CDs we lost or was stolen…which ones do you wish you still had?

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LTParis@reddit

I had a janet. double CD with the full Rolling Stones cover that I was fortunate enough to get a backstage pass and got to meet her. She signed my CD which apparently was not too common with her.

Not too long after it was stolen. I kept my eye on eBay for a long time but never saw it ever come up for sale.

That one hurts not to have.

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XopherVT@reddit

I had a CD of in studio performances from a local radio station.

Julie knows EXACTLY which one I’m talking about.

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perhaps_too_emphatic@reddit

I don’t think I’ve had any CDs stolen. My entire comic book collection, yes, so I feel y’all’s pain.

I did buy a CD player though. Just this year, I read a wirecutter article and bought the thing and the kids have been listening to our old CDs. I’m gonna get more. For any of you that still have discs, I strongly encourage you to get them out and play them.

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RockTheGlobe@reddit

Saturday Morning Cartoons. Covers of popular ‘70s and ‘80s cartoon theme songs by ‘90s grunge bands.

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Olbap55@reddit

I want this. I will but it on the black market from whoever stole it from you.

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RockTheGlobe@reddit

Full tracklist and info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Morning:_Cartoons'_Greatest_Hits

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squarebody8675@reddit

I had a Grateful Dead bootleg that had a version of dark star that I’ve never heard since 😢. I’ll never hear it again

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bruce-neon@reddit

You know most every known show is up on archive.org ? Do remember the city or year?

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squarebody8675@reddit

Nope

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bruce-neon@reddit

Bummer, I guess you’ll just have to listen to every dark star until you find it. Safe travels.

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classicsat@reddit

A good part of my cassette tape collection has disappeared.

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where_are_the_aliens@reddit

I kept most of my CD's, besides the ones stolen out of my cars in the CD books, which I either replaced with burned ones or re-bought. Kings X, all my Metallica CD's, Rush, lesser known artsts, tons of guitar stuff, Blues Saraceno, Satriani, etc...all stolen, multiple times.

The past 5 years or so I've been reacquiring old CDs, buying vinyls and also replacing my old cassette collection I got rid of. I'm more nostalgic about cassette because of the mechanical nature of them, they were kind of fragile and I loved those huge fold out inserts, plus some had this cool smell. I realize, like vinyl, I like "sides" of an album. Cd's kind of ended that.

Most smaller bands and artists I was into make almost 0 dollars with streaming and touring can mean your lucky to break even, many times you're paying to tour even if they can sell merch.

Digital to me, is like radio of old. I find new artists, but then I like to but the stuff from the artist. Physical things. Entering a "rent everything" world kind of sucks to me. No thanks.

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IceExile@reddit

do u have something to play cassettes on? The tactile element of old music is great..The feel of the paper, how the inlay might slightly come apart at the perforations... vinyl album covers can be sublime...

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where_are_the_aliens@reddit

I bought a refurbed cassette player a few years ago, plugged into my powered speakers.

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j4ckofalltr4des@reddit

I had over 1500 records, CDs, tapes, and cassettes back in the early 90s. I went out of town for work for 2 weeks and came back to my apartment door wide open, damn near everything I owned, including pots, dishes, utensiles, and clothes were gone.

I called the cops immediatly but the damage was done. My entire collection was gone. During the investigation they found out someone broke in a few days after I left and then people randomly just pilfered things in the remaining days. I was young and didn't know renters insurance existed so, that was that.

I never went back to physical media again. Between Napster, various pirate platforms, and torrents, I rebuilt everything digitally and backed it all up remotely.

Now I BUY my digital music but between the 50,000 mp3, flac, and wav files, as well as streaming services, I do not miss physical media at all.

These days I have a dedicated computer I use as a "server", music files on a NAS device, Plex server, and Wiim devices attached to my audio systems. I can listen to my own collection and playlists in the main living area, the deck, the garage, even from the car, or anywhere I am in the world so long as I have an internet connection through the use of PlexAmp on my phone.

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umbathri@reddit

Was still living in a party pad with friends after college. Had a small stack stolen out of my room during a house party. Metallica, Tool, Korn, Sublime. The whole rest of that group was into rap and mariachi, so they were most likely totally wasted on whoever it was. I replaced some of them but one, Lords of Acid, the replacement was censored and edited. Could not listen to it anymore that way and I just didn't like them enough to buy the fucking thing a third time!

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restingbitchface2021@reddit

Marry Me Jane - I don’t think they were super popular but I loved that CD.

