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Post by overrated on Jun 18, 2019 14:28:24 GMT
At my most compulsive, I had *maybe* 7-8,000 LPs, and I felt like all they did was take up space. I'm much happier now with one-tenth of that.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jun 18, 2019 16:01:59 GMT
Based on my current LP collection, I’d have to get another 75 living rooms to sensibly accommodate a 100K LP collection. The alternative (more LPs in a smaller space) is untenable. How do people live like that?
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Post by FabGear Prophylactic on Jul 9, 2019 3:13:51 GMT
I hate to be charitable but Tribute strikes me as someone who might actually be what he seems to be: a sad old obsessive who is a last vestige of the days when radio broadcasting was viable and meaningful. I mean, there have to be some of those (more or less) likable dinosaurs left, no? So maybe his anecdotes aren't entirely rooted in self-aggrandizing fantasy. A real exception to the rule over there.
But Jesus H. I don't think I'd want to see his home...
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Post by FabGear Prophylactic on Jul 9, 2019 3:15:18 GMT
Reminds me of all the hoarders they visit on American Pickers who are just accumulating mountains of trash for someone else to clean up eventually. Ever notice how all these types look miserable as well? Gee, I wonder what an Internet forum full of those types would feel like!
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Post by chaz on Jul 11, 2019 0:16:50 GMT
I think the most I ever owned at once was maybe around 900–1000 LPs/12" singles, 400–500 CDs, plus countless 7" records. My moment of epiphany was spending a morning stumbling around the Hamburg flea market with a hangover, following maybe an hour of sleep. I gazed at these endless rows of records and, for the first time in my life, saw it for what it all was: grubby, discarded junk — grimy record sleeves and scratched up CD cases — that was at the flea market for a reason, where it all belonged, really. And here I was: this hungover, sleep-deprived idiot who is now inflicting heat exhaustion and sunburn on top of it, all because the idiot feels compelled to drag himself to the flea market to acquire more grubby, discarded shit. It was all so abject. Which is also how I felt. Rightly so. My desire for crate digging, vinyl hunting, the need for owning shit.... That all ended for me at that very moment. I started to dramatically prune my collection the very next day, and it has been rare that I even go into record shops in the years since then. I regret all the time, energy and money that I wasted in those places. My interest in music has not diminished. If anything, severing the music from the fetish artifact has increased my interest. Sure, I download torrents. I prefer a proper .flac rip to the physical object (don't want more junk around me), and will occasionally buy online some new release that I really want to own, for whatever reason, if I really want it. I love origin stories. At this point, I can’t even be bothered to torrent, just give me Apple Music. Although the Gilberto album from ‘73 you mentioned is oddly not on there.
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Post by bigmuff on Jul 11, 2019 0:31:48 GMT
I have never understood why anyone would ever screw around with a torrent. I came to the download/blog world a little late, around '09, and I tried a torrent once, which was four times too many. I found it to be a total pain in the ass. The amount of titles I've downloaded in the past 10 years is probably in the 10,000-20,000 range at this point (yeah, I'm still a hoarder, but at least it doesn't take up any space now.) And I don't use anything but standard locker sites. And all free. Back when Rapidshare existed, I think I maybe bought a 7 day package 3 or 4 times, just because there was a big load of stuff I wanted to knock out fast in one go. But otherwise, all free. I can handle wait times and long downloads. And I just let the particularly big ones run overnight. (Or day, whenever the sleep is falling at the time.)
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Post by bigmuff on Jul 11, 2019 1:08:57 GMT
Could be. I should also add I'm a very "I figure out what I want to do and then how to do it" kind of person, and don't really care about vigorously running down and trying anything and everything else out. If I got something that works, that's all I care about. I also do a lot less now than I used to. (Because how much can there be left?) But there are still little pockets of discovery out there, for me at least.
But to bring the topic back "home", so to speak - I recently read something like a 60+ page thread on a recent box set over at Hoofland, half of which of course was endless fretting, bitching and whining about availability, pricing, shipping options, delivery stories, how it was packaged, ad fucking infinitum. But it was an amusing way to spend my time...as I was downloading the damn thing.
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Post by essayceedee on Jul 11, 2019 1:09:12 GMT
Nothing is quicker or easier than torrenting. I can download a 300mb music torrent in less than a minute. I can download a 40gb Blu-ray disc in an hour or so. The initial setup takes a little time, but once it's done you're golden.
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Post by bigmuff on Jul 11, 2019 1:16:03 GMT
Eh, well as I say - it's probably a little late in the game for me to be worrying about it now. My current connection can also be a suspect at times, so. If I may use a Monkee quote : "Everybody's where they want to be."
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Post by aaa-appreciator on Jul 21, 2019 10:47:56 GMT
There’s a character, Joyce, in Chris Lilley’s Netflix series Lunatics who has been curating a “museum” at home. Basically she hoards crap and kitsche items from years ago. She even has a “Kate Bush drawer”. She is the token female SHite
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Post by thepeopleschord on Jul 21, 2019 16:53:57 GMT
Add a TODD Rundgren cabinet, another drawer for a secret stash of candid School of Rock pics, and 300 pounds, and you have Chris DeVoe.
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bradman
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Post by bradman on Jul 22, 2019 1:42:16 GMT
And the anal. Always remember the anal.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jul 22, 2019 1:54:39 GMT
And the anal. Always remember the anal. AYNIL
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Post by aggressivebeta on Jul 26, 2019 16:11:10 GMT
The only time I ever buy CDs is if there is a particular mastering I want that I can’t find for free on the internet. And the only time I ever buy vinyl is if I can’t find a good mastering on the internet or on CD. I have maybe 100 records in my living room and a few hundred CDs in storage in my basement. I’m going to downsize a little bit soon.
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daved
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Post by daved on Nov 16, 2019 11:25:40 GMT
English bob has doubts about buying more vinyl Nothing I have streamed has been warped.
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