The aesthetics of record collecting

[imomus]

I scrolled through an I Love Music thread recently entitled Take a picture of your record collection and post it on ilm -- a sort of cut-price, homebrew, Anglo-styled version of an older, prettier ILM thread about German DJs and their living rooms. It got me thinking about the aesthetics of record collection. Mostly, to be honest, about how ugly

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Albatross

[funazushi]

We're on a bit of a purge at our household and I see Yoko viewing my record collection as wasted space. It has been many years since someone has helped me cart all these crates to my next abode. Somehow I think of them as some kind of inheritance for my children, that they will think their dad was incredibly cool for having all these records. Then I think of my friends dad whose whole house was lined with records, complete collections of Elvis from the 50's. He would spend hours cataloging them in the early days of the computer, only for his wife to tell him she would burn them all when he was gone.
I went to Japan in the early 90s with a handful of Captain Beefheart CDs that I was determined to understand without having ever had a cd player. I came back with a trunk load of Brazilian imports that I think you can only get in Japan and maybe Brazil. When I moved back to Toronto I was burglarized twice, losing my complete cd collection. This is when I began to see the pointlessness of collecting music. I still have the records but now most of what I listen to is on the hard drive. Will I have to move those crates again? I don't think so, my next move will be in a pine box but it is getting to be more difficult to convince the people around me that I should hold on to them.

Re: Albatross

[count_vronsky]

nice :)

I was digging through my old records last week and came upon this Nona Hendryx lp. Still sounds ahead of her time 25 years on. Transformation (still a stunning looking woman and commanding stage presence in her 60's too)