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Do You Count Bootlegs As Part Of Your CD Collection?

Posted: 12/24/2004, 2:48 pm
by jeremy_a
A lot of people have told me that burnt CDs and bootlegs do not count as CDs in your collection. I don't agree, because they are still a collection of songs that you can listen to back to back on a CD. What does everyone else think?

Posted: 12/24/2004, 2:51 pm
by evanw60
Well for me I don't call my collection a CD collection, I call it an album collection. So really a burnt cd, even if it's a copy of an album, doesn't count for me. But I don't think it really matters.

Posted: 12/24/2004, 3:18 pm
by nikki4982
I don't count them unless I paid for them. Meaning... the ones I have from back when the only way to get a bootleg was to buy it in a store for like $50. Heh. Course, those aren't typically burned cds, they're professionally printed on a bootleg label.

If you've burned a cd that you've downloaded, you don't "own" it anyway. You stole it. :P

Posted: 12/24/2004, 4:36 pm
by starseed_10
NOOO!

Posted: 12/24/2004, 7:27 pm
by faninor
True bootlegs, like the kind that are actually pressed on vinyl or a silver CD, I would count. Your average live recording, though, I would not.

Posted: 12/24/2004, 9:23 pm
by Rusty
I don't count them. I count them seperatley usually.

Posted: 12/24/2004, 9:27 pm
by sandsleeper
i count my music collection by song. and i don't count the things i don't listen to.

(my point being bootlegs count as a part of the collection if i listen to them)

Posted: 12/24/2004, 9:33 pm
by reza
i don't because i don't really pay for the stuff i download and with my logiC (or lack of) you have to pay for a CD to count it towards your CD collection.

Posted: 12/24/2004, 11:36 pm
by nikki4982
:nod:

Posted: 12/24/2004, 11:36 pm
by nikki4982
Oh, and Kimmy, that's the strangest thing I've ever heard. :lol:

Posted: 12/25/2004, 7:49 pm
by Random Name
I have never come across any situation where I needed to know the amount of CD's I own. Ever.

So...why does it matter?

Posted: 12/25/2004, 8:23 pm
by reza
sometiems when my CD's are really messed up i have to organize them so i count em just because.

Posted: 12/25/2004, 8:31 pm
by dream in japanese
Random Name wrote:I have never come across any situation where I needed to know the amount of CD's I own. Ever.

So...why does it matter?


me too :lol:

Posted: 12/25/2004, 11:53 pm
by nikki4982
Hey, you never know when you're gonna be held at gunpoint by someone wanting nothing more than to know how many cds you own...

Posted: 12/26/2004, 12:14 am
by faninor
kermit__35 wrote:sometiems when my CD's are really messed up i have to organize them so i count em just because.

Well, for that purpose you would want to count any live recordings. :lol:

Unless you don't care if you lose them.

Posted: 12/26/2004, 12:37 am
by nikki4982
Someday I've gotta catalogue all my cds on a spreadsheet. I've got all my Oasis, Silverchair, and OLP ones catalogued, but nothing else.

Posted: 12/26/2004, 11:46 am
by closeyoureyes
I'd like to do that one day too, but i'm far too lazy :mrgreen:

Posted: 12/26/2004, 4:32 pm
by reza
±faninor² wrote:
kermit__35 wrote:sometiems when my CD's are really messed up i have to organize them so i count em just because.

Well, for that purpose you would want to count any live recordings. :lol:

Unless you don't care if you lose them.


no, because all of my live recordings are off of the hub, so i can just get them if i lose them, i don't even have that many live recordings, only one entire concert...the rest of my live tracks are a part of a mix.

Posted: 12/27/2004, 4:12 pm
by Hope
kermit__35 wrote:sometiems when my CD's are really messed up i have to organize them so i count em just because.


yeah. i dont have a cd rack or a specific place to place my cds... its rather chaotic. its in a huge pile on my desk and its definitely not safe :uh:

Posted: 12/27/2004, 4:23 pm
by Tattooed Angels
nikki4982 wrote:Someday I've gotta catalogue all my cds on a spreadsheet. I've got all my Oasis, Silverchair, and OLP ones catalogued, but nothing else.



how many people actually know what they own.?. I know I just keep all the same bands together. I use to have my albums in order by favorite bands(earliest releasre to latest) then by solo male, female, dance, punk, metal etc. I just keep then that way..

as for cd's I have all my olp's ones in one box in order of release and I do count bootlegs.

I own way too many things.. I have to find out if there is anyway to get records uploaded to a computer..