Your music collection when you will die
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Topic: Your music collection when you will die
Posted By: Gerinski
Subject: Your music collection when you will die
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 15:41
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Sorry to bring up this rather grim subject but I wonder if anybody has also had thoughts about this. I’m 45, not yet old but coming into that age when more and more you start to see people of your age dying prematurely, falling victims of cancer etc. I don't lead a very healthy life either. Even if I will hopefully still live long, suddenly death does not seem so remotely far away as it used to. During many years I have built up a decent collection of close to 700 albums and I hope that by the time I will die it will have grown up significantly bigger. Quite a lot of time, effort and money will have been spent on this hobby of prog. On the other hand I have no children and no plans to have any, my girlfriend does not like prog and the few friends I have who like prog live in my native Spain 1200 kms from where I live now, and in any case they have already music collections not much different from mine. No one from my family is a progger either. If I die suddenly tomorrow I can only guess what my girlfriend would do with my music collection and all my other stuff. I guess she would ask my family and a few of my friends in Spain if they were interested in keeping something but given the distance I guess they might probably say ‘no thanks, do whatever you want with it all’. The idea that my music collection might end up being sold for peanuts to some flea-market trader, or even worse, thrown away in a waste container makes me feel uncomfortable. So much passion and money wasted. Have you had similar thoughts? What could be a good legacy so that our hard-earned music collection will be preserved and enjoyed by someone who can truly appreciate it? |
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 15:45
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I wonder if we could will our collections to PA to distribute to needy prog fans around the world. No seriously. I'm sure my gf would take a few of my CDs, but not that many of the 1500 or so that I have. Think a PA giveaway would be an awesome way to distribute my music collection after I'm dead. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 15:54
| I'm going to tell them to make a fort and put my body inside. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 15:57
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I don't have a proper music collection, so no loss. But I guess I will (eventually) have to figure out something with my dad's cassettes and vinyls. ------------- 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:02
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If you don't have any friends or family that are interested in it I am sure that music schools or libraries would probably be happy to take them. ------------- 
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:05
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rushfan4 wrote:Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:07
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My 1500 cds of classical music and my almost 1000 of rock music (mostly prog) will aucfer a sad fate I guess. But I intend to live as long as possible, so they may be obsolete when I pass away. But if death suddenly strikes, I hope the rock part is sent to a friend of mine and the classical to...
Have you ever thought that if one of us in PA dies suddenly, most probably other PA members will never find out? Such is the nature of virtual communities. Cherish your real life communities. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:10
My computer is set up so that if I don't log on to it for a period of seven days (which would require my death), it will spam the hell out of all the libertarian threads.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: chefrobb
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:13
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I'm takin' everything with me......
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:18
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All going on the viking burial ship. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:20
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:24
Well for sure an option is to take the egyptian way and ask that your personal belongings (= prog collection) be buried with you, but that would still make me sad as a waste, I don't believe I need my CDs to enjoy prog in my afterlife
 (even if I believed in it). If heaven exists, it is full of prog anyway!  And if I go to hell, I guess I'm damned to listen to Justin Beaver for the rest of eternity
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:25
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I'm one of the elder statesmen on here, I guess; I'm 61 in Jan. I have no children, so I do have to decide what to do with a colossal collection of rare prog if I shuffle off this mortal coil.
But I ain't planning to go JUST yet so I guess I should have a bit of time to think about it. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:32
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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:36
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if my daughter don't want my coolection i will send to my university's discotheque.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:36
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I hope that my daughter (now 16) will have developed a good musical taste when I pass away, so I guess I'll have to stay quite a while if I want to see this wish come true. But even if not, I have enjoyed my records, so they have served their purpose well. ------------- 
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 16:48
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To be quite frank, I have not thought about it much. I would prefer my collection to go to someone, singular or plural, who would appreciate it. Since it is vast, near 4,000 titles, and in multiple forms (CD, downloads, cassettes, lps [fortunately no more 8-tracks]), and diverse (Various genres of rock including prog, blues, classical, International, jazz) this may be a difficult undertaking. I only have a couple of friends who are into Prog specifically, so I would want that part to go to them. I am 51 with no kids. I have, however, nine nieces and nephews, but none of them are interested in Prog. They are so normal they would probably see it all as that weird music their weird uncle listens to and not take it seriously in any way. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 17:06
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Haven't thought about it either. Since I am Forever Alone, I'll probably die in my apartment and it'll be at least a week before anyone discovers my corpse. The collection and all my other stuff - hmm, probably oughta look into drawing up a will. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 17:12
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I actually have thought about it. Yeah, no kids, so either my wife can sell them if she lives longer or donate them to a library, school or public. I think it's actually rather valuable, so if I were to die today aaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggg ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 17:57
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I don't really care what happens to anything after I die; I'll be too dead. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 19:20
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: The Willow Farmer
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 19:24
LOL Thank you for adding some humor-it was looking bleak.
