Oh, a dedicated CD collector will find a way.
I've moved... what was it... 15 times in the last decade, three of them cross-country migrations, and I managed to bring my CD collection with me every step of the way. It's met with a few casualties as the years climb onward, but I'm upwards around 300 again, having recently repurchased an old obscure favorite and finished my Sister Machine Gun collection all in one fell swoop. Downloading music takes away from the thrill of the hunt... the joy of finding that one rare gem lurking in some dark record store's Discount Bin! I don't know what I would do if I didn't have the Zen of flipping through CD stacks in record stores... or the ability to point at my home collection and go, "Yeah, that's right: Skinny Puppy's entire repertoire!"
My disc collection is my only treasured worldly possession besides my computer (which wouldn't be as treasured as it is if it didn't contain almost two decades of original fiction). Otherwise, I'm a travel-prepared hobo.
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