I grew up during the switch from cassettes to CDs, had a pretty solid collection back in the day, and sold most of it when streaming took off. Then I realized I actually liked the ritual of physical media, vinyl and CDs, so here I am building the collection up again. Streaming is still great for trying stuff out, but I like actually owning all this awesome music. Kind of amazing that CDs are cheaper now than they were 30 years ago! 😆
Thrift stores work pretty well: having an LLM analyze photos of the bins is super quick, and the CDs are cheap, but the selection is 'not good' 😆 (also check for missing discs and scratched discs). So I've been comparing prices across the places I like to buy from, and thought it might help other people too.
Prices checked .