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It floors me that so many girlfriends and wives don't understand there are priorities in life. |
I find it's easier to get obsessed over LPs than CDs. I worry I'll never see that "rare" LP again, but I'm always sure there will be a CD copy around. This hasn't always been the case, of course. Impossible to find the Feelies catalog on CD or LP these days, for example.
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wait till you have to shell out $1000.00 a month in mortgage payments and that will curb yr vinyl shopping! ha ha!
that's what happened to me! I fucking love records. |
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Brilliant! Now, I truley understand what it's like to be a vinyl junkie "monster". Nice read. Thanks. |
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Been there! Went for years and years without buying a thing due to tight finances. I still probably spend more than I should, but I put it in context: I spend a nominal amount of cash on one haircut every six weeks or so (talking around 15 bucks) whilst my loved one can spend a couple hundred in the same time period (it's insane!); I spend little on clothes whilst et cetera; and NOTHING gasp on my nails whilst et cetera... So by comparison my indulgence of a $15 LP every couple of weeks or so is pretty cheap... |
Binge and purge here. I tend to limit myself to bands/ composers I don't know anything about, which means I'm very frugal with 'world' and classical stuff, but very limiting on myself when it comes to guitar/ Anglo-American stuff.
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I use two tactics:
1. Try not to pass up that "rare" LP that magically shows up one day. (My definition of "rare" is really just anything on my list that I haven't seen on LP for a while--could be something as mundane as a nice reissue of Loaded or something as esoteric as an original vinyl pressing of Daydream Nation. Yes, I keep a list of these things.) 2. Focus on bands/artists I'm currently keen about. 3. Avoid new releases unless I've heard them. |
One very good technique - Charity shop records are as cheap as words. If you don't like them, you feel good taking them back. If you do like them, you've made a killing.
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Might as well ask a junkie how to stop using junk.
The best I can do is control the habit by limiting when and where I go to look for records. I try not to walk into a record store more than twice a week. This is very difficult since I work just around the corner from a great independent record store. I also stick to one store. If they don't have what I'm looking for, don't go searching for it in other stores in the area or online--kind of with the philosophy that if it's not there, it's not meant to be. The flipside of this thinking--and one I fall prey to quickly--is, okay, so that's not meant to be, but oh, look, here's something else that looks really great, so this is what's meant to be. Yeah. Addiction. It's a thorny subject. |
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that is exactly true. I despise paying too much. However I would surely pay $25 for something special today which I would not ahve done 10 years ago. |
I lov evinyl records.
I try to limit it to bands I know already. I do not buy vinyl just to "check a band out" for that I will buy a used CD. |
I need to start buying more records.
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have you stuck to your plan of only buying 7"s this year? or did you start veering off course any? |
i veered off course buy now i'm back on again
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Mr & B: You live with a record store clerk. As do I. And he keeps finding things for me. Which is detrimental to my wallet in some fashions, but also good because I tell him to get things and he gets them, rather than I wander in, get the record (at full price) and buy other things (at full price).
Luckily, there's a dearth of vinyl shops round here, but I did find a Sunday market with an absurd amount of stuff on Sunday. 20 quid, 11 LPs though, I'm quite pleased. Edit: Urr, I meant to ask some asinine question about something. Insert bollocks here etc. |
You guys are fucking lucky to live with a "record store clerk".
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i worked in record stores for six years and i would spend all of my pay except for rent and food. now i spend all of my pay except for rent and food and $100 bucks to go out and party and $200 bucks for my savings to go overseas again and again and buy records in other countries.....
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It's going to take considerable restraint when I open my store not to buy all my inventory myself. At the same time, maybe it will be like living with a really large collection that eventually somebody else will pay for--even though then I won't have it anymore. ah, the rub.
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I haven't baughten a cd is so long.
I've been fixing my bike, plus I don't have any money so that doesn't help. |
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