Albums You've Sold thread

[halo19]

Heh, I kind of thought it would be interesting to discuss. I guess what gets to my interest is that when I first started buying CD's I never really thought of selling anything; there's usually a song or a few that drove me to buy the CD. However, I've realized in both getting into my own apartment and now living there that there are other things that my expenses are more important for using, and in some cases it's unfortunate. Well, a couple of the times I was bored and realized I didn't care overall for some of them, too. I'll also add CD's I once owned & consciously disowned when I can remember.

Last fall:
Tracy Chapman (At the time I decided I never really listen to it so I just gave it away. I kind of would rather hear a retrospective of her music instead.)
Montell Jordan - Get It On... Tonite
Lit - Atomic (*yawn*.. And this coming from someone who owns the other 3 albums & enjoys them.)
Stroke 9 - Nasty Little Thoughts (Save TC, I don't care to give these a second chance.)
Worth a total of 5 bucks. Meh.

June:
Tori Amos - Crucify (EP)
Collective Soul
Fall Out Boy - Inifnity on High (Extra copy.)
The Killers - Sam's Town (Extra copy.)
Papa Roach - The Paramour Sessions
Radiohead - My Iron Lung (EP) (More targeted for die-hards anyway; apart from acoustic "Creep" and title track it's pretty middle of the road.)
Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang (If only he never released that godawful "I Love My Bitch" song I may have felt comfortable still having it. Also why I waited until I could get it for under four bucks.)
Justin Timberlake - Justified (I would like to hear it again since I don't feel I was ever fair towards it.)
The Used (Somewhat regrettably, but figured others may like it more than I did.)
This one was $25 total; I don't know the individual worths.

Today:
Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor: $3
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
Beck - Mellow Gold (edited): $2 (figuring I'll get the explicit one later)
Helmet - Strap It On
Hot Hot Heat - Scenes One Through Thirteen
Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob (CD/DVD)
Modest Mouse - Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks (EP) (See Radiohead; apart from "You're the Good Things" which is great I didn't tend to listen to this one.)
Project Pitchfork - Trialog (EP)
Transplants
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree (limited): $1 (Even for that price I don't think I made a mistake, since I was kind of ripped off of the Mastercard deal on getting it for five bucks earlier, because it happened to be this stupid limited edition. It was placed right at the sale area of the Best Buy rack. WTF. I may get it again if it's STANDARD and pretty damn cheap.)
Soundgarden - Down on the Upside (I found awhile back that I didn't really enjoy them as much on the whole as I initially thought. It's good on its own right, but since I listen to the singles from it and have A-Sides, I got rid of it. I still enjoy Badmotorfinger and Superunkown's album cuts enough to keep those.)
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (. Big mistake; I should've taken SOAD's edited first album instead. Pretty jackass of me since I got it six bucks new. Even though I honestly prefer quite a few of their other works over this.)

[gpduke]

I don't really remember, really. But one that I do spacifically remember is Eamon's "Don't Want You Back" and yes I did buy it.

[a Nick O!]

Let's see how quickly I can run these down. Obviously over time, I've become significantly more selective in what I buy as my tastes have formed beyond just what's "current." I mean, the list starts when I was twelve and I haven't wanted to sell anything I paid full price for, or even actively sought a legitimate copy of, in years.

