I do both with retail & live recordings, I keep the CDs & digitalize them (not all, but a lot). I buy about 70% of my retail releases, and download the rest, yep, I'm a music pirate sometimes. Arrrr. But, since I still trade rather often I need to keep the data versions of live shows and seeing as my collection is rather large I'd need to have at least five or six 1TB HDDs just to store it - currently I have one 1TB and two 330GB HDDs pretty much filled with shows. I lost count of my burned CDs sometime after 3k.I backup most live recordings on DVDs now-a-day to save HDD & CD bookcase space. I will be purging hundreds of them (bands I just don't listen to anymore - mostly jambands) some time soon, so I'll more then likely offer them up for B&P, before I consider throwing them out. I'll post a list when its figured out.