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jampa17
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 04 2009
Location: Guatemala
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Points: 6802
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Posted: February 23 2010 at 12:51 |
UMUR wrote:
King By-Tor wrote:
I've managed to collect about 1000 cds and 400 vinyls, I planned to review them all at one time, but now I don't really care - it liberates me to listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. I still buy albums at an alarming pace, although now it's not just for the thought of expressing my opinion on them.
People who say that someone with 500 reviews can't be buying them legit is crazy. When you get out of highschool and have a decent job you tend to spend a lot of money on things you like
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Yeah the first year I started working I purchased maybe 15 - 20 albums a week ( most second hand LPs but also CDs). No obligations whatsoever and I lived with my parents so I had more money and time to spend them than I will probably ever have again. My purchase rate has gone down a bit in the last 5 years after I had my children but most people would probably still consider my habits to be somewhat compulsive. . I´ve lost count of how many albums I have, but it´s gotten to a point where I´ve had to pack a lot of CDs away in my basement. There simply aren´t room for more in our small apartment. The wife is going crazy . |
When I grow up I want to be like you... I'm living with my parents and I just buy 2 albums per month... but surely I want to make my wife crazy for the amount of Cds in the house... surely...!!!
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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UMUR
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Joined: October 19 2007
Location: Denmark
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Points: 3069
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Posted: February 23 2010 at 12:44 |
King By-Tor wrote:
I've managed to collect about 1000 cds and 400 vinyls, I planned to review them all at one time, but now I don't really care - it liberates me to listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. I still buy albums at an alarming pace, although now it's not just for the thought of expressing my opinion on them.
People who say that someone with 500 reviews can't be buying them legit is crazy. When you get out of highschool and have a decent job you tend to spend a lot of money on things you like
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Yeah the first year I started working I purchased maybe 15 - 20 albums a week ( most second hand LPs but also CDs). No obligations whatsoever and I lived with my parents so I had more money and time to spend them than I will probably ever have again. My purchase rate has gone down a bit in the last 5 years after I had my children but most people would probably still consider my habits to be somewhat compulsive. . I´ve lost count of how many albums I have, but it´s gotten to a point where I´ve had to pack a lot of CDs away in my basement. There simply aren´t room for more in our small apartment. The wife is going crazy .
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Alberto Muñoz
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Joined: July 26 2006
Location: Mexico
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Points: 3577
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Posted: February 23 2010 at 12:20 |
I don't know who is, but i can tell you who is one of the less prolific.
Me
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Vibrationbaby
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Joined: February 13 2004
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Points: 6898
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Posted: February 23 2010 at 10:22 |
If i reviewed all my albums I wouldn't have time for eating, sleeping, crapping or breathing. I just review albums that I happen to listen to and have a bit of time to kill. I think it would be difficult to do this sort of thing professionally. Listening to a record for the sole intention of critcizing it. Doesn't make any sense to me. It's funny before this site I had never really payed attention to reviews. I only knew that Rolling Stone hated most of the music I listened to so I never bothered secure in the knowledge that bands like Focus, Gentle Giant and King Crimson were where it was at.
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Kashmir75
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Joined: June 25 2009
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Points: 1029
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Posted: February 22 2010 at 21:34 |
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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Kashmir75
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Posted: February 22 2010 at 21:33 |
Eapo_q42 wrote:
It would be WAAAAAAY more than $20,000 for me.
In Australia, cds are insanely expensive compared to europe and the U.S.
Worse still, it's practically impossible to find good prog here anyway. So for most albums I buy, I end up paying for international shipping!
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Yeah, I'm in Australia too, and most of my prog stuff is very hard to find. I usually have to hunt around in various JB Hi Fi stores across the Melbourne suburbs to find what I'm looking for. And when you do, its always special import stuff. I end up paying a ton for it. It's expensive being a prog completist!
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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Queen By-Tor
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Joined: September 13 2006
Location: Xanadu
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 18:46 |
Well I don't know if that's the majority - I saw a post on the first page that was along those lines
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Finnforest
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 18:35 |
King By-Tor wrote:
I've managed to collect about 1000 cds and 400 vinyls, I planned to review them all at one time, but now I don't really care - it liberates me to listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. I still buy albums at an alarming pace, although now it's not just for the thought of expressing my opinion on them.
People who say that someone with 500 reviews can't be buying them legit is crazy. When you get out of highschool and have a decent job you tend to spend a lot of money on things you like
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People actually say that???? I know people with FAR more titles than 500 and are all legit CDs.
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 18:31 |
I've managed to collect about 1000 cds and 400 vinyls, I planned to review them all at one time, but now I don't really care - it liberates me to listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. I still buy albums at an alarming pace, although now it's not just for the thought of expressing my opinion on them. People who say that someone with 500 reviews can't be buying them legit is crazy. When you get out of highschool and have a decent job you tend to spend a lot of money on things you like
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Marty McFly
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Joined: March 23 2009
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 16:18 |
King By-Tor wrote:
Sinkadotentree still manages to do about 2 per day, and he buys all his albums legally.
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Which can't be said about a lot of people here, one of your statements. But this is not kind of discussion I want to go into. Sad thing is that majority of my collection I haven't bought. I was given instead, I inherited it :-) more or less, without giving person being dead. ON TOPIC - I plan to do some nice graphs, hope I'll have mood for it.
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 14:19 |
Sinkadotentree still manages to do about 2 per day, and he buys all his albums legally.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 13:58 |
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Marty McFly
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Joined: March 23 2009
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 13:50 |
I lost these pages somewhere around my T Bytes
found them, let's process it. Right after few games of UT2K4. Finally, some game that runs smoothly
Edited by Marty McFly - February 20 2010 at 14:10
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my
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Marty McFly
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 10:17 |
OK, enough of flattering, or my mind will be shattering (hope this makes rhyme in English, it looks like it should, or could ... or would ... ok, I put)
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my
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seventhsojourn
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Joined: December 11 2009
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 09:03 |
Marty McFly wrote:
When I hear word BALL, I'm always cautious.
OK Seventh S., no bad feelings, but lack of reply after adding actual valuable information, about which this thread should be, or more like lack of absolutely no reply at all left me hesitating about it all. Also I've switched from Win XP to Linux and back meanwhile, finished my first term on university, started new one (semester) and returned to reviewing.
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You've lost me with this quote. I think this was maybe someone else talking about how they had neglected their own reviews. I appreciate your hard work and look forward to next set of results.
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Slartibartfast
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Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:58 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Marty McFly
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Joined: March 23 2009
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:47 |
When I hear word BALL, I'm always cautious.
OK Seventh S., no bad feelings, but lack of reply after adding actual valuable information, about which this thread should be, or more like lack of absolutely no reply at all left me hesitating about it all. Also I've switched from Win XP to Linux and back meanwhile, finished my first term on university, started new one (semester) and returned to reviewing. So, let's do it.
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my
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seventhsojourn
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:32 |
Marty McFly wrote:
No response prevented me from analyzing it more.
Shall I continue ? |
I for one was enjoying this thread and would like you to continue. Apologies for not adding any posts.
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LinusW
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:25 |
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Marty McFly
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Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:04 |
No response prevented me from analyzing it more.
Shall I continue ?
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my
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