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Post by oh oooh on Jan 17, 2019 0:03:02 GMT
Are you beginning to accept that digitally streaming films and using platforms like Spotify makes more sense than filling your house with more and more discs in plastic cases?
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Post by jeffk on Jan 17, 2019 0:10:53 GMT
I came around to streaming. I like having anything I'm in the mood for right at my fingertips. I recently packed most of my albums and CD's and put them in closets because everything was so cluttered and a pain in the ass to clean and dust. I can't remember the last time I brought something physical and I never thought I'd say that several years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2019 0:23:40 GMT
It was nice to ditch video cassette tapes. I still have a large stock of DVDs "just in case" though I'm now in the habit of using digital to a degree, viz Netflix though there's precious little worthwhile on it. In fact, we've just bought the box set of Game of Thrones seasons 1 - 7 in advance of the last series coming out (we watched season 7 on Amazon but that could only be rented for a limited time). I do plan to get rid of a lot though.
I had burned a lot of cds to itunes and bought some stuff from there but there are problems there; the cds I burned were only on my macbook and I don't have access to them now my macbook died a death and I don't have the cds accessible; if you buy music on itunes you only 'rent' it on a few devices (no?) so I've come to the conclusion that I will burn some cds and try and keep some music on assorted hard drives but cds I'm particularly fond of I absolutely won't get rid of - they can be kept and burned time and again. Besides, I've a cd player in the car. And cds can be kept in those big cd holder binder things which are space-saving. I'm not familiar with things like Spotify; I've had an aversion to listening to new music for various reasons over recent years and, though I'm coming out of that now, I get the impression it would be like going to a huge French hypermarket when you're just used to your little village shop. I also get the impression it has the same limitations as Apple.
Books - kept. Novels read and discarded, some reference books are not needed thanks to the web, but by-and-large, books kept.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 17, 2019 4:41:18 GMT
Yeah, books are a different matter. They're old, they have soul.
I've actually been buying more old books recently, I love to see them on the shelves (and I DO read them, honestly!). They're cheap and if I needed to justify the purchases - well, they're already there, right? no more trees had to die!
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Post by The Red Heifer on Jan 17, 2019 5:35:42 GMT
I want to be able to have hard drives full of shit and a catalogue of what I have before I start going the Kondo, but as she says, the idea of CD's doesn't spark joy like it used to. But ideally I'd like to have wireless hd's linked with the TV with my music and shows on them.
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Post by loveless on Jan 17, 2019 10:32:47 GMT
I've got a ridiculous collection of old LPs and 45s - what Coan says about the "soul" of books, I get from records.
But...sure, I listen to streaming in the car or at the gym. We have a 2017 car that didn't even come with a CD player.
I'm really at the halfway point with still being acquisitive and also relying on the more ephemeral technology of the day.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 17, 2019 11:12:38 GMT
I don't think I'd discover half the music I do, if not for physical media. Probably a third of my collection has been something I've picked up in the shop based on cover art, record label, or sticker mentioning a band member or producer or something. Once you've bought something, there's more incentive to listen multiple times to try and understand it. Streaming, you listen once, like/don't like and forget about it, there's no commitment or investment from the listener.
Films, I buy the odd DVD, but stream a lot. Films are generally shit anyway, I don't have any real interest in the medium. Looking at stuff, who wants to do that?
Books, I keep some, but give most to charity shops and book swaps. Books need to be out there in the community, they increase the amount of soul they have the more people have owned them. Keeping them captive is a cruel practice.
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Post by Inspector Norse on Jan 17, 2019 11:22:24 GMT
CDs: yes, I have quite a lot and still buy them. I find that I listen to something more if I physically own it; otherwise, I listen to something once on Spotify then forget about it. I use Spotify a lot for playlists and discovering things, though.
Books: yes, loads. I grew up in a house full of books and just like having them. I'm around a book a week but I buy more than I can ever hope to read, probably. I do occasionally have a small clearout, but keep anything that I will return to or that I liked too much, or that just looks good on the shelves (let's not forget, one's bookshelves are part of one's "interior design statement").
DVDs: I do buy some, because most of the films I watch are either old, international or both, and you can't find them on Netflix because they don't have Denzel Washington or Emma Stone in them. It's a long time since I bought a TV series on DVD.
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Post by loveless on Jan 17, 2019 11:36:43 GMT
I did have a look through the book shelves (overflowing, sprawling, cluttered, many more in boxes i closets) just the other day and must have seen several titles that caused me to think "Honestly - who in this house is ever going to read that again?"
