 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I told Carole to build three coffins.
One for me...and two for my CD's.
-----------------------------
To which Carole replied...
"Don't worry...I'm burning the lot of yer!!!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
She's more likely to play Disco Inferno! 
|
|
|
|
|
|
I told Carole to build three coffins.
One for me...and two for my CD's.
My mistake...4 coffins.
Thats a quote from star wars 
|
|
|
|
|
|
Boba Fett?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oh dear friends,
what can I say about this thread? It's this:
I`m around 55 years old, I'm a music lover since I was 17. I have a lot of vinyl, a lot of CDs and much more digital files.
And then, nearly 2 years from now, my 3 years younger brother died by surprise. And last year in september my dad died.
I had to help to clear the rooms of my brother. My parents started to clean their house and said goodbye to many things. Then my dad died.
For the first time in my life I felt the breathe of my own ending. So I started to look thru my collection. I listened very intensively to all the music I have. Which one still REALLY makes me happy? Which one has lost in the last years?
An idea that made me happy again. No, I`m still a completist on Jerry Goldsmith. And on Bernard Herrmann and Ennio Morricone too. And some pop music groups like Steely Dan, Tindersticks, Porcupine Tree, The Who and The Beatles as well. But I found so much music inside my collection, that couldn't touch my heart anymore.
And so I started to sell these things. I still have thousands of CD and so on, but I feel good with that decision. I feel free. I have sooooooo much wonderful music to listen to. The rest is or will some day be gone!
Listen to your music. And look what makes you REALLY happy...;-)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Posted: |
Sep 1, 2020 - 11:52 AM
|
|
|
|
By: |
Nedmerrill
(Member)
|
Oh dear friends,
what can I say about this thread? It's this:
I`m around 55 years old, I'm a music lover since I was 17. I have a lot of vinyl, a lot of CDs and much more digital files.
And then, nearly 2 years from now, my 3 years younger brother died by surprise. And last year in september my dad died.
I had to help to clear the rooms of my brother. My parents started to clean their house and said goodbye to many things. Then my dad died.
For the first time in my life I felt the breathe of my own ending. So I started to look thru my collection. I listened very intensively to all the music I have. Which one still REALLY makes me happy? Which one has lost in the last years?
An idea that made me happy again. No, I`m still a completist on Jerry Goldsmith. And on Bernard Herrmann and Ennio Morricone too. And some pop music groups like Steely Dan, Tindersticks, Porcupine Tree, The Who and The Beatles as well. But I found so much music inside my collection, that couldn't touch my heart anymore.
And so I started to sell these things. I still have thousands of CD and so on, but I feel good with that decision. I feel free. I have sooooooo much wonderful music to listen to. The rest is or will some day be gone!
Listen to your music. And look what makes you REALLY happy...;-)
Sorry to hear about the loss of your younger brother and father, their passing in close succession must have been difficult, however it seems that it made you think more deeply about your own mortality and what is important to you in life. Having a purge of unwanted/unused possessions appears to have been good for you in a purifying, liberating way. Nice post, good luck.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: |
Sep 1, 2020 - 12:30 PM
|
|
|
|
By: |
MD
(Member)
|
Oh dear friends,
what can I say about this thread? It's this:
I`m around 55 years old, I'm a music lover since I was 17. I have a lot of vinyl, a lot of CDs and much more digital files.
And then, nearly 2 years from now, my 3 years younger brother died by surprise. And last year in september my dad died.
I had to help to clear the rooms of my brother. My parents started to clean their house and said goodbye to many things. Then my dad died.
For the first time in my life I felt the breathe of my own ending. So I started to look thru my collection. I listened very intensively to all the music I have. Which one still REALLY makes me happy? Which one has lost in the last years?
An idea that made me happy again. No, I`m still a completist on Jerry Goldsmith. And on Bernard Herrmann and Ennio Morricone too. And some pop music groups like Steely Dan, Tindersticks, Porcupine Tree, The Who and The Beatles as well. But I found so much music inside my collection, that couldn't touch my heart anymore.
And so I started to sell these things. I still have thousands of CD and so on, but I feel good with that decision. I feel free. I have sooooooo much wonderful music to listen to. The rest is or will some day be gone!
Listen to your music. And look what makes you REALLY happy...;-)
Thank you for beautiful post and I'm so sorry to hear of your family members loss.
As you wrote we are hear for a moment and we should definitely do what makes us and others happy!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interesting topic and of course a key question for collectors. Like Leo I feel I'm a lost cause. Believe it or not, the more people are switching to digital files, the more I want to own physical CD's! In the next months, I'm planning to buy a furniture to be placed on a whole wall of my flat and already dream about seeing all my CD's on their shelves. Crazy, isn't it?
Not crazy at all. All my CD's are exhibited in my living room and I'm really proud of my collection. It really pains me to have to take the digital road in the very near future cause it feels very impersonal to me. But that's progress, I suppose...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A few years ago I sold part of my collection...and ended up buying them all again.
There's no hope for me ...I'm a lost cause....too far gone.
That would be me completely. The only thing I'd do with the money is rebuy what I sold, although my 90s 30min collection is starting to make way for expansions. What I buy and listen to, I 10/10 times enjoy too much to dismiss so easily. It's usually the absolute few I don't like that I'm even dwelling on selling, and even those have a track or two each that I like (looking at you, Jumanji).
Usually, when I purge CDs, it's from everything going out of print before I can get to them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I admit I feel a little "funny" selling a CD but keeping and continuing to enjoy a ripped copy of it.
You need to be careful with those symptoms. It can progress to a state called MRM (Musical Retention Malady) which retains memory of the music even though the CD has been sold and no copy of it has been made. This is regarded by some as an unintentional (but nevertheless unforgivable) breach of the music's copyright. The sense of guilt caused by this retention can cause severe depression.
A 2019 study by group of psychiatrists from Germany showed that an MRM treatment regimen could be effective in ameliorating an MRM patient’s symptoms. In this study, a single patient suffering from MRM from several episodes of unwanted musical recollection underwent eight sessions of MRM treatment. Before each treatment, he was asked to describe one of his offending, copyright-breaching memories (say, a Jerry Goldsmith synth score, a used CD of which he had previously sold), which is equivalent to “reactivating” that specific memory. Right after his description, he was anesthetized and administered an MRM treatment. As the treatment progressed, the patient began to have fewer flashbacks to the music and reduced anxiety and depression, indicating that his ability to block the music was improving. Incredibly, by the end of the treatment course, the patient could barely remember the music and harbored no feelings of guilt whatsoever about having unintentionally lodged a copy of the music in his brain.
So don't give up hope.
Thanks.
Can you suggest any therapies or treatments for MRM? I still have traumatic episodes in which the score for Gladiator (long since gotten rid of) still echoes in my head.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
