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In Reply to: You've already answered your own question... posted by Jim Treanor on June 15, 2016 at 15:31:43:
"...and I sure as hell don't want to have to kick myself for having tossed..."There have been a few recordings that I jettisoned, which I sorely regretted parting with later. Some that I found were no longer in print. Some that were important in tracing the complete development of an artist. Some that did not please on an older playback system but might on the current one. Some that I did not "understand" at the time but might have...had I given it more time.
Because of these regrets, I find myself parting with less and less as the years go by.
I know that physical media is now almost value-less due to the pre-eminence of downloading and streaming but I have a hard time surrendering control of my listening habits to a streaming service or content provider. Its against my nature.
Moreover, I can't help but think that in ten years time, what is now considered value-less will once again be considered value-able.
I used to be quite lackadaisical when it came to collecting. I thought that anything that I wanted would always be available whenever I wanted. I thought my favorite artists would live forever and continue producing music until the end of time but this has not turned out to be the case. So many recordings have gone out of print. The music business has contracted severely in the last ten years.
When Tower Records closed in 2006, I thought at the time that it was an ominous sign. By 2013 every record shop had closed in Washington DC. In 2014 the last big record shop in New York had also closed, something I never could have imagined happening in so large a city, but sure enough they are now all gone.
Much music now only continues to exist in collections.
Edits: 06/15/16
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- RE:....question... - layman 18:19:51 06/15/16 (2)
- I am getting old. My main concern is paring DOWN my colelctions so no one needs rent a dumpster to discard - Smelly_Socks 21:38:30 06/15/16 (0)
- RE:....question... - Jim Treanor 20:05:28 06/15/16 (0)
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