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I will have to admit it is a nice perk to get promo copies sent to me due to writing about jazz and broadcasting a radio show, but I still spend a significant amount every year.

I am thinking about thinning out some things that I may be unlikely to return to in the future, but I need to start setting time aside each week to do that.

If I ever overrun the current music library, my wife has informed me that shelves of music elsewhere in the house are not acceptable. There is no room to add any more shelving in my library, besides, the added weight, since it is over the garage, might not be a great idea.

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On 10/19/2024 at 5:19 PM, HutchFan said:

I bought most of the LPs when vinyl was very inexpensive and CDs were dominant in the marketplace.  It used to be super-easy to find amazing deals on vinyl.

More recently -- now that my kids are grown -- I've been buying more new vinyl, particularly if it's not available in other formats.  But I still prefer finding deals on used items, if possible.  So I'm still buying plenty of CDs, mostly used but occasionally new, as well as LPs.

It's (still!) strange to see how LPs are now more expensive and CDs are so cheap.  Everything is turned on its head! 

Yeah, this is where we've been.  I was buying vinyl from the time I was a toddler, but we brought home most of what we have now between the 1990s and about 2008 or so.  Since then, I generally shifted away from vinyl, as cheap second-hands stuff dried up around here, and new vinyl usually costs more than I'm willing to pay.  And I've bought more CDs than vinyl since about 2008 or so, because the prices were plummeting.

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On 9/1/2024 at 7:35 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

Baltimore and Ohio make turntables?  :D

Since you're in Santa Fe, why not a ATSF turntable?  

Good one/bad one 😆

I am getting increasingly tired of having all this stuff.

didn't start buying LPs until college in the 1990s, mostly in the punk/indie realm, and began more actively collecting when I got interested in jazz as a college radio DJ midway through undergrad. Varying levels of being able to afford/find stuff I wanted, tapping out now at 6600 LPs and about 3500 CDs. No room for much more, and could stand to whittle it down a bit. I don't know that at this point in life I need a sound library in the way that I thought about it for the last 25 years.

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I mean, this kind of dovetails with another recent thread, the subject being what to do (or what to tell others to do) with all this crap when you are no longer alive. Definitely don't want to have it all buried in my tomb. I would, however, be all right having a sarcophagus of my cat next to mine. We could enjoy the afterlife.

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3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

As a man whose shelving space limits his collection to 400 records this discussion really hurts...

You are an ideal candidate for a few 50 bajillion gigaterriobyte external hard drives. You can accumulate a bigger collection than any of us at no cost of clutterspace.

Plus, you don't have to listen to any of it!!! Guilt-free!!!

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17 minutes ago, JSngry said:

You are an ideal candidate for a few 50 bajillion gigaterriobyte external hard drives. You can accumulate a bigger collection than any of us at no cost of clutterspace.

Plus, you don't have to listen to any of it!!! Guilt-free!!!

I have a massive hard drive of music too. I ripped all my CDs before offloading them.  I never ever listen to it. 

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I love running the whole big collection on shuffle nearly all of the time in the house. It's like having your own, very personalized, radio station - plus, tunes "come up" and I'll drop them in a special playlist so that it becomes part of (or sometimes wholly) one of the weekly shows. A single tune might come up that becomes the seed for a full two hour show. I'll completely stop what I'm doing - from relaxing reading to actively cleaning house - if what's playing is compelling enough.

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14 minutes ago, rostasi said:

I love running the whole big collection on shuffle nearly all of the time in the house. It's like having your own, very personalized, radio station - plus, tunes "come up" and I'll drop them in a special playlist so that it becomes part of (or sometimes wholly) one of the weekly shows. A single tune might come up that becomes the seed for a full two hour show. I'll completely stop what I'm doing - from relaxing reading to actively cleaning house - if what's playing is compelling enough.

I do something similar.  I can play my entire collection from my iMac on shuffle/random; when in the car, I do it from my iPhone.  I love random, love not having to think about what to play next.  The only exceptions, by and large, are when I play new CDs or LPs.

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