vinyl junkie confessions

No, but asking questions is. Seriously though, I feel like I'm the only person around here who doesn't collect albums like albums will never be made again ever in the history of all things. I already have more records than I actually listen to so I cut back on buying and now only buy things I really really want (except for when I get bored and have already exhausted the clothes racks at H&M and the picture frame racks at Pottery Barn, so I go to a record store and buy things like Millennium Hip Hop Party because it makes me laugh). Last night as the first night I bought CDs in several weeks. It's never put me in debt, I wouldn't allow spending habits to put me in debt because nothing you spend money on is necessary. *shrugs* I sort of feel like I'm alone because I know so many people who just horde their records like gold.

I have purged my music collection for two reasons alone: hating the CDs in question or being in need of money ASAP. That's it (and it's usually a combination of the two). I don't quite understand the idea of liberating yourself...? I don't like the idea of a record collection being an extention of personality, it allows for the idea that people don't need personality, they can just talk about music, but that's going into my own issues with people and that's not appropriate.

This is all a big way of saying I have no addictions to music, or similar spending habits. I don't feel a need to horde, possibly because I don't believe any of my possessions define me.

Maybe it's just a product of the fact that I'm a really 'tight' person anyway (sorry, I have money in my bank account, what's wrong with saving it?) but I have never really gone OTT with buying records. £50 a few times, but that's it. I don't buy hundreds because I need time to listen to them all - I've found about 3 at a time is about my limit. If I bought thousands of records, what would the point be? Hence, I haven't got around to buying a fair majority of all the so-called 'classics' and probably won't. There is so much out there, and you physically can't listen to it all. But I do keep absoloutely everything I have ever bought and intend to never throw it away unless in dire financial need.

Bill

I do, however, have a friend who blew about £1500 on records and drugs in a month. Not sure how much went on what, but he spends too much anyway!

Bill

bought a lot of records, but never got into debt over it. more likely to spend money on going out. to be honest, its never felt like collecting or anything. i just buy shit if i feel like it.

...but if I had the same record collection as another man, how would all the women tell between us?

I have 335+ records and I placed them in chronological order (by date of release) earlier this year. No one calls me anymore.

Paul and I no longer have to buy albums any more, people just mail them to us. For FREE!!! They are taking over the flat.

It is a mania, it is an obsession, I have more than I could ever listen to in a week, and I keep buying more. I can't defend my obsession, they just make me happy when I flip through them and am able to find the perfect music to suit whatever mood I am in. I don't think I collect them as objects, the way someone collects stamps or something, I really do get them because I need the music.

I did "start over" once. In fact, several times. Whenever I move, I can never bring my whole collection with me. When I moved from the US to the UK the last time, I brought only a dozen albums with me. I now have more in the UK than I have back in storage in the US. I have gone several months at a time without buying records, so it's not really an addiction, but I'm always sad when I do that, because I end up having never bought albums which I will forever regret not getting.

Every now and then, someone will point out how ridiculous the mania is. Like, my mum will point at a box of CDs and say "You know, if you'd saved the money instead, you'd have enough to buy a car". But I wouldn't of, I'd only have bought food or something dull like that.

Another record-collection thread. Hurray!

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does your music collecting habit ever feel like a mania?

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used to when I was 15....even had an official non-buying period of a month, just to prove I could live without buying another record. Worked out fine.

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do you buy more records than you have time to listen to?

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No, this would be very depressing. Altohugh sometimes it feels that way. Can listen to a lot of music on way to work, at work, in the evening a bit softer music for the lil'one. A try to buy 1 or 2 cd's every two weeks, which is just about right. Have become a bit better at postponing buys...I don't need that album on the day it's released ;)

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has record-collecting ever put you into debt?

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Hell no! That would be stupid. Actually never been in debt :)

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has record-collecting kept you in a state of suspended adolescense?

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Could be, most people tend to grow out of fanatical music collecting or better fanatic listening (I don't think of myself as a collector). They just seem to give up and don't get worked up about music anymore.

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have you ever purged your music collection in an attempt to liberate yourself?

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hahaha. No chance, have fantasized about it though, used to think it would be impossible, nowadays I think I could live on with 12 desert- island discs.

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do you feel like your record collection is an extension of your personality that expresses things about you better than you could yourself?

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yes, have accepted this idea along time ago, apparently others feel this way too, praise Hera! Always like to check out people's books and music collections, tells a lot about them.

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is buying records an addiction?

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buying is the addiction. I buy as many books as cd's/albums. I crave it, I love to plan it/think about it/ And there's something of a rush when you finally hear the music for the first time and it is good.

Music good, lack of money bad. I've said it before and I'll say it again, but I manage. :-) Don't ask me how the hell I'm going to move all this stuff later in the year, assuming I finally get my condo...

