the great cd purge of ’08
So, I have a ton of stuff. Moving made this more evident. I’m slowly trying to pare things down so Jen doesn’t feel so drowned in my junk (and so it’s not quite so difficult to move next time…), but it’s quite difficult.
I did just manage to, rather painfully, purge about 185 cds, give or take a few. For the curious, here’s what I just got rid of. Some semi-junk (I purged everything that I thought was 100% junk last year), some stuff I’ll miss:
| Artist | Title | Year Originally Released |
| 101ers, The | Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited | 2005 |
| Aaliyah | Age ain’t Nothing but a Number | |
| Aaliyah | One in a Million | |
| Arie, India | Voyage to India | 2002 |
| Autour de Lucie | Immobile | |
| Barenaked Ladies | Gordon | |
| Beach Boys, The | Pet Sounds | |
| Blondie | The Best of Blondie | |
| Bowie, David | The Best of David Bowie 1969/1 | |
| Bowie, David | The Best of David Bowie 1974/1 | |
| Breeders, The | Title TK | 2002 |
| Breeders, The | Last Splash | |
| Breeders, The | Pod | |
| Brothers Martin, The | The Brothers Martin | 2007 |
| Built to Spill | Ultimate Alternative Wavers | 1993 |
| Built to Spill | There’s Nothing Wrong with Love | 1994 |
| Built to Spill | Caustic Resin | 1996 |
| Built to Spill | Perfect from Now On | 1997 |
| Built to Spill | Keep it Like a Secret | 1999 |
| Built to Spill | Ancient Melodies of the Future | 2001 |
| Built to Spill | You in Reverse | 2006 |
| Cars, The | Greatest Hits | |
| Cars, The | Just What I Needed (Anthology | |
| Centaur | In Streams | 2002 |
| Coral, The | The Coral | |
| Cracker | Cracker | |
| Cracker | Kerosene Hat | |
| Cracker | The Golden Age | |
| Cranberries, The | Bury the Hatchet | 1999 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | Chronicle Volume 1 | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | Chronicle Volume 2 | |
| Davis, Miles | Sketches of Spain | |
| Decemberists, The | Castaways and Cutouts | 2002 |
| Diamond, Neil | His 12 Greatest Hits | |
| Diamond, Neil | Live in America (2 discs) | |
| Dillinger Four | This Shit is Genius | 1997 |
| Dillinger Four | Midwestern Songs of the Americas | 1998 |
| Dillinger Four | Versus God | 2000 |
| Dillinger Four | “situationist comedy” | 2002 |
| Erasure | Pop! | |
| Erykah Badu | New Amerykah | 2008 |
| Everclear | Songs from an American Movie Vol 1: Learning how to Smile | 2000 |
| Everclear | Songs from an American Movie Vol 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude | 2000 |
| Favourite Sons | Down Beside Your Beauty | 2006 |
| Fire Theft, The | The Fire Theft | 2003 |
| Fountains of Wayne | Fountains of Wayne | 1996 |
| Fountains of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers | 2003 |
| Fountains of Wayne | Out of State Plates [2cd] | 2005 |
| Fugees | The Score | |
| Glifted | Under & In | |
| Havalina | America | 1999 |
| Havalina | Space, Love & Bullfighting | 2002 |
| Havalina Rail Co. | Havalina Rail Co. | 1994 |
| Havalina Rail Co. | The Diamond in the Fish | 1995 |
| Havalina Rail Co. | Russian Lullabies | 1997 |
| Havalina Rail Co. | America | 1999 |
| Husker Du | Candy Apple Grey | |
| Information Society | Self Titled | |
| International Noise Conspiracy, The | Survival Sickness | 2000 |
| International Noise Conspiracy, The | The First Conspiracy | 2000 |
| International Noise Conspiracy, The | A New Morning, Changing Weathe | 2001 |
| Interpol | Our Love to Admir | 2007 |
| James | Laid | |
| James | Seven | |
| Jean, Wyclef | New Day single (new) | |
| Jean, Wyclef | The Ecleftic | |
| Joe Christmas | North to the Future | |
| Joy Division | Substance | |
| Kings of Swing, The | (swing compo) | |
| K-oS | Exit | 2002 |
| Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards | Viking | 2005 |
| Lush | Spooky | 1992 |
| Lush | Lovelife | 1996 |
| Lush | Gala (Scar, Mad Love, Sweetness & Light) | 1990 (1989/1990/1990) |
| Madness | The Business (3 discs) | |
| Madness | Universal Madness (live from L | |
| Magnetic Fields | I | 2004 |
| Magnetic Fields | Distortion | 2008 |
| Mansun | Attack of the Grey Lantern | |
| Men at Work | Contraband (the best of) | |
| Miss Argentina | Yes I Am No You Can’t | 2004 |
| Monaco | Music for Pleasure | 1997 |
| Morella’s Forest | Hang | 1996 |
| Morella’s Forest | Super Deluxe | 1996 |
| Morella’s Forest | Ultraphonic Hiss | 1996 |
| Morella’s Forest | From Dayton with Love | 1998 |
| Morella’s Forest | Tiny Lights of Heaven | 2002 |
| Morphine | Yes | 1995 |
| Morphine | B-Sides & Otherwise | 1997 |
| Morphine | Like Swimming | 1997 |
| Morphine | Bootleg Detroit | 2000 |
| MxPx | On the Cover EP | 1995 |
| MxPx | Teenage Politics | 1995 |
| MxPx | Life in General | 1996 |
| MxPx | Move to Bremerton EP | 1996 |
| MxPx | Let it Happen | 1998 |
| MxPx | Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo | 1998 |
| MxPx | The Ever Passing Moment | 2000 |
| MxPx | At the Show | |
| MxPx (Magnified Plaid ) | Pokinatcha | 1995 |
| My Favorite | Love at Absolute Zero | 1999 |
| My Favorite | The Happiest Days of Our Lives | 2003 |
| National Skyline | This=Everything | 2001 |
