Archive for the ‘Series’ Category
I have a few posts that either are part of a series of posts or will be. Those appear in this category.
A Video Trip Down Memory Lane
Now that the new site, which isn’t really in its final form yet, is up, I thought I’d try something a little different. As you could tell if you visited this site here instead of reading it via a feed reader of your choice (and I do make full feeds available to facilitate that), I [...]
Trials and Tribulations (V)
The Shopping Nightmare I do 98% of all my music shopping online. I know that I’m helping the demise of the record store swiftly along, but I need to save cash to feed my habit(s) and I simply cannot pay some of the outrageous prices my local shops ask for releases that often cost me [...]
A musical life in Denmark of the 1970s, 80s and 90s
Even at the risk of alienating some of my regular readers (those that haven’t been alienated by my long absence around here already), this is the start of a longer series, many parts of which have already been completed. The reason is very simple, really, What I’m about to expand upon, I’ve had first-hand experience [...]
Guilty Pleasures: I
Being a frequent visitor of various music forums, especially those of the jazz kind, I know it’s best to keep one’s mouth shut when it comes to guilty pleasures. It won’t take long until people virtually leap at you once you have admitted to liking one or t’other band that does not fit the forum’s [...]
Trials and Tribulations (IV)
I didn’t really want to touch this series (I, II, III) for a while, but recent developments have just pushed me over the edge again, so I think it’s time for part IV.I think I started ordering abroad in 1982, or thereabouts. At that time I ordered from a wonderful man named Robert Weinberg, who [...]
Trials and Tribulations (III)
I already vented in part I and part II of this ongoing series on collecting insanity, but I’m far from finished. (21) The Long-Assed CD Booklet: That’s the one you get all too rarely, but when you do, you need an incredible amount of training to actually get it out of the standard-sized jewelcase. That [...]
Trials and Tribulations (II)
In our first look at the many things that can drive a collector bonkers, we discussed terrible box sets, maddening stickers, irritating packaging, generic covers and stupid or incomplete liner notes, small print, and the hidden track of doom. If you thought that was all, think again …(11) Freak Programming: Not all collectors agree, but [...]
Trials and Tribulations (I)
If you are a collector, you are constantly confronted with insanity right and left, not only when meeting other collectors, who could sometimes single-handedly feed the entire profession of psychologists, but especially when confronted with irritating to completely moronic label behavior, product design, or else. There’s just so much to get irked about that I [...]