Physical Media: Tell us about your collection!

[cacoreco]

Heya peeps!

So, I have this huge record player — it also has a CD player and a cassette player (that sadly doesn't work anymore) built into it — I'm pretty sure it's a Philips FP-9400 model, it's old and bulky, but I love it very dearly (So much so that I gave it a nice polish and cleaned it really nice) I got a couple of vinyl records from various artists, such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson and David Bowie. I only have, like, 10 LPs in my collection, and I really wish I had the money to afford more of the things  . It's such a nice hobby to have, but also a pretty expensive one (at least where I live!)  . Lately, I have been considering burning a few CDs with my favorite songs (and maybe full albums?) so I could really make use of the awesome CD player it has (You can put up to 5 CDs at a time, and it cycles through them!). I'm also trying to distance myself from music streaming services, as having (and playing) physical media songs is just so much nicer, right? (Also, Spotify is a weird company...)

So that got me curious! If you are a physical media nerd, what cool stuff do you have? What music player device? What about your vinyl and CDs collection? Tell me all about your thingamabobs and the things you love about music in physical media! 

[musicobsessed107]

I have a decent collection of DVDs as well as some CDs (including ones I've burned at home), a portable DVD player, and an external DVD drive for my laptop.

I regret impulsively getting rid of my Max and Ruby DVDs when I was 11 and am trying to rebuild that part of my collection. However, I've kept most of my childhood DVDs (including my Curious George and Wow Wow Wubbzy DVDs) and have added onto my collection in the past few years.

I also have an MP3 player for when I want to listen to music on the go. It's a SanDisk Clip Jam, by the way, and it has almost 200 songs on there so far. The clip on the back broke off a few months ago in November 2024 after owning and using it for 3 years, though I plan to get around to gluing on a badge clip thing to replace the old broken clip.

[radrocket]

I'm new to collecting physical media so it's not big, but I do have a collection! I rlly wanna burn more CDs, its soooo fun

right now aside from stuff i already like i like to pick up albums with cool art, dogs on the cover art  (im not far into collecting these but i eventually wanna pick up so many dog albums that i cant come across any new ones xD), or stuff from the thrift/pawn shops that seem kind of weird and obscure

aside from music i'm obsessed with buying old CD ROM games. sadly most don't run on my computer but some doooo! i find physical computer games really novel since i'm a little too young to have ever put a disc in the computer to play a game on it

"my collection"

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[Bakartridge]

My collection (which I have a picture of on one of my editorials) started in 2019, I used to go to FYE and pick up CDs based on bands I liked that I found there, started back up in 2021 and was mostly done the same way, although now I just get my CDs off eBay or Discogs since they're extremely reliable ways of getting any album I want, my sorta "criteria" for picking up an album is that it has to be one I REALLY like or means a lot to me, so I don't end up clogging my collection with stuff I don't really listen to that much, so it's all stuff I've been listening to for years/months prior to picking up. I basically only collect CDs instead of Vinyl as they're cheaper, don't take up as much space, and have more albums I like available in that format, although I have one exception to that, being a vinyl copy of Doppelganger as it was a limited edition release, and I picked it up as it was an album I both already had on CD and one that meant a lot to me.

Something I love about having physical releases is looking through the booklets and anything else included, there's some pretty good stuff in there, both in terms of being cool and being a time capsule, like multiple albums I own have a page for ringtones, like you'd text a code matching a song to a number and you'd get it for free, along with some general promo stuff for other albums released by the label around the same time.

When I first started collecting I didn't have a CD player or a boombox, so I had to play everything off my PS3, was the only thing I had at the time that had a disc drive AND could play CDs (because the PS5 DOESN'T have the ability to play CDs, only DVDs and above), all the track info was missing too since it had to connect to a server to get the album info and that server is long dead. Though in mid-late 2022 I got a boombox, think my mom was planning to get rid of it since it was for a class she was teaching, but she gave it to me as she knew I wanted a CD player, and it works pretty great, gets loud and sounds nice, plus has a radio and cassette player built in, although I don't own any cassettes.

[MrsMoe]

I've become a collector of physical media relatively recently, since I've really come to resent the way digital streaming has effected everything. I'm a pirater, but the internet has been becoming less and less safe in terms of media archival by the day. What's really great about physical media is that it's given me a reason to get old technology from my youth, like the big old CRT and media player I got from a local yard sale. Looks just like the one I had as a child 

Yard sales are where I mainly get all my physical media. Just a month ago, I got a handful of DVDs and three vinyl copies of Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd), Hunky Dory (David Bowie), and Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (Simon and Garfunkle). You wouldn't BELIEVE the stuff people are trying to get rid of sometimes.