We need a book clearout in a big way. We'll still have hundreds, but I'd venture that good half of what we have is pure clutter at this point.
I have a few friends with whom I happily and freely share books - autobiographies, that sort of thing: you figure "I've read it - on it goes to someone who will enjoy it." There's certainly no sense that you're going to ever need it returned.
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Post by tory on Jan 17, 2019 11:45:07 GMT
It’s books (and boardgames) for me and nothing else.
I just don’t have the revenue or the space to continue to buy physical formats of music. All the vinyl is in the loft and won’t see the light of day until we buy a bigger house and even then I doubt it will make an appearance, so I have to think long and hard about getting rid of most of it. I do like it, but I’m not romantically attached to it like most of my friends.
Books mean much more to me both in their value and their aesthetic appearance. Keeping a load of books or indeed any objects is at least 50% a vanity project, but there’s a serious link between them and my childhood. My Dad kept books and not having a wall of books in one room creates a serious psychic fault in me. My collection is mostly Classics, reference books, graphic novels, history and biography. I tend not to keep modern novels.
With films, I never buy DVDs and got rid of most of mine except for a handful of box sets. Again, we don’t have a home cinema set up and such I tend not to watch them. Might get a projector installed once we move.
Ultimately my guide to keeping stuff is - if I can buy it again at the same price or less, why keep it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2019 12:00:37 GMT
count me in as a streaming convert. i’m not a hardcore audiophile but i’ve always spent a lot on hi-fi equipment so was a bit sceptical about how it was going to sound. when my CD player gave up the ghost i decided to spring for a naim streamer and have never looked back. while the sound is not as good as my hi-fi, it’s still pretty impressive. i tried the high quality streaming files and the sound difference is barely noticeable. there are 3 or 4 record shops which i still love going to here, just because i like browsing through old vinyl and i always spend about €5 a visit on stuff i don’t need just to help keep them afloat as they also promote gigs and club nights. i also can’t help but buy box sets if they have nice books and packaging like the dylan bootleg series. spotify is hard to beat and i've discovered some great music through using it but there’s still stuff i can’t find. annoyingly Ace and cherry red comps are a case in point.
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Post by loveless on Jan 17, 2019 12:09:52 GMT
All the vinyl is in the loft and won’t see the light of day until we buy a bigger house and even then I doubt it will make an appearance, so I have to think long and hard about getting rid of most of it. I do like it, but I’m not romantically attached to it like most of my friends. .... Ultimately my guide to keeping stuff is - if I can buy it again at the same price or less, why keep it. I did a massive cleanout of an enormous vinyl collection approx. 10-15 years back. I wasn't playing it, no longer even had a working turntable, I didn't feel like moving it from house to house (this is no small thing) again. What most those records now cost is, in many cases, prohibitively expensive (there's scores of LPs and 45s that I remember initially buying for something like $5 - and unloading for less - that are now $100-$400). I would credit online commerce with this particular inflation - the market will evidently bear it these days, and...if it's a $200 record on eBay, it's undoubtedly gonna be a $200 record at the musty old shop down the road. Everybody knows what everything costs now, and every dirty old man with a warehouse full of scratchy old bullshit is now sitting at a computer pricing most of it like it's going to put his children and their children through university. All of this to say that in my second go round with vinyl immersion, there is a real sense of "Hang on to it - it certainly isn't going to get any cheaper." The year of manufacture will only recede further into the irretrievable past, and the scarcity of a playable copy will only rise as time goes on. Which is dubious reasoning - I can't possibly NEED all this shit. What thousands of records mean to a person who plays probably five records a week is probably, realistically, something like "give some of this shit away before it smothers you".
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 17, 2019 13:20:39 GMT
I want shelves! I want a room full of shelves creaking under the weight of thousands of cds and records and books! With posters on the wall!
I want it all me.
(I still buy cds and records occasionally. I like owning stuff. It looks cool).
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jan 17, 2019 14:38:01 GMT
My LPs aren't going anywhere any time soon. I don't add to the collection as voraciously as I once did and am just as happy to stream something via apple music as I am slapping a record on the turntable. I'd have no problem getting rid of the cds, though. They don't even live near my stereo any more. I would like to rip as many as possible to a hard drive before they go, but, honestly, I have no time for that these days, so they'll probably sit on their shelves upstairs for another fifteen years...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2019 14:41:18 GMT
I've given away all but an exceptional few CDs and DVDs just from moving about and renting. It's just impractical to build a physical library even if I'd want to.
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