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Subject: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Wesley S Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:17 PM Talk about your habit. Is it time for a twelve step group yet? Is there any conflict with your significant other? Do you slip CD's { or tapes } into the house without telling them? Do you justify it to yourself by saying " I bought it used - at half price - so it doesn't count". How many do you buy per month? One, two, more? When do you know that just one more will get you thrown out of the house. These are serious questions, I need to know ............. for a friend - that's it - yeah - for a friend. He wants to know. How many is too many?? |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:21 PM Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh! you found me out! OK I confess, I buy em cause I have to. I'm an addict.....A compulsive CD buyer.... doomed I am, doomed. Yours, Aye. Dave |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Wesley S Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:28 PM Fess up Dave - you'll feel better. How many - how often?? |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Naemanson Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:29 PM That's OK, Wes. Your time for new CD's is rapidly coming to an end. Just another month or two (isn't it?) and then you'll be too busy to go looking for new CD's. I should put this on the How Do You Know... thread but this seems to be a good place for it. Get a 10 pound sack of sand or flour or something and hold it draped against your shoulder. That represents the lightly sleeping colicky baby who will cry if you put him down. Now try to do anything that you like to do without losing the "baby" or waking him in the process. Welcome to the next six to eight months! Seriously, though, here is something to think about. When the babies start to move around on their own you will need to kid-proof the house and that will include your free standing CD case if you have one. There is nothing more chilling than a heavy crash followed by the terrified wail of a child. My CD's are well under control. That is they were until the cat knocked over the case and spilled them all on the floor. My latest additions are the two that Gordon gave me for selling his product at the last two concerts. Fortunately my poor control of finances and having a kid in college generally work to curtail my purchases in that direction. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:31 PM I bought one today just because it had a picture of a ship on it..... I liked it too! doomed I know I'm doomed. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: hesperis Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:36 PM Bad enough. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Wesley S Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:38 PM But Neamason - that's another good reason to buy as many as possible while I .... I mean while my friend can. With twins due mid-january it's time to get them while you can. I'll .......... I mean he'll be stuck at home for a long time afterward. Needing distraction for those two o'clock feedings. And what better way to calm down a child at two AM than with a good bluegrass CD or some Irish jigs?? |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Kim C Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:39 PM Mister and I get a lot of free CDs because we have a good buddy who's a journalist in the Music Bidness. At one time she did publicity for a bluegrass label so we have a pretty good selection of bluegrass. Once in a while we'll go over to her house and she'll say, I've got a box for you to go through, just take the ones you want and leave the rest. Probably half of our collection we didn't actually pay for. Depending on our mood (and the wallet) between Mister and me, we probably buy an average of 3 a month. Sometimes more, sometimes less. :) |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Matt_R Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:41 PM I usually get one every two weeks. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: mousethief Date: 30 Oct 00 - 05:58 PM Don't Ask!
Alex |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Morticia Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:01 PM It's bad, but I can give it up anytime I want to......honest!!The fact that my local folk cd store know me, my husband, my children and the name of my cats , mail me regularly and phone if I haven't been in contact for a while in case I'm sick,is neither here nor there.I have run out of storage,( which now extends into two rooms) have begun to hide new purchases in the washing machine and don't dare own up to my bank manager or my family about where my money goes......but it's under control dammit!! |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: JenEllen Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:03 PM ..but he DID ask Alex!!! *bg* Spill yer guts!! I have the horrible symptom of getting the cheapies just for a listen. Pawing through discount racks and thinking "Hmmm..this looks interesting, and only 3 bucks...whatthehell..." and going home with more invested than I would have spent on new cd's. The new ones, I probably do more research on, but love them just the same. I think I'll have to go with Matt on this one, a new one every few weeks. just as a side bar....do you find this applies to your reading habits as well?? ~Elle |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Midchuck Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:05 PM Would that it were just CDs. It's the guitar habit that's the problem. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Midchuck Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:05 PM Would that it were just CDs. It's the guitar habit that's the problem. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: mousethief Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:06 PM Okay, JenEllen. *SOB* It's true. Everything he says in the initial post applies to me. Augh! It feels so good to get that off my chest!
