Used CDs seem to be creeping up in price - Second Hand CD Review

[@maskedman1337]

If you like "Broken" check out the remix, "Fixed." For a while, I preferred "Fixed" but now I've swung back to preferring "Broken."

[@mikeydashank3897]

The one Fixed track I prefer to the original is happiness in slavery, I just love that remix so much.

[@marsupial3ew]

FYI - the 2 bonus tracks should be on your copy of Broken. If you put it in a CD player, the display should display 99 tracks. Physical and Suck are tracks 98 & 99. Tracks 7 to 97 are empty tracks 1 second each. Cheers!

[@SecondHandCDCollector]

Hey, thank you for this! I had no idea. Last time i played it last week when it got to the end of Gave Up i thought my player was glitching going up 7,8,9....so i pushed stop

[@maskedman1337]

In many cases, used CDs are cheaper than digital downloads. That's why I still grab CDs.

[@Oxing0000]

When they make that years Remastered version the only one available on streaming make me miss using cds

[@SecondHandCDCollector]

Agreed. I've noticed that happen a lot.

[@TheTraveler33]

I am just scratching my head over this new resurgence of cd's and dvd's. With people asking what happens if they take something off of streaming services and I don't have a physical copy? Am I the only one on the internet that has heard of hard drives? It's a thing you can store media on. Lol!

[@Stink777]

hard drives fail. media is lost forever. physical archiving is a necessary practice.

[@SecondHandCDCollector]

During one of my major culls in the mid 2000s i put a lot of my CDs onto external hard drives and then sold my CDs as i was moving overseas. The problem with that is that one particular hard drive got corrupted and i lost and half of all the files. The same thing happened about 10 years ago, but this time with 100s of movies i had downloaded and sourced from different places. One day the 5TB hard drive just started not working. I'm sure there are various safe guards and backups that one could use to deal with these issues, but I'm not organised enough to do so

[@TheTraveler33]

@@SecondHandCDCollector Yeah, I didn't go into the long version, but I have 4 external hard drive backups. I have far too much at stake to only rely on one or two. Also, there are ways to get date off of a damaged hard drive in most cases. But you would need the equipment to do it. There are also companies that do it.

[@TheTraveler33]

@@Stink777 That's why you have multiple backups. I have 4.

[@Stink777]

@@TheTraveler33 i think a home server with raid backups, an off site cloud backup and a physical copy covers the full data protocol. xD or make a duplicate and keep em in a storage container.... I don't make the rules! chaos does. haha

[@Steambull1]

Yup. Where I live, 5-6€ is now the cheapest price you'll get even at a thrift store. Cassettes start from 10€ and go up to LP prices ("meaningful" albums, that is). Also, people seem to have become more aware of the loudness wars remasters and how precious the 1980s CDs are. 30€ is now a normal online listing price for something like the original CD pressings of Back in Black or Iron Maiden debut, even though they're definitely not what you'd call rare. I hope that LPs have at least peaked with their current prices - looking back at some deals I got just 6-7 years ago seem insanely cheap now. I picked up a handful of CDs last Friday: CCR debut (-87 pressing), Some Girls by Stones (80s master I think, haven't sorted into Discogs yet), Made in England by Elton John (original 1995), Rock or Bust by AC/DC (the only one of their studio albums I didn't have) and a 1999 reissue of Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich's "Drum Battle" album. 27€ in total, and that included a "20% off of all used CDs sale" at the local record store. Yet, I've noted that the "estimated collection value" at Discogs, based on the last 10 sales of everything, has constantly been going down for the last year, never up. So, I don't know, maybe it means more people are out there hunting for bargains, since the prices themselves have certainly not dropped as far as I can tell. Now, I don't ever intend to sell my albums, that's not why I mention the value going down, it's just one thing to keep an eye on when it comes to the prices.

[@SecondHandCDCollector]

Very interesting hearing what its like out therebin other parts of the world. Yeah i certainly dont think its a massive sea change and cds are now in vouge again, but there does seem to be some price movement at the bottom of the market at least. At the end of the day, I'm just happy i was able to build a pretty decent collection for about 1/100th of what i would have paid at one stage.

