I do know this much: CD storage units/shelving/case logic stuff/etc is some of the worst and ugliest shit i've ever seen.

"Do people still buy them? If so, which ones?"

yeah, sure. mostly bored people. there is no other place in the entire town where i am that sells CDs. other than the salvation army. i dunno, i sell all kinds of weird stuff. my CD selection is weird. i sell them on Discogs too.

Yeah, if you think your CDs are "like new" then sell them for just below what Amazon resellers are listing currently at "like new" as well and you can make some good money, depending on the title.

"plenty of nice looking cd shelves exist, they're just bookcases with shorter shelves what's so ugly about that"

duh, obviously there are bookshelves that look fine. i'm talking about all the horrible CD-related stuff that has been sold since the 80's. just tons of cheap ugly crap that ended up broken. ugly black plastic crap. and even cheap ugly plastic CD cases! all kinds of ugly CD paraphernalia.

beat up CD shelves at thrift stores look just as terrible as beat up CDs. disposable.

sorry, that was kind of a mean duh. strike the duh.

yeah the crafty and clever cd storage solutions are very wack i agree

and all the aerodynamic matte plastic 90s shit is obv the worst

i had such ugly wire frame cd shelves growing up.. so bad.

unfinished utilitarian shelf is a good option. doesn't anyone ever varnish or finish anything anymore? it's like darning socks, i guess. a lost art.

The store happily offers that service, but it does cost more -- and living in SF and all, I do need to watch costs! But also I enjoy the unfinished look, it's fresh feeling.

The problem I always had with purpose-built CD shelves was that they'd never accommodate anything even slightly bigger than standard jewel-case-sized dealies. So I can't file Sleater-Kinney's The Woods with their other stuff, nor Alan Shorter's Tes Esat next to his brother Wayne's discs.

My weirdly not impressive setup...

http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16300125_10158138896780597_6416376884681420654_o.jpg?oh=bcb930e3729bc7a70d1d029774b9d3c3&oe=59171121
http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16178365_10158138896955597_1391887729186506623_o.jpg?oh=c1fa4c9050e11de44ec4a827b9a53dcb&oe=591AE140
http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16142469_10158138897075597_3444292757127057071_n.jpg?oh=0a4f026c2aefe7d0909174fa539185b9&oe=5911676A
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The black ones on top of the shelves are Case Logic ones that I had to trawl the internet to get the exact ones to make everything work... All that's left of my vinyl collection (the Great Basement Flood of 2010 was a bitch) can be seen below the cardboard sleeve CDs that journalists, especially in the metal realm, know very well.

The basement has my cassettes on a wall and I also have a shelf of 7" singles (not pictured).

I have around 4000 CDs, all in alphabetical order and chronological within artist. OCD much?

I still buy anything I like on CD if available and annually purge 50-100 in order not to overrun the total capacity of my racks. That getting harder, though.

I've got a small section on top of a couple of racks for box sets and oversized cases.

this kinda shit...

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16265445_1736478046665840_2345135304383442904_n.jpg?oh=ccfc9a8f11d845ae9d1e4d66d43e2358&oe=59176C22

― scott seward, Friday, January 27, 2017 2:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What of kind of shit?

http://i.imgur.com/WaOPXAe.jpg

Don't forget this piece of shit that used to grab the CDs like a jukebox would, but is now just an oblong box.

http://i.imgur.com/EoNQnGD.gif

skot redeemed

Those tall units with short shelves are also kind of terrible when it comes to adding new cds, especially if they are nearly full. Often there's space for 1 or 2 to lie above the vertical cds.

The last unit I bought has random spacing between the shelves, which looks awful.

My room of shame.

When we first looked at the house it became obvious that some bright spark had swopped out the tiny 7ft square bathroom for the much more substantial third bedroom, my wife turned to me and said 'if we buy this place, you should put all your music in there'.

I bought some UGLY metal cd shelves from Record Collector and got to work filling up this room with my antics and there it remains, on pretty much every available flat surface lies a pile of CDs, book or box set.

