The Death of the Record Collection

what recession?!

huge lol tbh

interesting that people do the cd binder thing. i tend to do that with hardcover books; take them out of their dust jackets and place them in large soft binders. didn't realize there was a cd equivalent!

wait, waht

...I'm with Dan.

does anybody remember that people did used to do that with 78s and 45s? My dad had a bunch of binders for both formats in the garage when I was little. I would go through the binders for hours looking at the records.

i place all my hardcover books in plastic ziploc bags. i place the dust jackets on my head and turn them into colorful hats. wait, doesn't eveyone do this...

We had a binder of old 78s that I think belonged to my great-grandfather; I don't know what happened to it. I used to love playing those things on 33.

i sew my old vhs tapes into the insides of my pants

as far as storage goes nothing beats:

http://static.flickr.com/110/289056054_7a72ed5870.jpg

i sew my old vhs tapes into the insides of my pants

Once you unwind the spools, I trust.

The man with the betamax slacks

still want this by the way:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3586/3366394723_f63008689e.jpg

Not in MA, you don't!

A friend of mine came round some time ago with her entire record collection on a hard-drive thing and promptly 'gave' me all her music. This was a freaky event in my life on many levels, not least because I'm not familiar with a lot of the artists in the collection. Now I know I'm supposed to weed out the stuff I would like to have nothing to do with, but it's such a daunting task. It's a bit like someone giving you an overwhelming number of gifts and depositing them around your house - you're grateful but it's not quite your home any more.

This might not mean the death of my record collection, but it has certainly distorted it.

just put that shit in a binder, that'll take care of it

Beeps pulled down a box of old 78s I had in the closet that were my mom's records when she was a kid -- basically cardboard, paper, and plastic grooves pressed as a round sandwich.

We put one of them on, a version of "Ring Around the Rosy" and those creepy chorus vocals came up that sound like the soundtrack to one of those black-and-white cartoons where the toys come alive in the night and kill the children. Beeps took the needle off the record and requested to go downstairs to be closer to Dora.

that kid is never going to want a record collection

I have a box full of shit CDs that I can't sell and can't donate. Have no idea what to do with all of them, but I feel horrible just packing them out with the recycling. I seriously doubt its worth eBay or whatever to sell the third Collective Soul album or second 311 album, y'know?

Same here. :-((

RIP

go to a used record store and dump them for $.50 each or something

i used to work in a used record/cd store. we'd buy anything as long as it wasn't scratched up real bad. u prob wouldn't get $.50 for them (more like $.10 - $.25, b/c they'll prob sell them for $1 or less) but it'd be something. or u could drop those off at a salvation army or something

Wow Scott, never saw that but have had mental images of basically exactly that (except with 12" capabilities). Looks like I know what my next car will be.

Now I know I'm supposed to weed out the stuff I would like to have nothing to do with, but it's such a daunting task.

why bother?

like "oh i really gotta fix these 30000 id3 tags..." uh...?

bit like the kindle thread, this

how many ppl have the same audio-emitting capabilities on their computer as they do on their hi fi or equivalent? i mean, in my case it's cheap pc speakers vs cheap LG stereo, but i know v few ppl with anything more on their pc than cheap pc speakers + cheap sub

the long-term vision is still that music does and should not exist as a series of recorded/manufactured/divorced-from-reality performances, but i don't really know how that's going to play out. possibly the 20th-21st centuries will be looked back on as this age of crazy where all art forms turned up in mass-produced artifact form

in the short term i can't decide whether missing record collections is progressive or not

the move against it predates spotify, though: i think moving from 2% of all recorded music ever available on demand to 20% of all recorded music ever available etc isn't really the key point. (kind of curious, now, what the actual number there is.) but years now i've known people who evaluate ppl's music by listening to two tracks off their myspace on one-watt laptop speakers. not saying they're THE ENEMY or anything. just saying.

just sorta quickly and offhandedly, I think a lot of people tend to go from 'death of the record collection' to 'revitalization of performance-based music'/'less emphasis on recorded media' thing too quickly. or at least I read too many articles that suggest that the real future of music is going to be concerts (and what, merch?) and I think, oh boy, I'm screwed then... can't do my music live at all.
probably too much not-conducive-to-being-reproduced-live music that people make/listen to/love for people to stop making/listening to/loving recorded music.
but yeah, no one's going to get rich selling it.
I also don't know what I'm talking about.

I have spent countless hours editing metadata in iTunes. When someone asks me for some music I just dupe my entire drive for them. It would take me too long to filter according to their tastes and they should be grateful that i'm giving them something for free that i've spent enormous amounts of money and time compiling, adding artwork etc. If someone gives you a shitload of music, don't complain that it's going to take you too long to go through. Trust that it took them longer to get it to the point where they shared with you than it will take you to go through and find what you like and don't like.

Well, only if "they" are exactly the same as "you" in terms of tagging etc. Or you end up with a shitload of half-assed, untagged, badly ripped shite that you end up binning.

I'm pretty sure if I got thousands of mp3s in one go, I'd never know where to start and wouldn't listen to any of them. Just don't know how to approach that.

i don't know anyone where i would be excited to be "given" their entire record collection on a hard drive.

I'm pretty sure if I got thousands of mp3s in one go, I'd never know where to start and wouldn't listen to any of them. Just don't know how to approach that.

shuffle ftw

I hope none of the songs have long intros.

skip next ftw

ok we're not all hackers

turn on computer ftw

It's kind of sad that people don't even care about getting a terrabyte worth of music. Before I built up my collection over 20+ years, I would have sold my soul for that kind of gift. Someone needs to send out a music gremlin to reclaim those collection from undeserving fuckwits!

I know! Me too! Not quite sure what call all destroyer is saying but I just want to know how I can be brotherlovesdub's bud. More entire drives please!

why is getting that much music "good" in comparison to, i don't know, carefully building a collection over years of stuff that has personal meaning to you?

ILX baffled that technological developments in production and distribution lead to changes in consumption and behaviour. Film at 11.

huh no one else would feel at all overwhelmed by that?

why is getting that much music "good" in comparison to, i don't know, carefully building a collection over years of stuff that has personal meaning to you?

Because you will likely have heard everything you've built up carefully over the years as you've acquired it, making it highly unlikely that you will discover some random new piece of music in it that knocks your socks off?

Stop being unrealistic, Dan, the world doesn't work that way.

that's why you keep collecting?

i guess my perspective is that i would rather hear one record at the right time--when i read a good review of it, or it gets highly recommended to me by a friend, or there's a cool ilm thread about it, than hear 100 records because someone was nice enough to put them into well-labeled folders.

Getting tons of music is great. But at my own pace.
Boy, modern times!

i dunno, yeah i just wouldn't want that much stuff, just like if someone wanted to give me that much physical stuff

I used to go through CD stores and buy as many albums I could find for $100 where my only criterion was "be less than $10 and be by someone I've never heard before or only know one song by".

WHY HASN'T ANYONE SUGGESTED THE OBVIOUS:

Tape your CD collection on some average grade TDKs and keep them at your aunt's house on the farm!

Jeez.

and I'm not worried about hearing music that blows me away... that happens like clockwork anyway.

oh wait and half the time it *is* something that's been sitting around for years but I just never really heard!