Will you outlive your CD collection?

[cloughie]

To answer the opening question, I am sure my CDs will outlive me: I am 68 and CDs are for all practical purposes indestructible. I have made a will and left the CDs to one nephew and the LPs to another; both have asked me to do so, so hopefully the discs will be cherished.

I buy a few CDs every month, based on reviews in Gramophone, concentrating on unfamiliar music: fond as I am of Beethoven symphonies, I have enough recordings of them. I do still buy LPs on the rare occasions when suitable items come up for sale, but I have given up on charity shops, where I have never found anything worthwhile. I regard myself as a collector of LPs, in that I aspire, for example, to own a complete set of the Columbia SAX series (but am very unlikely to find some of the rarer items at prices I can afford). I dont collect CDs, I simply accumulate them, there is no systematic approach.

Looks like you are collecting years - if you are not lying about your age it must be your birthday today!

[ardcarp]

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... the smugness of having a lot is only surpassed by the smugness of those who loudly proclaim how little they have

Oh let that be a vinters. Always look on the bright side of...etc

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh let that be a vinters. Always look on the bright side of...etc

Absolutely - I'm not yet ready to tell myself I'd better not buy that CD (/book/DVD/bottle of whisky/ticket for concert/film/theatre) on the grounds that I might clogpop before it arrives in the post - but the rather melancholic OP does sort-of lead to less-than-jolly spirits.

It's outliving people I love that's the real bummer for me.

[ardcarp]

It's outliving people I love that's the real bummer for me.

Oh dear me, yes.

[Dave2002]

Absolutely - I'm not yet ready to tell myself I'd better not buy that CD (/book/DVD/bottle of whisky/ticket for concert/film/theatre) on the grounds that I might clogpop before it arrives in the post - but the rather melancholic OP does sort-of lead to less-than-jolly spirits.

It's outliving people I love that's the real bummer for me.

We haven't yet descended to the level of "I never buy green bananas" have we?

[ardcarp]

Going off at a tangent, I have a use for CDs which I know I will never want to hear (e.g. the Donny Osmond compiliation that somehow got onto our shelves).

If strung up on boats they are an extremely effective seagull deterrent because of the light flashing on the shiny surface. Gardeners also use them to keep pigeons off their broccoli/sprouts/beans or whatever.

Does that fall into the green banana category?

[Pianorak]

I can't see myself outliving my CDs. Looking at the Complete Mozart Edition alone I'm reminded of time passing and secretly hope that Amazon is going to cancel the Complete Strauss Opera box to save me agonising over whether to cancel or not. Another good decision might be to keep well clear of the Bargain section. However

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Green bananas"???

[vinteuil]

"Green bananas"???

... the question being, will you live long enuff to see them ripen...

Tho' I did have a moment a while back when given an opportunity to buy some claret en primeur - an attractive offer, until I considered the drinking window suggested (2040-2050) - even if I were still alive, would my taste-buds still be able to appreciate?




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[teamsaint]

None of which helps to explain he popularity of tortoises as pets.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... the question being, will you live long enuff to see them ripen...

Aha! Thank you.

[Petrushka]

I wouldn't call my CD buying systematic in any way but in recent years I've tended to buy a good number of boxed sets of those artists (particularly conductors and composers) whom I have seen and/or met and most especially in the works or composer I saw them perform. This has happily coincided with the availability of some very cheap sets.

With this reasoning I've bought virtually all of the sets featuring Haitink, Tennstedt, Karajan, Böhm, Sinopoli, most of Abbado, Wand, Kubelik etc, etc. This also applies to single discs and also to still living conductors and still continues eg Barenboim in Elgar and Bruckner. Still longing for a complete Solti edition.

The boxes with Boult and Klemperer are there because I really, really wish I'd seen them.

I made a rule quite some time ago not to buy CDs of music that was 'obscure' or 'neglected' on the grounds of cost, space and time and have mostly, but not always, stuck to it. YouTube exists for anything I may wish to try before I sink any money into something that I might not like.

[Zucchini]

Gardeners also use them [Cds] to keep pigeons off their broccoli/sprouts/beans or whatever.

Our village shop has vegetables & fruit outside. They write MAHLER, R STRAUSS or ELGAR on them in large capital letters. Makes the CDs much more effective apparently.

[cloughie]

Our village shop has vegetables & fruit outside. They write MAHLER, R STRAUSS or ELGAR on them in large capital letters. Makes the CDs much more effective apparently.

Doesn't work with Messager!

[MickyD]

Doesn't work with Messager!