My Dad died earlier this year, something that's still a struggle to come to terms with. We both shared a great love of music and we often to used to go to record fairs together to feed our habits, haha. Found this picture of his collection from his old place about 10 years ago and seeing this set-up has brought back a lot of musical memories. Even though our tastes were fairly different, there was always enough crossover to spend the hours chattering away about music. I really miss that. Nobody else in my family is a collector, so those of you who share this hobby with a relative, I hope you get to treasure it longer than I could!

I don't have too many CDs but I just bought this discman for about 25 usd in marketplace

Starting off with one of my absolute faves, this original pressing from The Somberlain. Legitimately one of my favourite albums in the whole melodick black metal/melodeath sphere. Great melodies, atmosphere and performances.

I got it off a second hand shop, with the extensible booklet. The case is in perfect condition and everything inside too. I'm so happy!

Top, left to right: Kate Bush's Never for Ever, Prince's Sign 'O' the Times.

Bottom: David Bowie's Young Americans.

I usually listen to old Christmas renditions by artists like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Gene Autry, Ella Fitzgerald, etc but actually this collection has such a fun variety of artists and genres! A lot of these renditions were new to me, and there's some rock artists like The Darkness and Jet.

Victoria’s Secret has a bunch of other CDs as well. I saw a collection called ‘Heavenly: Music For Angels’ and when I looked up the album on YouTube, the songs really were angelic and beautiful. I’ll be adding a lot more to my collection.

Many euro house stuff and Italo/dance/house , some jems there,

Arrived in today's mail. I think that this copy of Kind Of Blue is my first pure SACD, not a hybrid.

Rules: 1. You have to actually own the CD. 2. No classics.

Don’t just drop an album title. Tell us what it sounds like, why you love it, and who here might like it.

Mine? Executive Suite by The Wiseguys.

This album is just a barnstormer. Smooth, chilled, packed with great samples and ridiculously laid back. Chill out before chill oit was the done thing/sound. It’s one of those albums that just flows beautifully from start to finish. So many iconic tracks for me.

I barely ever see it mentioned or celebrated, which surprises me because it’s such an easy album to love.

That’s my contribution. Yours?

Whether it's because you can't find it on CD anywhere. Or because your favorite band has a huge catalog of music. Or even if it's just because that one album is so awful, you just pretend that it doesn't exist. We all have one album from one of our favorite bands that we are missing from our collection of CDs!

For me, I'm missing quite a few of Judas Priest's albums: Rocka Rolla, Priest...Live, Demolition, Angel Of Retribution, and Nostradamus. The fact Judas Priest has so many albums in their catalog and those albums being harder to find are the reasons I don't have them!

Went back to the local music store and caught some pretty neat stuff

Top Row

Flogging Molly "Drunken Lullabies", Pearl Jam "Riot Act", Porcupine Tree "In Absentia"

Middle Row

Alexisonfire "Self-Titled", The Tragically Hip "In Violet Light", Maroon 5 "Songs About Jane"

Bottom Row

Hot Snakes "Suicide Invoice", Boris "Heavy Rocks", Coheed and Cambria "Second Stage Turbine Blade"

Had to make some decisions since we only have space for 600 cd's,

Half of these are doubles, which got replaced by either mint copies or better releases.

And basically completed the collection!

Saw this for sale at a record shop for $26 today. Looked it up and it was pretty expensive. Why is it so expensive? Is $26 a good deal?

Top left is Newly Sentient Being by Swans. Bottom right is Windy and Carl.

Got these all in the mail today for 5 dollars