What Happens When You Finish Collecting?

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Then you start selling it all off.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

literally OTM

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

you listen to it and enjoy it? and find something else to seek out.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

You start to think about collecting all the Ennio Morricone's soundtracks (I believe there's about 400 of them), to keep you busy for the next 5 years.

― snowballing (snowballing), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Simon 803's makin' the most sense!

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 14 January 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, you just get obsessed with about a dozen other things -- try going for every sun ra lp on saturn next, or every original dangerhouse single, though maybe those are too obvious?

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Saturday, 14 January 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Couple of other options:

1. Store it away in your hermetically sealed fetish altar for periodic playing/worship/bragging.

2. Start collecting different covers, pressings, promos, etc. from that artist, like my different Kate Bush LP covers. Never finish. (You will end up getting all the ECM releases, for example).

3. Find another band to obsess about. This happens to me a lot. (xpost Mike beat me to it)

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I think what I'm actually gonna do is move on to Cecil Taylor. I've got about two dozen of his discs already, but there are so many more...

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, don't forget to listen to them, too.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

take the panties off and start collecting originals instead of reissues.

kidding.

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Sunday, 15 January 2006 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link

>start collecting originals instead of reissues

Only a twat owns a turntable in 2006.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 15 January 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Countdown to "What Happens When You're Finnish Collecting?" Tuomas parody thread

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 15 January 2006 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Only a twat owns a turntable in 2006.

I own 4 or 5.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link

anyway, this is what I think about finish collecting:

http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26078

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't really envisage not having anything left to collect, and I'm not even that much of a collector (in terms of completism, original issues, etc). There's just a ridiculous amount of music I like that it would take years for me to get even half of it. Then of course I wouldn't have time to listen to it all, but I can dream of a time when I don't have to work and maybe then I'll get round to it.

I blame downloading.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, listen and enjoy. Or reward yourself for having completed the set by doing something fun that doesn't involve buying something.

― Douglas, who will someday have all the James Brown Productions singles (Douglas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

you move on to a new artist, typically.

there are only a few artists whose entire catalog i have. i typically limit myself to some part of it (no major label butthole surfers!!!), but sometimes i break that (no stones records after some girls?)

i think when yer done collecting you start to think about storage and market value in the longterm.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link

also p.s. dan selzer, there's a reasonable amnt of weird european/obscure american late seventies/early eighties 45s at academy now. if that is your deal.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link

oh man. I'm trying not to buy records for a while. that's tough though...

and 80s Stones can be awesome, Undercover of the Night, Too Much Blood, Emotional Rescue, great weird funk dance tracks. And Tattoo You is just good pop.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link

i HATE emotional rescue. the track.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm two times as bad as your average twat, it seems.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 15 January 2006 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link

when you're done collecting you berate others for doing stupid shit like this:

http://i7.ebayimg.com/01/i/05/e1/f3/5d_1.JPG

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link

how can you hate emotional rescue? Mick's sexy falsetto, the jerky rhythm, the phasing on the cymbals. Try playing it louder maybe.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link

dan i hope you play that undercover of the night remix when you deejay. it's so hot.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:23 (eighteen years ago) link

so Phil do you have Go Home? That's the hardest one to find. Took me forever. and yeah, um, think you'll need a turntable to play it. Looks like you need to be a twat to complete your collection!

oh, and speaking as someone who also has every Art Ensemble recording up through the 80s (and you are totally missing out if you don't own albums like LIve in Japan and Urban Bushmen but what-the-fuck-ever, the obvious answer to thread is: collect all the *solo* albums. So, all that great 70s Roscoe and Lester stuff, plus the Malachi, Don and Jarman albums on AEOC. oh but you need a turntable for some of that stuff too, snap.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

mmm.. zingy.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I stopped getting completionist urges when I started sorting my records by album title instead of artist name. The downside to this is realizing you don't actually enjoy 20-30% of your collection. "Space Oddity" and "Combat Rock" just don't look that hot when forced to stand on their own.

― jason., Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link

... your ideas are intriguing to me! but what a project.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I seriously did it during a hurricane while the power was knocked out. Probrably took about five hours to complete but it wasnt like there was anything better to do.

― jason., Sunday, 15 January 2006 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

LIVE BOOTS!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 15 January 2006 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Only a twat owns a turntable in 2006.

So what if you have two turntables? (But no microphone.)

What do you other ILMers do when you've finished collecting someone's work?

I was never a completist, so I have never had that experience.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 15 January 2006 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Only a twat owns a turntable in 2006.

I wear my turntable pride on my sleeve in 2006, are you kidding?

― Tomato Voyeur (Bimble...), Sunday, 15 January 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Go Home was issued on CD in Spain; you can find copies on eBay pretty easily. And I've got Urban Bushmen, which is great; I'm also looking to pick up Live In Berlin 1979 and the 2CD version of Live In Japan. But for now, I'm moving on to Venom.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 15 January 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

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