| Ness, Mike | Cheating at Solitaire | |
| Ness, Mike | Under the Influences | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 1998 |
| New Order | Movement | 1981 |
| New Order | Power, Corruption & Lies | 1983 |
| New Order | Low-Life | 1985 |
| New Order | Brotherhood | 1986 |
| New Order | Technique | 1989 |
| New Order | Republic | 1993 |
| New Order | Get Ready | 2001 |
| New Order | Waiting for the Sirens’ Call | 2005 |
| Office Space Soundtrack | ||
| Pavement | Wowee Zowee [re-issue] | 1995 |
| Pavement | Slanted and Enchanted | 1992 |
| Pavement | Rain, Crooked Rain | 1994 |
| Pavement | Brighten the Corners | 1997 |
| Pavement | Terror Twilight | 1999 |
| Pinehurst Kids | Minnesota Hotel | |
| Pinehurst Kids | Viewmaster | |
| Pogues, The | If I Should Fall from Grace wi | |
| Pogues, The | Rum, Sodomy & the Lash | |
| Pretty Girls Make Graves | Good Health | 2002 |
| Pretty Girls Make Graves | The New Romance | 2003 |
| R.E.M. | Eponymous | |
| R.E.M. | Green | |
| Replacements, The | Tim | 1985 |
| Replacements, The | Don’t Tell a Soul | 1989 |
| Replacements, The | All Shook Down | 1990 |
| Reputation, The | The Reputation | 2002 |
| Reputation, The | To Force A Fate | 2004 |
| Sarge | Charcoal | |
| Sarge | The Glass Intact | |
| Sing-Sing | The Joy of | 2001 |
| Sing-Sing | Sing Sing and i | 2005 |
| Smiths, The | Singles | |
| Social Distortion | Mommy’s Little Monster | 1982 |
| Social Distortion | Prison Bound | 1988 |
| Social Distortion | Live at the Roxy | 1998 |
| Social Distortion | Sex, Love & Rock ‘n’ Roll | 2004 |
| Soul Asylum | Grave Dancers Union | |
| Soul Asylum | Let your Dim Light Shine | |
| Stiff Little Fingers | All the Best (2 discs) | |
| Suicide Machines, The | Battle Hymns | |
| Suicide Machines, The | Destruction by Definition | |
| Suicide Machines, The | Self Titled | |
| Suicide Machines, The | Steal this Record | |
| Summer Hymns | Voice Brother and Sister | 2000 |
| Summer Hymns | A Celebratory Arms Gesture | 2001 |
| Summer Hymns | Clemency | 2003 |
| Summer Hymns | Value Series Vol 1: Fool’s Gold [ep] | 2004 |
| Summer Hymns | Backward Masks | 2006 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | How it Feels to be Something On | 1995 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | LP2 | 1999 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | Diary | 1994 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | Live | 1999 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | The Rising Tide | 2000 |
| Sweet, Matthew | Altered Beast | 1993 |
| Sweet, Matthew | 100% Fun | 1995 |
| Sweet, Matthew | Blue Sky on Mars | 1997 |
| Sweet, Matthew | In Reverse | 1999 |
| Swing Kids | Soundtrack | |
| Swingin’ Utters, The | Brazen Head EP | |
| They Might Be Giants | Flood | 1990 |
| They Might Be Giants | Apollo 18 | 1992 |
| They Might Be Giants | Factory Showroom | 1996 |
| Third Eye Blind | Self Titled | |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket | Fear | 1991 |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket | Dulcinea | 1994 |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket | In Light Syrup (rarities colle | 1995 |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket | Coil | 1997 |
| Toasters, The | This Gun for Hire | |
| Transformers, The | Soundtrack | |
| UB40 | Labour of Love | |
| UB40 | Labour of Love II | |
| Untouchables, The | A Decode of Dance Live | |
| Various Artists | DGC Rarities Volume 1 | |
| Various Artists | Give ‘em the Boot IV | |
| Various Artists | If I Were a Carpenter | |
| Ventures, The | Best of | |
| Violent Femmes | Add it Up (1981 | |
| Weezer | Make Believe | 2005 |
| Wilson, Brian | SMiLE | 2004 |
| Wyclef Jean | Carnival vol. 2 | 2008 |
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Next up: getting rid of whatever comics I can!
You still had some Havalina Rail Co? Wow.
And Morella’s Forest AND MxPx…memories!
Havalina is actually still around in some form or another…..here we go: Matt Death & the New Intellectuals.
That’s the male singer anyway…they went through a few females and, last I heard, the last female singer went on to form Miss Argentina, which then broke up.
i hope you took them somewhere that paid you a dollar a disk or something!
comics are next??? I’m appalled.
I got about $130 for all of them :(. Shame I don’t have the patience for ebay…
and not ALL comics, just some…
I need to do the same thing. I want to basically purge my entire cd/dvd/comic/ccg collection. If I had the patience to ebay I could probably make a pretty nice chunk of change. But I’m far too lazy. So instead everything sits in my closet and awaits a housefire to get rid of it for me.
Ouch. Some of my favorite records are in there. Logically, I realize that it’s rather unnecessary to have racks upon racks of borderline-useless plastic hanging around, but the idea of not having them is very unnerving to me. Deep down though, I envy your unattachment.
(Yes, I just created a word right there: unattachment. You’re welcome. Add it to the list.)
How the frosted flakes do you get rid of Toad The Wet Sprocket???