How many unopened Cd's do you have?

[prémont]

Well, Que, it is necessary to acquire the CDs while they are available, maybe even on sales, and listen to them when one gets the time. In the course of the recent years, I have persistently acquired more CDs than I have managed to listen to. 

[Que]

Well, Que, it is necessary to acquire the CDs while they are available, maybe even on sales, and listen to them when one gets the time. In the course of the recent years, I have persistently acquired more CDs than I have managed to listen to. 

Well, I can fully understand the "get it while you can" consideration! Especially in rare repertoire. And I also have also an issue with having sufficcient time to listen to all those goodies.

Full disclosure: with that new big Callas box and my recent jpc order I have something over a 100 CD's that are unlistened to.

Q

[prémont]

Full disclosure: with that new big Callas box and my recent jpc order I have something over a 100 CD's that are unlistened to.

Yes, the big boxes count heavily in the unlistened-to pile. F.x. the Haenssler Bach set. I have listened to all the instrumental CDs several times, but there are ca. 50 vocal CDs I have not heard yet. Even the lions share of the Harnoncourt-Leonhardt sacred cantata set is unlistened to so far.

[jwinter]

Yes, if I have to count stuff like the discs in the big Brilliant Mozart and Bach sets, I've probably got several hundred unheard discs myself.  They're pretty much all buried in box sets though, usually I get around to giving individual discs a test spin pretty quickly.  Sometimes I'll surprise myself -- I spent several hours one night wishing I had another version of Bach's cello suites to compare to the one I was listening to, poking around Amazon looking at alternatives etc., when all the time there was the big Bach set sitting on my shelf... 

[Lilas Pastia]

Well, Que, it is necessary to acquire the CDs while they are available, maybe even on sales, and listen to them when one gets the time. In the course of the recent years, I have persistently acquired more CDs than I have managed to listen to. 

Same here. I don't figure it's about collecting (unless I'm deluding myself, which is not to be excluded).

The world of recorded classical music has become one of shooting stars. There are two main considerations: first, you learn that stuff  you once never thought considering has become terra cognita and you love it. Second, when you 'consider' something only to see it gone forever the week after, you learn the lesson and start grabbing stuff like there's no tomorrow. Same with downloads. Who knows until when the links will be working?

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Second, when you 'consider' something only to see it gone forever the week after, you learn the lesson and start grabbing stuff like there's no tomorrow.

Yes, very true. I wish I'd learned this lesson much earlier in my classical collecting career. Back then the phrase "Out Of Print" meant nothing at all. And why worry? All the pop stuff stayed in print seemingly forever so who'd a thunk classical would be any different?

Sigh............

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Of course, one of the downsides to leaving all those CDs wrapped is the possibility one might come up defective. And if it's been something like six months or a year since purchase you're kinda out of luck for a return/exchange...

[Lilas Pastia]

Yup. You can never tell. If memory serves correctly, it happened only once though. I'm willing to take the chance if only to get hold of the coveted items. In my experience, the boxes sold at a special discount are likely to be gone fast. I suppose they print a given quantity and once they're sold out there's no second printing.

I had the 70 cd Callas box delivered to my mother-in law in Belgium because there was no shipping fee. 35 euros and that's it (222$ in the store here - roughly 145 euros  ). She's visiting us next September. I'm sure she'll curse and pester about the additional luggage weight  . Hopefully there won't be anything defective in THAT box 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Hopefully there won't be anything defective in THAT box 

We'll certainly be keeping our fingers crossed!

[Henritus]

I don't have any unopened CDs but the other day I found another unopened LP:




I must have bought it around 20 years ago. It wasn't with my other Mahler records and has been completely overlooked for 20 years. I didn't even know it existed.

Sarge

Imagine all those Brilliant Classics CDs you could've bought with that 1985 $17.50

[Henritus]

unopened - about 20, they were all bought cheap for this year's (and maybe years after) Christmas presents for mom and dad, and maybe my friends also.

I generally digest all the CDs I buy (about 20 a month) within days, except those two Shostakovich symphony box sets(Kondrashin-complete, and Mravinsky-eight symphonies) I bought a while ago. I used to be very passionate about Shostakovich, but I realize not any longer. Probably those will be left unplayed for quite some time.

To sidetrack a little more. Anybody had an experience of buying the same CD twice unaware of having one already? Mine was Previn's account of Prokofiev's Cinderella (the performance must have been really unimpressive) - it was really a weird feeling when found out what I did. Only time I had that feeling was when I found a book on the history of Japanese military school in my backpack which I must have bought while I was heavily drunk (one of those college days).

[Bogey]

None.

[vandermolen]

I probably have 6-12 unopened discs. Far worse than this is buying CDs and then finding that I already own them 

[Harry]

I am glad that there are no unopened discs in my collection. About 100 cd's to listen too, and will do that this year.
Due to a release crisis in the classical world of music, my purchases are almost dried up.

[George]

Do you have a pile of stuff that is unopened?

Allan

Yes, I do. But I am OK with it. I used to feel guilty or weird about it, but I prefer not to rush to listen to stuff that I am not in the mood to hear yet.   

Also, like others have said, stuff can go OOP at any time. Plus I like to take advantage of sales or great deals when they pop up. 

[ChamberNut]

I've never had the luxury of an unopened CD. 

[prémont]

I probably have 6-12 unopened discs. Far worse than this is buying CDs and then finding that I already own them 

Ooh, yes, this has happened half a dozen of times for me too. Fortunately recordings of which I did not regret the owning a "safety" copy.

[Coopmv]

Around 120 at this point.  The number climbs to 140 if I include those with their cellophane removed and yet remain unplayed ...

[Andante]

I have never had a CD that I did not listen to as soon as possible,  usually within 24 hrs. but I do have one or two that will not be heard by me again

[Solitary Wanderer]

I like having about half a dozen unopened discs on my shelves.

BUT, in addition to those I currently have no less than four upopened Wagner operas waiting for 'the right moment'. They've been sitting there for over one year.

Looking forward to discovering them