Music "wears out" too quickly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I get obsessed with some new sound or some new band, spend a fortune on obtaining all or most of their discography, only to move onto another band/sound shortly thereafter. At the time, it seems like a good investment because the music so obviously kicks ass, but I feel like I always move forward and rarely go back to enjoy the music that was kicking my ass only a few months ago.

Sometimes, I even feel completely bored by stuff I really liked just recently to the point that I consider burning a copy and reselling it, but then the eager music addict in me says, "No, no, that's really cool. You'll wish you still had it if you get rid of it." I tend to follow the eager music addict in me's advice, but then I look at my racks and racks of cd's and realize I almost never listen to 90% of the stuff!

― Strange Dilemma, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I purge biannually, like maybe as much as 40% of my total stock (which includes a lot of promos, but I always manage to get rid of lots of stuff I once "loved" too), and I constantly go back and look for an album only to discover that I probably got rid of it. I feel awful for about a second and then it passes. HUZZAH!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

if you burned a copy, wouldn't you still have it?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I purge occasionally (it's only ever 2 or 3 CD's though). But mostly I try and set quality control on 110% and not 'accumulate' in the first place.

I'm pretty anal as a music listener and collector (archived to HD CD's over Vinyl, ID3 tags have to be perfect, I will delete mixes I like if the audio quality isn't up to scratch) though, so I sometimes think I miss quite a lot too... but theres nothing worse for me than half-liking something, or having records which are "okay".

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

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Not really. I tend to forget which jacket sleeve the burned copies are in and, not being physically on a shelf, leads to the out of sight/out of mind situation.

― Strange Dilemma, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm the same way. I've got loads of music burned on CDs and such, but I never remember what all I've got, so it pretty much never gets played at all. Sometimes, I'll go buy a CD only to find out a month or two later that I'd had it burned on CD for a year or two.

Doesn't really bother me, since I'd rather have "the real thing" anyways, but it definitely highlights the "out of sight, out of mind" phenomenon re: my music collection...

― vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:25 (twenty years ago)

i sell records constantly.. usually a dozen or so every month or two. sometimes more, sometimes less. last time i went throughthe find stuff to sell it was kind of challenging, though.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Well, what I do is even if I really like a band's sound, with my next cd purchase I usually just check out a whole different band.There is so much out there. What MIGHT help is listening to a group whose sound takes a while to wrap itself around your head... maybe. I have found myself getting tired of everything too, like when I wanna listen to something, I won't have a clue what to put on, like I wore out my entire cd collection, which has gotten quite extensive.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)

I rarely listen to the same record (even my favourite music) more than 2-3 times a year at most. Which means I don't get tired of it either.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

This hasn't been a problem for me for so long. I have way too much music to ever get sick of something if I like it. There are times I don'to want to hear a record, but i never get sick of it. Years back, I used to sell a lot of records...if something wasn't great all the way through, or if a band I loved released a terrible record, I would sell all their records irrationally.

Anyway, years later I totally regretted it all and have ended up buying back almost all of those records. Now the only thing I ever sell is stuff I get that I don't like right off. If I ever liked or loved something, I will not sell it...because I know in the long run I will regret it.

― Daron Gardner (Daron Gardner), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

That's what happened to me. That's why I'm afraid to sell anything I know is good. Yet, I never listen to most of this stuff! I also don't sell anything I don't like right off because a lot of albums are "growers."

― Strange Dilemma, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

If music wears out too quickly, either it wasn't so hot in the first place or you have very fickle tastes like a 12-year-old.

Don't get me wrong, I've burned out on stuff I once liked, but it was usually after a few years went by. It wasn't like I started hating it six months after I bought the damn thing.

I go through my band obsessions, too, but I know better than to listen to the same artist non-stop. Like Joe Tex once sang, too much of anything ain't good for nobody!

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:41 (twenty years ago)

If music wears out too quickly, either it wasn't so hot in the first place or you have very fickle tastes like a 12-year-old.

Oh my gosh, you're right! Those are the only two options!!!! I wonder which one it is?!?!

― Strange Dilemma, Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:13 (twenty years ago)

you people are rettarded or ,worse, born with some intelligence but unable to control your consumption, spasming out of control, like some biggest looser of music. get yourselves under control. filter your inputs. oversupply is a fact of life. deal with it.

― gay triumph, Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:47 (twenty years ago)

i have always found the "when did i last listen to it" metric to be seriously flawed.
thats some middle management shit

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm making a point of using the CD changer in my car to get through all the CDs I have purchased and only played once. 5 CDs at a time, 3 plays each and I've usually concluded that I like it, and will no longer fail to pull it off the shelf on the grounds that I feel like something more familiar.

It is really good for good music that I don't take to naturally. I've really started to like the new Amy Rigby CD and really got to like a Dwight Yoakam best of this way.

― thousands of tiny luminous spheres (plebian), Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:04 (twenty years ago)

The good thing though about having a huge cd collection is that you end up going through phases. Eventually you are gonna get tired of anything you like a lot and then might not end up listening to it in a long time, but after going through a few phases you eventually end up coming full circle, "why I have'nt listened to THIS in a long time" and then comes the revelation of "OH MY GOD!!! I TOTALLY FORGOT HOW GREAT THIS ALBUM IS!!!". The last album that had longevity for me was the Damned's "Machine Gun Etiquette", I got almost a whole year out of that one!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 19 January 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

I wish before some of the kids open their big fat knowitall yaps to take a stab at an insulting explanation, they'd reign in their big heads a little bit and realize they don't know jack shit and are speaking from limited experience. Kind of like Klansmen explaining society's problems.

xgurggleglgllg, you're right about that, which is why I have trouble reselling stuff I *know* is good even if it temporarily bores me. Sometimes, I think it's just hard for music to surprise me anymore and, having listened to it intensely for so long, the "power" of music (emotion, beat, etc.) isn't as strong as it once was, so my mind predicts the chord changes and obvious rhymes and gets bored. Conversely, having been obsessed with bizarre music for many years, weirder songs, sounds and less obvious rhymes don't have such a strong hold over me, either.

― Strange Dilemma, Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:02 (twenty years ago)

rein, dear, I meant "rein."

― Strange Dilemma, Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:06 (twenty years ago)

I don't have ears.

― Flubber, the movie, Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

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