What type of CD collector are you?

[Gurn Blanston]

Well, times may change, but I'm still:

COMPREHENSIVE

Once this type identifies a composer or composers whose work they love, they'll move heaven and earth to collect such composers' entire output on disc. They may well LIKE other composers; but they'll only show a devotion to collecting the complete works of those they LOVE. They may also border on obsession in acquiring as many different recordings of works by their preferred composers.

Although your definition is a trifle beyond my actual compulsion, it isn't so by much.   And it isn't as though I want as many different recordings as possible etc, it's more like I only have intentional duplicates by those composers and very few by all the rest.

[karlhenning]

Well, times may change, but I'm still:

COMPREHENSIVE

Once this type identifies a composer or composers whose work they love, they'll move heaven and earth to collect such composers' entire output on disc.

If only there were more of Henning's music available . . . .

[jlaurson]

take me down for:

Obsessive (which I voted for), Comprehensive and Explorative.

Why not "Definite"? I can't give CDs away. Well, I am starting now... I REALLY don't need the Xiayin Wang / Amity Players performance of Brahms' Quartets opp.25 and 60. I will not officially enter that into my collection and dispose of it. (It's not bad... but not outstanding.)
But still, with most interpretations the "having it" has become very important... I don't believe in definitive recordings anymore... and I can't cull anything from my collection... I could never pair it down to, say, my two, three favorite interpretations of any given masterpiece. Anyone touching my ridiculously over-inflated Mahler collection would be in trouble, even if they only went for a recording I don't even care for. (Rattle's or Solti's 8th, for example. Actually, you could have the former, since I now have it in the box, anyway.)

So a "Definite" collector only qualifies if s/he gets rid of CDs on a somewhat regular basis, when favorites have been surplanted... or if they establish favorites and don't acquire new versions of the same piece.

[Kuhlau]

I hear you on not believing in 'definitive' recordings. Some recordings have earned their legendary status, sure - but to suggest that any one recording of, say, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony will never be surpassed by another in the future is nonsense. Besides which, the more recordings you acquire of a work, the more likely are the chances that you'll hear something in that work which you didn't hear before.

FK

[Bulldog]

Once upon a time, I was obsessive, explorative and impulsive.  Now I'm merely selective (finance driven).  Boy, I sure do miss being obsessive and impulsive.

[Coopmv]

I am methodical in buliding up my collection over the years.  All media types are included in my collection except 8-tracks.  I have 3 open-reel decks so I can continue playing my classical music on open-reel tapes, some are pre-recorded by Barclay-Crocker and London while others were recorded off the air.  Here is one of my all-time favorite recordings on open-reels.  I have this recording on LP, open-reel and CD ...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

COMPREHENSIVE

Once this type identifies a composer or composers whose work they love, they'll move heaven and earth to collect such composers' entire output on disc. They may well LIKE other composers; but they'll only show a devotion to collecting the complete works of those they LOVE. They may also border on obsession in acquiring as many different recordings of works by their preferred composers.

I think when George and I get together to compare Sviatoslav Richter notes we take comprehensive/obsessive to untold heights! (...or lows...)

(Last page and a half of the Richter thread spells it all out).

[George]

I think when George and I get together to compare Sviatoslav Richter notes we take comprehensive/obsessive to untold heights! (...or lows...)

(Last page and a half of the Richter thread spells it all out).

[Peregrine]

I think I'm a disparate type collector