Culling the vinyl collection is tougher than I expected
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Most of my stuff is what I bought from age 10 thru about 20. The rest is new stuff I like with a few RSDs thrown in.
And I was obviously a little dork, they are all in great shape.
That was my grail album for years ...Scranton press....my uncle worked for Capitol and gave me a copy. Finally replaced it.
This makes the assumption that what a person likes today will be what that same person will like in ten or twenty years.
I have found that to not be the case.
Good rule for clothes, though. You can’t stop wearing bell bottoms and then start again in twenty years.
Well, you could, but people might look at you funny.
Buy the greatest hits....LOL
Why not view it as rekindling an old flame?I had given up on LP's back around 2000. I gave my whole collection to one of my sons. Then, I bought a couple new turntables about eight years ago and I've been buying records ever since. A couple weeks ago while at my sons house I went digging through my old collection and dug out a pile of albums he didn't want. So clearly moving on from vinyl records didn't work out for me.And its pretty sad when you dig out a pile of records to take home from a collection you had given away years earlier.
P.s. After reframing it you can still add the same smiley it that's your kind of thing!
RVT1K
Super Member
I play MP3's most of the time now and I simply wasn't playing most of my CD's at all. The CD's that I did keep were mostly albums that I listen to front-to-back.
That is 90% of my listening from my streaming service library
RVT1K
Super Member
Pretty much the opposite for me. Most of my listening is my MP3 collection on shuffle.
We do that with the tracks (songs) in our streaming service library the other 10%
Lavane
Lunatic Member
I prefere physical formats. I own a lot more CD's than vinyl records and tape though.
With vinyl LP albums there was and still is some very cool cover art. There's liner notes, etc. Also. The same art work on cassette tape cases and CD jewel cases and paper sleeves just isn't the same though. Its too small.
I do have a lot of music files, but they usually get burned to CD. I do use thumb drives or stream music mostly in my vehicles these days.
GWhitney
GWhitney
Umberto Eco's concept of the anti-library: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment."
Well then, I should be very healthy.
juliet lima
Well-Known Member
I think it’s important to remember that there will be no streaming once the zombie apocalypse starts but with reasonable solar and batteries you’d still be able to listen to physical media.
bluesky
Lunatic Member
Discharging M- LPs is like "Mission Impossible".
Started with 500+ LPs. Got it down to 300 presently without any 'huge emotional heartburn'. It did take a long time... but now???
When you get your collection down to your core 'I like these LPs, for whatever reasons'... that's it. For me it's 300 LPs.
Maybe I could get down to 250, hopefully. No way any less than 250 - Impossible.
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I do have 1100+ CDs. Just much more convenient and I'm 'used to' the CD sound quality now. I prefer analog but CDs sound fine enough. And M- CDs are so cheap now - $1 or $2. Even bought great titles for 50 cents at garage sales, and the SA now.
And in one garage sale while buying a couple 50 cents CDs (one a double Bad Company HITS album, the seller also had a perfect MODELO beer glass I liked. While holding it, I asked him how much for the glass? He said "Are you going to use it??". I said "absolutely"!! And he said "You can have it!!". That was 10 years ago. Just used it again last night!!
Started with 500+ LPs. Got it down to 300 presently without any 'huge emotional heartburn'. It did take a long time... but now???
When you get your collection down to your core 'I like these LPs, for whatever reasons'... that's it. For me it's 300 LPs.
Maybe I could get down to 250, hopefully. No way any less than 250 - Impossible.
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I do have 1100+ CDs. Just much more convenient and I'm 'used to' the CD sound quality now. I prefer analog but CDs sound fine enough. And M- CDs are so cheap now - $1 or $2. Even bought great titles for 50 cents at garage sales, and the SA now.
And in one garage sale while buying a couple 50 cents CDs (one a double Bad Company HITS album, the seller also had a perfect MODELO beer glass I liked. While holding it, I asked him how much for the glass? He said "Are you going to use it??". I said "absolutely"!! And he said "You can have it!!". That was 10 years ago. Just used it again last night!!
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