'Put the credit card down and step away…'

[swee'pea99]

I'm an avid music fan, and have a large collection of vinyl from days of yore, when I bought what I could afford (i.e. 1/10 of what I wanted to buy). I've never been a 'completist' though, and I simply don't get the need to acquire all versions of music you already have. I just like the music, I guess. A friend and I have an interest in a particular band. We both have all their albums. I've got them once on vinyl or cd (and one on cassette). I can listen to them all on spotify. He's got everything on all available formats, and he's just spent a small fortune on a re-released version of an old one that he has about 5 times already. Each to their own, I guess.

In a similar vein, I was once put firmly back in my box by a friend of a friend who was playing us some bit of Mozart on her crappy old Binatone 'Hi-Fi Stereo System'. 'Why is it that you classical fans so often have big collections of records but crappy players?' I asked her. 'Because we care about the music, not the machines,' she said witheringly. I suspect that's also a boy/girl thing. But your mate takes it to extremes: that's a particular kind of boy-thing, gone mutant.

 

[swee'pea99]

Be prepared for the Beatles Nazi's!

On the contrary, it's the 'Beatles were crap' crew who always seem way the most vociferous. We Beatles fans just settle down with a cup of cocoa and and a copy of Abbey Road....She came in thru' the bathroom window/Protected by a silver spon/But now she sucks her thumb and wanders/By the banks of her own lagoon...

 

[postman]

On a cheaper vein i purchased two cds from my local charity shop this week £1 each.Buddy Holly and Miss Brenda Lee.
Guess what both brilliant.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm a big fan of the German label Bear Family who mainly concentrate on country music re-issues. The box sets come in LP size boxes with a large book, sometimes even hardback, the quality of the remastering and the information you get, bio and studio, is amazing. They seem expensive, the Wynn Stewart set for example is £150, but you get 10 CDs (everything he ever recorded) and a book for the money so it equates to £15/CD so not too bad and they fill the CD, none of this 10 tracks bollocks you get from some.

Anyway, I don't think I'd be able to listen to a whole Beatles LP, same as others wouldn't want to listen to the rubbish I do but it's good there are folks producing this stuff for music fans, so good for you Charlie - enjoy, as they say!

 

[CharlieB]

Now I've just got to work out firstly, how to get the thing home, secondly, how to smuggle it in, and finally, how to store it invisibly.
It's not dissimilar to the N+1 problem.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2179882, member: 259"]Don't foget to scratch the LPs and smear some jam on them as well. [/quote]

Skin up a few fat ones on them too.

Now I've just got to work out firstly, how to get the thing home, secondly, how to smuggle it in, and finally, how to store it invisibly.
It's not dissimilar to the N+1 problem.

Wouldn't you take them home one at a time, take a few weeks but no-one's the wiser.

 

[laurence]

do it do it do it

 

[swee'pea99]

do it do it do it

That's Abba isn't it?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Can you imagine if he were to fall off his bike and break one of them?

I can