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Yesterday's New York Times City section had a small note on the apparently weather-induced trend of people dumping their entire CD collections out with their trash:
As the weather warms and New Yorkers wrap up their spring cleaning, more and more CDs are going the way of the cassette and the eight-track tape. While some iPod owners are selling their albums to iPod-challenged friends and neighbors, others are simply dumping entire collections on the sidewalk. Either way, it's almost impossible to walk down the street without tripping over the city's aural histories. Call it CD roadkill.
On Fifth Avenue a few days ago, Jeff Dupée, the lanky redheaded bassist in the pop-punk band the Impulse, spotted two clear trash bags filled with indie-rock CDs.
"I've thought about taking them to sell at the CD store that's two blocks away," he said the other day, presiding over his own stoop sale on Third Street near Fifth Avenue.
Among the albums dumped by the article's interviewees: Tom's Album and an album by the outfit Skankaholics Unanimous. (You can probably ballpark that band's genre of choice.) If those titles are indicative of what's in the two garbage bags—and judging by our own recently jettisoned CDs, we don't doubt that they are—we suspect that Mr. Dupée will get little more than a dirty look, an eye-roll, and a bit of back pain after dragging them into the store.
Comments
I threw away a Railway Children CD once.
And, not long ago, an empty "Kill Uncle" case.
I mailed a huge box full of used CDRs (and plastic cases!) to a firm that takes for recyling them without charge...unfortunately, I can't remember for the life of me the name of the company. (It's not NESAR; apparently they don't take CDs.)
Surely treehugger.com has a greener alternative than just throwing the damn things away.
I always sell old cds to whatever local record store has a used bin... they give me fifty cents per, maybe, and then they can sell 'em for $6 or $7. for a lot of little places, that's the markup that makes money and keeps things afloat - not the small profit on new cds. and if I was just going to throw them away, why not make a few bucks or earn a store credit?
I assume the guy in this story was alluding to somethin' else on 5th ave and 1st street, may it rest in peace and reopen someday. their used bins were always worth checking.
I own Tom's Album, and some of it is worth a hoot, such as R.E.M.'s cover as Bingo Hand Job. Let me know if you guys want MP3s to post.
The real irony is that the CD store mentioned in the last paragraph of the article has now closed. I just walked by there this weekend.
Do people seriously do this?
Whatever happened to pawning them?
*Sigh* What a waste
Take a listen to:
Pretty Much Amazing Indie-Dance Mixtape
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