How can I love and collect music without eventually becoming record collector scum?

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I don't want to be that fellow who lives in a dusty house and only ventures out to hit up record stores and talk to other record collector scum. A quick image search under the phrase in question revealed a possible fate:

http://radiolondon.co.uk/sixties/rainbowff/reccoll/jonartwork.jpg
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/static/lydon/bloom.jpg
http://www.uriah-heep.com/barryw.jpg
http://www.collectable-records.ru/images/aknowlegements/zhigulin.jpg

Now I'm fairly certain that some of these fellows aren't record collectors and that third guy is in Uriah Heep I think, but still, I find this all very troublesome.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

Nice cat.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

what was the phrase?

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

If you have the presence of mind to ask the question then you probably don't have anything to worry about.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

if you get into bad hardcore bands you can use vinyl to impress 16 year old girls with plugs into letting you sodomize them

wait what

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

I'd hang out with the first guy, probably.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

I thought you had plugs? (xp)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

I actually fear for that cat in the last photo.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

That cat guy looks like Mike Patton.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

or the brother that Dave Grohl keeps locked away in his attic

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

I never ever had plugs but I did have romulan hair

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

I need to get a picture of Paul Major for this thread.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

I actually fear for that cat in the last photo.

It could be worse -- he could be owned by #2 in the photo list. Yes, he's a number two.

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

Harold Bloom invented grime.

― rasheed wallace, Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

Not quite grime, but:

I dwell on Shakespeare while doin time
And got me wanderin why Bloom invented motherfuckin crime

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

I don't ever want to even talk to, none the less sodomize, someone with plugs. Most ill-conceived, ugliest fashion trend ever.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

What the hell are plugs?

― dumb guy, Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

what about someone with Plugz records?

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.trustkill.com/multimedia/wallpaper/800x600/PTW_wallpaper_group.jpg
PLUGZ

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

I meant your hair plugs, Jon.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

oh snap

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

I would never accuse you of having PLUGZ.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

PLUGZ SMELL LIKE TOE CHEESE SERIOUSLY

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

But you do have Lugz, you bastard!

http://www.shoesoftheworld.com/lugz/lugz-drifter-lo.jpg

http://cif.rochester.edu/~xm/lol/ianjon.jpg

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

I just keep thinking of butt plugs, and yes I know that's wrong.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe you need to go to Burritoville.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

nope, sushi for today.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.vinylconfessions.com

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

What does that have to do with butt plugs?

oh wait a minute

― rasheed wallace, Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.collectorscum.com/8tracks/

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

http://altura.speedera.net/ccimg.catalogcity.com/200000/208700/208769/Products/6512569.jpg

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

Buggered if I know!

― Max, Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago) link

http://members.aol.com/Howard138/plugz.gif

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago) link

Just don't keep your records in plastic bags, you'll be fine.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

I agree with that. Also, don't be afraid to sell stuff that you don't love and never listen to. You can always get it again eight years later if you become interested in it again.

― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

See I'm always trading stuff in and I'm rarely buying stuff these days. But I still have a ton of music, half of it records HOUSED IN PLASTIC SLEEVES I'M DOOMED

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

"I just keep thinking of butt plugs, and yes I know that's wrong. "

Minocu makes some good ones.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

lives in a dusty house and only ventures out to hit up record stores and talk to other record collector scum.

this will never happen to me. (a) i vacuum. (b) ebay. (c) i wouldn't go near other record geeks without a can of lysol and a face mask

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Thursday, 27 May 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

seven years pass...

considering adding a few hawaiian shirts to my wardrobe tbh

― flights are very long when you're ornery (los blue jeans), Sunday, 26 June 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link

i thought this exact same thing today :(

― jaxon, Sunday, 26 June 2011 06:25 (thirteen years ago) link

i also have spent 3-5 hrs in 3 record stores in the past 2 days w/o buying anything. i love digging, but i want to move soon and my house is already overflowing w/stuff.

― jaxon, Sunday, 26 June 2011 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link

Hawaiian shirts are manly and all-purpose. Shop away.

― Leonard Pine, Sunday, 26 June 2011 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Please I love these people. As long as they appreciate the history of the items and are not just spending $80 on something for the dollar value of it, it's cool.

― Mount Cleaners, Sunday, 26 June 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/hoard2sdfsdf.jpg http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/haord4dfdfdgfdf.jpg http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/hoard1dfsdfd.jpg

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/hoarder_house_what_a_small_home_with_over_250000_records_in_it_looks_like

― cops on horse (WilliamC), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link

wow, more info also here:

http://www.audiophilerecords.ca/hoarder-house-full-of-records/

The best thing there? The 45′s, about 20,000 on shelves, mostly all original ‘as new’ store stock Rock & roll & Rockabilly, and oddball stuff, plus hundreds of Pristine EPs ranging from Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Country Artists, to the Rare Carl Perkins Columbia EP.

― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link

Nice

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link

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