[gmku]

I used to get rid of records and CDs when I got tired of them. Traded them in usually. Then I started finding I would miss them, even the cheesy ones. Now I keep everything, except when I replace something with a better copy (for example, a new mint pressing of an old record that I played to death in my childhood).

It is still tempting to do this with stuff I come to dislike. It's almost like purging it from my collection would make the record collection stronger or something. But for at least the past 15 years or so, I've resisted the temptation, and I find I go back to a lot of stuff I once might have given away.