Best CD you ever sold and wish you could have back? (Or have subsequently bought again?)

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I didn't 'get' Dummy the first time I bought it, so off it went to a used store. I've since downloaded it and re-bought it. More importantly, that bad decision has prevented me from getting rid of some horrible CDs in the fear that I'll repeat my mistake and someday think they are good.

― treechewer (Maximillions), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

i bought 'fun house', liked it somewhat, but not enough to keep it at age 16 (i think my mind was expecting something more like 'raw power').

one of the stupidest (music-related) things i've ever done, frankly.

of course about 2 years later i re-bought it and listen to it about 2-3 times every month.

― how much, latebloomer? (latebloomer), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I sold Doggystyle for lunch money my sophomore year of high school because I decided I needed to stop listening to gangsta rap and I was hungry for pizza. I instantly regretted the decision, but still waited eight years to repurchase it.

― Jeff Reguil0n (Talent Explosion), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I bought all of Joy Divisions CDs when I was in 8th grade. They were my favorite band. When I was in 12th grade I was more interested in techno and John Zorn, so I gave them all away.

Since then I've gotten them on vinyl...or downloaded them.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

i regret selling 12 songs by randy newman

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Separation Sunday
No Protection: Massive Attack vs. Large Professor
Richard D. James

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 29 September 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

tony conrad - early minimalism, for sure.

― chris plus plus (chris++), Saturday, 30 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

sold my Zoviet France "Mohnomishe" CD for $$ on eBay, now regret it. I mean sure, I burned it, but I wish I had the orig.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 30 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Around age 17, in a fit of hippy hating and needing more money for more punk rock, i sold off Surrealistic Pillow, Fragile Yes, Ten Years After and the self-titled Traffic Album. I'd like to pick up the Traffic album again, but I don't miss any of the other ones.

― bendy (bendy), Sunday, 1 October 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

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― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 1 October 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Blur - Parklife

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Sunday, 1 October 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

>>No Protection: Massive Attack vs. Large Professor

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 1 October 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

all of the crappy funkmetal stuff I sold back that, for some weird reason, I can never find again, probably because some supreme being destroyed it aka Limbomaniacs, 24-7 Spyz, and what have you.

I'd only buy it back for less than a buck at this point, but, um, yeah I liked shit like this one year out of life, and I'm curious to see if there was something to it after all, or it was better off sold back.

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Sunday, 1 October 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

i sold about half my black metal collection when i was 18. i now wish i had at least half of it back

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Sunday, 1 October 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't want it back but The Fugs It Crawled Into My Hand - Honestly comes to mind as I sold it to a record store in the 80s for $1 along with some other needless stuff for much needed cash and the next time I sees the record guy he tells me that he resold that one for 30 bucks. So for purely capitalist reasons I wish I had that one back.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 1 October 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

i sold back GZA - Beneath the Surface a while back even though it was the first wu-tang album i owned. i don't even have the mp3s anymore :(

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 1 October 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

3 or so Pantera albums

― digestion (digestion), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

a couple of early death metal things I've never seen again. things like the first death album and a couple of slayer 12's
some of the late 80s/early 90s industrial stuff, first couple of revolting cocks records, a couple of skinny puppy records I've never found, the hilt album
oh and I really regret selling this wierd butthole surfers/stickmen with rayguns and 2 others - 4 way split record and the widowermaker ep.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Funkronomicon and Straight Outta Compton

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 1 October 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

At least, those were the two most ergregious sellbacks that I returned because of not 'getting it' at first. There's also a ton of shit I sold out of financial hardship.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 1 October 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

One of the Woody Guthrie "Asch Recordings" CDs. I ripped the disc, but couldn't scan the liner notes without really messing up the booklet, and condition was important. It was a 32 page booklet full of really interesting info.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 1 October 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well, many CDs are easily replaceable; and if they're not, you can often find 'em on slsk or wherever, so it's not like the old days when disposing of such things conceivably meant that the music was gone for good. Which means that any regret usually involves the loss of a CD-as-fetishistic-item rather than the loss of the MUSIC therein.

So with that in mind, the single item I miss the most is not a CD, but my old quadrophonic LP of Coltrane's Interstellar Space, which I found while vacationing in New Orleans back in 1990. I'm usually not a vinyl sentimental-ist, but neither of the two CD reissues captured the astonishing cavernous sound of the original, to my continued regret. I miss it. (But at least I gave it away to a friend rather than just selling it to a stranger on ebay or whatever, so I know it's got a good home, and I can come to visit it sometime.)

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Monday, 2 October 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

No Protection: Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor

i was SO CLOSE to selling this, it was in 'the pile' and everything, but i rescued it this summer and i'm glad i did.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 2 October 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

Gravediggaz - "6 Feet Deep". Sold it and couldn't find it for years, and nobody had even heard of it. "Bang! Your! Head!!!"

― chrs (chelvis), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

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