What I learned Collecting CDs in 2025
I started collecting CDs for various reasons. but stuck with it once I saw the practicality of building my own music collection. This video serves as my beginners guide/showcase of what I've been doing with my music to inspire you to start collecting.
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Chapters
0:00 Premise
0:28 Why I started Collecting
0:52 Thrifting CDs
1:43 Source CDs from Music Stores
2:05 Buy CDs Digitally
2:16 Abandonware?
2:38 Backing up Process
3:17 Alternative Music Program
3:41 Accessories
4:13 How to Find music?
4:48 Clone Hero
5:19 Best way to find music
5:29 Rhythm Videogames
5:44 What devices to use
6:52 Interviewing a store owner
7:02 Records VS. CDs
7:27 Record Store Day
9:28 Streaming VS. Physical
10:19 Post Interview
10:39 Should you get a F20?
11:29 Summary
Music Used
Mario Kart Wii - Menu
Mario Party 2 - Let the games begin
The Sim - Neighborhood
Buck Bumble - Name Entry
Night of the Consumers - First Supermarket Track
Wii Fit plus - Training Main menu
Jet Set Radio - Electric Tooth Brush
Front Mission - Shop
Zone of Enders: Fists of Mars - Intermission
Sonic Adventure - Sky Deck a GO GO
Puyo Puyon 64 - What Doing, You Play?
Tobi Devine - Mystic Shrine Stage 3
Bomberman 64 - Stage Select
Bomberman hero - Dessert
Simpson's Hit and Run - Hotline
Simpson's Hit and Run - Detention Deficit Disorder
Simpson's Hit and Run - Operation Hellfish
Lego Island - Park
Front Mission - Shop
MRC 64 - Credits