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Jeezo, Dick!

I know exactly how you feel! BUT, the great thing is how easy it is to improve your collection. You have to get the mind-set that you have good records and not-so-good records. You never listen to the not-so-good records so why keep them?

The argument I put forth is that someone may come over and want to hear something from a group or individual whom I don't care for, but I'll have it for them!

It never happens! Or at least so rarely it doesn't matter! It's your collection, you have to be satisfied with it. A large collection will have SOME LP that a friend wouldn't mind hearing, maybe not that ABBA album he loved and never replaced with a CD, but SOMETHING that he'd enjoy listening to!

I've been relatively ruthless in the last year or so, I buy only the really good stuff for myself and the better stuff for friends I meet here at AA. They might want some of the more easlily found LPs because where they live, there's NOTHING to find! But I no longer buy the Eagle's "Hotel California" or Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours", those can be found at any used record store in the world...and at reasonable prices.

Meanwhile, you're buying only the great stuff, culling the stuff from your collection that has music you don't really care for; improving the collection! 10,000 of the best stuff you've ever found, I assure you, is a better collection than 20,000 of the "this is interesting, I should get this to round out my Hank Waterbug collection".

Part of collecting is pride of ownership. Someone "in the know" comes to visit and begins looking at your collection. Ten minutes go by and he says, "Wow, you have this?", then another 5 minutes before he says, "This is a great record, isn't it?"

I like this scenario much better:
A friend "in the know" comes to visit and every record he pulls out he moans; he pulls out record after record and moans loudly with each one he sees. Ten minutes go by and he says, "I can't look any more, I'm going to be sick! Where the hell did you find all this stuff!"

A small collection (by our standards) of nothing but the very best is more impressive for others...and far more importantly, to you!

There's only one problem. By any one collector's standards, there are still more LPs in this world that are "great" than any of us could ever own. Thus, all I've written is a lot of bullshi*!

Damn, but I've been wordy the last couple days!


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