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bruce-neon@reddit

Not a CD, but I had a promo cassette of Independent Worm Saloon by Butthole Surfers that I got about a month before it came out. Lost that somewhere along the way.

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Waffuru@reddit

I had a Duran Duran cd that I got from a radio station for correctly answering a question. I miss that cd a lot. I also lost a handful of anime soundtracks that I haven't been able to replace. My entire cd collection was in a cd book that got stolen in a move, still a little sad when I think about that.

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CanadianBertRaccoon@reddit

I bought Reign In Blood 4 or 5 times over the years.

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Brixmis51@reddit

I lent my slayer and Metallica 12" singles and EPs to a "mate" at college back in 1992. Never saw him again, the swine.

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x86_64_@reddit

Restock that collection for cheap with eBay or thrift stores.

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PlaneTurbulent4825@reddit

I have so many cd's... pre 2000? probably that are just sitting in those cd album book thing cause I got rid of the cases. I dont know what to do with them! I even have alot of the cd inserts. Looking for something? Lmk!

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SpecialStrain5329@reddit

Every single one of my CDs was binned by my sister when I left to travel. Still gutted

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ticktockyoudontstop@reddit

Some dickhead called Mike stole a NIN bootleg from me at WVU in 1992. Fuck you, Mike!

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sunseven3@reddit

My UK Thrash Metal Assault album. I still have not forgotten nor forgiven the girl who stole it. She was the best.

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SadCheesecake2539@reddit

My Eagles collection. Every single album up to Hell Freezes Over. Gone like a fart in the wind. And most of my Boston. Also Dr. Dre The Chronic. Fortunately, all replaceable.

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Guyute-Harpua@reddit

Lost my whole Grateful Dead bootleg+ collection fugging twice.

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Upbeat-Refuse9615@reddit

Journey - Dream After Dream (cassette). Soundtrack for a 1980 Japanese film. An original is quasi-rare ...might be worth a few bucks now.

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Obwyn@reddit

None. I ditched my entire collection 20+ years ago and I'm glad to not be hauling those around everywhere still.

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No-World-2728@reddit

Too bad you have mp3s which are utter garbage. I regret selling about 1/3 of my CD collection about 12 years ago without making sure I had ripped them lossless first.

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Obwyn@reddit

They're good enough for me. I'm not some sort of audiophile who cares about whether or not mp3's are "garbage" or not.

I'm not listening to anything on any sort of fancy stereo, speakers, etc. It's mostly through my standard car speakers or bluetooth earbuds. I doubt any difference in quality of the source file would even be noticeable unless you're really paying attention for it.

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No-World-2728@reddit

It's quite noticeable. Also mp3s will mess with your hearing ... look it up.

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Obwyn@reddit

I'll take you're word for it, but quite frankly I don't care all that much and most of my music listening is off of streaming now anyway.

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Oxjrnine@reddit

The soundtrack to Hackers

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Ilovetocookstuff@reddit

Other than memories and nostalgia, I don't miss them one bit. I remember as a kid shelling out 13-15 bucks for a CD at Tower Records in 1990 (equiv to $30++ now). All of my CDs went to Goodwill except for a handful. They are in a moving box in my attic somewhere... from when I moved 15 years ago! ;-)

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JJQuantum@reddit

I was at a Tom Petty show when I heard Sweet William for the first time. The song kicks ass. At the time it was only available on foreign release as a single but I was able to track down a copy. I ended up loaning it to someone and never got it back. There’s a live version that was released afterward that you can stream now. Love that song.

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DeFiClark@reddit

Had two milk crates of albums and one of tapes stolen when I was in college when I let a friend use my room and she left it unlocked when she showered.

The one thing I have never been able to replace was a Joy Division bootleg from a Manchester soundboard tape, that had a cover of Pale Blue Eyes.

Been looking for 30+ years, closest I came was a correspondence in the 2000s with a guy in Amsterdam who had lost the same tape.

The Jimi Hendrix and Specials live in Denver bootlegs I lost at the same time I ran into the guy I got them from and he made me a new copy years later

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CanadianExiled@reddit

My ex father in-law decided that he was going to start being a wedding DJ at 70. He only had music from the 40's to the late 60's so my ex told her father to just "borrow" from my collection. The man came over while I was at work and literally took every CD I owned. Wish I still had my Beastie Boys CDs.

