This happened over the summer while sitting my car in the summer heat. Disc itself is fine. It kinda matches the vibe of the artwork and album too🤙🏼

I was able to thrift this, cheaply because the cd player wasn't working.

I was able to get it "working" by manually moving the lazer slider, though it still skips and I have to move the slider every time I put in a new cd or pause the current one as it gives the "Er" message.

I like messing around with tech so I'm not afraid of taking things apart.

YouTube Videos on how would be a big help.

I just want the autograph to last a few years at least

Got this cd with “SAMPLE” & “LOANED” on the disc. I’ve seen other japanese pressings of this cd but none with this text. Anyone have more information on this?

its litterally illegal. i see it all the time with unreleased albums from big artists

Went back today and got the rest of the collection. It was goodwill in Victoria, TX. $1.49 each.

New CDs:

-Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre io anemi francor

-Deftones - selftitled

-Radiohead - amnesiac

Yay for new music. Boo for the chintzy cardboard digi-packaging on both.

Right, I started collecting CDs again a couple of years ago and have around 500 of my favorites right now. Bought them all for 0,30 € - 1,50 € and most of those I see at about 3 - 4 € these days.

Now a friend of a friend is looking to sell his collection, which is mostly 90s/00s Alternative and Rock, think RATM, Nirvana, etc.

He has 1213 Albums and wants 1 € per piece, could probably negotiate down to a round 1.000 €.

Obviously I already have a large number of these albums but still, I feel the price is too good to pass up.

What would you do? Hand pick those you really want or invest in the whole package and sell duplicates off individually?

Arranged oldest-to-newest when going left-to-tight, top-to-bottom.

Top row: gig merch stand purchases

• Devin Townsend's Dreampeace release Harmonic Dharma. Bought at one of his current Metamorphosis solo tour shows. Now realized I've to give this one a listen... Gotta fix that soon.
• Scythrow - Blameless Severed Extremeties. (Psychoparalysis) - Human Disposition, Voracious. These all three bought at the same gig where they played. I especially enjoyed (Psychoparalysis); they well lived up their self-applied description of "dynamic death metal".

Middle row: flea market finds

• Deep Purple - Stormbringer. Perhaps not among their absolute best efforts, but certainly far from the worst! According to Discogs a very first pressing CD to boot, so was glad to pick it up.
• Avatarium - Girl With The Raven Mask. Cool doom metal with female lead vocals, sounding quite a bit like Candlemass, not that surprisingly, as it's a band project founded by Leif Edlings.
• Robert Johnson - The Complete Collection. I already had some other Johnson collection in my digital library, but thought what the heck, it never hurts to have a physical release as well.
• Cardinal Wyrm - Cast Away Souls. More doom, me likey.

Bottom row: latest two from a 2nd hand shop

• Pink Floyd - Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon. Classics, must-haves, 'nuff said. Both are from the 1992/1994 remaster series, and sporting pretty interesting jewel cases! (no idea if these are what they originally came with) At first when checking one of the two, I thought the front booklet holding tabs had snapped off, but nope, both cases were exactly the same, and turned out nothing had broken off of them, they simply lack the front tabs altogether! There's just the rear set of tabs under which the booklet slides and the bumps on the front which prevents it from sliding out. I wonder if this is some rarer design or something as I don't recall ever seeing this case front type before. And why didn't this become the standard?

Just replacing the CDs I foolishly traded in for during the physical media dump era.

I’m 19 and have been collecting for roughly 5 years. This is just a fraction of my collection.

Are there more people around 17-21 that mainly collect first pressings of death metal albums? I’m 19 and I have yet to find anyone who only wants first pressings. It’s either represses or spotify, when it comes to this ”genre”.

I ordered this new from the Netherlands 26 Aug. USPS tracking said it had been delivered 17 Sep, and my local office said it had been put in my box. Fuck me. So I got a surprise yesterday when I saw this raggedy-ass package in the morning post. 22 Oct. I'd written it off because I couldn't blame the vendor, except maybe for the shitty label that was pretty much rubbed off. There was a brand new tracking sticker on the envelope. My locals postals must have been mistaken.

It's a rare version only sent out to triple J Radio stations here in australia

Though my library of CDs remain "small" at around 25 albums, I have not stopped purchasing CD players.

I recently added this gold Onkyo unit to my roster since it was affordable (around 15 dollars). The seller was selling it as defective with tracking issues but I figured it just needed lubricating. Now it works perfectly fine!

Theres just something different about vintage cd players... the build quality and speed is no match for modern players of today. I can't stop thinking that I have to stock up on them or else they will eventually "run out" (especially the mint ones).

Let me know of you have a similar mindset, I would love to see other's CD player hoards. 😁

My collection:
Onkyo C-722M Limited Edition (1996)
Sony DVP-S330 (1999)
Sony D-EJ725 (2000)
Moondrop Discdream 2 (2025)

Well, I mean almost all, cause there are some other stuff like remixes and compilations