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I have one of every format I ever purchased: open-reel, cassette, 8-track, Elcaset, LP, CD, MiniDisc... The only thing I don't have is DCC. In every format I have at least one recording not available on any other. That is reason enough for me!

I keep my records for several reasons. First, the cost of replacing them would have been very high. Secondly, I knew that most of them would get less and less playing as time went on. Finally, the audio quality of the first 15 years of CD players was questionable, at best, in the price range I could afford. I don't see me dumping my CDs for the same reasons, plus the fact it leaves a "hard" copy in your control. I still have my almost 40-year-old SL-120, although the original SME SII was replaced with a SIII in the early '80s. It only gets used a couple times a month anymore. There have been some CDs that I have bought that are duplicates of vinyl I still have, but mainly to play in the car or to replace very well-worn favorites. My first CD player, bought in the mid '90s and very well-reviewed at the time for its price range ($550), was torture to listen to and was replaced by something much more satisfactory about seven years ago.

Yes, I have dumped the cassettes, MiniDiscs, reel-to-reel, and most of the vinyl. None of it is worth the hassle or the space it takes up.

Cassettes never stuck with me. It was my first interactive format and I recorded a few things, then CDs came out and tapes were history about five minutes later.

When I got married, I left all my LPs to my brother. After a while I bought a record player and started getting them back. I'm not sure why.

When CD came out, I sold all my audiophile cassettes from MFSL, In Sync Labs, Audible Illusions, Aesthetic Audio, and Direct to Tape and my Nakamichi cassette deck to purchase the perfect sound forever CD format via the awful-sounding Sony CDP-101. After six months, I sold it. The pain of listening to music was just too intense. Since then, CD has gotten better but it is still complete crap. On the other hand, I have discovered other digital formats I like: SACD, DVD-Audio, and high-resolution downloads. I wish I had never sold my audiophile cassettes, as after decades of hunting, most were nowhere to be found and the few I found cost way too much money. CD's false advertising cost me my audiophile cassette collection and I have never forgiven Sony for that. Perfect sound forever was not a promise it was a curse, IMHO.

I gradually replaced all the cassettes I really liked with LPs and CDs. I am now doing the same with my digital library, as I originally ripped a number CDs to MP3. I am now re-ripping to WMA lossless, but luckily, there aren't many to do, as I discovered the superiority of lossless quite early on.

What older formats? Just stay away from computers and you won't end up with 30,000 albums on floppy discs with nothing that will play them.

I took my turntable out of my system five or six years ago. I don't see myself ever going back to analog records, even though I have not sold my record collection started back in the '50s. If I had a buyer for my 300 or so records, I would sell them.

Who needs physical digital media? I sold my CDs and bought a RAID array.

Thankfully, I kept all of my LPs from as far back as the '50s. The same is true of much of my stereo gear (eg original Marantz 9s and Klipschorns). When people were trashing their LPs in the early '80s for perfect sound forever, I was buying them up at bargain basement prices. My wife calls me a music pack rat and I'm proud to agree with her.

Yeah, I tried getting into vinyl in the '90s, but decided that more was available on CD at the time. I only had a small vinyl collection at the time, which I traded for CDs. Now I almost only buy vinyl

I sold my 2000+ LP collection for 50¢ a piece. What a stupid move. Ah, the siren song of CD "convenience."

Dumped records for CDs. Tapes were my last hold out. I must say I miss my cassettes most. I am very slowly rebuilding my records. Tapes are very hard to find now. I must say that SACD has been a salvation to me, it is an almost perfect format.

Yes, but my Lear 8-track recorder remains (with two cassette decks) in a closet in a back bedroom.

I have given away many records, tapes, and CDs, but never because the format was no longer totally hip. When I finished ripping all my CDs to my 1TB hard drive, it died. New drive was free. When I have a mirror drive installed, I may try again.

I replaced my cassette tapes with CDs. I'm glad I did that, but I don't see myself getting rid of my CDs.

My CDs will be there long after my hard drives have crashed again (fortunately I had a backup).

Since the invention of MP3 players & DACs, I've only purged what CDs & vinyl records I no longer want (almost all of them). I sell these to local record traders & use the proceeds to purchase music that I don't have.

I was born in 1961 and didn't have any money for music until my early twenties, which coincided with the cassette tape era—a truly low-fi experience, despite my Nakamichi 505. Bought my first CD in 1985 and ditched all the cassettes. Of course, now I am a vinyl junkie, but I won't be disposing of any of my CDs any time soon

It seems everything I get rid of, I later regret.

Just went back to my parents' basement for all my old records. Damn glad they never had a garage sale! I tossed most of my old cassettes, though.

I purged LPs, but not when CDs first came out and not because I didn't want them. I was in desperate need of cash and sold all my LPs.

I still have several hundred records and (self-recorded) tapes. No plans to get rid of my collection of CDs either. I continue to listen to all the formats from time to time, including my MP3 recordings. Some recordings are only available on one format.

The vinyl I'll never part with, but the CDs, mmm. If I can get them all ripped to FLAC and backed up once or twice, maybe. But probably not, I like having the physical media.

Never, you can never get back what you sell off—once it's gone it is gone forever and you will regret it.

Hell no. Do I look that stupid? If anybody has music on formats they want to get rid of, I'll take 'em!

Still have about 500 cassettes, purchased or recorded from CDs in the late '80s when my car had only a cassette player. Although I haven't listened to 90% of them in the last decade, I hate to throw them out. I feel sorry for them. Is there a heaven for cassette tapes?

In 1983, I sold all my 400 LPs and my Pioneer Pl-L1000. Now, I have four turntables (Garrard Zero 100, Kenwood-Trio 400, NAD, and JVC E5) and 10,000+ LPs. I do not listen to CD.

Got rid of my records and tapes in the early '90s. Biggest mistake I have made. I wish I still had that stuff.