There's two sets of shelves, a terrible cheap bookcase (another thread?) and one comfy tub chair, I stopped being so anxious about the room some years back and now I quite enjoy hiding away in there, listening to my Jethro Tull box sets, being old.

http://i63.tinypic.com/257hfzq.jpg

http://i67.tinypic.com/dqnhxx.jpg

There's two sets of shelves, a terrible cheap bookcase (another thread?) and one comfy tub chair, I stopped being so anxious about the room some years back and now I quite enjoy hiding away in there, listening to my Jethro Tull box sets, being old.

http://weknowyourdreams.com/images/paradise/paradise-05.jpg

Eno box, Simples Minds box, Fuzzy Warbles series... You know I wanna party with you in that room!

I love pics like these where you can instantly spot Impulse!/Coltrane CDs.

I'm at somewhere north of 6,000 CDs (still adding 200+ per year) but sadly (to me, not to my wife) they're all in boxes in the basement because we bought a 700sf apartment. I keep the last 50+/- "on display" till they get boxed and then on to the next one. It would make me happy to see 25 years of my musical journey as a proper library, but it'll probably never happen. At least I have all my architecture/urbanism books on bookcases...

Still buying CDs (and inheriting from friends), but I've reached the carrying capacity for our little house, between books, records, CDs, and, you know, stuff we actually need to actually live. Homemade shelving here (yes, lazy unfinished), using 1" x 6" boards, allows for room for larger cases:

http://i65.tinypic.com/2yotit2.jpg

Resorted to putting shelves on the rafters for overflow, but they're terrible for browsing (home to all those CDR's from the old mail trading days, VHS tapes, etc.):

http://i63.tinypic.com/33m3odk.jpg

Since I've run out of room, thinking again of the spacing saving polyethylene sleeves that the Jazz Loft folks sell. Anyone using those? As an anal type about the printed stuff (save hype stickers, OBIs, any ephemera), not sure if that will work. Have many great CDs from local record store owner who never liked discs and he just folded the j-cards in half, which still makes a little bit sad when I see it.

i'm not throwing stones. i never stain furniture. i have painted old bookcases that didn't look so hot. that is the extent of my non-laziness.

the vhs tapes poking from the rafters are cuet

All my cd's in binders for years now. I barely look at them.

Flying Nun trading cards! You're a collector of rare taste, I've got a set too.

I save hype stickers, too. Very sad are we...

Not getting why anyone's embarrassed about having big collections.

this is such a good scott thread. bummer bout the broken images.

Any of those CD storage racks with slots are designed by Satan. If filed alphabetically and say you want to add one towards the top of the list, you might end up having to move each and every CD after it unless there are an open slot close.

― earlnash, Friday, January 27, 2017 3:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Boy had I forgotten this. Once knew an ambidextrous guy who could move cassette cases up at twice the speed with each hand grabbing every other tape.

Also had forgotten that I had posted on this thread last week, that little gif up there. And then I remembered that this is 2018 now.

https://media.giphy.com/media/mHV9embco5OYo/giphy.gif

https://media1.giphy.com/media/XpgiNJccZVPlm/200.gif

That's him!

https://images.craigslist.org/00B0B_5jVPSsan2cE_1200x900.jpg

someone's selling this on craigslist, holds 532 CDs. looks like it's from a late '80s drugstore and should be holding White Lion and Belinda Carlisle.

found this "industrial style" beauty

https://images.craigslist.org/00h0h_danE1i55noP_600x450.jpg

the phrase "fits CDs, DVDs, VHS, or a mix of all three" gives me a panic attack.

https://i.imgur.com/PRM5qkJ.jpg

I mean, if only I had a drawer or something to put these in.

Check out my extensive collection of original Rob Roy DVDs

Check out my two copies of everything.

I had one of those 'industrial style' deals, perfect if you like your DVDs to fall over on unsuspecting guests. One of the most rickety pieces of garbage I've ever had the pleasure to own.

i am so goddamned glad that i don't have CD towers or racks any more. it's good to remember the bad parts of the 90s too.

I keep all my disc physical media in big wallets/mini-briefcases, with the few that have notably cool packaging left intact

http://www.centralazdining.com/content/uploads/nice-bedroom-storage-chest-with-bedroom-excellent-hope-chest-storage-trunk-cedar-lining-wood-bench.jpg

hell yeah.

All I need.

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/3f/03f5d270-ad6b-52df-a013-cbd701e20836/5771c115da7ed.image.png

I find choosing what to put on difficult enough when scanning CDs; the idea of flicking through numerous wallets fills me with horror.

Worst picnic ever.

https://i.imgur.com/E4P0PsW.jpg