I love to buy records, even though I've finally started to get the occasional free record. Every Monday, I go to Berwick St after work and pick up the week's new releases. The people in Sister Ray there actually know me now, and it's a wonderful, wonderful ritual. One of the week's highlights, in fact, and the only reason that Monday is bearable.

Is it an addiction? Maybe. I've spent vast amounts on music over the years. But it's made me really happy. I have a wildly eclectic record collection, and I'm proud of it. I like knowing that I can fit almost any situation with a record... It is taking over the flat though, buying mostly vinyl and all...

Yeah, how in the hell are you going to move all of that stuff Ned? I'm not even joking, I think you need a moving van for just cds alone (or know someone with a huge and obnoxious SUV? But even then...). I had the worst time trying to move my collection, and I don't even have that much compared with most of you folks. I don't try to hoard it either -- there's stuff I would love to get rid of, but I'm mainly too lazy to do anything about it. However, moving made me feel like I have a lot cds/vinyl than I had really realized or thought about before.

It'll all come down to excellent packing and strong tape. Happily, I plan on moving over a series of weeks if it all works out, so it won't be so immediately crazed as if I had to do it in a day or something equally fiendish.

This is not a brag, but a warning: There are many more than ten thousand album-length recordings in our household, most of them bought used or purloined in various creative ways. Our floors are sagging, and only the bookshelves can compete. The sad thing is, even if I live to be a hundred, I'll never be able to listen to everything more than twice. Which makes me wonder every time I pick up an album from some obscure corner--will we ever meet again?

Reading Dan's story about how all his albums were stolen on the theft thread made me feel rather insecure. I wonder to what degree I define myself according to my music collection. I don't own that many records ( read: CDs ), and I'm not the type to go on irresponsible binge buying sprees ( certainly nothing of debt-inducing proportions), but I think I really would feel some sense of genuine loss, a sense that I'd lost some part of myself, if I woke up and all my music was gone. Not that it isn't replaceable at this point. But still.

Even the biggest record collections could be turned into mp3 and stored on one of these 60gigabyte hardrives that are out now. THeres compresion for ya!

The theft thing only became an issue for me today. I had a crate of vinyl in the car and I parked up and thought, "Hmm - wonder if anyone would break in for that?" (The ICE in the car's stealth so I don't usually worry.) It was only when I thought about how many records a crate holds (about 75?) and how much each record costs (roughly £8 on average) that I realised there was actually quite a lot of cash there.

I don't worry about having spent a lot of money though. I will when I need money but I've got loads of pleasure out of records so why worry when I've got something left over from it? It's better than spending it on some other things.

Good point about buying things on release dates. I don't really do that unless I'm passing the record shop any more. Probably one effect of MP3s - I've already got it/heard it so I can wait to get it on CD/ vinyl.

i think i've reached junkie status at this point - i spend about $75- 100 on records each week, in addition to trading CDR burns with people i know and trading releases on my label with other label folks. i'm addicted. can't help it. actually, i've been trying to cut down. [wiping nose, furtively looking around] you, uh, you heard the new pelt?

this week, i've probably gotten 3 LPs, 7 CDs, and various other formats (7"s, 10"s, jandek mp3s) and i'll probably listen to them all a couple of times before i find what i really desperately love and what, one day, i will sell. right now i'm pondering going through most of my purchases of the past 4 or 5 years and ebaying the dross. idm & minimal techno vinyl, the culling is coming!

i... i got a problem.

I'm pretty addicted, but not too out of control. I buy on average 3-5 albums a week, with a real binge maybe every six weeks. It's balanced by regular purges of unwanted junk, so I haven't got up to Raggett- esque numbers yet, despite being at this game for 20+ years.

Every so often I attempt a 'consolidation' week, where I try not to buy anything, so that I can assimilate the last few weeks purchases. I typically crack after a day or so and sneak in a couple of albums. These are usually justified by a number of set excuses - " I'd better get it before someone else snaps it up" or "It's only a back catalogue hole-filler - they don't count as 'buys' this week" etc etc.

Take today. I'm supposed to be on a 'consolidation week', starting yesterday. Anyway, I nip out to the off-licence aound 5pm., and it begins to rain on the way there. What better idea than to shelter in the record shop until it stops? Well you've got to buy something haven't you, especially since Mr.Record Shop manager has kept me a copy of the Air album. No point in getting just one thing... etc etc.

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" I'd better get it before someone else snaps it up" or "It's only a back catalogue hole-filler - they don't count as 'buys' this week" etc etc.

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Ha! How reassuring to know I'm not alone in coming up with these crap excuses. These confessions actually do some good :)

They're just the tip of the iceberg. Today's excuse is " I have to get a friend a CD for a b'day present, so while I'm in the shop...."

