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You make a lot of sense here, Mike, even though it *is* BS.

I have gone through similar thought processes several times over the years. I have attempted to cull out records, with the intent of ridding myself of some. While I am able to move them from my primary record shelves into boxes, I can never seem to move them on to somebody else. A lot of it is, as you say, in case somebody comes over and asks for My Name Is Barbara, for example. However, that also is very rare for me. What is more common is somebody in one of these forums will mention some obscure record, and I will have it and be able to discuss it. This is exciting and fun to me. The problem comes down to my not really knowing which records this might happen with. My tastes and others, even yours, can be hugely different and diverse. Also, my tastes do change. Case in point, the Nick Drake box set I mentioned in the other discussion. I really didn't like the sound of his voice or the depression in most of his songs. After keeping the box set for many years, and never listening to it more than the first time, I sold it for an excellent price to somebody in New Zealand. Since then, Nick Drake has been mentioned a few times in forums, and I have heard some of his music here and there, and I now wish I still had that box set. There are a lot of records that I have sold, that I wish I now had, but most of them were ones that had a large value as collectors items, and the music, if not the exact album, is somewhat readily available. Also, I at least recorded them on reel-to-reel before I sold them. However, the ones I didn't like, like Nick Drake, I didn't even record.

I don't want to make that mistake again. The obvious garbage, like 1001 strings or Mantovani's Greates Hits, nobody would want anyway. I could take them to the thrift stores, but then I would have to paw through all of them trying to find something worthwhile. And, horrors, what if I ended up buying one of my own records back again!

This place is aptly named, and I feel very lucky to have discovered it a few months ago. I finally have found someplace where I belong, and it is an asylum, like my wife kept telling me I would end up in.

Dick Schneiders



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