Alex |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Midchuck Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:06 PM Woops! P. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Morticia Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:11 PM My book habit is worse, and that I do justify by buying second hand.....which still doesn't solve my storage problem......Gomez is beginning to get a face like a smacked arse everytime I bring a new store of 'treasures' in.....he hates things piling up on the floor/chairs/tables/every square inch of house room we have left.I guess I buy, on average, about four books and a new cd every week.We may have to move house soon. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: JenEllen Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:15 PM Yup Morty....but I find that if ya just give 'em a snog it takes their mind off of it!! (Imagine MY poor sod!! Not only the books and music, but the animals too!!! He comes home, I smile, and he goes "Oh great, who lives here now??) ~Elle |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Morticia Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:21 PM You mean you only smile at the poor bastid when you smuggle another little house guest in????? |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Lepus Rex Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:25 PM I usually buy one or two new cds a week, and depending on what I find shopping, 2-3 used or cutout cds. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Depends on if I get around to driving to town or not, and how much money I wasted on frivilous things like food, house payments and utilities... I should get a weekend job. ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: JenEllen Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:27 PM Must be the wicked grin, luv, because he's just as bad as I am about the books, etc. Besides, I had to start informing him after I came home one day to find him conversing with the latest arrival, a 3-legged cat that had taken over his spot on the sofa. The Prussian Shithouse turn Spanish Inquistion: "Who ARE you? Do I know you? You LOOK familiar, but I could have sworn when I left thismorning you had four feet...have we met??" ~Elle |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Morticia Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:31 PM LOL, poor bugger......I'm going to show this to Gomez and say " See, it could be worse!".....thanks, Jen. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:41 PM Does it count over the period of Celtic Colours to the end of October (roughly 3 weeks), I have bought roughly 12/15 CDs. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 30 Oct 00 - 06:42 PM And I'm single too! PRobably doesn't count. I didn't buy more than two over the last 8 months. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: RWilhelm Date: 30 Oct 00 - 07:00 PM I propably buy 3-6 a month. With Yazoo, Document, Rounder, Rhino, Smithsonian, Folk Legacy, Comesco, Greg's Music World, not to mention the mainstreams and the self-produced, all just a click away it can only get worse. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Matt_R Date: 30 Oct 00 - 07:06 PM Let's see...
--Last Tuesday I got Hootie & The Blowfish "Scattered, Smothered, and Covered" And so on... Right now I'm looking at Days of The New's first album. I'm also counting down the days until November 14th when the Oasis live album "Familiar To Millions" comes out. Woo! |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Ely Date: 30 Oct 00 - 07:09 PM I can't afford to buy many (I could buy more, but I'd have to face my VISA bill on a college kid's 12-hour-a-week job. Ouch.). I just put off buying them until I'm ABSOLUTELY certain I love the group, and then I don't feel guilty because I know I'll listen to it and enjoy it for many years without worrying about it scratching or stretching like a tape. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Matt_R Date: 30 Oct 00 - 07:13 PM Ely, check it out...I'm in college and I don't have a credit card! SHOCK HORROR! :-) |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: SINSULL Date: 30 Oct 00 - 07:32 PM Hate to do this to all of you but I hate CDs. My addictions are books and records. Last week, the owner of my company looked through a collection of books, records and assorted crap that I had ordered and commented "Your house must be a GD museum". Actually, that about sums it up. Only three cats in residence right now so I have lost the "zoo" look. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Matt_R Date: 30 Oct 00 - 07:37 PM Most of the time it's easier to find older music on CD re-issues than it is to dig through mountains of old LPs to find what you want. Then again, I'm not talking folk or anything like that. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Naemanson Date: 30 Oct 00 - 08:32 PM OK, I'll confess my dirty little secret. I don't buy many CD's but I will spend an hour on my knees looking through boxes and bins of old records. (for you uyoungsters that is a device that looks like a CD but is larger, usually black, and has a smaller hole in the middle. My current collection runs to 9 feet long and I can't put them in a cabinet. I keep them in boxes since the cat decided to use the spines to sharpen her claws. The stack of boxes dominates my living room. Sob! I feel so much better now! BTW, in Portland there is a used record shop. I know where most of them are in this area. On the wall in a baggie are the small pieces of one or maybe two broken CD's. The baggie is labelled, "Our CD Collection". |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: John Hardly Date: 30 Oct 00 - 08:59 PM ...probably 50+ just since July. I've started to mainline (on-line). Started out with a semiannual order through Elderly Instruments catalogue. Then 20 or so at schoolkid's records while