Do you buy music faster than you listen to it?

[king ubu]

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...

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That's a smart stragegy, isn't it? The negative side is that there are always more discs around than space in shelves, so in the end... and don't put them in the shelf unopened, that one (why call her "one", we all know who we mean, don't we?) could easily notice!

[clifford_thornton]

Addendum to previous response:

Of course, just because a parcel of LPs hasn't arrived in the mail doesn't mean I'm not going to troll around for more!

[Jazz Kat]

With jazz, I love just getting new albums. I don't think there's any other genre of music that I love to buy cd's more than jazz, but I don't buy much other music.

[Bright Moments]

i've almost caught up to myself!

[Van Basten II]

Way too fast, i barely have time to listen to old stuff, i'm always listening to my latest spendings, i have no other choice since i mostly buy it from CD used store and i have 1 week to be sure that the CD does not have any defects.

Don't have time nor the patience to download.

[Big Al]

i've almost caught up to myself!

I'm not even close. Nor will I ever be.

Not complaining, mind you!

[sidewinder]

Can't keep up. Still got a pile of new vinyl 12" and 10" to get through, 8 CD Mosaics half-played without even thinking about the numerous 'dime' concerts that have filled up my 400GByte hard drive. All those great Rollins and Adderley concerts etc.

On the plus side, this is the greatest time for universal jazz recording availability in the history of the Universe.

[Shawn]

I don't have any problems in this area these days...not enough disposable income...

Edited June 3, 2007 by Shawn

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Generally, I don't have a backlog. But when I've come back from Africa with 100 new albums, it does take a while to get round to them all. A couple of weeks ago, I came back from Paris with about 35. Took me about 10 days to listen to them all, once. Now in process of listening to about half, properly, over the next few weeks. Then I'll do the other half.

MG

[AndrewHill]

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

I almost exclusively by used anymore (I'm tired of peeling those absurd BN stickers off top of the cds), and when I do that, I find it a lot easier to get to it (usually right there in the car). But when I do buy new, its usually when I go out of town to stores that I only go to once in a great while, and I normally come home with anywhere between 15-20 cds) As it goes with jazz cds, it seems that if you see something you want, and you don't buy it right there and then, you are taking the chance that it will be gone and never restocked again or it goes OOP (this has happened so many times, yet I still don't seem to learn my lesson-regrets that are too many to mention here). Nonetheless, its caused a major backup in cd listening (I just got to some Steve Lacy that I bought nearly three years ago!) But when money's tight, however, its always nice to have a stack of brand new cds to open

[Hot Ptah]

I recently alphabetized the jazz CDs I have purchased and not listened to yet, as they were getting out of hand in a disorganized pile, and they fill 14 plastic containers which each hold 74 CDs.

Each of these CDs was purchased out of fear that the album in question would go out of print soon.

My wife suggests that I put a lot of my CDs on my new Ipod and get an attachment to play the Ipod in the car. I think that she may be on to something.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I recently alphabetized the jazz CDs I have purchased and not listened to yet, as they were getting out of hand in a disorganized pile, and they fill 14 plastic containers which each hold 74 CDs.

BLEEDIN' 'ELL!!!!!

MG

[sal]

I don't think there's a problem with having a backlog per se. There are bargains to be found in all sorts of interesting places. But I think that if one continuously has a backlog of new items, and at the same time has shelves full of items that have only been listened to once, then that individual might want to contemplate what they love more, collecting the music, or the music.

[mikelz777]

I recently alphabetized the jazz CDs I have purchased and not listened to yet, as they were getting out of hand in a disorganized pile, and they fill 14 plastic containers which each hold 74 CDs.

Each of these CDs was purchased out of fear that the album in question would go out of print soon.

My wife suggests that I put a lot of my CDs on my new Ipod and get an attachment to play the Ipod in the car. I think that she may be on to something.

1036 CDs unlistened to!!!!!!!!! Getting out of hand?!?!

Edited June 5, 2007 by mikelz777

[Hot Ptah]

I don't think there's a problem with having a backlog per se. There are bargains to be found in all sorts of interesting places. But I think that if one continuously has a backlog of new items, and at the same time has shelves full of items that have only been listened to once, then that individual might want to contemplate what they love more, collecting the music, or the music.

Or a third alternative, it's an addiction.

[BruceH]

Nonsense.

When I bought the complete Haydn symphonies, I listened to all 33 CD's instantly!

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