A Hundred Pounds for a Hundred Albums

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I have a bit of a dilemma.I'm skint(but surviving) and a friend has offered me a £100 to select and copy him 100 albums from my collection that I believe would suit his tastes. My initial thoughts were enthusiastic, thinking it was a good deal but now I figure this is going to be a really time consuming and irritating task;I find making one cd compilations generally laborious. Plus I can't help but think that his free loading desire for an instant tailored music collection kinda stinks - surely part of the fun is navigating your own way through, why trust somebody else's instincts?
What should I do here, bearing in mind I could do without the money but at the same time it would be helpful.

― Mark, Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Say ok, but he has to copy them himself. Otherwise charge him an extra 5 bucks an hour.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

tell him he can pay you to whitewash becky thatchers fence

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Soulseek

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I'd totally take it, as long as he gave me 100 blank CDs. then it'd be all 'fuck your tastes I will impose what I like on you'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

He doesn't have access to soulseek or a pc of his own and he doesn't have much in the way of a record collection, prefers to spend his money on ephemeral pleasures. He has previously asked me to copy some of my albums(usely out of date electroclash)and I have refused, saying "buy your own, you freeloading bastard." Now he has me over a barrel as I told him I needed to get £100 for driving lessons for career purposes. Then he made his offer and of course it seemed churlish to say no. What I wonder is how long will this take? Would 50 albums for 100 squid be fairer?

― Mark, Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

See if he'll give you £100 to service his wife. You never know - it doesn't hurt to ask.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

No wife to service - he's gay. So how long do you reckon it will take to upload and burn 100 cds. If I could do it in a day I think I would be more willing.

― Mark, Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Ripping CDs for fauxpod - I averaged about 50+ per evening. Not unmanagable ... It's not the ripping, it's the burning!

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Ask the ethicist:

I have a bit of a dilemma.I'm skint(but surviving) and a friend has offered me a £100...he's gay. -- Mark1980 in Lycos on Kent

Dear Mark,

Your friend is obviously in love with you. Offer him your derriere for £100, then present him with 100 electroclash cds as a token of your gratitude. That way you're merely a prostitute, and not a filthy music pirate. By the way -- remember your condom, please -- it's not the ripping, it's the burning.

-- The Ethicist

― The Ethicist (Ian Christe), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

send the £100 this way and i'll do it. take a theme - like, two albums from each year of the last half century. or alternatively, burn MF DOOM's 2004 output and there you go.

― fsharp (fsharp), Thursday, 17 February 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

If each CD only takes 10 minutes to burn the whole thing will still take you 16 hours. So you're making 6.25 an hour for 2 days of work. It will obviously take longer than that if you actually put some thought into which CDs to choose and if you walk away while the CD is burning and forget to come back for a while. This sounds incredibly tedious.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 17 February 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

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