Signs that you are spending too much money on music...

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...what are they?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

1. You have no money left.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

tom nailed it.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, now that is how you kill a thread!

― insectifly (insectifly), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

So the whole idea of accepting a so-so job offer in Notting Hill, JUST to be able to spend my breaks in Rough Trade, that would be a bad thing?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

2. You have a whole bunch of CD's you've never heard (hehe sorry Ned)

3. You buy the same CD twice by accident as you can't remember if you have it or not

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've done no.3 more than once.

4. You've got CDs that are still shrink-wrapped from 3 years ago.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

5. You recieve a gift certificate to a bookstore, and your first thought is about what kind of CD section they have.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

6. Amazon's instant recommendations are spot on.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

7. You refer to your xmas bonus check as "bonus tracks".

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

8. Your trips to IKEA to buy a new CD rack are getting more and more frequent. And you've memeorised the aisle number where they sit.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

9. You own a copy of Thurston Moore's "Psychic Hearts". You paid full price for it.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

9. You become excited when you see records by bands you liked when you were 12 but have now vanished without a trace and surmise that they must be valuable (e.g. Tiger).

10. "CD2 features unreleased B-Sides" actually sounds exciting.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That'll be #10 and #11 now, then.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow! guilty on eight counts so far. Fuckin' Psychic Hearts!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

98. You need more furniture
99. You need less furniture
100. You need a new house

― zebedee, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

101. You put CD's into storage and pay hundreds a month for the service.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

16. Your post in the "last [x amount] records you bought" thread involves use of the scroll bar.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Nordicskillz is it in the Record and Tape Exchange??

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

17) You stand in a record store with album in hand thinking "I can get by without dinner tonight."

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

No, Tom - a company in Westbourne Grove. but I was in the Exchange this morning. Why do you ask??

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I used to work there is all (well, for MVE)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? If it was any time in the last 10 years then I probably know your face!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

the CD store sends you cards & free CDs on your birthday (this was both nice and a little scary)

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

19. You quickly rationalize spending mega import dollars on CDs by listing all the injustices done to you by your signigicant other.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

significant!

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

20. You are me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

ah hoxton bullshit! (20. you are me neither)

― chk chk chk, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

21. you are defensive about your record collection. ("WOW! You have a lot of CDs!!!" , "well I don't smoke...")

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

22. You suspect your cat thinks you're out of control.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

23. You pay cash for new discs so it won't show up on the credit card statements so your wife won't see that you bought more CDs and therefore chase you around with a frying pan (a.k.a. "skillet) screaming about how you and your god damned musical obsession bullshit is driving your family into the poorhouse, just look at the wee ones, all 18 of 'em the poor dears, and young Elvis without even a nightshirt to keep 'im warm at night while you're lollygaggin' around with headphones on singin' 'hot in herre' ye bastard I shoulda married the nice rich guy from college instead of you ye blatherskite.

24. You hide the receipts, too.

― Matt C., Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Your queue of new music to listen to is growing faster than you can listen to it to the point where it weighs several pounds.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

26. You investigate insuring your record collection separately from your other household stuff.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

several pounds

Only several? ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is classic.. its like finding other people who admit to the stuff that you would admit to NO ONE

― insectifly (insectifly), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

27.) You actually spend 130 bucks on the Stooges "Funhouse Sessions" box set. Like I really needed to hear 28 takes of "Loose" in a row?

― Jeff K (jeff k), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

28. forced to get a pay DJ gig to be able to afford dance records

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

28. "2 for £22" = value.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a right magnet today...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

30. People who don't know you that well assume you must be blowing all your money on drugs.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

31. You actually spend 130 bucks on the Stooges "Funhouse Sessions" box set.

And it's still shrink-wrapped. But you had to have it. Just because it's there. One day I will listen to those 28 takes of 'Loose'. But in the meantime no music purchase makes me feel guiltier than this.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Buying records you already have because you found 'em for cheaper than when you bought 'em.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil, I like your logic there.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Re-buying stuff you already have on a different format.

