How in the world did I ever think owning a giant record collection was a good idea or even necessary?

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I am making audio mix CDs, sweeping through the list of songs I've ripped into my computer and I am FLOORED by the amount of completely dispensable shit I have. I don't even WANT to turn around and look at what's in the racks that I haven't thought about ripping yet. What the fuck was I thinking, that I would derive satisfaction from all this garbage as I grew into productive adulthood? I feel so old.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oh good, "Electric Ladyland III: Electric Soul For Rebels" on Force Inc. It's good I have this so I can listen to "Unrelated Circumstances" by Andre Gurov Unit whenever I want. What? What the fuck am I talking about? This is a shit comp! I'm the only person who ever bought it! I'm a fucking idiot!

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

step 1:

burn all the CDs

step 2:

sell all the CDs on ebay

step 3:

wallow in money for the remainder of your life

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i've managed to get rid of almost all the dodgy records in my collection and i still have like 3,000 of the buggers.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

by buggers i mean records in case anyone was wondering

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fucking Best Of Missing Fucking Persons, people, is in my computer.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

there's no accounting for taste.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(a bad thing, too, since my accountant uncle would be a rich man otherwise)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just really trying to figure out what was going through my mind when I thought all this was a worthwhile investment but chasing after girls took too much energy. Here we have "Spielzug" by Ill-Young Kim. FORCED EXPOSURE YOU ARE MORE EVIL THAN WHISKEY

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i just shudder when i think of the work that would be involved in rationalising my record collection

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

thing is: you didn't buy them as an investment did you Tom? i hope they gave you pleasure at the time and at least for a while after.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I really honestly think most of this can only be justified as retail therapy, like when some people buy clothes that they only wear once or twice and then never again, or that they never wear in some cases. I guess it's the same with anything old you keep around for too long, you look back on it and are momentarily frightened at the stupidity of your youth. Exhibit A, Like A Tim's "Red And Blue Boxing."

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

CF the Walter Benjamin essay on his library, in which he justifies the purchase of books that one knows one will never read. I'm not sure there's a moral here, though.

I'm preparing for a cross-continental move, and as soon as I get back to SF I have to set about the task of paring down my record collection (6000? 8000? I really have no idea, and that's just the vinyl) to a moveable, manageable quantity, and I'm terrified at the enormity of the task. Plus I really don't want to learn what I'm sure I'm going to learn about myself after parsing all the crap. Retail therapy is one thing; self-analysis through vinyl is an analysis I definitely don't need. I mortify myself on a daily basis; I don't need a material record of it! (no pun intended)

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

is that benjamin? i thought it was someone else.

you mean the idea that we buy books because we think we're buying the time to read them?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i've managed to get rid of almost all the dodgy records in my collection and i still have like 3,000 of the buggers.

Hey, that's me! (Well, more than that, actually.) I HAVE been ripping away and selling back like mad, though, and all the cash and sure, occasional CDs for credit (but in a much smaller volume compared to what I'm returning), has made it worthwhile. I think of it in terms of stuff to get rid of in advance of the eventual next move -- and frankly it's only because music storage has now finally become so ridiculously easy that I can feel perfectly comfortable about doing this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You're...LEAVING us, Philip?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i do semiregular purgues, so there's not much left from, say "the great indie pop breakdown of 1998"

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i just shudder when i think of the work that would be involved in rationalising my record collection

I've always thought about my music library as though it were a book library. You've got the favourite books that you read regularly, the ones you read less regularly, the ones you don't read much at all but occasionally pull off the shelf for reference, the "classics" that any person would be proud to have in their library, etc.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

self-analysis by old CDs from college through my air force days is leading me to truly believe I must have some kind of simply amazing natural charisma or some shit because I definitely remember having friends and even getting laid a couple of times, yet I definitely own "Spaghettification" by Chocolate Weasel.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

trouble is - as mine are all scraped from sale bins and garage sales - no second hand shop will buy them. i kind of like having them still. ahhh: piles & piles of worthless shit!

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

actually know what you mean about choc weasel! keep spotting in amidst my other discs and thinking...hmm.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

How many records do you have now, Ned?

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no real idea. Somewhere over 4000 I think. I've sold back hundreds in the last few weeks and you can't even really tell I've made a dent!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Some obsessive record collector/philosopher should write an update of Sartre's Nausea, using his/her stash of vinyl/CDs as the source of existential crisis.

