philosophy of selling off CDs

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   So I have way more CDs than I
have space. I've been buying less and less over the years, and have had major
sell-offs a couple of times in my life (been fortunate not to have to move too
much). 

SO: does anyone have any
suggestions or philosophical approaches to deciding what to sell?

One thing I've heard is, if
it's a common CD like AC/DC or Aerosmith then just sell it off - you will be
able to buy it again later.

However, my musical tastes
are such that I am searching out stuff that is fairly obscure - one thing I am
searching for is intense musical passages that have that certain something, an
x factor if you will, magic manifesting in sound. An example would be the first
20 minutes or so of Miles Davis's Agharta, or the guitar solo build-up in "We've
got to live together" by Jimi Hendrix & the Band of Gypsies, or
"Last Night" by Jukka Tolonen, or the odd-meter solo section in the
middle of Steve Hillage's "Sun Song".

Of course, this conversation
is moot if you only collect mp3s/other non-hardcopy digital formats. I guess
I'm fairly old-school - I just prefer to listen to CDs than mp3s or YouTube. I
like to dig out a CD and listen to it - right now I'm listening to Gong's
Gazeuse - it has Pierre Moerlen jamming with Allan Holdsworth & Francis
Moze of Magma - there is no way I would get rid of this, I listen to it every
few years. On the other hand, I just pulled out my Ash Ra Tempel/Ash Ra
collection (1st album, Inventions for Electric Guitar, New Age of Earth,
Blackouts, Correlations), listened through some of it, and I think I'm going to
sell them off to Amoeba Music, so that A) I can get trade and get something
else, and B) so that someone else can experience this music and hopefully
connect with something in it.

OK, enough of my yackin' -
any thoughts?

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hieronymous Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 27 2012 Location: Oakland, CA Status: Offline Points: 308	Posted: January 28 2018 at 08:59
	So I have way more CDs than I have space. I've been buying less and less over the years, and have had major sell-offs a couple of times in my life (been fortunate not to have to move too much). SO: does anyone have any suggestions or philosophical approaches to deciding what to sell? One thing I've heard is, if it's a common CD like AC/DC or Aerosmith then just sell it off - you will be able to buy it again later. However, my musical tastes are such that I am searching out stuff that is fairly obscure - one thing I am searching for is intense musical passages that have that certain something, an x factor if you will, magic manifesting in sound. An example would be the first 20 minutes or so of Miles Davis's Agharta, or the guitar solo build-up in "We've got to live together" by Jimi Hendrix & the Band of Gypsies, or "Last Night" by Jukka Tolonen, or the odd-meter solo section in the middle of Steve Hillage's "Sun Song". Of course, this conversation is moot if you only collect mp3s/other non-hardcopy digital formats. I guess I'm fairly old-school - I just prefer to listen to CDs than mp3s or YouTube. I like to dig out a CD and listen to it - right now I'm listening to Gong's Gazeuse - it has Pierre Moerlen jamming with Allan Holdsworth & Francis Moze of Magma - there is no way I would get rid of this, I listen to it every few years. On the other hand, I just pulled out my Ash Ra Tempel/Ash Ra collection (1st album, Inventions for Electric Guitar, New Age of Earth, Blackouts, Correlations), listened through some of it, and I think I'm going to sell them off to Amoeba Music, so that A) I can get trade and get something else, and B) so that someone else can experience this music and hopefully connect with something in it. OK, enough of my yackin' - any thoughts?