CD collectors: how do you overcome buyers-guilt ?

[Rusto]

Lately ive been spending hella bread on CD's and what not... i figure that this is the last chance to come up on cd's that came out during my favorite era (1998-2003), and if i dont get them now, ill regret it later on in life.
But still, it stings like a bitch when i spend more than $40 on one cd, and its hard for me to rationalize buying it. But the thought of having all my CD's and posters displayed in a room in my future home is what keeps me doing it.

How do you guys justify spending $$$ on music?

 

[Des504]

Most I've spent on a CD, is $50.
I used to trade for stuff I wanted alot, though.

it feels good when you finally get the CD, and you look at that nice pen & pixelated cover...that's what kills the guilt?

 

[matteo650]

i look at it like collecting baesball cards.ITs going to go up in vaule or i buy it cause i like the group ot arist and see how big i can get my collection

 

[Rusto]

^^^good point, especially now that CD's in general are start to dry up.

 

[KiLlAKr0nIc]

money comes and money goes....thats how i see it and if i got the money to buy it then i do.. if not i say fuck it and hope another one is forsale in the future..but yea if i was trying to get all the cd's i want....... shit id be deaaaaad fucking broke that why i kinda stopped..

 

[Rusto]

^^yea, but you still need the essentials such as woodie and mac bonez

 

[Flowjob]

If you dropped buying those CDs you'd spent the cash on dope instead.

The most I've spent on a CD is $70 but that was for a CD that I HAD to get. been searching for that for 10+ years so it was worth it. Generally, the guilty feeling disappears after a good nights sleep.

 

[L-wood]

Been buying and listening to this music since the 80's and over the years my max price has had to go up w/ the market so I'm paying 10x what I would've paid 10 years ago but never have any buyers remorse...I guess as a long time collector it's just part of it. I do tho have regrets from passing on deals or offers over the years and those can still haunt me at times...lol.

 

[KiLlAKr0nIc]

^^yea, but you still need the essentials such as woodie and mac bonez

for sure... u should be recieving anyday now.. i dont no whats up wiht it.. i got sum one else to send it off for me so ima check up on that right now.

 

[Cashflow420]

I think the only remorse I have is when i sell a cd. As for matteo650 mentioning baseball cards, I should have sold my collection years ago, you can't get shit for baseball cards anymore. Hopefully someday they will go back up in value so I can make some $$$. Nobody ever seen those declining in value, hopefully all these cd's don't do the same.

 

[matteo650]

I think the only remorse I have is when i sell a cd. As for matteo650 mentioning baseball cards, I should have sold my collection years ago, you can't get shit for baseball cards anymore. Hopefully someday they will go back up in value so I can make some $$$. Nobody ever seen those declining in value, hopefully all these cd's don't do the same.

bay cds wont lose there vaue, the old school ones are hard to come a cross now and i seen they keep going up in vaule. i just seen any thing for the money going for 120 now and i bout it for 25 bucks 3 years ago. baseball cars got over saturated

 

[4thereal]

^^^i think even the newer bay stuff is gonna follow that same pattern and get hella rare eventually too. a lot of the tight newer underground bay stuff nowadays that people press up were pressed in very small quantities and sold more out the trunk than in the stores unless they put it on rapbay or cdbaby.

 

[Des504]

that's why I buy artists cd's at shows...you never know what's gonna be rare...plus it's shit I like.

the tour-only cd's make bank.

 

[4thereal]

^^^that's real right there. perfect example is andre nickatina.