Didn't end up liking enough to keep:
Jon Secada
Mariah Carey - Music Box
Mariah Carey - Emotions
Def Leppard - Retro Active
Janet Jackson - Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (Since it's critically regarded as her best album, I had the perspective to borrow it from my then-girlfriend 8 years ago, to see if I should've kept it after all. The singles were on Design of a Decade, which I'd end up finally getting 3 years ago, and other than "Someday Is Tonight," there wasn't any reason to keep it. Still.)
Aerosmith - Get a Grip (Eh, the singles are on Big Ones, but I kinda wish I'd kept this. Not enough to buy it again, mind you...)
Aerosmith - Pump (The singles are on Big Ones.)
Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey "Endless Love" (This song ended up on her greatest hits album.)
Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas (I'd really like to have "All I Want for Christmas Is You" -- the remix is on the GH -- and "Miss You Most at Christmas Time." Maybe this fall, I'll get lucky and snag a cheap copy and sell it right back. She looks so good on the cover, though. Ah, the days when she was a slave under Tommy Mottola's thumb...*sigh*)
Jon Secada - Heart, Soul & a Voice (Wish there was digital song ripping back in these days...)
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club (My brother wanted a copy, so rather than have him buy his own, I just gave him mine. I wasn't attached to it enough to make him get his own.)
Green Day - 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (After American Idiot, I really wished I hadn't done this. A used copy of the original Lookout version is on my reserve pile at work, though.)
Collective Soul
Soul Asylum - Let Your Dim Light Shine
Batman Forever soundtrack
U2 - Rattle and Hum (Wasn't really aware this wasn't a studio album when I got it.)
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (Now that Alanis burnout --no fault of mine-- has been gone for 10 years, I wish I had it again.)
Buy-Product (DGC compilation)
Blind Melon - Soup
Take That - Nobody Else ("Back for Good" aside, I kinda had buyer's remorse by the time this finally came in the mail with the others.)
Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin (See Jon Secada's second album.)
TLC - CrazySexyCool (See Rhythm Nation. Only this has a few more good album cuts. I might still get this one again if a customer sells it back on my watch.)
Friends soundtrack (Gave to my then-girlfriend, who was a Friends fan, yet still, I think I got more use out of it than she did. Also pre-digital song ripping days. )
Tripping Daisy - I Am an Elastic Firecracker
Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo
The Presidents of the United States of America
Silverchair - Frogstomp
Primus - Tales from the Punchbowl (My brother let me have his copy. Then after awhile, he wanted it more than I did again, so I let him have it back. Now I want my own.)
Vanessa Williams - The Comfort Zone (Bought it used to begin with, but before song ripping, still.)
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily (Got "Wonder" and "Carnival" later anyway, and have always been pissed that the radio version of "Jealousy" is different (and better!) than the album version.)
Poe - Hello
Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
The Cable Guy soundtrack
Ace of Base - The Bridge (Loved the singles, yet kind of felt guilty buying their 1995 album. Especially in 1997.)
The Heads - No Talking Just Head (At the time, I mistakenly thought Johnette Napolitano was a member of the group and that all the songs would be as badass as "Damage I've Done.")
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos - Under the Pink (let my brother have the Tori albums when he really enjoyed them and wanted his own. Kind of like Tuesday Night Music Club. These, though, I tracked down used copies of years later, after I missed them.)
Dinosaur Jr. - Without a Sound (Now we've gotten into song ripping days. Got this out of a CD club bargain sale because I wanted "Feel the Pain" and "I Don't Think So." Didn't care for the rest.)
Duran Duran (the wedding album) (Also a CD club bargain. I took "Too Much Information" only, because the first two singles are on their '98 greatest hits album. Come to find out, those are the abbreviated radio edits. Grrr... I guess since I'm most familiar with the radio versions, it's not that big a deal.)
Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites (CD club bargain sale. Kept the singles.)
Versatle - More Twisted than Color TV (Crappy "local" band my buddy was friends with our senior year. I think the name was an intentional typo to prevent a lawsuit. The fact that they kept the name, but with a misspelling that suggests they may not have known any better, implies they weren't going anywhere, and as you might expect, not, in fact, very "versatile.")
Sugar Ray - Lemonade and Brownies (See Counting Crows.)
The Juliana Hatfield Three - Become What You Are (cheap used CD. Kept the singles and let my brother have it, when he told me he'd take it rather than me sell it.)
The Cure - Wild Mood Swings (See Counting Crows.)
Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (Like Rattle and Hum, I didn't realize exactly what this was. I kept Sid's version of "My Way" and that's it.)
Britney Spears "Stronger" (It ended up on Now 6 a couple months later, which was a worthy purchase, so this was useless now.)
D-12 (promo sampler)
Piebald & River City High sampler
Breaking Point sampler
Big Blue Monkey sampler (My buddy gave me an extra copy of this. They later turned into Story of the Year. Needless to say, I'd kind of like to hear this again.)
Thursday - Full Collapse (I felt duped after reading a review that likened this to the Smiths meets Deftones. I just couldn't ever get into this, so I sold it after I burned a copy anyway.)
Strapping Young Lad - Limited Edition Tour EP (I took this from the freebie box at my hometown college radio station one summer, because they were one of my college friend's favorite bands. I just couldn't get into it, so I let him have it when I went back that fall.)
Dropping Daylight - Brace Yourself
The Exies - Head for the Door
Madina Lake - From Them, Through Us, to You
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It
Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy/Was a Real Boy (Last five were ones I acquired as part of a prize, but didn't want to keep. Might've kept Say Anything if it was explicit.)