I'm up at Ann Arbor for the art festival. Then the Dirty Linen comes and I can't resist seeing what I can get at Borders-et. al. It's just a short slide into the Amazon abyss. Anyone up for an intervention? |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Benjamin Date: 30 Oct 00 - 09:54 PM When ever I have cash on me, I spend it on CDs. When I don't have enough, I usally get some from an ATM! I don't count them, but I'd say I buy one to two a week. It's an expensive habbit for a college kid with a 20 hr week job. On the book note, I just spent $25 dollars (that's more than I had to spend) on a book just because it is by and about Al Green! BMW |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: thosp Date: 30 Oct 00 - 10:25 PM i'm considering acupunture peace (Y) thosp |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: rangeroger Date: 30 Oct 00 - 10:43 PM I have about 250 CDs now.Still a ways to go to catch up with my records ( about 500). But then I've been buying records for over 40 years, the CDs for a lot less time. I buy a new CD every 2 to 3 weeks unless I run across one I just have to have. The new Dave Alvin "Public Domain" is next. rr |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 30 Oct 00 - 11:37 PM I think I'm at 8 so far this month, and a friend of mine's CD release party is Saturday, but that will be November, so it will only be one so far for next month, but I lost a lot of CD's to a roommate's drug problem earlier this year, so I can justify that some are recouping, and one was used, but still some of you would accuse me of having a problem and suggest that I need to buy them when I can really quit anytime I want so GET OFF MY BACK!!! ;) Rich |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: John Hindsill Date: 30 Oct 00 - 11:44 PM Not as bad as my vinyl habit. It is a bad week when I can't find at least one folk record. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Matt_R Date: 30 Oct 00 - 11:45 PM You must live in folk-ville! |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 31 Oct 00 - 04:05 AM I can give up any time I want, but I don't wanna! RtS |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Gervase Date: 31 Oct 00 - 06:03 AM A couple a week, maybe. That's not too bad, is it? Please...? But don't even get me onto the books. I've run out of places to hide those (and I've got a room lined with books in my weekday place that my SO doesn't even see!). |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 31 Oct 00 - 06:22 AM Used to be a 6-10 a month kind of gal.... but now weaned myself down to 1-2 a month kind of gal... cooo... and I thought it was just me. Nice to know that is more than me. I feel better about it now, I am not alone.
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Mikey joe Date: 31 Oct 00 - 07:52 AM Loads all free. I work for a radio station which also has a copyright library. No one else seems to have an interest in world/folk/trad 'cept me. So I get to keep the goods. Sorry to piss you off like that. But everyone gets lucky no and again I guess.
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: SINSULL Date: 31 Oct 00 - 08:36 AM To the LP collectors: How do you get the funky basement smell out the covers? I just bought a Burl Ives collection that smells all musty. The cover, paper covers, and notes are all integral to the collection but the smell... |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Mikey joe Date: 31 Oct 00 - 08:50 AM I love the smell, bottle it and send it on to me |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: sledge Date: 31 Oct 00 - 11:46 AM Bad, very bad. Its almost painful to walk out of a music store without having obught at least one new folk CD. My list of gotta haves is long enough and getting longer all the time, so as yet there is no end in sight to this addiction. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: JulieF Date: 31 Oct 00 - 11:50 AM The Guilt, the guilt, the guilt - i admit to a slight book problem ( all right so I used to buy my daughter books and read them before I gave them to her) but its the man in the house hold who has the CD problem ( and films to almost the same extent). I've lost track of the time he's done - Oh we've had that one years - routine. Still it could be worse. Julie |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Naemanson Date: 31 Oct 00 - 12:23 PM Sins, it's the smell that makes the collection great! Every once in a while I open a box just to inhale that wonderful aroma. Then, as long as I have the box open I dig through and get one or two out to put on the stereo. Next thing I know the afternoon is gone. CD's have no smell and are sterile and without personality. I need to move the stereo into close proximity to the computer so I can have my records and Mudcat too! |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Tinker Date: 31 Oct 00 - 08:25 PM Books??? In this house...??? Stacks in every room, shelves in the bathrooms, well it's a long standing problem. Now CD's weren't a problem til I found Mudcat a couple months ago. Now, well ..... a couple prohibition blues then country blues, then a few Peggy Seegar and some Folk legacy... ANd there's that buy five a get a discount thing they tell you a Getaway and soon the pile in your hand grows... but I'm sure this is only a passing phase, it won't develop into anything permenant.... Tinker |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Amergin Date: 31 Oct 00 - 08:35 PM My GF doesn't mind when I buy a cd or two and a book or two....it's when I show up with five new cds and four new books that she starts to get disgusted.....and this doesn't even count the beer.... Amergin |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: WyoWoman Date: 31 Oct 00 - 08:50 PM Back when I had an actual day gig, I was buying one a week or so. Now I'm managing my addiction and only buying one or two a month. And the CD habit competes with the book habit, so my credit cards never really chill off. And Mudcat has been the WORST for my habit. It's like living in a bar when you have a drinking problem ... Of course, I can resist anything but temptation ... ww |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: John Hindsill Date: 31 Oct 00 - 09:04 PM Just today, for instance, I bought a 10' LP of Ozark Mountain Folk Songs, sung by Ellen Steckert. I confess that I had never heard of her, but the attraction on this one is/are the notes written by Kenneth Goldstein. The album was released in 1957 or earlier based on a note written by a previous owner. They're out there, folks. (Whoops, was that a pun?)