Man, talk about a backlash from people with lots
of records. It is like talking to drug addicts. They
just won't listen to reason. Vinyl is that dangerous
black crack everyone is hooked on to.
Hey, I totally understand the appeal of vinyl and CD's.
I've been collecting weird forms of music since I was
about 9 or 10 years old. If you count all the records I've
owned in my life it's probably in the high thousands.
However, I don't believe in keeping records I don't listen to.
Instead of having 5000 records, I stay around 1,000-1,500.
When I want to get some new stuff, I can sell some old
stuff I don't listen to. It offsets the cost. Yeah, I still
blow most of my expendable income on music, but
we all do that. After all, figure I have 1,000 records.
Averaging 12"s and CD's, I guess there's around 45,000
minutes of music. That's about a month of non-stop
playing. So if you have 6,000 records, it would take
you about six months, 24-7, to listen to everything.
It's not going to happen, people. I'm trying to think
right now if I'm ever going to listen to that Kid 606 record
I bought again. It was awful. Why keep it?
I'm not suggesting this is a dogma people follow, and
I'm as fanatical about records as the rest of you, but
why keep it if you'll never listen to it again? What we
really need to do is establish a National Electronic
Music Library where we can archive everything and
people can come in and listen to whatever they want.
Maybe I can petition the government to fund it.
Matt
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org