quoted 8 lines On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Turbo wrote:>On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Turbo wrote:
>
>> I'm curious to find out.. do people really buy extra copies of these
>>limited edition
>> releases, such as HAB, just to put away and make some money a few months
>>down the
>> track or use to trade for something equally as rare???
>
Well, confession time:
The closest sin I'm guilty of -
I did once buy two copies of a medium rare, if not well done, limited
edition (too ashamed to say what exactly it was in this exalted company).
But not for pecuniary gain, even if my university does have America's "Best
Business School".
(Lord help us; it's a curse. After a fellow student tried to sell me used
IKEA furniture at a 150% PROFIT, I say: Go Oxford! Don't allow that
business school on campus! Leave it to Wharton! Leave it to Beaver!
Sorry about the fowl, that is, rodent, language). Creative punctuation -
!; ? - !
I swear, your honor, I did it out of love for the music.
I have no plans to part with either copy (well, I suppose if some one
pushed the right compassionate buttons...)
Rather, I thought - "What if something happens to one copy?"
It's computer logic of backups applied to music.
Punchline 1: The music is on Compact Disc.
Punchline 2: I keep both CDs together, so if a tornado missed Kansas and
landed in my living room...
Punchline 3: No, I won't say it. I won't admit what the CD is.
Actually, I've done this on one or two other occasions where I thought a CD
would rapidly go out of print or fade into obscurity. Great for gifts then!
Anyway, my ethical view on Music Hording is about the same as my view on
Art Hording:
If you do it for the love/lust of art, then it's cool, if perhaps a bit
paranoid.
If you do it for monetary gain, than it's a perversion of art, an insult to
the artist, a moral failing, and brings bad karma on all your heirs, like
that damn monkey's paw or donkey's jaw or whatever the hell it was and then
you have to sell everything at less than you bought it or you will grow old
while the painting stays young and then you will have to poke out your eyes
and sit on a rock for eternity in Dante's hell when you realize that you
are guilty of accidental incest and are in fact your own parent.
It's true, I tell you.
Zenon M. Feszczak
Eclectician