Burned and liked so much I paid full price for real copies.
Spineshank - The Height of Callousness
Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
Mudvayne - The End of All Things to Come
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
The Used
Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless
Thrice - Vheissu
Tiger Army - II: Power of Moonlite

burned and later bought used at buyback price.
NOFX - Pump Up the Valuum
Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
Portishead
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
Coldplay - X&Y
Mariah Carey - Greatest Hits (Abandoned, so I buffed it and kept it.)
Fort Minor - The Rising Tied (replaced edited burned copy with real burned copy, before I got to buy back a real copy, though.)
The Beavis and Butt-head Experience soundtrack
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
The Dresden Dolls
DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
HIM - Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666

miscellaneous burned CDs I replaced
Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
The White Stripes - Elephant
30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie (These three I received burned promo copies of and bought the first day.)
Porch Ghouls - Raising a Ruckus (promo EP) (burned promo that I replaced with the real one when I saw it in the freebie bin at my hometown college radio station that summer.)
Misfits - Collection II (Burned copy from my cousin, although I knew all along I'd be buying it anyway. I did later that summer.)
She Wants Revenge (Burned copy to replace my edited burned copy)
Tiger Army - III: Ghost Tigers Rise (Hadn't even listened to my burned copy yet, but I knew I wanted their whole catalog. The first three discs were recently on sale for $10 a pop, so I bought 'em up.)
The B-52's - Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation (Burned so much earlier last year, that I'd forgotten I had it when a buyback opportunity came up.)
The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia... (Saw a free promo copy up for grabs among free promo stuff at an employee meeting earlier this year.)
Operation Ivy - Energy (Burned off my brother because it went out of print, but then bought an expensive used copy from Amazon, so I'd have the original version before it gets remastered and rereleased this fall.)

Sparta - Wiretap Scars (May get Thursday's treatment.)
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About (Have a burned copy that I've disowned because it bored me to tears when I tried to get through it. Now a few years removed, I'd like to give it another shot.)

Wow, I took forever and wrote a bunch. Big surprise.

[crash46]

I've sold back two albums, ever.

Avril Lavigne - Let Go
Pink - Misundaztood

I fell for each respective hype. The songs were unbearable and I'd have to live with the fact that I not only have two CD's of unbearable songs, but also that reminder that I'd been duped which I'd get everytime I laid eyes upon my CD collection that contains those two albums. So I sold them back for used CD's that I wanted.

I don't have any interest right now in selling back CD's for money because of the difference in opinion between me and the buyer of what they're worth. I just don't think a CD should lose 90 percent of its value simply because I opened it. I'd rather keep the cd and keep it a part of my CD collection, which is something I'm proud of, rather than having that empty feeling of all that I lost in the transaction.

[gpduke]

A few years later I felt sort of stupid for falling for the Linkin Park single fade, as well as Hybrid Theory special edition.

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I wouldn't be mad if the auction doesn't take a bunch of bids and the winning bid is $100's+ what I listed it for. I'd just like one person to bid and pay me around $30.