The Simple Joy of tossing crappy label sampler CDs

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You know it ain't worth shit, so you don't even have the shame of trying to sell it. Toss!

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Monday, 23 August 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm onto the digipacks and slip cases! iTunesing my collection yo!

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Monday, 23 August 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

but ...but...*what if the internet breaks* ?!!!!

that's what i keep thinking.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a TON of these from the last four months

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno how they make it home with me

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

They make awesome coasters.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

And frisbees.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Even worse than crappy label sampler CDs are those music convention (SXSW, for ex) sampler CDs. Crush those into a fine powder and use them to fertilize your garden.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Every once in a while I pause a moment and remember how precious CDs of any kind once seemed. LPs were $8 and CDs were $15; CDs lasted forever so you never knew if maybe someday you would come to love a song on this CD you didn't want. But now, it's into the trash immediately for those samplers.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Merge gave out on a few years ago that was pretty impressive as a comp. And I've kept a few Ryko ones over the years.

You know they used to make campus radios pay for those cds back in the 80s? At least if you weren't 10,000 watts or were located in the hinterland. A few years later we had to beg them to stop. I kept one from an odd period where Art Bergmann, NIN, Thompson Twins and some other folks were all on the same label in Canada. It's a bizarre little document of the late 80s campus rock fodder.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a simple joy in tossing an actual album that you could sell.

or come to think: a friend of mine bashed a vinyl copy of polvo - shapes with a brick cos he hated it so much. i laffed even tho it belonged to me.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

and yes, label samplers from an earlier age can be really revealing! i found one with some great 80s pop house on one side (hugh masakela, miquel brown) and b-list new wave on the other (er, "whisper to a scream," who did that?) i play it a lot!

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"birds fly - a whisper to a scream" = the icicle works.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

er, I think so, anyway.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yes!

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

but to answer the thread topic: ZERO HOUR I'M LOOKING AT YOU

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my Great Unfinished Projects: collecting all the good/interesting/rare tracks off my scads of sampler CDs, burning them to the five or six discs they would probably fill, then donating the lot to my crazy neighbor lady, who uses shiny materials as a component of her wack-ass home decor scheme.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

do you live in a john waters movie?

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, been out in the chicken coop.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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