Entertainment For Lively Minds
Are CDs the new cars?
Posted by Paul Wad on 20 February 2010 - 1:27pm.
It's said that once you buy a new car, it instantly loses 25% of it's value. Well it seems to me that once you have bought a new CD nowadays (obviously not including CDs of the limited edition variety or of more obscure artists) it becomes completely worthless in a matter of months.
Just try selling standard CDs by the likes of Doves, The Dears, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Flaming Lips, etc on e-bay. You'll be lucky to sell them and you'll get next to nothing for them.
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Why sell?
Keep them,play them or make a rather crap wind chime out of them.
Bird scarers?
Coasters? Or hang on to them - eventually they'll be fashionable again. Even BRMC.
There is of course another option available...
Appropriate the African tradition of sporting a lip plate...
Market forces
Its not a new phonemenon. Even pre-internet you wouldn't have got much for this kind of thing second hand, maybe £1 or at most £2 trade-in value at a Record & Tape Exchange. Cassettes were, and still are, mostly worthless.
Ebay means the 2nd hand market is wide open and is flooded with CDs particularly at the moment as people are trying to offload their collections to go digital or back to Vinyl.
Anyone who wants 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' can download it, or the CD still shrink wrapped and new from Fopp or Amazon for the price of a music magazine or less.
Standard issue copies of big-selling Vinyl albums won't make a rich man or woman of you either.
Does music need to have a re-sale value though? Digital downloads of course have no re-sale value whatsoever. You pay for the convenience of being able to listen to the music immediately. Provided its a good record you'll get you £6.99 worth of pleasure at least, same with CDs.
I use it
to my advantage. You can pick up some real bargains, if people want to sell cd's for next to nothing, I'm your man!
Crikey!
A Mandy Smith CD Single for £220!
Bill Wyman might want to get his metal detector out and search for a few spare copies of this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MANDY-SMITH-Positive-Reaction-JAPAN-3-CD-Single-PW...
That reminds me...
...of when the 'Je Suis Un Rock Star'-hitmaker and young Mandy were on Wogan and she attempted to justify her spurious 'pop' career by claiming that she was 'big in Japan', to which Bill replied: "everybody's big in Japan"...