I had (yes, past tense) two big thick 20 disc CD wallets that contained the majority of my CD collection. They used to be FULL, but over the last few weeks I had depopulated them down to about 25 discs total. Thankfully, this means I have 15 more CD’s than I should have after having my CD’s stolen.
I have searched my dorm room - they aren’t here. They aren’t in my car either. They are gone. I’m not even going to go into how they might have disappeared, it will only make me mad.
I have just inventoried my whole collection. Here is what I lost:
[sub]AC/DC Back in Black
Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker
Blues Traveler Four
Black Lab Your Body Above Me
Days of the New Days of the New
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters There is Nothing Left to Lose
Gin Blossoms Congratulations I'm Sorry
Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Trouble Is...
Metallica Ride The Lightning
Nixons The Nixons
Oleander February Son
Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears
Pearl Jam Ten
R.E.M. Out of Time
Smashing Pumpkins MACHINA / the machines of God
Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music
Talk Show Talk Show
Tom Petty Into the Great Wide Open
Tom Petty Full Moon Fever
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind
U2 The Joshua Tree[/sub]
I am so bummed out.
But I know you too have had CD’s stolen by a brother, ex-SO, cousin, mugger, or dead Republican president. Tell me about it. We can cry in our beer together. I feel your pain.
Well, when the crackhead (not a slam, he honestly was) broke into my apartment two years ago and stole my stuff, one of the things he took was a boom box with Gordon Lightfoot’s Greatest Hits in it (I am not ashamed to admit I like Gordon Lightfoot). Kind of wonder how well those jams went down in the crib.
He also got a tape with “The Lion King” and “The Shawshank Redemption” in my VCR.
I had 25 or so CDs stolen when someone stole my Jeep. Some of the CDs were CMJ discs, or ones from friends in bands that are now out of print. Very hard or impossible to replace. I can get another damn Jeep, but the CD’s…sheesh.
Our house was broken into in August, and about 30 CD’s were stolen. Almost everything was replaceable, but I was sorely pissed that the bastards took my Billy Idol CD’s. Hubby lost a rare Hendrix one that I can’t recall the name of off the top of my head and we’ve been unable to get a replacement.
Intrigued by your post I pulled Sugar Ray - 14:59 from Napster (there were over 30 copies available) (took about 20 minutes) while I surfed. I would have burned it to a CD but I wasn’t that crazy about the song after listening to it.
To all those who are concerned about lost or stolen/ irreplacable CDs buy a burner, stash your originals and use the copies. Quality 8x burners are now down to $ 150 or so. That’s what… 10 CDs? Blank media are 50 cents (or less) each.
A couple of years ago my apartment was robbed and they took all my cd’s (about 40 of them). All were replaceable except:
– Dvorak, Symphony #9 (The whole symphony. Damned hard to find.), by a Czech orchestra. It was a souvenir of my first trip to Prague.
– The music from the coronation of Elizabeth II, which is only available at the gift shop in the Tower of London.
– A collection of chamber music. Even though I bought it in Canada, I can’t replace it because I don’t know the name (it was generic) and I can’t remember whether it was flute, violin, and harpsichord, or flute [something else] and harpsichord. I can’t even remember what pieces were on it. I loved it, though.
– “Oh What a Feeling”: a four cd collection of Juno award winning songs that’s not available anymore. I’ve only been able to find one of the cd’s.
They left one cd in my 5 disc changer when they took it. I hope it slid around and broke the lens!
Last summer somebody went into my desk at work and grabbed about a dozen of my CDs out of the drawer-- of course the easiest ones to grab were the ones on top, meaning the ones I listened to the most.
Among those that are gone until I can burn or buy new copies: Cherry Poppin’ Daddies (Zoot Suit Riot), my Drew Carey Show soundtrack, a Sinatra compilation, Sinead O’Connor’s Greatest Hits, an Enya Greatest Hits collection (yeah, I like Enya!), my Grease soundtrack, my favorite Erasure album, Lauren Hill’s solo album, and my double-cd set of George Michael’s greatest hits, which was a gift, and to which I loved to listen because it was like being 16 again, when I had a huge crush on George.
