Do you buy music faster than you listen to it?

[LAL]

I once bought stacks of discs I knew I wouldn't have the time to listen to for up to 1 year, for fear of the internet store (my main source of CDs) going bust. It did, but I just shifted to another net store and still have that fear. So the vicious cycle continues. And then there's Mosaic...

[Jazzmoose]

I've bought maybe a half dozen recordings over the past six months, and I still have a lot of catching up to do. There's my answer.

I also have a lot of CDs and LPs that I've only listened to once, and to me, that's not a good thing either.

Too much music - Too little time. One of (my) life's quandaries.

Hmmph! Since part of my backlog is vinyl that came from you, you'll get no sympathy from me!

[Jim R]

At the present time, I can answer with a definitive "no". Not only my buying, but my acquiring has slowed to a crawl. Over the past year or so, I've become more aware of wanting to spend more time with what I've acquired over the past 25 years, as well as wanting to stop jamming CD's and CDR's into spaces that are already too jammed. I'll keep acquiring (it's in my blood), but I have to keep it under control.

The other reason I can say "no" is because there was only one brief period in my life when I "stockpiled" music knowing that I wouldn't be able to listen to it in a relatively short period of time. This was a few years ago when I got my CD burner, and got into some mammoth trades. Even years ago when I used to go on safari up to S.F., Berkeley and Oakland, spending $200 or $300 and coming home with bags and bags of LP's and CD's, I always HAD to play everything within a matter of days.

[tjobbe]

to avoid having to much unopened CDs stacked in my room I've switch over buying used CD's instead...

does not solve the problem of having more unlistened music at home but makes you feel better...

Cheers, Tjobbe

Edited July 23, 2004 by tjobbe

[David Williams]

You've got to buy a lot to find the gems that make life worth living - it's not having time to listen to those that's the real problem.

[chris olivarez]

You've got to buy a lot to find the gems that make life worth living - it's not having time to listen to those that's the real problem.

well said.

[GA Russell]

I used to have that problem, but it's been many months since I've made a purchase, so maybe that problem is over - if not in remission. I have many I haven't opened yet, mostly from the BMG record club.

[jazzmessenger]

Yes. I have way too many unlistened CDs...more than 100 CDs just wainting for me to hear.

[dave9199]

I voted no as I live check to check & don't have the money to buy large quanities at one time. The only time I did have a backlog was (wait for it...) when I got into jazz and started buying box sets of numerous people (with the unfortunate help of my charge card...I think I've paid those off now & they were all used from Amazon!). I listen to a cd when I buy it, then I put it on tape (that continuous recording material, 'member that?) and listen to it in my car. That's where I really get to know an album (that's right, I said album) (Too many friggin' asides in this post.) (Yes, I think so too.) (Well you would think that.) (What's that supposed to mean?) (Hey I'm just saying maybe you could move out of your mom's basement if you didn't buy so many cds.)

[David Ayers]

I'm a 'no'. I used to have that problem, but it is now under control! I have a backlog, but it is not growing, so recordings come in at roughly the rate I pick them off. I don't actually have much time to listen, so it is worth keeping it in proportion.

Edited July 26, 2004 by David Ayers

[Bright Moments]

bad news: almost a year since i started this thread and my backlog is still here.

good news: it's a NEW backlog!!!!!

[GA Russell]

I'm sure that for some of us, YourMusic.com's promise to raise its price May 13 didn't help us break the habit of buying more than we can consume!

[Guy Berger]

My backlog is "only" 24 CDs at this point...

Guy

[clifford_thornton]

I'm better than I used to be, but I still don't digest as much as I should...

Boxed sets are another problem: I've only made it through about two CDs of the Ayler and Lyons boxes, and I've had both since they came out!

[medjuck]

I often listen to new cds while I work out. So the answer depends on how good I'm being about my regime. Also listen a lot in the car so a couple of tripts to LA a month clears up the backlog. In fact if I have nothing to listen to in the car I'll swing by Amoeba on the way home to get a couple of cds.

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

My backlog is "only" 24 CDs at this point...

Fought your way down to 24?? Simply amazing!! Was there some sort of grueling, uberdisciplined, training regimen that helped prepare you for this? You must have been a Navy SEAL at some point in life?

[chris olivarez]

MY backlog is thinning but it's still way up there.

[mikeweil]

Everything I buy will be opened and listened to the same or during the next days. But once is not enough, really, so ...

The burns I am sent take longer, don't know why, as it is music I have been looking for just as much as the original CDs.

[Jazz Kat]

I wish I had enough money to, but no. I usually can't wait to listen to a disk after I buy it. If I bought 100 disks at a time, I'd probaly listen to them all as soon as I bought them.

[John Tapscott]

No, because the CD's I buy I generally listen to within a day or two. Even box sets I listen to in the first week after I've purchased them, usually by listening to one CD of the set per day. But CD's that people lend to me or give me, either as promos (I have a friend in the business) or CD-R's tend to pile up for a while, though I eventually get around to listening to them, too. At the moment I have only two purchased CD's I haven't listened to - the new Dave Holland Big Band CD and Disc 3 of the Bob Brookmeyer Select. They will be listened to tomorrow.

[Jazzmoose]

I have no idea how big my backlog is; I gave up and filed everything together, open or not. Filing them seperately was leading to too many "Why are you buying more? You've got CDs you haven't even opened yet!" conversations; they're not as noticable now...

[Kalo]

I voted No.

Though I buy an absurd amount of music by most people's standards (used stuff mostly), I usually have no trouble listening to it at least once in the first few days of ownership.

I don't download from the internet, so that helps me to keep up, too.

I guess I'm still stuck in the old paradigm.

[Jazz Kat]

I gotta buy all my music. I always had problems downloading music.

[Bill Nelson]

I deliberately keep small piles of vinyl 'to be cleaned' and vinyl-n-CD's 'to be played'. Just seeing and knowing there's stacks to be processed keeps my index finger from getting 'trigger-happy' and taking my credit card on a 'whing-ding'.

[king ubu]

Another "yes", but thing is I get so much stuff burned by kind souls, too, and these always interferes with what I buy.

I try to do as JohnS does, and hope to end up like catesta - hey, I'm still young! Gotta give me a chance to try and get reasonable!

ubu  B)

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