Why would I need to justify the number of CDs that I own? It's as simple as this: I really, really enjoy music - far more than I enjoy the DVD collecting thing, if you know what I mean. It's immensely satisfying to know that I have a better music library than most major radio stations at this point. Unlike DVDs - which I might watch once or twice a weekend - I listen to music on an almost constant basis - at home and at work.

It's funny though. Sometimes, even with all these tunes at my disposal, there are days when I feel like I've just run out of things to play. I get that music shop "twitch" where I just want to head to the local indie shop and flip idly through new discs. It's a sickness, I know. But I've adapted to it.

I started buying CD's around 89/90 and was up to about 750 titles 2 years ago when I decided to get rid of all the CDs I'd probably never listen to again. I dropped down to about 400, but now I'm up to about 575. I was making it a point to sell an old CD every time I bought a new one (so I would have a place to store them all!), but I've laxed a bit on that now. I'm going to start going through my collection twice a year to get rid of more stuff. QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY!

About 850-1,000. I used to work in a Music Store, & I'd guess 1/3 of them are promos.

You don't need to, I was just curious. I stopped buying so many cd's because I just couldn't justify it to myself when I have so many that don't get listened too. But then again I'm really only a casual music fan. I'm tone deaf, can't play any instruments, and can't sing so I guess having thousands of CD's sounds odd to me for some reason.

Though I'll admit that having thousands of DVD's is weirder IMO. You can listen to music all the time, while your driving, while your jogging, while your working, etc. With movies you have to invest 2 hours of your time to sit down and watch it, so if you have a 1000 dvds they'd each get played a lot less often on average than a 1000 cd's.

I have 239 CDs and 101 DVDs and I'm very happy with my collection. I can find something I want to listen, or something I feel like watching, anytime.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with owning thousands of cd's or dvd's. I was just curious and I've always been somewhat fascinated by the notion of people having such huge collections and interested in hearing them say how they justify spending all that money on them.

Same here. I received a cd player for Xmas 85 and still only have between 250-300 cd's. I listen to music all the time but I can't imagine having thousands of them.

I own around 1,500 CDs or something like that. I don't have enough money these days to buy too much new stuff, but I still pick up probably 5 to 10 discs a month.

This is about where I'm at too (started buying cds in 1990), though my CD buying has decreased lately because more of my money's being spent on DVDs.

About 300 or so

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I have about 700 CDs. (Give or take 10 or so...)

Between 300-400. Not counting the ones I burn myself.

About 1,000, give or take. I too am amzed at some of the collections you have all gathered. Man, my parents used to tell me I had enough cassettes at about 100

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I would say probably at least 1500. Mind you I also collect UK CD Singles so..... I would actually be afraid to count them all. My big problem is space, I have so many CD's that I have had to throw away the jewel cases and start putting them in three ring binders and now with my hobby of buying DVD's the space issue is even worse.

How many cds does everybody own?

I have 1700 cds and 200 cd-rs

and i got like 100 tapes and 100 dubbed tapes

About 2,000 discs... a few hundred LPs... a lot of tapes all of which used to be blank I just moved my whole music collection to a friend's basement while we try and sell our home. Moving the CD's wasn't a big deal... the albums however were a royal pain. I wish I could make some money selling that stuff, but they aren't worth much. I used to think I had a bunch of dud compact discs until I made a killing on Ebay with some out of print garbage.

Between 400-500 albums in my CD collection. I've been collection for a long time.

About 1000. i've got some of my collection catalogued on CDTracker, but i've got a ways to go....

About 900 now, working on putting them all into Music Collector from collectorz.com...

between 450-500 actual cds, and about 200 cd-r's....

MATT

real cd's kick cd-r's ass

I've got about 700-800 cds, I'd guess and about 200 cd-r's, which are mostly (legal) live shows.

I only have about 150. I am really low.

As of today, 293.

300-325, maybe. Just one of 'em is a CD-R.

Somewhere around 350 I would guess.

....that is about 15 a month!

I was surprised when I saw my post from 8 months ago. I can't believe I ordered 121 cd's since then!