duuuude, we're on a internet forum , generalizations are having another gold era - especially on social networks, where hipsters live their lives.
while I'm at it, let me add another hipster generalization: if hipsters are the future of mankind (they certainly think they are), the planet might not be worth saving!!
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Good (and sad) thread. When my brother in law passed away unexpectedly, we had to figure out what to do with his 2500 cds. I kept about 100 of them, we gave away (and accepted donations to a charity) another 200, and we sold the rest of them, in bulk, to Half Price Books for $250. It was sad, but I wasn't going through the hassle of selling them individually. I see myself liquidating my cd collection before it becomes someone else's problem to solve for a dead or demented future me.
Steve
Before moving cross country a couple years ago I sold my remaining 80's vinyl (LPs, 12" singles and 45s) plus cassettes and VHS tapes to Half Price Books.
"Confusion Will Be My Epitaph"
Do not think that's necessarily true for CDs. They seem a perfect medium, along with DVDs and BR's, for all those remasters and remixes with bonus concert videos etc. The length of music they provide is often hard to beat by anything else. Digital format does not work for me as I am often connecting with the music through everything that is connected to it, be it graphics, flipping booklet etc. Besides the digital format is as good as good is the hard disc drive ... and I have been through failures of several of them already.
Perhaps in few decades they will gain in value, although, the question is how long they will last? Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, it is not going to be my worry .... but it is certainly true that selling them now pretty much does not make much sense, unless of course it is a sought rarity.
"Confusion Will Be My Epitaph"
Vienna's biggest cd store becomes a cannabis joint -
https://twitter.com/FredericChaslin/...72346477539334
Just came back from a library “book” sale and walked out with a stack of $2 CDs [emoji106]
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-noisynoise
www.polarizedguru.com - 5-piece jazz fusion group
www.incandescentsky.com - inventive improvisational instrumental ensemble
Like everything else stored long-term on a computer, it's the owner's responsibility to maintain good backups; and periodically purchase a replacement computer and migrate all the data storage from the old to the new. In that way a collection on hard drive should be able to last indefinitely, or at least as long as there remains software capable of playing those formats.
What we feel we have to solve is why the dregs have not dissolved.
That's Ok as long as we know what we'll not get.
History books should be banned by now as well, seeing as they're tainted from old-dork conceptions of "fine". Why should we be able to read and write properly, for instance? Such a snobby trait. Nah, man's not free until we've got equity for real and I can operate a brain without some elitist-privileged diploma to say that I'm allowed. I'll spin that sharp opener, place unfortunate skulltop on a table and turn it upside down for soup-bowl-utility. And then I'll start incisions. Brain's not such a hard thing/place! I'll just take out what appears strange in there. No privileged elitist imperialist may deny me that right!
Soup-bowl lets it out.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Hi Bruce
I think you refer to this album?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp9X...p=ygUGa2hhLXlt
Yes, I think that was the one. Thank you for finding it for me, Meidad!
Bastards.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
https://darko.audio/2023/12/brits-bo...l-lps-in-2023/
The death of CD sales has been grossly exagerated.
I'm quite surprised about the pictures of the DVD/BR empty shelves, because that decline is not nearly as sharp as for Audio support
As for CD, it doesn't surprise me. Medias always aggravate things to make their headlines more spectacular
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
There's still an HMV in my local town with loads of cd's, DVD's, Blu Rays & vinyl. Plus books, t shirts & posters.
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