[@windhymn479]

Well said 👍 Your comment about original 80s CDs being precious now is something I agree with 100%. I’ve actually been buying a lot of stuff from that period, where the CD and the case used to show the SPARS Code, which would let you know the source of the recording; like if it was originally recorded Analog or Digital, how it was mixed, again Analog or Digital, and finally the same for how it was mastered. So many of those original transfers had a code of AAD - and although not all of them, I find that many of them sound really nice - you can hear the air around the instruments more; they’re not super compressed like some of the later remastered versions can sometimes be - and they’re also very crankable - that’s not always true of a Digital remaster. As I understand it (but I could be wrong) very often with those early CDs you were getting a pretty much flat transfer from the master tape, before the days when they did not only a remaster but also added too much bass etc. *Not that I’m saying all remasters are bad; many of my Miles Davis CDs are remastered versions and they sound really good. I’ve also got The Beatles 2009 remasters as well as the original CDs because well… because I’m a nerd 😂 (I’ve been collecting the original 1987 CDs of The Beatles and John Lennon’s solo albums - it’s been quite a hunt, but by the grace of God I’ve managed to get all of them. I’m really grateful for that). I see it as preserving this stuff for future generations - there’s a current trend now, particularly with Beatles and Beatles solo albums, for them being remixed - nothing wrong with that, but they should be keeping the original mixes that the artist signed off on, in print - as far as I know, both versions are available on streaming services right now - but my concern is what if these new mixes may become the standard versions?What will happen to the original versions then? Probably me being over the top, but it seems like there’s a lot of this stuff going on, like in films etc on streaming services, where things like background music are being changed in cases where the license has expired so they replace it with another song, or edit out bits that are no longer acceptable. This is why collecting physical media, be it CD, DVD, Vinyl or whatever, is really important. It’ll also save us rebuying stuff when they decide to reissue original mixes in about 20 years 😉

[@paddioche]

Most people are buyin older music nowadays and youll pay atleast 10-12 for a new old cd...so 6 is not too bad for used

[@olima021prod]

I have a slipknot , self titled, can i get some money on it?

[@SecondHandCDCollector]

Ahhhh.. I'm not sure. Probably not much tbh

[@josephmarcus1723]

YES - YES They Are .. Im A Constant Buyer & seller. Everything in LIFE has Crept up in Price.....

[@garyfoster1611]

trent was way excited to go to interscope he gave them this ep as a gift for doing him the favor watch the series "the defiant ones" jimmy I saved him all thanks to the song rico suave

[@Nick_B_Bad]

Shoot! I got a few hundred metal and rap CD’s spanning the late 80’s to early 2000’s that I wouldn’t miss. I was about to throw them out 😂

[@SecondHandCDCollector]

You never know. There are definitely people out there looking to buy.

[@Sweetestsadist]

I don't care how much they offer. I'm never selling my copy of Mr. Blobby: The Album.

[@mikeydashank3897]

CDs aren't meant to last. They are for right now.

[@jayrum7303]

CDs and DVDs, the ultimate deteriorating asset.

[@SecondHandCDCollector]

I've got some from mid 80s, coming up 40 years old and they seem to be fine 🤔

[@jayrum7303]

@@SecondHandCDCollector great

[@ZosAos]

I think you mean cassette? 😂 CD/Dvds will last an extremely long time in fine condition if stored reasonably well.

[@Ravenseyes10]

That is not the original 1st issue of Broken.. original came with a mini disc with the extra songs. Suck was NOT a “cover” of a Pigface song.. it was cowritten by Trent… do some research before you “educate “ people…

[@SecondHandCDCollector]

Lol who says I'm educating anyone? I say pretty regularly I don't have a clue what I'm talking about Edit: in saying that, this is what Wikipedia says" "Suck" was written by Pigface, whose ever-changing lineup once included Reznor.The slower, sparser, radically different original version appeared a year earlier on Pigface's Gub album." One could certainly consider that a kind of a cover. It's hardly unequivocally NOT a cover. Bit of a grey area if you ask me.

[@Ravenseyes10]

@@SecondHandCDCollector oooooohh… that explains it. Wikipedia is so accurate. My bad..

[@Crocodonk]

@@Ravenseyes10 Yeah, I looked on Wikipedia and it says "8. "Suck" (Pigface cover)"

[@SecondHandCDCollector]

@@Ravenseyes10 ummm...ok

[@Nick_B_Bad]

I got that mini NIN CD still somewhere in a box.

[@theoak64]

That's because of covid

[@georgwalt7978]

nostalgia

[@Stink777]

yes, very annoying.