Every day, I try to pare down my collection, all the while voraciously poring over new releases lists from Neptune, Forced Exposure, Aquarius, Other Music, etc, adding items to my ridiculous want list. It's madness.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Meltzer wrote this after getting rid of most of his collection, but it's along the lines of Dave's idea, and pretty great, too:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/covers/vinyl.html

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a friend who upon discovering that he is dissatisfied or bored with a particular album will eject the disc from his CD player and pitch it out the window of his car at speed. I admire this cavalier, buddha-like disregard for material possessions tremendously, but he has always been light years more punk than me.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet he doesn't do that when no one else is in the car.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

He drives back later and picks them up and dusts them with a static free cloth and apologizes to them.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

like tom said, light years more punk

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Like A Tim's "Red And Blue Boxing."

ouch. i think the one with the bee on it is probably the very worst record ever made by anyone. ever.

― duke hive, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no, I'm keeping that one, there's sentimental value there.
I always had a dream that he would team up with Wesley Willis, but it was not to be.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been shifting records around in three cities for the past year. I've got records at three different houses back where the bulk of them are. I'm happy to say that I've left that massive mass with Slutsky (he's in my old apartment). He and the boys seem to like them, which makes me feel happy. So I'm about to move to my fourth city and no doubt will do the same there. Finally, the big move, to New Zealand. What not to take. Many thousands of LPs, singles and CDs. Managed to take a chunk out this past summer when I revisited the old place. But it is a daunting task. I've got tons of crap, much of it bought for my radio show and of little value beyond that. I know from past experience that once you get past ditching the first twenty, the next two hundred are not so bad.

Any body seen Alan Zweig's Vinyl? Something we should all see as a cautionary tale.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I cant even listen to music anymore, my hearing was destroy by a CD flung from a moving car.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I just gave my collection a close look for the first time in a long time (so dusty!), and found so many CDs I kept for just one or two songs (songs that I never listen to, mind). But I always justified the space they all took up, since unlike books or movies there's no place to go when I need/want to hear a particular track/album again. Sure, there's back to the record store, but that would be counter-productive, and besides, there's a lot of stuff I have that would be impossible to replace at this point.

And yes, there is always the internet ... until there isn't. File sharing is only as reliable as the law allows, for the time being, so I just can't count on it. It's very time consuming to track down and download stuff of dubious quality.

Plus, as much as I love my iPod/computer, I'm afraid to use it as music storage. One bad hard drive and it would all be gone,and there's only so many times you can back something up.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously if I had just a whole lot of CDs which I kept around for one or two good songs, I'd consider myself to be doing extremely well. It's the punishing amount of Rephlex I own that makes me feel like such a chump.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom, you certainly seem to like your Ninjatunes/Big Dada catalogue, don't you?

I was thrust into a situation early this year whereby the my real estate agent screwed me over and basically I had one week to move all my stuff to newer premises.

I swear, out of everything, 10,000+ vinyl records and approx 9,000 CD's I had to shift! Though I love all the well-worn aspects of vinyl, they are the most uncumbersome of things to actually move.

I had to get my dad to help me relocate and had to make many returns back and forth to the house to with his Volkswagen camper van being packed to the hilt with funk, soul, jazz, house and rap records!

I swear... next time I move, it's into my self-owned house. But yeah, when I was DJing in the 90s and freelancing, the amount of junk 12"s and cDs you'd get - it was even hard to dispose of 'em at second-hand stores and fetes.

That said, I am still offloading now!

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It may be noted that working in college radio from 96-99 led to me getting a lot of incredibly disposable crap thrown at me. But why did I think so much of it was worth keeping? Caipirinha records better not still be in business.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, ive got tons of crap from being a college dj. what the hell. & they are so useless, as most of them have review labels on them with what tracks are safe to play and these labels DO NOT come off.

― kephm, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got so many CDs from college that I never, ever listen to. Am I really going to sit down and listen to that Zoom album ever again?

Then again, someone just namechecked The Buckpets on another thread. I haven't listened to them in ten years, but I'm tempted to give them one more shot.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

But the pleasure of the purge can't be denied. The number of times I've gone around and had some great stuff to sell (CDs) and not been able to pawn them distressed me. It seems the local shops are less and less inclined to take them. So I end up selling them for a buck a piece. The thought of doing all that work to put them up on Ebay just doesn't suit me.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Fittingly enough, I just posted something about the giant collection purge I did earlier this year over at The Freelance Mentalists.

