Since I managed to squeeze two entries out of my efforts to downsize my book collection, I thought I'd try to repeat the feat with my CDs (for my younger readers: "CDs" were old-timey doohickeys that played music if you inserted them into a "stereo," which was sort of like an enormous, stationary iPod. You bought "CDs" at "record stores," which also provided employment for the nation's judgmental malcontents, who had nothing else to do because the Internet hadn't been invented yet).
I ended up setting aside 126 CDs to give to goodwill--assuming they'll take them--but I won't list them all here because I can't imagine anyone would want to read that. I will, however, share with you the seven categories into which I divided the doomed discs so that this entry isn't entirely a waste of everyone's time. Those categories are:
CDs I Bought Because I Had Heard One Song on the Album and Assumed I Would Like the Rest (9 discs)
CDs I Was Given as Gifts (7 discs)
CDs Reflecting Earlier Tastes (21 discs)
CDs I Bought Because I Admired the Artist's Previous Work (34 discs)
CDs I Bought on the Recommendation of a Music Critic: Pop Division (18 discs)
CDs I Bought on the Recommendation of a Music Critic: Jazz Division (33 discs)
??? (4 discs)
ELSEWHERE:
My short reviews of Emma Unmatched and Two Pence Shakespeare's As You Like It are in this week's Chicago Reader.
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