Ditching My CD Collection
“They have built a business around selling plastic discs, and nobody wants plastic discs any more.”
- Trent Reznor
So last weekend I decided I had enough with my cd collection sitting around collecting dust. So I decided to remove my cds and inserts from their jewel cases, and store the cds in a binder, and all the inserts and digipaks in a box. All the cds that I didn’t have as digital media on my computer yet, I ripped to mp3.
After separating all the cds from their jewel cases I then put back together all the empty jewel cases and made a tower.
Finally all the inserts and digipaks in an old shoebox.
Definitely much better, and no longer do I have to deal with the pain of dusting every cd I own.
3 comments
That’s such a good idea! I’ve been trying to ditch my cd towers and their cases forever but think “what do I do with the inserts? I want to keep them!”
Maybe I will do this too, although it sounds like a ton of effort.
It did take a good couple hours to do. The majority of the time was spent ripping the cd’s to mp3, but that is something you can setup and do while doing other stuff like reading a book or watching TV. It is so worth it in the end though.
Good call – I did this when we moved from Kits. Took the cd tower, got rid of the plastic, and crammed the discs & liner notes into a cd booklet. Done and done.
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