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quoted 7 lines Well, I had been awaiting this release's arrival but now it's come and

>> Well, I had been awaiting this release's arrival but now it's come and >> gone it seems. Anyway, I still can't locate a copy of this record for myself. >> Can anyone help me out? I'll trade you a HAB 1 12" for it... >- ----- > > I'll second that, If anyone else has a copy of Mira I'll trade a >still wrapped copy of HAB1.

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??? I'm assuming you did buy 2 or more copies and you do have one for listening?? Sheesh, John

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

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Turbo wrote:

quoted 3 lines I'm curious to find out.. do people really buy extra copies of these limited edition

> 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???

I'll bet they do. Welcome a bit of the fine arts (gallery) reality to this music scene... (Andy?) Wilson, who started Factory records said something like "Avant Garde is so cheap when young, yet so priceless later on" in his reference to publishing groups like Durutti Column, Joy Division, etc, etc. That quote is paraphrased a bit maybe. (butterfly) collectors and trainspotters are generally trying to position themselves with the highest degree of knowledge and one-of-a-kind info they can, very much like gallery owners. My personal opinion is that this is evading the need to be creative oneself, instead of trying to live closely to another person's creativity... just banter..

quoted 1 line Sheesh,

> Sheesh,

Read some of Robert Crumb's comics about when he collected jazz records and you'll see how that whole mentality is very very timeless. solenoid@europa.com <------+