I still have an overstuffed bookshelf of CD cases in my bedroom. I cannot part with them.

JZ got rid of the CD cases and now we can't sell those CDs to Amoeba. But the whole used market in CDs is starting to collapse.

I'm only getting a fraction of what I used to get for selling my CDs back. A bag of CDs that used to get me $80 will only get me about $24 now.

Even though Amoeba is still packed with customers, it seems inevitable that it will close in the next five or six years.

On that subject of the loss of brick and mortar stores, I really wanted to punch the hipster couple in the basement stacks of City Lights who were writing down titles to go order online later.

Right now my main library is on my Linux box, in my iPod, and on my Apple TV. This had better be sufficient.

I have all my music on my MacBook Pro and on my Time Machine backup disk. However, I should really get some offsite backup in case my apartment building burns down or whatever.

We tend to listen to satellite radio at home. I have an iPod deck at work and switch between random playlists and artists and specific CDs, because I'm changeable like that.

I wish I could listen to music more at work but my brain won't let me. I get most of my new music these days from music club hosted at my friends' bookstore. I feel bad i have nothing much to offer but, dag, I've learned a ton!

I get most of my new music by going through music blogs that focus on particular era or genres.

I get most of my new music by going through music blogs that focus on particular era or genres.

Could you post some of these? (Maybe in the music thread.)

OMFG, people, if you want to make plans with me, answer my texts or my emails.

I get most of my new music from the radio (regular and Pandora), concerts, and friends posting mp3's. Sometimes I discover new songs/bands poking around on YouTube, too. And I buy used CDs at thrift stores and Half-Price Books.

I used to do a lot of satellite radio too, but both our units broke and we couldn't be arsed to replace them, so we canceled instead.

I do have a lot of storage space both exposed as bookshelf space and hidden as cabinet space currently taken up by cds in cases. And the big problem with doing things my way is the current state of DRM. Like I have all these files sitting on my hard drive that were authorized under Napster, and, oddly, ran for a while under Rhapsody, but now are no good. And Rhapsody, when it nixed all those, also nixed everything else I had imported, which included files I had ripped from CD, but stupidly, had ripped to WMA.

So with the new laptop I'll have a chance to sort out all my DRM. I wish I could just transfer the files authorized under Rhapsody from one machine to the next, but I bet I'll have to redownload those, which means next time I'm in a hotel, because of my bandwidth limitations. But it'll give me a chance to start clean, and I'll probably start reripping all my physical CD's, so I can store those away. Maybe in the attic, but probably not because of heat issues.

Then I have a lot of storage space for old VHS tapes, DVDs. I expect I will start building a Blu-ray collection now. So I would like to rip and store those digitally as well. Initially I was burning everything to DVD, which I could store on a spindle. But at this point, I dunno if that's even the best use of my space.

What do you guys do for digital storage of video? Do you just rip and keep it on a hard drive?

What do you guys do for digital storage of video? Do you just rip and keep it on a hard drive?

All my digital video I purchased from iTunes.

Time Machine automatic backups are a godsend.