Hardbopjazz Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Last week I felt like listening to Jackie McLean's "One Step Beyond". I went to my room where I store all my CD's, and I could not find it. It's been 8 days now. I looked high and low. Now should I search for it on line and buy it again, or keep looking around my house? How many of you have lost or misplaced as CD? Did yiu go out and buy it again? If so, did the original one turn up at some point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I'm not sure how a CD or LP can become "lost." Did it leave the house? How do you store/organize your collection? My stuff is alphabetical by artist. As soon as I bring a purchase home, it goes on the shelf in its appropriate spot. I seldom if ever lend (I usually burn rather than lend) and if something leaves the house, it gets put back in its place as soon as I get home. So no, I've never lost anything. I don't keep my books as meticulously organized as my CDs/LPs, so I have mislaid books now and then, although they always turn up sooner or later... Now I have gotten rid of CDs only to buy them back several years later, but that's not the same thing. I've also never accidentally bought something I already own...I'm very anal that way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted August 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I too store alphabetical by artist. Don't know if I might have not put it back the last time I listen to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 My copy of Jost's "Free Jazz" book somehow ended up behind a bookcase. I knew I owned it and I knew it hadn't left the house. But it didn't show up for maybe a year or so until I moved that bookcase. I still cannot figure out where my CD copy of Ellington & Hawkins is. That one I may have lent to someone, or brought to school, or something like that. Eventually I will buy another copy. If the borrower is reading this - give it back! I very rarely lend things for this reason. I should probably barcode and tattle-tape all my stuff and install security panels on my doorway so I know exactly what is leaving the premises..... Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Don't ask me how, but I once accidentally put both the Parker Complete Savoy Vol. 2 CD and the Stan Kenton Contemporary Concepts CD at the same time into the Parker jewel box. So one day I'm surprised to open the Kenton jewel box and find it empty. I figured that it must have accidentally gone out in the trash and that I would one day have to buy it again. Some months later, I took out the Parker CD to play it, and there was the Kenton too! There have been occasions when I couldn't find a CD. I keep mine using the LIFO method. But so far the ones that I knew were missing have shown up. They were on a shelf I usually overlooked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Twizzle Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 A Saunter-Finnegan Orchestra CD was missing for a few years and eventually turned up under a pile of magazines that I was throwing out. Coincidently, today I lost a portable CD player, most likely on a NJ Transit train where I last used it. I'm still trying to figure how it happened. Alcohol was not involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I tend to misplace CDs with several possible places to sort them in - and when I look for them I can't remember where I placed them ... My wife once supposed a Gabrbarek CD lost, threw away the jewel case and paperwork, and after she had moved in with me, I found it placed on top of another CD in the wrong case ..... I'd say wait a little. Oh - once I missed my favourite pendant - when I cleared the room to move out it turned out the cat had tossed it behind the bookcase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I have my collection predominantly chaotically arranged (by choice; some years back I found anal perfectionism was adding a lot of discomfort to my life and tried to blot it out, pretty successfully; this was one weapon in the war). As a result, it often takes me a long time to find a recording in a room that is crammed with over 10,000 recordings now, two rows deep, etc. I have indeed rebought a few cds because I couldn't find them. One I later discovered was in a friend's hands, one I finally relocated in my room, one I still now have only the new copy. Them's the breaks, but overall I prefer the chaos I have. . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 yeah, well I broke Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams' Royal Flush. But havent got a replacement. Figure I should just get the Mosaic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I was surprised to note that the OOP Byrd-Adams Mosaic was within a catalog from Collectors Choice Music that I received Wednesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 i can not find this cd or case in my house i know i let someone borrow it and now it's gone i have a cdr of it, but i'm afraid the police might arrest me if i play it ss1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 Off topic but I once lost a book, not cd , that I have been unable to replace. An odd story, Donald Spoto's 'The Dark Side Of Genius' was one of my toilet reading books. One day an earthquake shook the place quite badly and Hitch fell off the shelf and ended up down the dumper, literally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Kat Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 i can not find this cd or case in my house i know i let someone borrow it and now it's gone i have a cdr of it, but i'm afraid the police might arrest me if i play it ss1 ← HOw do we know you didn't already play it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted August 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 (edited) Well I found the CD. I fell behind the receiver. I moved it out of the cabinet and there it was. Must have been there for months. Edited August 10, 2005 by Hardbopjazz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BERIGAN Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Well I found the CD. I fell behind the receiver.....← Are you ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 i can not find this cd or case in my house i know i let someone borrow it and now it's gone ← Aric?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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