Albums you were certain you owned...

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...Hi ILX - Here's the thing. It's the weekend. Sleep, Sun. Bagels for breakfast. All should be well in the Nordicskillz household. Only...I've spent all morning looking for Prince's "1999". And I can't find the fucking thing. I can visualize the spine, but the Nordicstacks (tm) will not yield. And I'm beginning to think...did I ever own it? Or do I just know it so well that i think I own it? But then, of course I have my own copy! Or do I?

What are the albums that you know so well you could swear you own them...but maybe don't?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 12 April 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread has clearly been done Many Times Before.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 12 April 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Or...like I said, it's the weekend, and no-one's on ILX.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 12 April 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Jennie Bomb by Sahara Hotnights. Actually, there's no question at all that I own it (I actually remember making the purchase), but now I want to hear it and can't find it fucking anywhere! I've been looking for almost two days.

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 12 April 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Somewhere a music gremlin is makin' luuurve and rocking out in equal measure, then...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 12 April 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

That same music gremlin feels guilty for his fun afterwards when he listens to the copy of "OK Computer" I bought in '97, which mysteriously disappeared shortly thereafter. I bought a new one a couple years later after having turned my house over under sideways down looking for it.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

This happens to me all the time, but it's usually because i often sell things out of desperation before burning or copying them and regret it later. At one point I kept a log on Microsoft Word of everything I sold - dated and everything - but just sorta gave up when it got to be too many pages. Most recently this occurred while searching for a record I actually play on, but it was nowhere to be found, which of course is a bummer. Several Misfits bootlegs have also inexplicably gone missing recently, as well as several Labradford CDs and the Magnetic Fields box set.

How many of you fools have re-bought stuff? Lordy, I could tell you stories. Even beyond records: I've bought - and sold - the Big Muff guitar pedal FOUR TIMES. I currently don't own one but I'm sure the next time I feel like rocking out I'll take my Visa card to Sam Ash and get a new one, then when the Sleep kick once again hibernates for the season, up on ebay it goes.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 13 April 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

I've had entire discographies disappear. All my Os Mutantes disappeared. I think an ex-girlfriend took 'em ten years ago. I could have sworn I had my Fugazi CDs at work and were stolen there. So I wrote to Dischord to buy them all again, and they were kind enough to sell them for just $5 each. Then it turned out a friend had them for years, and didn't bother to return them. I asked him to either give them back so I can sell them and recoup my losses, or buy them from me for what I paid Dischord. He gave me some cash, but was $10 short. What a dick. I didn't make an issue of it so as not to appear petty. At least I got to replace them with remasters.

Recently I could have sworn I bought the last Earth album just a couple months ago, but I can't find it anywhere.

― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 5 September 2009 15:04 (sixteen years ago)

This is like my whole life. Often complicated by music-o-phile roommates who own the same things and also sell you their stuff/vice-versa and no one can remember what happened.

― oing oing oing (╓abies), Saturday, 5 September 2009 15:08 (sixteen years ago)

A few weeks ago I looked for Travelogue by the Human League, which I couldn't find (despite owning the entire Human League catalog on vinyl).. I dreamed last night I was looking at a copy - which was weird in itself. Than later today I found two copies at a record fair. I didn't buy either as I was convinced I still have a copy at home.

I plan to spend the evening looking through every record I own to find the bloody thing..

how sad....

― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 5 September 2009 15:13 (sixteen years ago)

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