Re: [bomp] Re: "When the grooves of a lifetime start to feel like a rut..."

[ronald sanchez <eldeluxe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I realized I could go one of two ways with my record collection, I 
decided to pursue the music side first. I took inventory of the 
collection, and found there was stuff I'd never listened to in the 15+ 
years I'd been hauling them around. After five years on the radio up 
here, I decided to look close at everything I hadn't played. I ended up 
selling off a load of "rare classics" which I still don't think are that 
good! (this was in 1985) Now I just buy what I want to hear. I have a 
lot of stuff, but it's all good. My idea was to be a self contained 
radio dj. I buy loads of stuff still, but not so much to have all the 
cover variations, or correct "best" mastering . If it's cheap, then I 
might be a bit more forgiving, but since there really isn't space for 
anything else, I do have limits.

Every so often I go through the stacks and put stuff in the junk/thrift 
store pile, or in the deep storage. The latter are subject to sale when 
the dealers come around. With cds I'm much more cut throat. half.com.. 
adios.

I still have more records than a sane person should own, and the wife 
has her own major collection. I'm not worried about running out of good 
music. And when I shed this mortal coil, there is gonna be one hell of 
an international garage sale here!



hoodoo3005@aol.com wrote:

>Subject: Re: [bomp] "When the grooves of a lifetime start to feel like a
>rut..."
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>"In the first place, there is D.J. culture, with its nerdy machismo, where
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>size of your collection definitely matters. 'The people that D.J.s look up
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>are the people that, they play a set and you dont know even one record,' Mr.
>Dier said."
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>It's not just DJs, but collectors, writers (full-time critics as well as
>bloggers) and people who dwell on lists like this.  The lure of the obscure
>and the sheer thrill of one-upsmanship all feed into this 'nerdy machismo.'
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>It's fun and educational, but though having far fewer records than this guy,
>even I know that at some point a line gets crossed where it becomes more of a
>burden than it should.
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>It's hard for me to feel sorry for those who complain about having too many
>records and not enough life.B 
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>When you start becoming a capital-C Collector, you stop being a fan, and you
>stop being able to differentiate between good and bad. You start accumulating
>all sorts of SHIT just to have a collection, without regards to whether it's
>your taste or not - you just collect because it's THERE. And these are the
>same people who bitch later on about "oh, I need to quit record collecting,
>I'm not fulfilled, I need a life, yadda yadda yadda." There's another e-group
>I'm on where every six months, like clockwork, somebody posts a crybaby "I'm
>quittin' rekkid collecting" thread.
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>Ah, who forced you to buy all those wack records in the first place, bro? Who
>told you it was a good idea to buy multiple copies of the same record? I'm as
>big of a record buyer B as anybody, and even I take advantage of the customer
>turntable so I don't wind up bringing home trash.
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