No Buy Vinyl Support Thread

Skalap said:
Starting mid-March I'll have other priorities like trying to sleep, change diapers and prepare baby bottles so, at this time, I'll certainly purchase less records. Hopefully by the end of the year I'll be moving to the south-west of France starting a new life close to the woods, the lakes and the sea. I, then, somewhere next year will have more time (I hope) to rearrange my CD/vinyl collection, sell some stuff, upgrade my equipment and start enjoying more my collection.

So well, a big year started yesterday for me! May be force be with me!
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congrats on the kitten !
 
So happy to have found this thread, I’ve cut back drastically since July, as I am paying off system upgrades that have greatly increased my enjoyment of music. Having a decent DAC and Spotify have been lifesavers during this process. I ended up buying under 10 records for the second half of 2019, and only must haves like the Prince 1999 reissue. It’s actually been a great period of discovery for me, as I will cruise the forum or IG and immediately try new stuff via streaming vs. thinking I have to acquire a physical copy. It also feels good to have broken the consumption addiction I had with records. I love the recommendations here, and plan to begin a complete collection listening to kick off the year. I wish you all restraint in the new year, but also many new musical adventures!! Cheers!!🍻
 
girlnevergoesout said:
I thought it would be fun to have mini month challenges. No pressure. If you want to do this and talk about it, please do!

January:
Do you have any sealed records? Open them and listen to them! Records are made to be listened to! Share any stories or fun or videos opening the records for the first time!
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I had received 琹の葉 kotonoha by Ironomi in November, a very ambient minimalist record, I felt like I was too busy to sit back and listen to it so it just sat on my shelves. Yesterday while cleaning and doing some meditating I decided to put this record on to set the mood for 2020. The mix of piano and lute made me feel as if I was in the middle of the woods doing some soul searching. I will certainly need to put this back on for a second spin soon to really understand it, so much of it started to blend together that I know I missed some things.
 
I already started a full playthrough of my collection last month, to give some attention to some unloved records and maybe find a few that I could part with. I want to be much better about only buying when I have the budget already allotted to it, instead of impulse buying. Might try to tie my vinyl budget to my reading progress throughout the year to help motivate me on two counts.
 
girlnevergoesout said:
I thought it would be fun to have mini month challenges. No pressure. If you want to do this and talk about it, please do!

January:
Do you have any sealed records? Open them and listen to them! Records are made to be listened to! Share any stories or fun or videos opening the records for the first time!
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Um. Question for the group. I have that PWR BTTM album still sealed. You know the one. The one pulled before it was released.

Do I have to unseal it and listen to it? I kind of just received it in the mail, shelved it and don't really consider it a part of my collection. It just is kind of there.
 
Teeeee said:
Um. Question for the group. I have that PWR BTTM album still sealed. You know the one. The one pulled before it was released.

Do I have to unseal it and listen to it? I kind of just received it in the mail, shelved it and don't really consider it a part of my collection. It just is kind of there.
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I see that as being your call. If you want to listen to it you should. If you don’t, for whatever reason, leave it be.
 
Teeeee said:
I don't think I want to listen to it yet. Not for any "leave it sealed it's worth a ton of money" reasons. But because I think it'll make me feel icky. Lol

And that is the very scientific definition of how I would feel: icky.
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Then leave it. For me this is one thread where being prescriptive isn’t helpful, it should be about us all finding our own healthy balance.

Icky is exactly the right word. I feel the same about all my Ryan Adams records. I know I loved those songs. He’s a mega creep. I can’t get rid of them but I can’t play them because, icky!
 
Joe Mac said:
Then leave it. For me this is one thread where being prescriptive isn’t helpful, it should be about us all finding our own healthy balance.

Icky is exactly the right word. I feel the same about all my Ryan Adams records. I know I loved those songs. He’s a mega creep. I can’t get rid of them but I can’t play them because, icky!
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I have a few of his albums too! And I don't want them in my collection. But I don't want them in anyone else's collection, so I'm not selling them. I guess I'm sacrificing myself so no one else has to put up with these albums being in their collection?

A small glimpse into the workings of teeeee's brain. It's scary in there - get out while you can, lest you be shelved next to the Ryan Adams and PWR BTTM shartist albums and are never heard from again!
 
Teeeee said:
I have a few of his albums too! And I don't want them in my collection. But I don't want them in anyone else's collection, so I'm not selling them. I guess I'm sacrificing myself so no one else has to put up with these albums being in their collection?

A small glimpse into the workings of teeeee's brain. It's scary in there - get out while you can, lest you be shelved next to the Ryan Adams and PWR BTTM shartist albums and are never heard from again!
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There are lines in the sand though. If I had any wacko albums I’d be using them as frisbees and the covers as kindling and I took a hammer to the two lostprophets CDs I owned!
 
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Teeeee said:
I have a few of his albums too! And I don't want them in my collection. But I don't want them in anyone else's collection, so I'm not selling them. I guess I'm sacrificing myself so no one else has to put up with these albums being in their collection?

A small glimpse into the workings of teeeee's brain. It's scary in there - get out while you can, lest you be shelved next to the Ryan Adams and PWR BTTM shartist albums and are never heard from again!
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Maybe sell them and donate the gains to a charity for survivors ?
 
I might hang around here this month.
I am currently not part of any record clubs, and I don't have any open pre-orders right now. I have a decent sized collection (about 1000) and I am running out of space, so I need to scale back. I have a to-sell pile of about 20 that I really need to get motivated to get onto Discogs....and maybe I'll listen through some recently un-played stuff and add to that pile.
 
What about selling the chance to bust them with hammer like those destroy a car fundraisers? That way the thing is destroyed and the money goes to the charity? Obv finding paying participants is the tricky bit but all we have is time while these things rot on the shelf.
 
This thread is great!

I had a moment of reflection on my spending habits going into December and thought the one thing I "waste" a lot of money on is records so I had a vinyl buying free December!

I realize I've been buying records just to buy records and not staying focused on buying records I actually will enjoy for more than one spin so I feel like it's time to do a deep dive into the collection and see what hits and what needs to go!

Next time I feel the urge to look online for records I'll instead LISTEN TO AN ACTUAL RECORD I ALREADY OWN!! As for going into record shops, that's not going to stop, I have way more discipline in shops for some reason, I hardly ever buy anything unless I really have wanted it for a while! Who knows how long it will last but maybe, just maybe I'll get back to enjoy listening to music and not just filling some FOMO need that just leaves me feeling empty with some record I probably never really wanted in the first place.

/rant
 
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