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TheLawOfDuh@reddit

Rolling Stones Flashpoint with the 2nd cd of rarities. Left it at a gf’s that I left in haste when I knew she was a no-go (after a fight where I thought my head would explode). 100% right decision but yeah I miss the cd

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Patient-Cap-4004@reddit

Pfft... whenever I'm trying to look for something under the car seat, I keep finding this big band jazzy CD case from a regrettable bad Starbucks era purchase. If I'd remember to toss that in the garbage, it will be my last symbol of pre-digital music.

I've always admired the organizational approach that collectors of CDs and LPs seem to possess that I woefully lack.

But after years of vinyl forever separated from their covers, broken bits of cassette and CD the bottoms of my feet, the digital age of music was my salvation.

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mixmastakooz@reddit

To be a bit pedantic, CDs are digital media since they’re encoded with 1’s and 0’s. But I get what you’re saying.

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happycj@reddit

Acid Rain.

They were like a prog/metal/funk/experimental band of UC Berkeley students who played a lot around the Bay Area in the mid/late 1980s and maybe into the early 90s.

I loved their music, and have never found any evidence they ever existed.

And … now that I think about it, this was probably a cassette tape.

I have probably a dozen bands I saw play small shows back in the day, I’d buy their tape/cd, and eventually it would get lost or damaged. And they just don’t exist online, because they were from The Before Times.

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_TallOldOne_@reddit

Same experience although I was more South Bay/SF than over there on the East Bay. Although I did see some great fuckin bands over there too. I picked so many cassettes from local or unknown touring acts…I wore most of those cassettes out!

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happycj@reddit

I remember seeing the Ramones with RHCP opening for them at … San Jose State, I think? In a like community center room, or something?

Most of the shows I went to were in SF or the East Bay, because I mostly lived in the Haight back then.

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International-Ant174@reddit

It was the local bands that never became a big "thing". CDs bought at local shows which weren't backed by big labels that can't be replaced. That's the ones which piss me off - probably meant nothing to the sticky fingered meatbag, but were a part of my 20's gone forever.

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reddit455@reddit

i had a copy of this album with cop killer on it. later releases removed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Count_(band)#Controversy_over_the_song_Cop_Killer_(1992)

Over the next month, controversy against the band grew. Vice President Dan Quayle branded "Cop Killer" as being "obscene", and President George H.W. Bush publicly denounced any record company that would release such a product.^([17]) At a Time-Warner shareholders' meeting, actor Charlton Heston stood and read lyrics from the song "KKK Bitch" to an astonished audience and demanded that the company take action

The criticism escalated to the point where death threats were sent to Time-Warner executives, and shareholders threatened to pull out of the company. Finally, Ice-T decided to remove "Cop Killer" from the album of his own volition

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IceExile@reddit

"S Ain't Like That.... It's Real ×××××× Up"

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highlandre@reddit

I too have this one. Bought it from our local Pharmor.

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omhound@reddit

I still have my original.

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boringlesbian@reddit

I had my whole cd collection stolen in 2006. It was in a case in the car my future wife had which was stolen and stripped.

I ended up purchasing the digital versions of most of them then years later many of my digital copies disappeared from my Apple Music account. That pissed me so much.

I’ve slowly started re-purchasing them in physical format, either LP or CD, for the last couple of years.

Some are super hard to find and when I can find them, they are WAY too expensive for me to buy. Like the band from Houston called The Judy’s. I had their albums burned onto CDs.

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Aggravating_Cable_32@reddit

I had the same thing happen; my entire road-trip collection was stolen, and then everything I had copied to my ipod vanished after updating itunes one time. Thousands of tracks, hundreds of albums. After emails with customer service and tech support, I found out that the iTunes update deleted everything not purchased through iTunes. That was the last time I used any Apple product.

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IceExile@reddit

very interesting anti-apple trivia... wow.. yikes.

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Revolutionary_Tale_1@reddit

Actually bought an Onkyo receiver and CD changer a couple years ago. Audiotecnica record player, too. Inherited my dad's Sony tape deck when he died. All told, have about 900 titles between records, tapes, and CDs. Been collecting since I was in HS and never experienced a major loss.

There's a pretty decent record shop near my house, so they get most of my music-purchasing money nowadays.

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MiccioC@reddit

I lent my best friend from college my Weezer “Blue Album” and MC Serch’s solo album our junior year. I totally forgot. Then when he was moving for a business opportunity, he shows up at my parents house to drop them off. Crazy.

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bippy404@reddit

Like a big giant idiot I got rid of all my CDs and I’m now regretting it.

