The Death of the Record Collection

jesus j0hn d. how can you ask whiney to chill when you know goddamn well that people in nyc are just walking into apartments in nyc and just taking armloads of whatever they can find, he's gotta be primed for battle

they probably hang an open binder on the inner lining of a raincoat

lol @ new york superiority complex

"theft is different here"

he wasn't saying this happens only in new york, just that it does happen some places and that new york is his point of reference

what happens if you buy a new DVD, kebin? do you have to take them all out of the pockets and move them over?

Yes which sux. But I have to do that with my CDs with jewel cases and my vinyl which sux equally. I really don't understand the difference here.

All those CD binders for sale on the street

Ok I'm seriously not being a jerk here and am asking honestly: the entire BINDER is for sale??

Love, kebin

"psst 3 echobelly cds for $1"

"because I haven't put cannonballs in the soundholes"

this would be the awesomest guitar ever! nautical warfare jamboree!

In New York, ppl just grab what they can take in one armload

They do this in Oakland too ... unless they have more time to do the deed. But in general, they're more likely to take easily portable shit that they could sell for a few bucks, than more unwieldy items with a comparable resale value.

i know crutis but posting "in new york ppl steal things THIS way" is a good way to make yrself look silly imo.

thank you crut and sarahel for not making me feel like i'm fighting an army with a sword made of a subway footlong

this would be the awesomest guitar ever! nautical warfare jamboree!
patented that as soon as I posted btw so don't try

the point is none of your record collections are worth stealing or even owning really because you all have shit taste in music

if you cut that footlong in two you would have two more easily transportable daggers

"fighting an army with a sword made of a subway footlong"
this is a sword unfit for fighting or eating!

you cant like own music man

― max, Monday, July 27, 2009 3:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

just caught this and it deserves a lol tbh

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The Death of the CD Binder

Also, j0hn, I got
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhnfyz37SVo
for you too, but i think out posting styles just rub against each other sometimes :D

music ain't got no owners, son! only listeners!

bah it's too late to make my "leave off the cheese -30 CCs of blood" joke

cosign whiney I am glad I grew up in 2 argumentative houses

totally robbing your house next time I'm in town though & leaving empty binders as my calling card

i think though that this is a totally rational fear, considering the changes that have occurred over the last 5-10 years, and denying the possibility is just incredibly wishful thinking.

oh wait, sorry, thought we were still talking about cd binder thievery.

You are only saying this because you woke up to a strange dude rifling through shit in your bedroom.

jjjusten if you want to buy your cds back I am a v. reasonable dude

all those govt/cop clearinghouse sites where you can buy other people's property (O.P.P.) are FILLED with cd binders. people steal them from cars a lot.

j0hn i dont care about the cds so much but if you still have the binder i kept them in i have really been missing that most of all

Thread went in an interesting direction!

http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/oklahoma/23753d1216512869-official-oklahoma-forum-chattin-thread-rip-thread.jpg

looking forward to my e: true hollywood stories interview about JD stealing my shit

ilxor, why do you think this thread never had a chance?

The Ties That Binder: The J0hn D. Files

That beats what I was about to post, A Hell of a Bind: The J0hn D. Story.

The Death of the The Death of a Record Collection thread

Had an entertaining three hour run though, right?

http://pics.livejournal.com/chariqueer/pic/0002k6ey

There were some lols. RIP.

Do you ever stop to consider the fact that one day not only will you be dead and everyone you know will be dead too, but that the planet will probably fall back into the sun and the entire universe w

my initial thought is that "having a record collection" as a concept was really only ever intended for enthusiasts in the first place, and was more of an inconvenient necessity for millions of other people who enjoy music but don't value physical recordings, don't dig deep into catalogs, don't eagerly seek out new stuff, and don't need trivia, history, or metadata for the stuff they enjoy.

I have been to so many houses where the 'record collection' has consisted of a Korn CD stuck in between an Age of Empires II expansion CD and a 100 Best Arcade Games Funpack CD in a rack next to the computer

Get out of J0hn D's house, he's gone through enough today.

also, that Korn CD is scratched to hell

yeah, that's my experience, too -- i don't really know that many people who have a "record collection" in the sense we're talking about here. people have some CDs, they don't actively pursue music in the way that people on this board pursue music. xpost

you guys hang out in sad houses. get out of those houses!

ilxor, why do you think this thread never had a chance?

You'd think by the thread topic and the first few posts it would be interesting. I made a couple thoughtful posts... the thread ended up turning to Spotify and CD binders, though.

Which, I suppose, means it DID have a chance. Right.

The vast majority of my friends have serious music collections (where "serious" = "more than 100 CDs"; avg due to the gonzo freaks is probably around 1K)

A better image:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/picture.php?albumid=65&pictureid=277

I bet you could make a lot of money selling your friends out a binder on a street in NYC, if this thread is to be believed

xpost

I prefer to keep all my friends in their original cases

A better image

... which is the joy of ILX, eh? Years' worth of life left in this thread.

That said, I think my comments here -- Bye bye physical singles -- probably say it all. It's interesting that a lot of the meh-Spotify stuff above is coming from US posters who haven't actually used it: all I'll say is that I was deeply sceptical until I tried it. However: I'd also gone from being Mr Phwoar-Look-At-My-Vinyl to Cap'n Crappy MP3 without actually noticing myself giving a shit, so I accept that for people who -- for whatever reasons -- still like to be able to hold their music in their hands, there's a much bigger bridge to cross.

I also fear Jon's absolutely dead-on about the stupidity of the RIAA. However, it's still very early days for Spotify and if/when this mobile application takes off, the game could yet change. As I've said somewhere else (er, probably the Spotify thread), I think a lot of labels are playing along because they see it as something that, while it might not be making them £££ right now, is very obviously the lesser of two evils when compared with Torrents/P2P/other illegal downloading, and offers the potential for a working business model in the future.

Maybe.

I wish someone would steal my cds. They're all in these:

http://i32.tinypic.com/xogkuh.jpg

That's right, jewel cases and shoulder straps.