of shelf space.

Tangerine Dream is the now five years old discovery of mine that changed my life as dramatically as Elgar did 15 years ago. My collection including Edgar Froese's solo works consists of 126 CDs and DVDs.

I am updating my DVD collection to Blu-ray. Fortunately Blu-rays aren't that expensive if you wait a little after the release date. I pay about 10 euros for them. Unfortunately most Blu-ray releases are the kind of movies I couldn't care less. I probably need to wait many many years before all the movies by my favorite director, Steven Spielberg, are available.

Herbie Hancock is a new discovery for me. He is really confusing musician! According to my exploring on Spotify Hancock seems to have made amazingly bad music after about 1975 but before that he seems to have made really interesting and good things. His funk jazz from early 70's is my kind of music. The hip hop/disco/vocoder stuff later on is just horrible. 

What's intresting to me right in the world of classical music? Not much really. I like keyboard music (organ, harpsichord and piano) nowadays...

But this is normal. I once went about 6-7 years without buying a single classical cd. I listened to classical less for that period too. Eventually, I rediscovered it. This may or may not happen to you. As you change and events happen in your life, your thinking on music will evolve. You may go though cycles when you like a particular genre more or less than you did previously. Enjoy the journey!

[dyn]

to be honest, my CD collection is mostly inherited from various people (parents, etc), and represents less than a tenth of my total music collection, most of which exists only as 128kbps MP3s (or if i'm lucky, 320kbps MP3s) ripped from CDs i checked out from libraries, downloaded from the internet (AGP/ubuweb/online radio/etc), and otherwise acquired through whatever free and legal means exist.

i would say i do have too many CDs, but mostly because a lot of them are things i am not interested in listening to right now (blues, latin, opera) or duplicates of pieces i already know (generally, i don't need any more than one version of a piece, and don't understand the obsession with collecting and comparing every rendition of the brahms symphonies or whatever). at the same time, i don't have enough CDs of the genre i'm primarily interested in right now.

[71 dB]

I was a huge fan from the mid-80s all the way up to the late 90s. I lost count how many LPs and CDs I had. But I did have very nearly all of the music, including all solo works of each of the band members.

Have you followed them lately? They are still very active.

But this is normal. I once went about 6-7 years without buying a single classical cd. I listened to classical less for that period too. Eventually, I rediscovered it. This may or may not happen to you. As you change and events happen in your life, your thinking on music will evolve. You may go though cycles when you like a particular genre more or less than you did previously. Enjoy the journey!

6-7 years without buying a single classical cd?? Wow! 6-7 months would be hard for me. 

I have had these rediscoveries few times but never to such level to rival the initial discovery. I know this all is normal. Maybe I am beginning to undertand that apart from the first discovery I am one interested of tiny part(s) of all classical music at a time.

[jut1972]

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I don't care about the new Doctor Who series but the old ones (especially Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker eras) are insanely lovable! Ultra low budget, bold imagination and wild creativity makes these stories extremely entertaining. In Finland these old Doctor Who stories were NEVER shown until recently on a scifi pay channel were I discovered it few years ago. What a revelation!!!  My Doctor Who DVD collection take almost 2 meters of shelf space.

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Love this :-) our shelves would look very similar... I have almost every Who release on DVD and have kept all my old VHS too so have bookcases full of them! 

Do I have too many CDs? Yes.  I have hundreds I haven't listened to yet, and hundreds more that haven't had the attention they deserve.   As a kid I would play vinyl to death to the point it would be unplayable, now I play something, file it and move on.  Its not how it should be but I keep doing it!

[petrarch]

Have you followed them lately? They are still very active.

No, I haven't. Actually, my interest waned in the early 90s (not late 90s, as I stated before) when I realized what I most liked about them I already had (the 70s electronic stuff with Baumann and the more melodic Schmoelling era).

Maybe I am beginning to undertand that apart from the first discovery I am one interested of tiny part(s) of all classical music at a time.

I also have too many CDs, but at the same time I feel I wouldn't be able to part with any of them! There's still a whole lot to discover--I did a reasonably thorough survey of contemporary music in about 15 years, and then started another one with early music, which I have been doing now for almost a decade, and I don't see it ending anytime soon.

[71 dB]

Love this :-) our shelves would look very similar... I have almost every Who release on DVD and have kept all my old VHS too so have bookcases full of them! 

Who is your favorite Doctor and which ones are your favorite stories?

No, I haven't. Actually, my interest waned in the early 90s (not late 90s, as I stated before) when I realized what I most liked about them I already had (the 70s electronic stuff with Baumann and the more melodic Schmoelling era).

The new stuff 2005 onwards is quite good. You could try Booster 2CD compilations to sample TD's newer sound. There's allready 5 of them out so far but the first one would be nice place to start. From concert DVDs I recommend "The London Eye Concert 2008". Even Blu-ray of that is available.

I agree that the 90's was a weaker era for TD ("The Melrose years" maybe the weakest) but I like pretty much everything they have done. No need to be picky. 

[flyingdutchman]

Of course I have too many...so what's your point?

[springrite]

I asked Kimi if I have too many CDs. Kimi pointed at my shelf and said "Daddy you still have some room."

There!

[Mirror Image]

I asked Kimi if I have too many CDs. Kimi pointed at my shelf and said "Daddy you still have some room."

There!

[Sammy]

I asked Kimi if I have too many CDs. Kimi pointed at my shelf and said "Daddy you still have some room."

There!

Kimi is right-on; there's always more room for cd's.  Put another way, there's no such thing as too many cd's.

[Mirror Image]

You can never have too many CDs.

[71 dB]

Thrust & Headhunters ..

BIG favorites of mine back in the day & still today.

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My first Hancock was Man-Child, then Thrust. Now I have ordered Sextant and Headhunters will be bought in the near future.

[Christo]

You can never have too many CDs.

You can. I can't.