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SillyWithTheHEMI@reddit

Onyx's first album, Bacdafucup. Left it in my car after it was totaled in a car crash. I stream now but wish I still had it. Same disc from childhood when the album first came out🫡

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BluelineBadger@reddit

Still have that. We’d play it in my dorm any time we wanted to make my roommate disappear. 🤣

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SillyWithTheHEMI@reddit

😄😄 I was an 8th grader when it came out and ended up buying the CD months later. Good memories and great album. I still have the first four Cypress albums on CD from my childhood also.

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1QkIDoc@reddit

I had an early issue of Sublime’s 40oz to Freedom that had an extra song that my replacement doesn’t have.

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National_Mood_6715@reddit

I have repurchased Son Volt "Trace" twice and Seven Mary Three "American Standard" once. and didn't regret it. To me it's an honor when someone steals your music or books.

That said, I still have all of mine. Over 400 CDs, 350 records and about 100 cassettes.

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whippy_grep@reddit

Oh shoot, I’ll need to dig through a closet to see if I still have my copies. I know I made a cassette (lol) copy of “Trace” because it’s in my office at work.

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Soylent_Milk2021@reddit

I’ve lucked out and never had my collection tampered with. I’ve pared it down willingly a few times, and then regretted not having those discs in my collection anymore, so I stopped selling them. Yes, I still buy CDs, and then rip into my computer. Some of the old school punk discs I want again are out of print, and people on eBay or other sites want an arm and a leg for them. Luckily, if someone is selling something obscure, I can bargain them down by asking if they’d rather an old punk enjoy the disc, or let it keep gathering dust while they wait to sell it. It opens the dialogue and what was a $50 Nomeansno disc becomes a $20 disc, which is still way more than I paid originally, but when you need the tunes, you need the tunes.

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whippy_grep@reddit

A bunch of CDs by Uncle Tupelo and Man or Astro-man?. I loaned them to a cousin back in the 90s, never to be seen again.

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bigmedallas@reddit

There is a common the best of New order with the blue ink blob on the cover, I had and lost the less common "the rest of New order" with the magenta blob

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CheetahNo9349@reddit

I actually most miss "mixtape" CDs that I burned in the 00's/10's. Mostly just due to missing that time/the people who were around.

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Jolly-Guard3741@reddit

I’ve had two CD collections stolen. The first one I built during my senior year in HS and the first three years in the U.S. Navy. It was about 80 CD’s and was taken by a former GF and “fortunately” failed spousal candidate in 1992.

The 2nd I built between 1993 and 2006 and contained 110 discs. It was taken out of my vehicle at work one day after I accidentally left it in sight in the company parking lot.

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Inevitable-Box-2878@reddit

Original RCA David Bowie CDs.

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NightMgr@reddit

When we moved to the coast I ripped all my cds and left them at mom’s house.

Cleaning out her place I just picked up all of them.

And my old albums and theirs, too.

Gonna have to buy a turntable!!

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Obwyn@reddit

You should buy 2 turntables and maybe a microphone.

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NightMgr@reddit

I do have butane in the blood.

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CowboyNeale@reddit

I survived a total loss house fire five years ago. 800 CDs and 1400 plus records did not.

I don’t even know where to begin. A friend brought me a couple vinyl records not long after but it hadn’t occurred to them I had no stereo to play them on. That stung. I haven’t replaced any of it.

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Feminist_Hugh_Hefner@reddit

fuck...

I lost all my shit in a fire in 95... it gets better but it never goes away. Peace brother.

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Prestigious_Ad_1037@reddit

All of my CDs are sitting in boxes and have been that way after nearly 2 decades of job relos across the US. Looking like it’s going to be the kids’ “inheritance” … their version of a china set. The only worthwhile ones are the those that my Dad played on 🥰

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Anthropic_me@reddit

Its sad how convenience has replaced quality. Nothing matches the sound quality of what CDs produced. Lost everything in Katrina and Rita. Been thinking about ebaying to replace what was list but not sure if I want to follow that rabbit hole.

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captaindomer@reddit

Violent Femmes, Doors movie soundtrack, bootleg Samhain and Misfits albums.

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mistlet0ad@reddit

Beastie Boys, Jackyl – Jackyl, 80's Monster Ballads collection, and one that I burned myself (mostly 80-90's country stuff).

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Agent7619@reddit

Queen Greatest Hits - original edition.

The later releases have a slightly different song lineup.

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Cold-Truck2470@reddit

I still got tapes and a tape player with radio.

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zen_cricket@reddit

Some of the techno CDs I bought while in Germany in 92. Never have been able to find them on Discogs to try to get my hands on ithem again, along with some early house music (especially the one that sampled Snagglepuss famous “heavens to Murgatroyd!” followed by a cartoon cannon boom) but those were albums.