By the way Omar, I've listened to the Air album 3 times now and as Air-guru can I ask you - "what the f@ck is going on!!!". It seems VERY cyber-bleak! What do you make of it after a month (or however long you've had it)?

I've bought about 20 CDs in the past couple of weeks, but I aint no junkie. Most of them were only about £1 each so I could hardly leave them sitting in the shop for someone else. Among them were: Akira Soundtrack, GodSpeed You Black Emperor! 'F#a#xx', Aretha 'Never Loved a Man', Ice Cube 'Death Certificate', Spacemen 3 'Playing With Fire', Gil Scott-Heron, Toots and the Maytals, John Cale, etc....

Pennies well spent, I think.

Dr.C re: Air. What's going on? (those Air fellows should hire me as member in charge of propaganda ;). I think it can be quite overwhelming at first, but in no-time you'll start picking out the diamonds. But you're right it starts out cyber-bleak and only with 'Radian' does it get a bit lighter. Actually all this talk about The French Pink Floyd is a bit rubbish, the only think that helps is a bit of love for E.L.O. & Kraftwerk. And you have to know how to play air-guitar when 'Don't Be Light' explodes. Mmm, going to put it on right now.

No-one, I repeat no-one, plays better air guitar than me Omar, so I think it's going to be OK. Kraftwerk - no problem as you know. ELO - rewind to my schooldays and I'm there.

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Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On the Bad One
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Slide Five - Rhode Trip
Slint - Sipderland
Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh
Jimmy Smith - Prayer Meetin'
Jimmy Smith - House Party
Jimmy Smith - Open House
Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery - The Dynamic Duo
Jimmy Smith - Any Number Can Win
Jimmy Smith - Hobo Flats
Jimmy Smith - Paid In Full
Smog - Knock Knock
Solvent - Apples and Synthesizers
Soul Bossa Trio - Soul Bossa Trio
Soul Bossa Trio - At Wildjumbo
Spacemen 3 - For All the Fucked-Up Children of This World
Otis Spann - The Blues Never Die!
Otis Spann - Everest Folk Archive
Phil Spector - Christmas Album
Spiritual Vibes - Alternative Tracks
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Stereolab - Switched On
Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm: Switched On Volume 2
Stereolab - Aluminum Tunes: Switched On Volume 3
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes
Sonny Stitt - Swings the Most
The Stranglers - IV: Rattus Norvegicus
The Strokes - Is This It
Rob Swift - The Ablist
Talking Heads - 77
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Johnnie Taylor - Raw Blues
The Temptations - All Directions
Thin Lizzy - Rocker (1971-1974)
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
"The Transformers" Soundtrack
T-Rex - The Slider
Stanley Turrentine - Cherry
U2 - Melon
"Vampyros Lesbos" Soundtrack
Van Halen - Van Halen
The Vapors - New Clear Days
Virgin Prunes - If I Die, I Die
Virgin Prunes - The Hidden Lie
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Tom Waits - Alice
Walter Wanderley - Rain Forest
Wang Chung - To Live and Die In L.A.
War - The World Is A Ghetto
War - All Day Music
War - Deliver the Word
War - Why Can't We Be Friends?
War - Galaxy
War - Platinum Jazz
War - Youngblood
Muddy Waters - Chess Masters
Muddy Waters - Live In Antibes, 1974
The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Together
Junior Wells - Southside Blues Jam
Junior Wells - Blues Hit Big Town
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
The White Stripes - The White Stripes
The White Stripes - De Stijl
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The White Stripes - Elephant
Andre Williams - Rib Tips and Pig Snoots
Andre Williams - Greasy
Andre Williams - Silky
Andre Williams - The Black Godfather
Andre Williams and the Sadies - Red Dirt
Andre Williams - Bait and Switch
Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
Sonny Boy Williamson - One Way Out
Sonny Boy Williamson - More Real Folk Blues
Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan - Mr. Words and Mr. Music
Bob Wills - Anthology
Rueben Wilson - Love Bug
Paul Winter - Jazz Meets the Bossa Nova
Paul Winter - Rio
Jimmy Witherspoon - Goin' To Kansas City Blues
Jimmy Witherspoon - Blues For Easy Livers
The Woggles - Fractured
Tammy Wynette - The World of Tammy Wynette
X - Los Angeles
X-ecutioners - X-pressions
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Fever To Tell
Yes - Fragile
Yo La Tengo - President
Yo La Tengo - New Wave Hot Dogs
Yo La Tengo - May I Sing With Me
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-pura
Faron Young - The All Time Great Hits
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Neil Young - Time Fades Away
Neil Young - On the Beach
Neil Young - Zuma
Zero 7 - When It Falls

not enough : (

good work, son