I was kind of suprised that the largest range was 'more than 10 gigs'...I think I've got around 33 or 34. Whenever I buy a new CD, I rip it even before adding it to my database.

Why? Because I'm lazy. I don't want to switch CDs 10 times an hour just to get the combination of songs I want to listen to while I'm coding. Nor do I want to carry the CDs between all the different rooms where I want to listen to music.