Yeah, my friends and family could take their picks, then donate the rest to somewhere. And PT's Half-Light will be played at my funeral....or The Cure. ------------- Recent Music Acquisitions: Johnny Marr-"The Messenger" Steven Wilson-"The Raven that Refused to Sing" Fish-"Sunsets on Empire" Riverside-"Shrine of New Generation Slaves" |
Posted By: The Willow Farmer
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 19:25
Ha! That's clever too ------------- Recent Music Acquisitions: Johnny Marr-"The Messenger" Steven Wilson-"The Raven that Refused to Sing" Fish-"Sunsets on Empire" Riverside-"Shrine of New Generation Slaves" |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 20:15
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Like most I would like my collection to go to someone who will appreciate it and get some use out of it. (Not just sell it off for cheap). Unfortunately, I can only think of three people that I know currently who would be interested and one of them already has probably 40-60% of what I have.
Maybe one day I'll have a wife and kids and they would be interested but I aint holding my breath. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 20:19
Having a wife with the same musical tastes as me would seriously be magical. I'd cry happy tears every morning upon waking and probably start my own asinine religion. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 21:04
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I want them to bury me with CDs and external hard drive. I'm sure that'd make the afterlife easier.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 21:15
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I have not seriously thought about it......I am not too worried about my collection going to the dumpster or some Nickelback fan .
My wife likes some of my music (Rush, DT, Genesis, Yes, Scorpions are her favs..) my boys also enjoy a lot of it....but my wife is very much protective of what we cherish.....Assuming I get hit by a bus and they scrape me off the pavement unexpectedly, she would NEVER get rid of any of it.....It would be one of those things she holds onto that she knew I enjoyed on a daily basis. And I know she would play my stuff regularly. She understands the value and rarity of some of my vinyl, but regardless if it were worth only 50cents......she would keep it.....I know that.
Plus she is a huge jazz listener so I know all my Coltrane, Miles is in good hands. -------------   
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Posted By: Redug
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 21:33
| I want the album art taken out of my CD cases and used as decorations on my coffin. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 21:41
Well, in my case, I guess I'd have to ask that only really cool stuff gets used on it. Certainly none of those covers with other people's faces. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Proggernaut
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 22:56
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I think my Son will probably want most of mine - he's got a very broad range in musical tastes - considering he's only 12! -------------  Proggernaut (Noun) - one who is exploring the endlessly expanding universe of progressive music.
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 23:33
| Have some friends - long distance - who like prog rock. Will gift them the ones they don't have. The rest, idk. |
Posted By: Redug
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 23:36
Good point, upon further review I might even go so far as to limit the artwork used to that from my psych rock collection, I'm sure that would look pretty interesting.
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 00:28
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This is something I've thought of before and it's been the closest anything has come to making me want to go digital. I just feel like after ion gone my physical collection will just be a lot of waste.
But, I enjoy it while I'm alive and don't have many other significant physical things (no car for Example) so I think I'm ok in that regard. |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 02:27
me too ... I've told my kids to pack my collection with me when it's my time to go. trying to avoid these: a) why didn't you bring your own records - we have only ABBA albums here ... b) my wife selling my collection and then going to a holiday with her new man, all costs paid by the money she got selling my dear records ...
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 03:01
^ I have no problems with option 2 - the effort required to sell them would be reward enough because I've told her some of them are worth something, but not which ones  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 06:20
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Luckily my collection is not in CD-RW, otherwise she would re-write them all with ABBA, Boney M and stuff like that
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 07:09
Just reading "ABBA" in your post made Dancing Queen pop into my head and never even listened to ABBA that much. Aaaaggghh!!! Excuse me, I'm now going to have to go and make love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 14:44
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I forgot to mention, I really don't care what she does with my collection of CD's.......If she sells them and buys something nice with the cash, fine by me.
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 14:46
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If I cared at all, I would come up with something creative like having
it ground into fine powder together with my body and have it flushed
down a solid gold toilet... But I really couldn't care less
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 17:00
  ------------- FAIS QUE TON REVE SOIT PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT HAVE YOUR DREAM LASTING LONGER THAN THE NIGHT |
Posted By: abnormalist
Date Posted: December 05 2011 at 18:51
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I'm kind of young to be thinking about this, but you never know... I'd want it to be sent out in space so that'll be the first thing aliens hear about us when they decide to visit this planet. I'm sure they'd like it. I'm one of their lost descendants, after all, and I love it.  Ah well, you can't generalize aliens too much. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 05 2011 at 19:41
I'll be dead and wont care one way or the other. It will be pretty cool if it should fall into the lap of someone who wasn't expecting it.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: December 07 2011 at 13:57
| My daughter will sell them all (3000 and growing) on ebay (individually to get the best price) for hopefully a large sum. No dealer's going to get their hands on my collection for peanuts. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 07 2011 at 13:59
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: December 07 2011 at 17:06
| My friends and family don't really give a s&*# about the music i have, so i will probably have it donated to a library |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 08 2011 at 16:46
It would probably physically kill you though. I'm not sure if I want a big set of prog CDs, or any CDs or that matter to hit me my lap and likely the genital area. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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