Buy cd's? You mean their still for sale and we haven't bankrupt the RIAA? Ohh.

Yup, I have close to 200 burned CD's since November of 2001. Plus about 200 unburned songs on my PC. I have a HUGE CD carousel (201) attached to my TV/PS/VCR/sound system that is full of almost all bought CD's. Bah, buying CD's made me poor too fast. I have everything from bluegrass to modern country to oler country including my very close family member Duane Eddy. My collection extends through CCR and the aerosmith days up to current DMB, Creed, and yes I enjoyed Hanson (it deffinately beat the boy bands of that time, Hanson's music was not all popish). I also have in my collection classical such as Mozart, because I study music, and even to the extent of Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Kid Rock. If it's not techno or rap, then I have it.

In my portable cd player: Counting Crows: Hard Candy
In my boombox: Catch 22, Washed up and thru the ringer!
In my dad's car: John Mayer: Room for Squares

My car: New Linkin Park cd
Brother's Room: Box Car Racer cd/Hoobastank
Dad's car: newer sting cd/hoobastank
Computer: nothing right now

Dude, every single song that has ever been put into a digital format. The only thing by them I don't have is an old 45 single they put out a long time ago called "Lets talk about some rootbeer ya'll" So my answer, EVERYTHING!!!!!!! I am little obsessive, but it's ok to be obsessive sometimes...

Oh yeah, seen them in concert 3 times, and met them once!!

New Linkin Park CD = Reanimation

why is there no place on the voting for death/progressive metal. in flames, children of bodom, liquid tension experiment, sonata arctica, and warmen. metallica is always great though, also pink floyd

In My room: New Found Glory
On My Comp: Juliana Theory and Eve 6

Weezer - Pinkerton
Led Zeppelin - II
Led Zeppelin - Presence

The reason why there's not every category I could think of is because you can only have 10 options for the poll....

Plus, I wasn't sure we'd have many hardcore/metal fans...

As for whats in my cd player (ACDC), I don't really listen to cd's that much. I just turn on my winamp playlist... on there I have everything from ACDC, Aerosmith, Zepplin, Hendrix, and Black Sabbath to "Stand By Me" and "Play That Funky Music Whiteboy" to B52's, Billy Idol, Whitesnake, Queen, and Steppenwolf to AFI, Catch 22, Face to Face, Alkaline Trio, the Ataris, the Bouncing Souls, Unwritten Law, and Pennywise to U2, Goo Goo Dolls, and Third Eye Blind. Heck, I've even got Incubus, P.O.D., Hoobastank, and Primus on here. The other day I cracked up when I realized my playlist went from Metallica to "Stand By Me" (the origional, mind you!) to Catch22 and I didn't even notice. The only thing I'm really missing on my playlist is classical (but I've still got some), rap (excluding Tupac's Changes - one of the few rap songs I feel actually say something important), hip-hop, and tennie-bopper pop. The way I see it, music is there for entertainment and more. If you limit yourself to only one variety or only one genre, you're missing out on so much music.

But out of curiosity, where would you guys classify Dave Matthews Band? Not on this poll, but in general? I'd say pop would be the easiest, but (excluding their one pop-song, I Did It) DMB as a whole doesn't fall into pop (download "#36" (18 megs, awesome percussion intro) or "Ants Marching" - both of these are AWESOME live recordings from the Red Rocks concert) and you'll see right away that their style is not pop. It's kinda rock, but not really.

Anyways, the same question applies to other psuedo-cult bands. Do bands like Dispatch, Cake, Phish, Widespread Panic - do they have a particular genre, or would you just put them under the generic "Alternative" label?

DMB falls into more of an alternative genre I'd think.

Man do I miss my old computer...around 20,000 mp3s. *sigh*

My computer- nothing (I don't really listen to music much, but any I do are mp3 in my winamp)
Brother's Computer- same as my computer for same reason.
the 5 disk CD player in the Den of my house- No Doubt: Tragic Kingdom, Aaron Carter: Oh Aaron, Backstreet Boys: Millemium, Linkin Park: [Hybrid Theory], and a CD with various anime theme songs that my brother burned
Mom's Car- A book on CD for long car rides. (Not sure what book.)
Dad's Car- Not sure
Brothers Car- nothing, but he has a laptop with 100's of mp3's on it to listen to.

No, I meant is there anything more specific? "Alternative" is not only generic, but as Adam pointed out with country, it's just a very broad category.

Has anyone hear Troy Stetina play his metal version of Beethoven's 23rd Sonata? It is SO FREAKIN AWESOME!! Classical music played in a metal style sounds so cool. I want someone to play Paganini's 16th Caprice on electric guitar. That would be amazing.