do you have a "wants list"?

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.....of records (CDs, whatever) i mean? & what's on it?

― duane zarakov, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, I do. Everything is on it. Except the stuff I know I don't want.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes. It is a combination of my amazon wishlist, and whatever it is I can remember that I've been wanting lately when I'm in a store. I used to keep an extensive list on paper but it fell into disuse because a lot of it was so hard to find. I still make small want lists when I know I will be near good CD stores, though, because I have a habit of forgetting everything I wanted as soon as I enter the store.

― Josh, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I keep an extensive list on my palm. It's perfect when browsing the record store aisles. I keep a seperate list to catalog all my purchases.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'An Evening with Wild Man Fischer'

― tarden, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I threw it away when it changed from a haiku to a James Joyce novel. Now I keep a mental list of what I want to buy:
Leaving Trains
Nuggets 2
Dramarama

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, mine is The Seeds and it's driving me crazy!

― Maryann, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes. Small text file on my unix account. I never print it or take it anywhere, just look at it before shopping to jog my memory.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No. Every time I've tried to make one I've ended up getting miserable and thinking I dont want anything on it. Individual records I really really want are usually new ones and I've hyped myself for them enough that I'm unlikely to forget them.

― Tom, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've hyped myself for them enough
Why do I picture Tom juming up 'n' down yelling "Yes yes yes!!!" and then suddenly running like mad into the recordstore?

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, it's in my wallet, one side with records I have to buy (most of them oldies that I never seem to get around, I'll remember buying the new Aaliyah without a list ;), the other side with books. It just happens too often that i'm in the shop and then go blank...

― Omar, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a ridiculously long buying list, but I don't carry it around - I pretty much know what's on it and what's not. Part of its purpose is to help me restrain myself when I feel like buying everything in the store - if it's not on the list, it stays on the shelves.

― Patrick, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm a terrible listmaker, I couldn't get through the day without them, I'm afraid. I have one, I put it on a post-it note (or two or three) in my date book, and, like Patrick, it acts as a deterrent as much as anything else.

― scott p., Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want YOU to want... ME!

― JM, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

stevie nixed:

dramarama - anything anything makes me cry. it is the anxiety of love gone wrong, the sound perfected, in that song.

― ty@hotmail, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes.

i can't believe i'm the first to have done this.

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm really intrigued by the fact that so many people have a specific list to refer to. I don't shop that way at all -- there will be the occasional new release I must get the day of appearance, but otherwise it's just a matter of wandering in a store and seeing what's there, somehow that feels more fun. There's more chance, as I see it, for being surprised and thinking, "Sure, why not?"

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If I could afford to own 4500 records, I could probably afford to chuck the list altogether and be more spontaneous ;)

― Patrick, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

perhaps at this time ned should reveal what he did this past weekend at a certain record store. "sure, why not?" was said MANY times over. ;)

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i can't believe i'm the first to have done this.

fred: cash cow or the new gary numan?

I am leaning towards gary...

― Nicole, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The list is more of a reminder and, as Patrick hinted, a pecking order. Lack of spontaneity is an unfortunate consequence of having so much information about music and artists available -- and the ability to download songs. And then of course, there's the money.

― scott p., Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I indulged at Amoeba, that's all. Hell, as I mentioned in the concert thread, about a third to a half of my purchases were a buck, two bucks each! Piece o' cake.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of course I do. It's right here.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dan: bandwagon hopper or evil bitch?

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan's not evil, he's good and cuddly. Which is *precisely* what he wants you to think, I'm sure.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He's good bad, but he's not evil... ;-)

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You see, this is what I get for not reading the middle of the thread before posting: scads and scads of abuse.

YES!!!!!!!!!

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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