The Great Music Listen & Purge of 2010 (GMLP 2010)

[mandysee_mandydo]

For a while Kathy and I have discussed tiny living and getting rid of more possessions. One of the topics that came up is my massive collection of music CDs, how to better store them so the collection is more compact, and if there might be more CDs with which I could part. After listening to CDs at work on Saturday and realizing I kept the Damn Yankees CD but really don't much care for it anymore, I decided I would listen to every single CD in my collection (with few exceptions) and purge the discs that I really just don't enjoy anymore. Certain bands are off limits because we agree we like every album of theirs that we have, such as Pink Floyd and Jim's Big Ego. These are albums we listen to frequently enough to keep without listening.

And so today it begins. I'm listening and purging the music I just don't like. This will take a few days, but I plan to post the results of each day of listening, which discs I kept, and which discs I purged. This also forces me to actually listen to all of this music instead of just collecting it. Some of these discs haven't been touched in years, and that's a shame. If we're not going to listen to them, we may as well send them to a more appreciative new home!

Comments

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The first post should be up soon!

[quantumswordsmn.livejournal.com]

Very interesting, I'm not sure how (or if) you'll handle things that might interest you or Kathy (or Ian for that matter) a bit down the road though. That's what would bother me anyways.

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

As in we hear something we like and want to get it? Or do you mean something we get rid of and decide we regret that?

In the case of the former, I'm not opposed to buying a new CD (though I'm leaning more toward purchasing downloads and investing in a RAID array rather than buying a physical disc), but if it doesn't hold our interest after listening we need to pass it on.

In the case of the latter, we're going to listen to just about everything except the very obvious ones (The Beatles, Pink Floyd, artists like that where we know the catalog inside out and enjoy it all). I'm listening first and then I'm asking Kathy about anything I don't like so she has a chance to give a final yes or no. This way we only get rid of things we both don't like. Those we hand off to someone else we might rip one or two songs we like before passing it along.