CDs Anonymous

[gurnemanz]

Does CDs Anonymous need a Serenity Prayer on these lines?

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” …Living one day at a time; enjoying each moment at a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace . . ."

Excerpt from AA Serenity Prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1930s/40s and adopted by AA.

I'm reminded of a variant of this, a geriatic's prayer: "Give me the senility to forget those friends I never never liked in the first place, the good fortune to run into those I still do and the eyesight to tell the difference."

Reasons for buying huge boxes:
1) Dirt cheap.
2) Library function. Many sets are comprehensive. (I'm sure I've not listened, for example, to all 33 discs in the Brilliant Classics Haydn Symphonies box but they are available if needed, maybe before going to a concert where one is being played. Sometimes I will just pluck one out at random.)
3) They often have the pleasant "job lot" side-effect whereby you end up a with a recording which you would never have specifically ordered but which turns out to be a genuine discovery and valuable addition to your collection.

[Firebird]

OK - I threatened to do this a little while back.

My name is Dave, and I probably buy too many CDs. I often buy rather large boxes, some moderately expensive, though usually cheap per CD.

Why do we do this? Maybe it's a security thing - wanting to posses physical objects. Maybe it's also related to fear, but fear of what? Fear of losing an opportunity to hear some really good music perhaps?

Compared with joining a golf club my addiction is cheap though, but I have to walk in an attempt to keep fit, which exercise arguably comes naturally with golf.

Times up. Next!

Although my name isn’t Dave, I share both your predilection and your logic: it’s a cheaper addiction than a lot of other things. In the face of small spousal sighs over my CD purchases, I pointed out to my financially more prudent half that even lots of CDs are cheaper than (a) shoes designed by someone called Manolo, which some people evidently spend unthinkable sums on, or (b) a Porsche. I suggested that if I gave up buying CDs, I might get interested in strange shoes or fast cars. Last Christmas, hubby gave me three empty CD racks—license to buy! Whether this was due to the force of my brilliant argumentation or was merely the resignation of the stag turning to face the hounds, I neither know nor care to ponder: I’m too busy filling up them racks . . .

Mark Twain on golf: the silliest way of taking a walk ever invented. (I do not endorse this view, particularly; I merely cite it.)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Reasons for buying huge boxes:
1) Dirt cheap.
2) Library function. Many sets are comprehensive. (I'm sure I've not listened, for example, to all 33 discs in the Brilliant Classics Haydn Symphonies box but they are available if needed, maybe before going to a concert where one is being played. Sometimes I will just pluck one out at random.)
3) They often have the pleasant "job lot" side-effect whereby you end up a with a recording which you would never have specifically ordered but which turns out to be a genuine discovery and valuable addition to your collection.

I have many huge and quite large boxes - Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Furtwangler, Haydn, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky.
I generally listen to them once and then most of the discs will never be played again before I die.

[Dave2002]

My name is EA and I have a much more serious CD buying problem. I buy many CDs, but most of these are recordings of the same work. When I think there are no more available, I resort to buying DVD versions. I even bought the same version twice and bought another recording I knew I didn't like.

It's serious.

Sounds severe.

Clockwork Orange treatment maybe?

[vinteuil]

My name is V.
I've always known I had this problem, but felt that I had it under control.
Well, it was under control until I discovered these For3 Forums.
Some threads here - CD Review - BAL - Bargains - Early Music - well, they feed an addiction.
It's like crack cocaine dealers lurking outside a school...

[teamsaint]

My name is V.
I've always known I had this problem, but felt that I had it under control.
Well, it was under control until I discovered these For3 Forums.
Some threads here - CD Review - BAL - Bargains - Early Music - well, they feed an addiction.
It's like crack cocaine dealers lurking outside a school...

spot on vinny !! blame it on other people.....I know I do!

(mind you I got Beefy ordering an XTC album, so we are as bad as each other).

Very tempted by the Ligeti that MrGG was recommending..............its the weekend, I earned it..........its just the one....just one can't hurt..at today's prices....can it?

[teamsaint]

I have many huge and quite large boxes - Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Furtwangler, Haydn, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky.
I generally listen to them once and then most of the discs will never be played again before I die.

I am a sucker for them. TBF they are often great for a flying start...you get some duds...but some great surprises too. Some of the choral stuff in my big box of Brahms is fab, and I would never have bought it seperately.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

My name is V.
I've always known I had this problem, but felt that I had it under control.
Well, it was under control until I discovered these For3 Forums.
Some threads here - CD Review - BAL - Bargains - Early Music - well, they feed an addiction.
It's like crack cocaine dealers lurking outside a school...

I blame Petroushka for my affliction.

[MrGongGong]

Of course I don't have a problem
I bought this in an oxfam shop today

"Horns of Old Ireland" a collection of notes played on ancient animal horns from various archives and museum collections ...............

[hafod]

Is all this angst and so called addiction confined to certain cd (and LP) collectors or are there downloaders out there exhibiting similar symptoms? Book collectors would seem to be largely immune. Indeed, it has been said that 'books do furnish a room' and it is a short step to extending this to cds.