Yeah, that’s the recovery plan. I’m going to get a burner, and burn copies from friend’s CD’s. Between all the people I know, I should be able to get about 75% of my discs back. The other 5 or 6, I guess I’ll hold my nose and burn the mp3’s, or not replace them.
astro, is there any particular brand/model of CD burner you would recommend?
This thread scares me. I collect Andrew Lloyd Webber cast CDS, and have things some people would kill for. Someone did take a rare tape, promising to make a CDR of it, and then disappeared. If I ever find you, you are a *******
deadman.
Many years ago I had my turntable stolen from my dorm. On the platter was disc 2 (LPs were often called “discs”) of a Talking Heads bootleg “Electrically”. After my student loan money came in I bought a new two-record set. Much to my delight, inside the (somewhat greymarket if not illegal–fantastic artwork so probably semi-sponsered by the band) album cover was disc 2, and an unlabelled disc which turned out to be the rare 801 live boot. 801 was the frantic splinter group Eno took on tour after breaking with Roxy Music. There was a version of “I’ll Come Running…(to Tie Your Shoe)” that turned the original lovey homage to waiting for a loved one into a punky guitar driven rant about how sick the singer was about being used as a doormat. Wow. Tie your shoe indeed. Never did replace the turntable.
My little sister threw a party and borrowed about 20 of my very very favorite CDs. Never got them back - someone at the party took the CD holder. Among the lost:
Soundgarden - superunknown
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Beatles - 1st CD from White Album Limited Edition
STP - Purple
Mary J. Blige - Share My World
Liz Phair - whitechocolatespaceegg
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
D’Angelo - Brown Sugar
Grr. Some little teenybopping twerp is out there using “Dear Prudence” as a coaster, I know it.
I replaced some of them at half.com - for instance, Jack Batty Sublime’s Second-hand Smoke is available for $6 American.
I lost my whole set of CDs in a break-in a couple years ago, while I was still a single man. Lot of Swedish folk music, some Spike Jones (including a 2 CD set I haven’t found again) and three or four discs I’d bought only a few weeks beforehand:
Squirrel Nut Zippers, Perennial Favorites Kapelye, Levine and His Flying Machine Spider John Koerner, Running Jumping Standing Still (God, was that a great album!)
and a zydeco compilation disc I won off a call-in contest.
I did have some small comfort, though - I went to the five nearest CD traders with a list and was told there wasn’t a disc on there they would touch with a ten-foot pole. So I hope the jackass who stole 'em couldn’t resell them.
What would have really burned my ass is if they’d taken my casette case. There’s a tape of my long-dead grandfather in there, reminiscing about his life. Fortunately they either didn’t see it or didn’t have time for it.
(HP-9100 CD-RW is a nice model I’ve been happy with)
I’ve had quite a few CD’s wander off over 4 years of college but luckily never a major theft. Over 4 years I acquired a few random CDs too. I am not too pissed because in my situation its reasonable to assume that its an accident or as much my fault that they disappeared. Often its a CD stuck in the wrong case, and then never knowing who it belonged to, or just swapping between friends and it just getting overlooked. In the end it probably evened out.
I won’t list all the ones I’m missing cause it’d take me a while to do it, and the really annoying thing is that I still have a bunch of empty cases and a bunch of CDs with stolen cases. However the two that really bug me are CD 2 from the Beatles Blue Greatest hits album, and CD 1 from the BoDeans Joe Dirt Car. Both are 2 CD sets and in order to replace them I need to buy both just to get one. Talk about frustrating. I’ll burn the Blue Album one of these days from a friend or Napster, but I can’t find Joe Dirt Car anywhere. Seems the BoDeans aren’t big with the Napster crowd.
My soft-top Jeep was broken into last week and the bastard/s got about 70 cds–broad daylight, patrolled lot. I realized, though, that about half the cds sucked. I was more pissed because the idiot slashed open one of the plastic windows–you could have just unzipped it, jackass. The big loss was one cd each from a 4 disc Sinatra collection and a 2 disc Sinatra collection. Two days later I received one of those offers from BMG for 7 cds for 1 cent. Coincidence? I think not…
Top rated Plextor 8x units are around 160 at buy.com. Until 11/30/00 for first time buyers there is a 30 off deal for all purchases over 150. deal at buy.com so the net cost with shipping is around 140.00. HP makes a good unit also. http://www.us.buy.com/retail/coupon.asp?prid=80448317