I got a lot of money for beer and better CDs from the apocalyptic sweep. One time I sold back a ton of CDs from white guys from the '90s for a bunch of vinyl by black guys from the '70s. Moving to a new echelon of hipsterdom I wager.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The worst thing is owning things that you KNOW you'll never again listen to but have sentimental value or a cool (irreplacable) cover, or some other entirely non-musical value.

Like, if I wanna hear "VU & Nico" I'm gonna play the CD, not my scratched-to-hell original vinyl which I bought for $1 (and is missing the peel anyways.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

where is this essay by Walter Benjamin about compulsive book buying? i want to read it.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i have pared my cd collection down to about 1000 CDs. I'm sure there is some more stuff I can get rid of and will by the end of the year.

2 200GB hard drives do well for shuffling backups. I probably have another 1000 records that exist only as mp3s or other forms of data that I really have no desire to transfer onto hard media.

getting rid of vast quantities of your collection feels good. Yanc3y, did you wind up doing this?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

For paring down your CD collection in a no fuss, profitable way, I really can't recommend Amazon more highly. If you already have an account with them, all you have to do to get started is input tracking information for your checking account for direct deposit and then you are ready to sell. From that point it's just a matter of looking up the CD's that you want to sell and checking out the used prices that other's are selling their copies for. If you decide the price is right, just click on the "sell my copy" button and then three clicks later your copy is listed for sale. There are several CDs on my shelf right now that are for sale on Amazon for 15-20 dollars. I figure if I sell them: a) I make someone happy, b)I usually make more money than I spent on the CD originally, c)I can burn a copy anyway if I still want the music. And in the worst case scenario, the CDs don't sell and they stay on my shelf. No harm, no foul. In one weird case, I sold a used copy of Buelah's "when your heartstrings break" for $25 bucks only to find that the band themselves has new copies listed for $14 on their website... Also in some cases, I have not sold to purge but sold to improve, as in the time I sold a used copy of a Firehose record that I never listened to for $10 and bought a copy of "double nickels on a dime" for $11. There is absolutely no reason to sell your CDs for a buck at used record stores when in many cases you can get at least $4 on Amazon. Thar's gold on them shelves, boys! Go make some money as you purge!

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-posts) Aaron K: look in Illuminations (edited by Arendt). The essay's called "Unpacking My Library".

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think many people wanting to purge their record collection don't have the patience to wait months before someone buys their CD on Amazon or Half.com. They want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I think many people wanting to purge their record collection don't have the patience to wait months before someone buys their CD on Amazon or Half.com. They want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

xpost

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, oops!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"CF the Walter Benjamin essay on his library, in which he justifies the purchase of books that one knows one will never read. I'm not sure there's a moral here, though."

Walter Benjamin compares it with owning china, something you don't use every day. I do agree with him to some extent. But it isn't the same thing: china is sth precious, expensive, which you only take out to impress someone/on special occasions. Books (and music) is sth from which you take pleasure, expand your mind/brain. But I do agree with WB that it's not as though you should use the books/CDs every day. The problem is that most people see a big collection with greed/gluttony/selfishness maybe?

http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/feed_records.html

http://www.jahsonic.com/WalterBenjamin.html

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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fretblanket and frente omg

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i could probably buy a new escalade with the money i've spent in the last 15 years on music.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

records need to be heard not owned. i rent them essentially: buy them, sell them/give them away.

i am not a collector.

1992.

go back to bloody scotland.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

depending on the weather, i prefer live music to recorded.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

ew, all those people

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

a room into which no dog or woman can enter...

This sounds like some temple rule in Falujah.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone can always just give their records to me. Just ship them along to my island hideaway. i can fit lots more in the storage space until we add on to the house.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

you bastard

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I dream about records every night of the week.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i do, too, that's the problem!!

What's Rufus been digging lately, Scott?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I think many people wanting to purge their record collection don't have the patience to wait months before someone buys their CD on Amazon or Half.com. They want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

Quite right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Rufus was digging Chic the other day.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Good times!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing is, when I think of the zillion records I HAVE sold and traded over the years, It's hard to remember what the hell they all were. I had a store in Philly once and I sold about a 1000 of my own records there and all I can remember selling are my Crass singles and some Orb albums! If I really thought about it i could remember more probably, but still...

