How long does it take before you give up on a lost object and buy it again?

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N's mention of the Lovin' Spoonful on ILM reminds me that it's been 4 years and 3 house moves since my best-of CD vanished but I still can't bring myself to buy another one. Is this mental?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes! 'You didn't have to be so nice' is one of the loveliest songs of all time and the Best Of can be picked up for about a fiver.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I know N. and "Darling Be Home Soon" is similarly essential but I just can't bear to. I can do it if a CD gets scratched or otherwise fucked up but replacing a lost object feels like I'm denying my destiny or something ridiculous.

(There is far too little Lovin Spoonful chat on ILM)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

The remote control for my pre-amp vanished some time early in Greenwich (spring '99) - I'm convinced it somehow wormed its way deep into the couch and so, even though I got as far as ringing up the company and pricing a replacement last year, I'm hoping it'll just pop out one day, like the war veterans who sneeze out a bullet 10 years after being demobbed.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

(There is far too little Lovin Spoonful chat on ILM)

Yes, I think the last time they came up was on a discussion about sperm fluid.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Obviously this thread is to steel my nerve to do it in my lunch break.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:43 (twenty-three years ago)

My copy of the first two Magnetic Fields albums has been missing for almost two years and I still haven't replaced it.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Did they GET LOST

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 28 July 2003 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I hope they're only on HOLIDAY.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 28 July 2003 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

They must have taken a WAYWARD BUS.

I rarely replace records/books/etc I have lost because it seems like a waste of the thrill of purchase. It seems much too prosaic, just housekeeping, whereas - ideally - buying something should be a magical leap into unknown possibilities. But that's just me.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 28 July 2003 10:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Sadly I keep finding my copy of The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs. If anyone would like it, please ask.

There is a magnificent version of "Darling Be Home Soon", very tenderly sung by Noddy Holder, on the Slade "Alive" (geddit?) album. Anyone know where I can get hold of a copy?

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 28 July 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

With albums I don't replace them, because they eventually turn up. I still feel guilty for accusing my sister of stealing a bunch of cds from me when she was watching the apartment, because I finally found all of them about a month ago in a bag at the back of my closet.

― Larcole (Nicole), Monday, 28 July 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Ouch. :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 July 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Sadly I keep finding my copy of The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs. If anyone would like it, please ask.

You silly man (I'll have it if you don't want it - I've never got around to having my own copy).

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 28 July 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Its yours then, N. I'll give it to you at the weekend.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 28 July 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hurrah!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 28 July 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't been able to find my copy of Legs McNeil's "Please Kill Me" book for years. I think I hid it because I knew these friends were coming over that would want to borrow it but they never return stuff so I thought I was being fiendishly clever. Or maybe they did take it and I have been wishing that I hid it and have constructed a comforting lie.

Also the software CD for my scanner, now that I have newer PC. But there's no irony in that tale.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

You should probably be able to download the software for your scanner from the manufacturers website, possibly under 'support' or 'downloads'.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

somewhere in my flat is an envelope with nz$40 worth of supermarket vouchers in it; & I'm refusing to buy food until I find them. Getting really hungry, tho.

― etc, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)

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