Having a serious conversation with fellow obsessive about how the cat got into their record room and scratched the Warp section (alphabetical order, W nearest the floor, unspoken but acknowledged).

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

How rich are all you people??

I wish 2 for 22 was a bargin cos then I would have bought the BUSTED! album yesterday :(

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm fabulously wealthy beyond your wildest imagination.

Er, uh, no.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit! Why won't someone rich take me out to buy me shoes!! I want shoes more than records - this is mostly cos my cd player is broken and there's no point in playing records cos there's nothing to PLAY THEM ON GRRRRR.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, I only buy shoes for my girlfriend.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha ha... *weeps into oversized collection including Psychic Hearts, duplicates both accidental and on different formats, unheard CDs; mutters "oh, my life" into keyboard*

32. You have entire crates full of stuff you know you'll never want to listen to again but you feel you ought to keep in case anyone is ever impressed by how obscure and unlistenable they are. (On the other hand, "listen to how weird some of my records are!" has proven a handy way of getting unwanted Billy Joel fans out of the house)

― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Another sign that maybe your CD purchasing is getting a little out of hand. You bring a girl back to your place, upon seeing, what you thought was quite an impressive collection, says..."Oh my God! why do you have so many CD's?"...followed by..."I never even heard of half this stuff" and then, the ultimate insult..."you should really sell some of these, think of how much extra space you'd have"

― Jeff K (jeff k), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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for free, I should add....

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

What would it feel like to have no debt but no music?

eerily quiet, for the one obvious reason, but also for the incedental reason that creditors will get the eff off your jammy.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The worst is when you don't remember if you have a record. Browsing old vinyl this happens to me all the time -- I always pick up 70s rock that might be of interest if I find it cheap. So I come accross a clean $2 copy of Hunky Dory and wonder, "Hmm... do I have this one?"

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 5 January 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Funnily enogh, I have two "Stationtostation" albums both bought for £1, only about 6 weeks apart...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 January 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I swear I have about four copies of "1999", but I can't find any of them. Time to head over to Amoeba...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 January 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You read the following comment on this thread:

"Having a serious conversation with fellow obsessive about how the cat got into their record room and scratched the Warp section (alphabetical order, W nearest the floor, unspoken but acknowledged)"

You immediately think: W's nearest the floor? That person can't have much by XTC, Neil Young, Frank Zappa or "Various Artists"!

My "W" section finishes on the row above the one nearest the floor!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: you know that your "W" section finishes on the row above the one nearest the floor.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

...and starts three rows higher than that. ;o)

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Three rows higher Nick?

You must have an awful lot of Tom Waits / Wedding Present / Weezer / Wire / Wonderstuff / Stevie Wonder....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

3. You buy the same CD twice by accident as you can't remember if you have it or not

Having encountered this problem several times, you keep a complete list of copies in your collection (including details of edition, release date etc) on your PDA in a spreadsheet (generated by export from your full database obviously).

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course these happened to 'a friend of mine':

You have semi-regular dreams about the guy who owned the record shop in the last town you lived in.

You are asked to look after a charity shop whilst you are record shopping there, whilst the assistant 'just nips outside'.

This even't the charity shop you buy most stuff from.

You have a 'charity shop you buy most from'.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

When asked if you are into a certain band or artist, you say 'no, don't know much about 'em, I've only got a best of and a coupla singles. And one of their later albums. I think.'

You are being serious.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Three rows higher Nick?
You must have an awful lot of Tom Waits / Wedding Present / Weezer / Wire / Wonderstuff / Stevie Wonder....

Or short rows?

My count of CDs by artists whose names begin with "W" is 46. A full row is about 60.

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

A full row is about 60.

But of course you never fill your rows cos you've got to leave ~10% space for additions.

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

You always "round up" to buying an even number of back catalogue £5 CDs in Fopp because it's just, y'know, neater.

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't find CD storing furniture big enough for your collection.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"A full row is about 60."

