Mosaic LP Box Sets On Acoustic Sounds

[Dave James]

If you have a boatload of money you're not using, this might be of interest.

https://store.acousticsounds.com/s/561?utm_source=AS+New+Arrivals&utm_campaign=67e8c59195-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_02_09_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d7d119d847-67e8c59195-12004421

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Those prices are outrageous. The Tina Brooks set goes for ~$100 all the time. I actually picked up one for $80 just a few years ago.

[Dmitry]

Sorry for going off on a tangent, am I the only one to have an issue with the PREOWNED tag on anything? There's no such thing as"preowned", there's used.

 

[JSngry]

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/07/pre-owned.html

Something truly "preowned" would be something that had not yet been owned, which in the most generous meaning would mean brand new (although, not really because ownership is assumed to be with the manufacturer until they sell it, correct?).

[sidewinder]

Thankfully, they are not calling them ‘pre-loved’. 

[Brad]

18 minutes ago, JSngry said:

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/07/pre-owned.html

Something truly "preowned" would be something that had not yet been owned, which in the most generous meaning would mean brand new (although, not really because ownership is assumed to be with the manufacturer until they sell it, correct?).

Car dealers do that all the time. Of course, we are talking about car dealers 

[JSngry]

"Pre-" the prefix and "Previously" the adverb do not mean the same thing!

I mean, there's language as play, as poetry, as physical/mental sound, but there's still language as a means of communicating specific notions and realities, a means of defining "truth".

A blurring of the language intended to lull consumers into the cloudy complacency of mental atrophy is certainly to be expected, but it is precisely because of its inevitability that it should constantly be called out. It is but one tool of the predator.