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I do regret selling some Can bootlegs once though. But not my Hair & Skin Trading Company cds.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I just brought a ton of CDs over to the local store so I'm getting these weird purchase urges when I look at the used racks before I realize I sold that copy back. I shouldn't even be checking out the section right now.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost omigod I have all of those, plus a 7" or two. Horrible!!!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

When I first moved to Philly in 1988 I sold hundreds of records to Malcom Bunny to help finance my trip. Lots of hardcore records. And my comic book collection!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

You know it's bad when you are buying your 4th (!!) copy of something that you keep selling/trading over the years.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

you'll pry my large record collection from my cold, dead hand.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone else have a record room? i don't but i'd kind of like one.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean it IS money. That's the weird thing that I always forget. It's like having another bank account in a weird way. If I sold everything I have on ebay I could make a lot of money!! You know? I don't want to, but still, if something bad happens... I always forget that I do have some liquid assets.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, Roger. Weren't you going to give us a list of all your albums that were for sale before you moved? I'm not going to be held responsible for your flat tire.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a record room in the future. Our place is small, but we are gonna make it bigger (hopefully) someday. My dad has one now in the house my folks moved to a while back. It's very top secret! There is a door at the back of their bathroom upstairs that leads to a little room with his records/cds, a big easy chair and a t.v. (it is, sadly enough, my idea of heaven. I'm finally envious of my old man.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

tom plz consult me b4 making any salez. someday i might want to hear the whole rphlex catalog though not own. shuttle has free 250gb hdd upgrades.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, my brother has a great set-up now too! He has a record store that is on two levels. One is a basement spot filled with records, and then in the same building you go up two flights of stairs and the whole second floor is filled with books and , like, 50,000+ records for sale and a big couch and t.v. and a room in the back with a kitchen and a big bathroom. So at night, he literally lives in a record store! Which is also, sadly, my idea of heaven.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

*sigh*

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

that is beautiful

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a record basement, sort of, but it also contains the treadmill and boxes of crap we haven't yet gotten rid of or placed in the house. This thread is making me want to pare down the ol collection for the first time in a year or so.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott, I wouldn't worry too much about not being able to remember all the stuff you sold. I mean, that's not a bad thing is it? I figure if I can't remember it, it made sense that I sold it in the first place. But the stuff I MISS on the other hand...

― Bimble (bimble), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

That's true, Bimble. And it's a lesson i try to remember when i think that i can't possibly part with all the stuff that i accumulate but never listen to.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

TOM,

re: the amount of Rephlex you have. do you have Freakwincey's "I Farted" 12" amongst all that??

― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell no.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

see, it could be worse!

― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm about to start constructing my record room. I've cleared out the room and I'm getting the lumber for shelves this weekend. I've managed to wire the rest of the apartment to my jukebox/computer and saved the good speakers for newly spare room.

― danh (danh), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to sell alot of my bad albums to buy better albums, but Dad will get mad at me for wasting money. So I'll have to pretend I like them until I get a house of my own. guyz I got 9-PIL & Doctor Detroit theme-Devo, holy shit this offer is tooo good!!!!!

― Rachel Hella Myles, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have any LPs..but there's some old ones around my house. I want - or wanted - to get a record player.
All the cool snobs say that CDs suck and you should only use vinyl or some shit.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

CDs suck, you should only use vinyl

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 23 September 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I have thousands of albums but I only spend a quarter or dime apiece on them (sometimes less). And they are disposable. Because they are tapes. I like them a lot. I can chuck them out car windows and not be a foolish money waster at the same time.

Book are eating all of my living space. I just drove around for 2 weeks with my van weighed down with $5,000 in books since there was nowhere else to put them. Today I just got the key to a new apartment, stuffed all the boxes in there, & man was it a relief to see that van's floor again. But I'll be hitting 2 library sales tomorrow, & another one the day after. Well, I'm selling them all on Hamazon. It is really an awesome place to sell stuff!

― Queen Electric Cop Smacker SLAPPITY SLAP! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I don't believe no-one compared the amount of space their record/cd collection takes up with the amount of space their instruments/musical equipment takes up.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I feel your pain, Tombot.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago)

How many CDs constitute a single Raggettstack?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Around 400.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Zah, I have one!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago)

*thinks to self, 'Zah'?*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago)

(Huz)zah! For the shopkeep, huzzah!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1927568,00.html

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

The irony is that all those records I bought when 13, 14, 15 - avant garde mid-1980s indie guitar thrash noise - would be worth a serious amount of money today. They sound like The Killers

Okay, I'm sorry, this man needs help beyond what anyone can provide.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

what a cock.

is the story linked at the bottom by ilx's own lynsk3y?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 16 November 2006 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

our turntable hasn't worked in several years

I just went over our vinyl collection and couldn't stand the thought of parting with it

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

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