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Joined: September 01 2004
Location: United Kingdom
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 Posted: June 04 2005 at 17:45 |
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MikeEnRegalia
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Joined: April 22 2005
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Posted: June 04 2005 at 20:10 |
Of course I'd buy an album for a single track, if I can get it on ebay for 1-3€. But as your taste and experience improves, so does the price for your desired albums on ebay ...
The last bargain I'd be proud of was Ron Thal: Hermit for 6€. I follow many auctions on ebay, but for most of my desired items the price is little less than what I would pay on amazon.com.
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radiognome3
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Joined: March 26 2005
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Posted: June 05 2005 at 17:32 |
I have been accumulating records and CDs since the early seventies, with an accumulation now of about 500 CDs and about 2000 LPs and 45s (the most vinyl I ever had at one time was a little more than 5000), and I have listened to every second all of the music I currently own.
My current rule of thumb is to trade a CD for a different one if I do not listen to it twice, in its entirety, within a two month time period (with numerous 'chestnuts' being exceptions) after I have obtained it. Using this rule keeps the accumulation about the same size, and it also keeps me in new, or at least different, music.
I don't like to get stuff to be a completist (with a few exceptions), nor do I like to get stuff simply because it is rare (the old collector's curse). I have found unlistenable some supposedly venerated items, such as Group 1850 (which I thought was unbearably boring), and found silly to be a completist for completists sake (just how many Ozric Tentacles or Grateful Dead Dick's Picks do I really need?). Of course this is subjective.
On the other hand, I won't think twice about paying quite a bit for an earlier pressing of an LP I already paid handsomely to have.
It comes down to, of course, buying what you like or being ready to be experimental with your money. I used to own a comic bokk store, and when perpetually asked for advice on what to buy, I alway said to buy what you enjoy and you will never lose your investment.
Cheers and thanks for always interesting articles!
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Vive Gong!
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Hangedman
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Joined: November 03 2004
Location: Canada
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Posted: June 05 2005 at 18:39 |
I think theres something to enjoy in almost every album I own (Just under 200, be fair i only really began buying music last september  ) I just love music as an artform, and I also enjoy it as mindless distraction. I think I have only about 6 albums id be willing to part with for any reason.
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Zargus
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Joined: May 08 2005
Location: Sweden
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Posted: June 05 2005 at 19:27 |
i got 200 CDs and i think my collection is huge allready. 100 cds more and i think it will be to much for me too handle,  but thos 200 cds i have have taken me 5 years to buy so in 5 years from now meby i will have 400 cds but i dont think so. 1000 CDs sound crazy to me its way to many, that must be somthing that culd make a man go insane...  If i ever get 500 cds i am sure my collection will be complete.
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barbs
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Joined: June 04 2005
Location: Australia
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Posted: June 05 2005 at 23:25 |
Cemetry Polka (Rain dogs) is an awesome song - It always makes me laugh
One of his albums called 'Franks wild years' - must covermost of his life
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Eternity
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Matti
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Joined: April 15 2005
Location: Finland
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 03:24 |
I guess I'm rare, having under 200 records (CD+LP) altogether, about 70% of it prog (but those I've sold away are probably over hunderd too). I borrow records - and tape only the best parts - much more than buy them. Hail to Finnish libraries - especially "HelMet" = Helsinki area!  As younger I bought albums more haphazardly, but nowadays very selectively. Sometimes it's hard to find enough listening time for even all the library cd's.
Moreover: I think I would more easily lose my cd's than my radio (and its classical music) if I had to choose between them.
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Trotsky
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 03:52 |
This is a big problem with me ... my collection (which I share with my wife) once went up to over 5,000 original CDs and I've trimmed it down to under 3,000 CDs most of which are excellent ... we have a very wide range of tastes ... and both my wife and I have spent time as CD reviewers, so we once got them by the truckload (I did a lot of trading too, ya know ... sell a Britney Spears and a Sum 41 and use the money to buy a Yes CD)
But sometimes I really miss the days when my collection was around 200 tapes ... when I knew the order of every track on every album and figured out the lyrics (most of them) by myself. Nowadays I can go up to the 4 cupboards housing our collection, wanting to listen to something and half an hour later still be standing there not having chosen a thing ... there are great albums I own that I love, but haven't heard in more than 3 years ...
I try to go through phases ... and in a sense doing reviews for progarchives is partly about me being disciplined in listening to my own collection ...
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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philippe
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 04:46 |
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It's always funny to hear that everyone here have a sumptuous CD collection (essentialy in prog)...whereas many of you always discuss about the same bands
Edited by philippe
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 05:12 |
MER,
Some women would tell you that size does not matter it is how you use it!
Regarding the record collection, your problem (if you consider it as such , but the size of my collection is not so much a problem as much as the space it takes and the health of my wallet) , but I generally tend to get rid of what I considser not essential after having made a track selection for my compilation. I still have some 400 cassettes (mostly Maxell XL-IIS) and now that I have a HiFi CD burner , I keep doing this. I am somewhat reluctant on always acquiring new albums but always find the my curiosity too strong to resist and do so still on a rate of 5 cd/month , some of which I trade and resell .
Martin/Trotsky's two points are also very common points of mine (not really knowing what I want to hear , tooooooo much choice and the fact that some albums I have not heard in years) and I also do miss the times when I knew my collection by heart - track listings and all.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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MikeEnRegalia
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Joined: April 22 2005
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 08:41 |
 Sean Trane wrote:
MER,
Some women would tell you that size does not matter it is how you use it!
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Those women would also tell you that they don't need a big shoe collection
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Bj-1
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Joined: June 04 2005
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 10:29 |
I have only 190 CD's and 55 LP's, but the collection is still growing ....mva-ha-haa!!
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 10:56 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
MER,
Some women would tell you that size does not matter it is how you use it!
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Those women would also tell you that they don't need a big shoe collection
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Yup ! I actually had to offer a pair to the girlfriend because she is not into shoes much and her collection is down to five, including the winter ones.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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