Does anyone else have this problem?

I only have a problem choosing speakers

Regards

NB

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Anyone else have this pointless addiction?

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I love having more new music around than I have time to listen to it all. Some people (my wife, e.g.) find this silly, but it's really very pleasant to get home and have to choose between listening to, say, one of the 10 things I've only just started getting into, and one of the 10 things I haven't heard yet. Relative to the sums people here drop to get minor changes in their stereo's sound, the money required to keep oneself constantly supplied with fresh vinyl is modest (in the US, anyway), and the VFM far higher.

So I have the addiction but, like a good addict, insist that it's not a problem. :

More music then ability to listen?

Why only an addict would do that!

Hey, I can handle it! I mean, it was only a 7".

I can resist the harder stuff, like 12" and LPs

(Starts muttering in the corner)

DS

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Hum, I have got to a stage in my life where the weekend is not complete without at least one vinyl purchase.

I take it this is the start?

I don't think there is a single album in my "old favorites" section that I loved the first time I heard it. These albums usually have something about them that draws me back - a hint of things to come and a developing over the first 5 listenings and then an epiphany where it all comes into focus and you know that this one is the real McCoy. If I play my cards right I can be in this process with 4 or 5 albums at a time, and there is more than enough great music being released these days to make this possible. This leaves time to listen to other old favorites, but no time at all for listening to crap. It helps that I have a record dealer that lets me have everything on appro. If it ain't a keeper, I don't keep it.

Obviously there is a critical point past which old albums are not being retired at the same rate that new "keepers" are being added and you end up with music that still "works" that there just isn't time to play.

If 100 new albums were released each month that had promise I would spend all of my time establishing new connections rather than actually listening to, luxuriating in, being deeply moved by music that I am already connected to.

So this is my question : Surely after a certain volume of new music your strategy is more about first impressions (one night stands) than long-term relationships. How much new music can you do justice to in a month ?

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So this is my question : Surely after a certain volume of new music your strategy is more about first impressions (one night stands) than long-term relationships. How much new music can you do justice to in a month ?

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Minky,

I keep my 50 or so most recently acquired titles by my record player or in my car CD player. Most everything in this stack gets several listens before being filed with the others. Like you I find it often takes several hearings to appreciate an album, and this way I ensure nothing "disappears" before I'm satisified I've heard it properly.

I expect I'm like most people here in that my "back catalogue" gets regular playing. I like to just browse through and spot something I'll want to hear again. More often my memory will be triggered by another reference. Yesterday I played Springsteen's "Greetings from Asbury Park" and "Nebraska", prompted by reading about his concerts in New Jersey. Last weekend saw a lot of Fairport Convention, etc.

I have a rather nice classical collection put together in the '80s which I admit gets short shrift today. But in general I'm really grateful to be able to hear far more music than even professional musicians of 100 years ago could ever hope to.

Eric

I got to the stage where i was buying lots of Cd's and listening once or twice to them, cant give them justice that way(also was running out of storage space, couldn't hide them anymore!!!).
Now keep away from sales as i bought too many on impulse that on reflection were not worth the dosh. Rediscovering music that i had months/years ago. Cannot fathom how some of you find time to isten to the vast lists of weekly purchases, who is it to impress?- be more selective.
A good way of hearing more without buying is swap with friends, i have been doing this every week for at least the last 5 years, night out, beer and snooker as well, what could be better.
Agree that often the difficult listens become favourites, ones i listen to alot at first fade away.
Collection now 500=Cd's,400+LP's.

Steveb

Whenever I feel bad about having a backlog of music I haven't had a chance to listen to, I think of David Slater. I find that I then feel unusually peaceful about the extent of my habit .

However, this weekend I made my first unintentional duplicate purchase .

Mekon

Ha! Buying duplicates. The signs of senility are approaching!

The duplicates pile still grows - I found the lastest Luomo single comes in two covers, with the identical record inside. I now have both!

On a serious note, The Wife has issued an ultimatum - put some records away, or she will move some into the garage! I will ditch her relatively small collection of Supertramp, Osmonds, Carpenters, Elton John and other LPs out first.

DS

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