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In Reply to: Re: curious question posted by TA on July 18, 2004 at 23:43:06:
--the curious question is when people look at my record collection (or yours maybe) and ask, "can you really listen to *all* those albums?"Don't even ask. :)
My music collection probably cost me 10x more than I paid for my stereo components. At least that is somewhat comforting.In my book spending money on music easily beats spending money on dvds. I'd much rather buy a record or two than a dvd. Looks like you're the same way.
That's a hobby/addiction, just like dvd collecting, so there really are no rights and wrongs here, just personal choices, even though for me personally paying $30 for a Criterion dvd that I will probably watch maybe twice would be almost unthinkable. I do have a couple of those, though.This could develop into an interesting thread.
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Gunga-Galunga
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I have 3000 jazz records and CDs and about 1000 classical. I have been collecting since I was 13, almost 50 years now, and I listen every day to at least one lp or CD.
Good man!
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Gunga-Galunga
very, very much the same as you, Dimitry. what is not comforting is that right now i probably have over 50 sacds in my home that i bought in the last two years but haven't listened to yet ... somehow, i was only rational enough to make myself stop buying dvds and books.i will probably put those sacds up on the (now free) classifieds at some point. with all the good new titles coming out, i don't think i'll ever get around to listening to those discs.
here's another question -- do you prefer to go record shopping or listen to the records you own? i think you can guess what my answer would be. for any collector, i think the *idea* that you're going to enjoy what you buy can be more exciting than the act of enjoying that thing. i suspect that it has something to do with our primordial urge to HUNT ... ;-)
"HO, HO, HO!" - Santa Claus
I'm at a stage now where our small 1-bedroom has something relating to jazz in every room, including the bathroom.
I probably have 400 lps I haven't played yet, but the hoarding stage is finally over and the cataloguing stage has started.
I just bought a record cleaning machine my records deserve, and the weeding out process started about a month ago. I am slowly building a "for sale/trade" pile and doing a lot of critical listening/note taking and entering my records/cds into the wonderful catraxx database.
I doubt I'd ever be as anal with dvds. They are a disposable commodity for me.It actually feels liberating to sell the unwanted stuff. Looks like you're ripe for that, man.
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