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F-Cloud@reddit

I had a wonderful collection of around 100 classical and baroque music on CD that was lost. I built the collection in the 1980s, most titles carefully selected after reading reviews in audiophile magazines. An ill-fated move to another city and a friend failing to pay rent on a storage unit saw that collection disappear forever. I'd do anything to have it back.

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ljinbs@reddit

My car saves CDs to memory so I still play a lot of mine. I miss more my cassettes that I had from ‘80-85.

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Brownie-0109@reddit

That’s pretty cool. Never heard of that

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epicenter69@reddit

My gold Jimmy Buffet Changes in Latitudes Changes in Attitudes CD. Of the approximately 100 CDs stolen, that’s the one I miss.

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Select_Camel_4194@reddit

Not a CD, but I had a drive with 80,000+ songs on it. My ex took it out of spite when she split. I kinda hate that I lost my first CD though. It was Aerosmith's Pump.

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Poultrygeist74@reddit

There were a hundred or so CDs I sold when I moved that I wish I had kept, some of them I bought back. I still have about 300 in a closet, minus the jewel cases, they’ve all been ripped and are on my tablet. I haven’t bought a new CD in probably 10 years.

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govnah06@reddit

In an auto theft, I lost some great CD’s. Among them was a disc of Sousa marching tunes that a now deceased Army friend had given me as a joke on one of our deployments together. That one still hurts. RIP CB.

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Naughty_Teacher@reddit

Mighty mighty Bostones. Lent it to a girl on my dorm floor and she returned an empty case.

You know what you did Caty.

Started buying CDs again-got 2 for Christmas

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JustHereforNachos@reddit

My apartment was broken into on my 32nd birthday and they took all my CDs except 4 Non Blondes. Was that the ultimate insult? Also even worse - they ate my Halloween candy.

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No-World-2728@reddit

You should buy a CD player. I did a few years ago and I love having it. I buy lots of limited edition Grateful Dead CDs that aren't on streaming. I rip them so I have the files and I listen to them that way, but I enjoy just popping a new CD in. Also they sound really good if it's a legit player. Mine is a denon that also decodes HDCD (20 bit) so it is incredible sound quality. Found mine on eBay.

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jeffnorris@reddit

All of them

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Scimmia_bianca@reddit

I’m finding myself drifting back to physical media. There are still CDs I have that have music I can’t find on the streaming services. My car still has a CD player and I still have my book from the 90’s.

As far as CDs I let folks borrow or lost, I miss one of the mix CDs a friend made for me in the late 90’s…

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ShowMeYourHappyTrail@reddit

My Monty Python Greatest hits 6 CD collection, my Weird Al Greatest Hits 4-CD collection, and my Dr. Demento 20th and 25th anniversary CDs. I know the Weird Al one is no longer in print and is worth quite a bit. Not sure about the Python or Dr. D CDs.

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alchebyte@reddit

Spin This 6

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gbr1976@reddit

I used to have a copy of a Duran Duran live acoustic show. Wish I still had that one.

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No_File1836@reddit

I’m glad we’ve moved on from the cd and physical media for the most part. I much enjoy the convenience of having thousands of songs on my phone and computer.

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MormorHaxa@reddit

Mine is actually an artist-made cassette tape purchased in the 80s- poet David Jewel’s Lizards Again. A roommate stole it only because they knew I loved it.

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upv395@reddit

I still have the Hole CD that I borrowed almost 30 years ago. 🫢

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lajaunie@reddit

I got rid of all of my albums when I went to cassette, cassettes when I went to cds and cds when I went digital.

I’d love to have my less mainstream 80s metal albums on cd. Shy, Roxx Gang, Baton Rouge, Lillian Axe, D’Molls etc.

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The_Spectacle@reddit

I have them all. it's funny though, they were in a rubbermaid tote in the basement when the basement caught on fire. I thought for SURE i lost them all, but opened the tote and they were unharmed 😮

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AnnotatedLion@reddit

I had a CD burn of one of R.E,M's first shows in Athens, GA. As I recall it actually had a Sex Pistols cover. Its sort of my white whale now, I always look for it when I flip through the bootleg section of my local record store.

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cg325is@reddit

I threw every single one of my CDs, albums and cassette away. Everything is available on Apple and I have recreated all of my mixed tapes with new playlists. I have no nostalgia about having a physical device. Digital music is the best invention ever, for me.

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