with regard to care and handling of them... do you treat your cd's with reverence? your records?

by "your" i mean in general, the albums that you own, not albums of your band's music.

well, generally i treat my cd's with a reasonable amount of care. sometimes i will stack several of them on top of one another, rather than put them in cases. at any given moment there are a few cd's that are sitting on top of my tv, or my dresser, that have been there long enough to acquire a thin film of dust. but they are not mistreated, and are certainly not scratched, do not get thrown around willy-nilly, etc

records, on the other hand, i treat them like babies. i take them carefully out of their sleeves, and maybe listen to them, or not, but always they go right back into their little sleeves. just like with the babies.

You could've just asked that one into a mirror and saved yourself some carpal tunnel.

I treat my CDs good but not like babies. If I accidentally drop a CD I'm not gonna freak out about it, unless I drop in something like sulphuric acid or a pit of snakes dressed up like Insane Clown Posse fans.

as i ripen with age, i begin to notice that i have to take care of my belongings to get their intended life expectancy. earlier this year i started collecting vinyl, and i find it soothing to take them all out, one by one, and clean them, put them back in the dust sleeves, back in the jackets, and back in the plastic covers, and back in my milk crate, one by one.

i recently purchased a laptop and i also find it soothing to take my cds, one by one, out of their cases, into my cd drive, import them into iTunes, blow off the dust, put them back in the cases, and back on the rack, in alphabetical order, also in chronological order on an artist-to-artist basis, (hopefully) never to be taken out again and possibly damaged unless for special occasions.


its fun to take more care of my cds and records than my own body! i clean my records more often than i take showers!

I dont have a lot of vinyl, maybe 20 albums. I always take more care of them than my cds and lots of them I dont listen to much yet somehow, from simply sitting on a shelf, the covers are damaged. I have no idea how it happens but its yet another thing that puts me off buying vinyl.

I am like Felix Unger when it comes to my records.
Due to the weight of my collection, it must sit on a cement floor. A close call with an x-pensive lp mandated carpet under the collection. The records now share the temperature controlled practice space w/ the music gear.

CD's, while disposable, are still treated with care. I mean, I've borrowed cd's from friends and they were so scuffed I was surprized they didn't skip. Do ya use these as coasters? Was this thing in your car under the driver's seat for 3 years? 100 or 300 grit?

The VPI 16.5 record cleaner is mandatory, but that was another post.

A clean t-shirt is fine for cd maintenance. Spit may also be required.

toomanyhelicopters wrote:well, generally i treat my cd's with a reasonable amount of care.

Dude ("doude"?), has the move to Chicago unhinged you already?
You just had a conversation with yrself.
In public.

yeah yeah, i know, i know. here's how it went down...

i put up a thread yesterday with a question i was genuinely interested in hearing answers to.

looking today, there were a good number of views, and not a single response. so i got the impression the thread was gonna fall off the bottom, onto page 2 where it may or may not ever get looked at again. and that would be sad, cause like i said, i really am interested in seeing if everybody treats their records with extra reverence, relative to cds.

so i thought, hell, maybe if i answer the question, other folks will be like "oh, it's okay to answer that question after all." like nobody wanted to be the first one to answer it or something? or there was some kinda confusion as to what the question may have meant? i dunno.

when typing my answer to my own question, i contemplated a third paragraph which would be a single line "thank you for asking", thus making a joke at my own expense and drawing attention to the fact that i was having a conversation with myself at that point. i figured that extra sentence was probably silly, i.e., why draw attention to the fact that i'm answering my own question? and now, at this point, that has clearly been done for me.

in retrospect, i totally fucked the whole thing up. really, i should've edited my original post to add my answer into it, as it is a relatively common practice amongst folks when they ask a question, to include their answer in that same post. then, to accomplish my true mission, which was not so much to tell myself what i think about the subject (as i am already acutely aware of my habits regarding music media maintenance) but rather to elicit responses from others, i would have to reply to the original post anyways, with something like "aw, c'mon, doesn't anybody wanna take the time to share?" or some stupid shit like that. but maybe then i wouldn'tve tipped my hand regarding my tendency to ask and answer my own questions, to go out on dates with myself, to ask myself to dance, to hug and console myself, "there there" patting myself on the head, etc etc.

making myself look like a weirdo? unfortunate, but not uncommon, and generally bearable. getting folks to share their answers to the question i honestly was interested in hearing answers to? AWESOME!

I treat my CDs with enough reverence to keep them playable, i.e. I try not to let them scratch upon re-entry to the player or the jewelcase. I haven't handled my records in over a decade.