NPR produced an interesting piece on a Wisconsin-based company, Murfie, that stores clients’ actual CDs in its headquarters for a small fee. Clients get digital access to all of their music and retain ownership of the CDs, though they stay at Murfie’s office space. Many people these days have iPods or equivalent technology devices, and have uploaded most, if not all, of their collections onto their computers, leaving the actual CDs in an unused pile somewhere. If you have a music CD collection you haven’t touched in a long time but don’t want to fully part with, this might be a good option.
For more details on this NPR story.
I would love to hear from you if you decide to go down this path. Let me know how you find the process and whether it works for you.
Thanks to Dena Zigun for giving me a heads up about this resource.