---John |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: dwditty Date: 31 Oct 00 - 09:33 PM Let me put it this way. Last week I received two CD's I had been looking for forever. Actually, they were albums I had in the 60's and didn't know if they ever made it to CD. After maybe 20 hours or so of searching the internet for them, I located them for sale in Japan. Ordered them through gemm.com (check it out). Only cost me $30 per CD, plus $6 for gemm, plus $8 and change to ship. Had to wait about a month to get them and the whole time I never really thought they would make it. All this and I still feel like I got a great deal. So don't talk to me about a habit. This is waaaayyy beyond that. I actually have to really work hard to go through all this. BTW, they were two albums by John Simon (who most people never heard of unless they looked to see who produced the early Band albums) dw |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Wesley S Date: 01 Nov 00 - 09:41 AM Was John Simons also in the band called "Orleans"? |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: GUEST,Sam Pirt Date: 01 Nov 00 - 10:43 AM Hi I have a bit of a reputation around our parts for buying CD's, its the old phrase, "Sam will probably have that already" that just keeps popping up. There is a lot of pluses to my addiction: 1 - I can learn LOADS of tunes & songs ect from around the world. 2 - I can learn the material off the CD then play it with the artists themselfs. This happened to me when a norwegen band Chateau Neuf Spelmannslag came to england and lost there accordionist, so I stood in. I also learn't some of Kepa Junkeras tunes and played them with him at Cambridge. As you can see a Cd buying addiction is more than an addiction its a lifestyle. But hey, I don't care at all!!!!! Cheers, Sam |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Steve Latimer Date: 01 Nov 00 - 11:09 AM I'm probably at about ten a month. Many are to replace vinyl and tape. I am often influenced by Mudcatter's opinions. I was even looking for Patrick Sky the other night based on 'Spaws recommendation. I have been trying to find Leon Redbone lately without success. I'm not one to buy over the net, so I scrounge through Sam's, HMV and a few used CD stores. The good news is that I commute about an hour each way and I get to listen to a lot of music in my car.
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: WyoWoman Date: 01 Nov 00 - 12:44 PM I agree, Sam. It is a lifestyle. I learn music instead of doing stuff that other people spend a lot more money on. The usual amusements aren't all that charming to me, but music never ceases to be. And talk about eclectic? My mixture of CDs is frighteningly eclectic. One of the few things I miss about living in Wyoming is the vast spaces between towns -- three hours drive on the interstate to the next actual town from where I was living (and Kat still lives). So much opportunity to listen to CDs and to learn music. I quit measuring distances in miles or hours and started figuring how many CDs I could play before I got there... ww |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: P05139 Date: 01 Nov 00 - 03:53 PM I usually buy at least 3 singles a month, and albums if I've got the money. I've got too many now though! I mean, 56 albums and 30-odd singles!?! |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Morticia Date: 01 Nov 00 - 04:17 PM Firecat, there is NO such thing as too many.....now repeat after me.....There is NO such thing as too many |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Kim C Date: 01 Nov 00 - 04:17 PM I just bought two more this week. :) This year I remembered that I really do like ROCK music. So there. :P Our book habit is pretty bad, too... also dealing with a yarn habit, and a fabric habit, and a FOOD habit... of course, that last one is pretty hard to get away from... |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: SINSULL Date: 01 Nov 00 - 04:19 PM Steve, I found some Patrick Sky CDs and LPs on Ebay. Worth a search. My purchases came from Spaw and Kendall's recommendations. Between them and Rick Fielding, it's a wonder I can keep the mortgage payments up. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Steve Latimer Date: 01 Nov 00 - 04:29 PM Sinsull, Thank you, I'll have a look. I usually don't buy things over the net though. I have a local CD store that will order stuff in for me, dropped by the other night and they were closed. Maybe on the weekend. Latest purchases, Miles Davis Kind of Blue, Willie Nelson Night & Day and Spirit, and the first Bob Dylan. Some awfully good music. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Matt_R Date: 01 Nov 00 - 04:29 PM I have so many CDs now that they won't fit under my tape anymore! So what to do? I built my own CD rack...with an artist's touch, of course! It's jet black, has a raised table-top, removable shelves, decorative curved support outriggers...well, you get the idea. |
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Subject: RE: How bad is your CD habit ?? From: Lepus Rex Date: 02 Nov 00 - 12:34 AM Hey Sam, did CNS ever find their accordionist??? ;) ---Lepus Rex |
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