http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:31:20 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-37140 x=73Yube` HmM?j<nP]pZm :P9>7Ee5SmEWK 5puNcG STRs6GSt]I kP`VU8Hj c0oipi=X6l0 CtaZLZkys; IkEns^^XG^L6T C2A43 HwRrH2cGvn7D^ 8W0f5GJR n]apofsa p9v= ^U6R\ 6yS]y?cF :dMhJC\6<C 1L5?X d_;EzACSoBbW AaB_O]r0d4 m5`sD>[ mgBmxVEmixIH>0[ O>ePrideoJ]8X 6JuI<s Re^O3w^4WQSe<t v]GjxtrU8yo G1v< 37140@blogcritics.org Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:31:20 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10243 Ours seems secure, but it's an important thought - everything will be off the ground. 10243@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 13:47:43 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10241 Careful there, basements flood. Speaking from experience. 10241@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 13:21:02 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10237 By the way, storage is an issue: my records take up one room and CDs another. I have move it all into our new basement - will suck hard. 10237@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 12:25:51 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10236 But see, that's why you guys are so cool and this writer is not: you want new and different things, he, and so many people, want safe and same and predictable. There are times when I will listen carefully to a CD more than once, like when I am reviewing it, or trying to learn a song (which I, unfortunately rarely do anymore), but for the most part I want to hear something then move on to something else, and on and on. "More more more, how do you like it? how do you like it?" 10236@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 12:23:59 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10235 > music I haven't heard yet yep, same with me. after posting my pre-vacation Friday Morning Listen...it got me to thinking about the fact that i'll be able to listen to a community radio station (WERU) for the entire two weeks. i've listened to it before and it's just a blast...entire shows where i know almost NONE of the artists...heaven for me. i'll come back with a long list of artists (time to raid the cd fund cookie jar!) 10235@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 12:09:09 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10232 Eric: *25,000*?! Do you have a picture of this? I drop jaws when I show people my relatively modest 1400 CD collection. I can't imagine what 25,000 would look like. I can understand what he's saying, in that I have a tendency to acquire things because they were on sale, used, etc., and not get into them the way I should because there are always more to buy. And there's always a bit of guilt when I buy because my wife and I are on a pretty tight budget, but we're frugal in every other way - so my "habit" isn't such a burden, I hope. When I feel too guilty, I tend to trade in what's grown stale, but at some point later I almost always come to regret it. I try to make a pact with myself to never, ever trade anything in again, but it never lasts. It's kind of fun to trade in a few discs and get a new one in return without having to open your wallet. More than anything, I just crave new music - music I haven't heard yet, I mean, not necessarily music that's just come out. I'd be happy if I could get a something I've never heard before to listen to everyday, even if it is only that one spin I get with it. Of course, I can't afford that. So I have to make do, getting rid of what I can to fund the new stuff I want to check out. The problem is, my collection has gotten to the point where I'm emotionally attached to the majority of the music in it, which makes getting rid of a lot of this stuff impossible. In the end, that's not bad, but of course it prevents me from getting something with the trade I could get from it . . . vicious circle! 10232@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 11:59:42 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10231 Yay Eric. Agreed. I'm only 21, but I think at that age around 300 CDs and a handful of records is nowhere near enough. There's so much stuff to catch up on. Wanna burn me some CDs? haha. 10231@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 11:57:51 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10229 yeah I can never understand people who's music collection is half a bookshelf. how do they satisfy the cravings? 10229@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 11:51:24 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10224 at least the guy still has an emotional attachment to his music (ok, at least some of it anyway). i thought that the 'REM "smells" like Fall' thing was kinda cool. on the other hand...sorry, there's <b>never</b> enough. 10224@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 11:17:13 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10222 that's exactly right Andy, you have a very specific mood and you need to find the music to meet it - that's why I hate to allow music to dictate my mood, I want to find the music to match my mood. That's takes a lot of records. 10222@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 11:10:03 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/101900.php#comment-10221 haha I have no where near 25,000 albums, but I'm probably packing quite a few albums when I move too what with vinyls and cds and whatnot. It does sometimes suck. Sometimes, I just don't know what to listen to haha. That's why my monthly visit to the record show in town here is crucial. For $20 I can expand my collection by 10 or so albums. I find though, that I still have those days of, "Man there's nothing good to listen to" 10221@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 10:47:44 EDT