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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: recorded music collections

From: "Andy Thompson" <andy.thompson@...>
Date: 2007-06-07

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Locke
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 6:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Mellotronists] Re: recorded music collections
 
Jason

That's exactly it, Mark -- I really WANTED to like a lot of this stuff!  Yet there's still so much more to hear, Hawkwind being the PERFECT example.  I don't know a single person here in the States that truly knows them...
 
1,000 CDs should be enough, right? 
 
1000? ONE THOUSAND??! Wimp.  :-))
 
I mean, if I listen to say, two each day, it would take me about what, a year and a half to hear them all?  Or should I resign myself to the fact that I will always want to hear more and never let any of my music go, since it does define me, if not at present, then at some point in my life.  When was the last time I really had a hankering to listen to, oh, I don't know, The Wonder Stuff?  I never loved Elvis, either.  :)
 
Weigh in!  How ridiculously extensive are your collections?
 
Well, including all the CDs people have burned for me, and bootlegs, it's well over 4000. How do I find time to listen to them? Can't say I do, but they're there if I want them! I 'know' (in e-mail terms) someone who has three times that, but, like me, there must be huge swathes of his collection he barely knows.
Andy T (who, despite owning over 4000 recordings, keeps acquiring more).