If you were to go by my personal taste in music I would say Deep Purple Made in Japan, Judas Priest Unleashed in the East and Status Quo Dog of two heads. Some of my favourite albums.

However if you were to go with some of the more rare ones The Who Tommy, Iron Maidens debut album and Black Sabbath TYR are ones I just love gawking at because they are original prints and are worth a few pennies!
When buying cd's I prefer to use Amazon Autorip. Best of both worlds right?

Yes the act of putting the record on isn't much hassle, but browsing through my library mostly ends up with me lying on my side, on the floor just to read the labels.

Still love it though :D

Funny you say that... I was just doing that two minutes ago. lol

I suspected it :p

Actually, I store them in this perfectly sized cube, so I guess could just lay it on it's back and have them like they usually do in stores...
But then I'd lose the space on top of the cube, which works like a 'most recent' list.

Isn't it AAC?

Physical is obviously better but I'd need a mansion to store all the stuff.

i can't believe i'm reading this
are you bloody serious

I have been quite lucky recently. HMV music store in my town has replaced it's bluray section with a wall of new Vinyl and started selling metal lined carry cases. Very cheap and great storage.

I prefer vinyl mixes myself. A good portion of the classics remastered have way too much Dynamic Range Compression applied and often times the ripped wav file looks like a giant square wave when viewed in an audio editor. I still rip vinyl lossless (FLAC @ 24bit/96kHz or better) and predominantly play those. For the portable lossy format I prefer the quality of AAC at a minimum bitrate of 192-224K.

I do that, too, but then make sure to rip the CD when it arrives because I can choose a higher resolution (320 kbps using Windows Media Player) than the default Amazon settings (around 250 kbps).

Very true. It is helpful when I buy recent music, but none of my NIN albums had that option, nor did their vinyl versions. It is also nice that they keep a copy as a redundant back-up too.

Yet I still cannot help picking up CD's when I am out and about too. It only takes a few minutes to copy it all to HD
anyway. So I really do not mind.

If I actually had a record player I'd probably buy some of the old misfits and samhain LP's, but since I don't I usually just buy mp3 downloads from amazon, much easier to deal with and with my devices can take my music anywhere.

I love the idea of vinyl, but the practicality - for the way I listen to music - makes it MP3s that I play most often.

i dont have i phone and actually i am mostly listening to music straight from youtube.

To make it short, ive got kids and if i had any physical discs, they would get broken, lost and generally take space i need for something else.

Space on HDD is irrelevant really. Even if i bought 4TB hdd just for music what not (which certainly do not need) it wouldnt be *too* expensive.

edit: i do understand the collectors POV - but just saying its not something thats really option or interest to myself. I collect other stuff like books, which i could (should?) have in electronic form just as well ;)

That is no excuse! I have two little shits who have never actually touched my cd's in 10 years. Taught them well! :D

No space and no money for Vinyl, so I settled for FLAC.
MP3's sound quality doesn't satisfy me.