How many CDs do you own?

My own: 15-20

My only problem with CD as a medium is that they can easily get scratched, leading to the disc skipping, or that your PC won't recognise it when you're trying to rip it to Itunes. 

I own 10 cd's

...and about 400 vinyl's.
I find it ironic vinyl's endure the test of time so much better then cd's. I've got records from the sixties that still sound as if they were new, almost no-one has a cd of the beginning eighties that still works.

About 250 maybe. Some dreadful ones (ie teenage bad metal, boring indie etc) at my parents' house which I can't quite throw away for some reason, a bit like the equally grim goth and psychedelic clubbing gear I'll never wear but can't get rid of... In Liverpool I have about 100 and rising... I haven't counted but know that they are far outnumbered by my books.  

hundreds? I only have about ... perhaps 30 CDs, more or less. I just bought It's Hard and Second's Out for Christmas. With the Napster pay service included, It looks like I have something like 300 albums on my WMP, but the data is in a real mess and it could be far more or far less in strict practice. I'd have to manually sort all the data into distinct albums and such and count it to get a good read. In any case, a good deal of data is deleted from the WMP every so often and new data brought in from Napster, so really there is no major limits to the amount of music I can listen to at any one time. The only limit is whether the artist has a Napster page. For artists like King Crimson, this is not the case. I own a greatest hits from them. If its not on Napster, or if I really, really like it, I'll buy the album. Unfortunately ease of access has caused my musical tastes to evolve somewhat mainstreamish, my major investigations last year:

Talk Talk
Bob Dylan
Eric Clapton
Phil Collins Solo

You can see the progression from art rock to mainstream pop.

If I was buying CD's, I would have perhaps explored classical Prog more, but I admit to feeling a little hostile to the idea of modern prog, neo-prog and "foreign" prog. I'd rather explore old music that isn't prog then new music that supposedly is.

Kashmir75 wrote: My only problem with CD as a medium is that they can easily get scratched, leading to the disc skipping, or that your PC won't recognise it when you're trying to rip it to Itunes.  I've had to repurchase some of my collection, or burn replacement discs, because the aluminium layer has started to rot away, making playback impossible. I bought some of those plastic wallets to store my discs in, which may have caused the problem. The wallets were probably made of cheap plastic, not PVC, which probably oxidised the metal. So now I always keep my CDs in their cases and out of sunlight, etc.  Has this happened to anyone else? And which is more reliable and resistant to damage? Vinyl or CD?  Apart from their destructability, CDs are a great format. The sound quality is very clear.

My dad bought his copy of Dark Side of the Moon right when CDs started being released.  It still works and plays fine now, and the only storage method he's used has been keeping it in its case on a shelf the entire time.  

I used to keep mine in a CD wallet, but got out of the habit over the last few years.

I haven't counted yet, but I think ther are 500+ CDs for now..

I cant count them all - but over 400 CDs