You're not spending enough money on music! A full row is more like 200!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

true life:
you make a conscious effort to cut back your music spending, and three months later your favourite music store in the whole world closes.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It occurred to me that all the debt that I have accumulated by spending money on music might be assuaged somewhat were I to sell some of said music.

Only in Utopia, where you aren't told, "Yeah, we'll buy your $20 German import of Aladdin Sane (for instance) for $2." At those types of prices, you're screwed if you have a trunkful to sell, and a debt higher than $50.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The professional movers you hire to lug your possessions onto the truck laugh when they see your dozens of boxes of CDs and vinyl and say, "Jesus, I've never seen anything like this in my life." Makes you feel like you've done something useful with your life.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

You are flown out to record shops and met at the door by the manager, who says, 'Welcome back, sir!' and gives you a glass of champagne.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

you feel guilty about not buying stuff you don't even fucking want

― pete s, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the best thread ever!!

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

you start to worry about purchasing '3 CDs for £20' in the HMV sale, realising you're uncomfortably close to paying £6.66 for each album....

― pete s, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

you take a basket when you enter the store

― pete s, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You are in the top 30 posters on ILM and you are not a music journalist in any way, shape, or form.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh-oh.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i lose

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't have any money left to buy porn

― Hmmm, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, surface noise. You are not a journalist. You are merely a (pah!) musician.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

that's even worse!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

you buy old reissues even though you just KNOW they're going to get remastered soon

― pete s, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

@d@m, Macs do have CD burners, don't they?

― Leee Smith (Leee), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you feel guilty about not buying stuff you don't even fucking want
Oh dear, my last trip to Oslo was full of these.
"Woah, a new Old Man Gloom EP; This I gotta get! But uhh, I think I've played the two albums I've played max five times each, and I'm not even that fond of them... but still, when else am I gonna get the chance to buy this..? It's pretty cheap too. "

It sucks, but I'm able to control myself nowadays! I sucked at keeping my ... wait, ok, another point then!:

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You vow to not buy any albums for so and so money months(weeks? Hours?).

You fail.

I'm proud to say that I'm officially at the point where my CD collection is shrinking rather than expanding. ANd it's probably REALLY sad that this makes me feel somewhat proud. But at least my bank account's growing a bit again. Yay online sale!

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

...you've got no food to eat and lotsa shiny flat aluminum plates (w/ big holes in the middle) to not-eat it off of.

― Scott Bloomfield, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't find CD storing furniture big enough for your collection

I had to have mine custom made at the price of $200, and still the cds overflow onto the floor. I have realized, finally, that I can probably part with 10% of them so that is my January New Year's Resolution.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't find anything in the whole store that you want to buy that you don't already own .. So you just buy some of those live Fall CDs.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

...a fellow music-store patron mistakes you for an employee, and you don't bother to correct her. (Actually happened!)

― Scott Bloomfield, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

@d@m, Macs do have CD burners, don't they?

Not this one, Leee. ;(

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You realize that if the rest of the world is wiped out by nuclear war, the first time you'll realize is when you can't find anything on soulseek.

― Stupid (Stupid), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

you go to Amoeba and can't find anything to buy.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

You have reasons for buying CDs/albums/whatever that have nothing to do with wanting to listen to it.

You buy stuff figuring you can resell it for profit to an interested party, but never get around to doing so.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

your 35 and your mommy demands to see your weekly pay stub and demands that you start paying rent or she'll start taking your pay and giving you allowance out of that.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I love you guys.

I'll add mine: You file this thread under Favorites>Music>Obsessiveness

― John 2, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

you hand in your notice to take up a new job which happens to be closer to some fine record shops. (as per My Life 29/12/03)...

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You look around for second-hair stores because paying £5 a pop in Fopp is just ruining you.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

second-hair stores?
You're scary

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

not if they sell music. i'm there ..

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You have a dream about buying a Flipper album THAT DOES NOT EXIST last night...sigh...

― John 2, Thursday, 8 January 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't have Slsk or anyother p2p installed.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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