Oh well..i can always sell 'em to a skeet shooting range for use as targets..........PULL...blam.....tinkle.......
Oh well..i can always sell 'em to a skeet shooting range for use as targets..........PULL...blam.....tinkle.......
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Tinkle???
Are they using "love guns" at this shooting range?
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
The Ice Cream Lady Wet her drawers........To see you in the Passion Playyyy eeee - I. Anderson
"It's kind of like deciding not to date a beautiful blonde anymore because she farted." - Top Cat
I was expecting to be kinda meh, but it made my nips stiffen - Jerjo
(Zamran) "that fucking thing man . . . it sits there on my wall like a broken clock " - Helix
Social Media is the "Toilet" of the Internet - Lady Gaga
The Ice Cream Lady Wet her drawers........To see you in the Passion Playyyy eeee - I. Anderson
"It's kind of like deciding not to date a beautiful blonde anymore because she farted." - Top Cat
I was expecting to be kinda meh, but it made my nips stiffen - Jerjo
(Zamran) "that fucking thing man . . . it sits there on my wall like a broken clock " - Helix
Social Media is the "Toilet" of the Internet - Lady Gaga
From an article that appeared linked to CNN's homepage today, called "10 worthless collectibles" or something like that.
#8
DVDs/CDs
Highest Price on eBay (as of 10/31/2014): $8,824,499.12
Lowest Price on Amazon (as of 10/31/2014): 1 cent
In parts of the 1980s and 1990s, CDs were the primary way to get your music. There was something exciting about getting all the albums of your favorite artist and displaying them proudly when you weren't listening to them.
In the 2000s, DVDs emerged. The temptation arose to buy the entire Star Wars trilogy, every James Bond movie and every other set imaginable.
But technology has quickly eroded the value of these collectibles. All that music you bought on discs is now available through iTunes, Pandora, Spotify and dozens of other means. Movies are on Netflix or on demand via your local cable satellite provider. Perhaps these items will one day go the route of vinyl records and become charmingly retro, but for now they're just collecting dust.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/12936...priceless.html
^^ Wow, that's great! Please point me to the streaming service that has every album ever released by SI music, Ars Mundi, Cuneiform, Musea, Laser's Edge, etc., and every album by Cast, Cyan, Devil Doll, etc.
And I didn't realize Netflix, Amazon Instant, etc. all have every movie ever released on DVD. That's amazing.
That stuff you just DL from a blog somewhere, or get from Youtube.
Look, I'm not *advocating* this worldview, I'm just saying that sometimes people with very narrow, specific, non-mainstream interests (us) can lose track of how the rest of the world looks at the stuff they're interested in. I'm sure Franklin Mint enthusiasts like to hold their collections in their hands and look at it being displayed and are patiently waiting for the rest of the world to get on board and all that, too, but it's not happening. 2014 United States CD sales are going to be way down yet again, because 98% of the people can find 99% of what they want for very little money and a satisfactory level of fidelity (to them) quickly and easily, without ever having to possess a physical copy of it. Whatever they want that they can't get, they'll simply do without. And I'd venture to say that there's virtually nobody under the age of, say 35, who doesn't prefer the way things are now to how they were. They get virtually all the music they want, none of the clutter, and have all that disposable income to spend on other things.
I do amazingly well with my Amazon sales which is probably 90% CD's (the other 10% being a mix of DVDs, blu-rays and books). Most of my sales are in Classical (I currently move about 100 items a week). I did make a conscious decision about five years ago to ease up on DVD buying. I still buy quite a few blu-rays - but hard for me to spend more than $5 on a regular commercial release, and rarely more than $15 for premium stuff from Criterion or BFI. Like books, well-crafted DVDs and blu-rays will have a substantial shelf-life with collectors. Popular movies and music are like soft drinks - they quickly lose their fizz!
Peter
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Last edited by spacefreak; 11-02-2014 at 01:18 PM.
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