Posts Tagged ‘collector’s nightmare’
And now what?
It’s that time of year again to take a step back and have a quick glance at the one that just passed. I didn’t really need an incentive for that because when I returned home from my Christmas holidays. I had to admit to myself – while looking at the piles of CDs I had stacked up on top of my shelf system, on the floor next to it and at one that had amassed next to my stereo – that my collection had once again outgrown the available space for it.
Yes, I could have crammed everything in that I had bought, especially those larger recently-added items that are so often virtually thrown out of stock at wildly reduced prices around the end of one and the beginning of a new year, but filling up every nook and cranny of my shelf system(s) isn’t really the most intelligent way of going about things. As I have several sub-collections strung together shelf after shelf, I need space in-between the various sections and at strategic spots inside of each section to be able to add new items as I go along.
Boxed-In
I’ve said it often enough around here and I’ll state it again: We collectors are nutcases. There was a time when I collected books, “contemporary horror fiction” to be precise. It all started when I got my first limited edition of some book and it continued with lots of other limited, numbered, lettered and whatnot [...]
Observations 03-2009
(01) Rising Curtain: “The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back” Yesterday I added my “recent” purchases to my CD shelf system. A load of classical albums including Paul Lewis’ Beethoven piano sonata cycle (brilliant), a couple of Ahmad Jamal double and single CDs (early stuff and equally brilliant), the Oscar Peterson Clef/Mercury Box (I had [...]
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 [...]
The Loudness Wars
If you have been a regular reader of my site, you know that without the Steve Hoffman Forums I would be lost in the sea of mostly crummy remaster jobs permanently released all around the globe. If you also happen to be a regular on those forums, you probably also know that there are various [...]
Illegal Downloads
Note: Readers beware. This post contains some slightly stronger language that might offend some, but only because it is directed at those who have gotten more money from me than anyone else on this planet. With a tip of the hat to Indie HQ, a wonderful site which you should be reading regularly, I’m about [...]
Digital Music Files Suck
Yes, I know, all you young folks swear by them, but digital music files just drive me up the wall. They suck. On the list of things that make my life miserable, digital music files, whichever format they happen to be in, are in the top ten, slowly creeping towards the number one spot. Let’s [...]
The Demise of the Record Store
I’ve often said around these parts that collecting music also incorporates something of a haptic experience. Collectors that I know don’t only go for the music, although it is certainly the central aspect of their endeavors. Some collectors get off on special packaging and exclusive collectors boxes, others are wild about cover design, label discographies [...]
Moratorium
Well, I didn’t think it was ever going to happen, but it did. I ran out of space. After reshuffling and realigning my collection over and over again, every spot is filled up. I’ve reached 45 meters plus. There are plenty of options, but at the end I decided to go for the radical one: [...]