Compulsive Disassociative CD Collecting Disease (CDCDCD)

[Mirror Image]

I can't think of many CDs I want anymore.

People always say things like this, but ultimately they give in and acquire yet another CD that they didn't "want."

[snyprrr]

I can't think of many CDs I want anymore.

"I can't think of MANY CDs I want anymore", he says, haha.

Yer not foolin' me! I knows what "not many" means in CDCDCD-speak (hundreds!)!

[Sid]

The only work that I'm interested in acquiring many different versions of is Handel's Messiah. I haven't seen it live before, but I'm gearing up to do exactly just that later this year. People might be aware that he composed about 6 different versions of the work. So far I have the following (all of these are the highlights only):

Two on LP (Marriner & another conductor)
Two on CD (Naxos chamber version & Harnoncourt on Teldec)
One on tape (Sargent - the full shebang overblown version from the 1950's)

The one that I really like is the Naxos. There are a number of performances of this work in November/December, and I am thinking of going to see the chamber version because that's my favourite...

[Guido]

I'm not sure what the total is, snyprr, but I guess it may look something like this:

7,000 - classical
5,000 - jazz
3,000 - rock

Yep, you were completely right snyprrr.

[Elgarian]

Well, impossible to understand the emergence of Rock & Roll w/o some knowledge & listening experience to those singing & playing in the preceding decades of the early 20th century

You're undeniably right, but as a mere listener I find a quite unbridgable gap between the rock&rollers and their predecessors. I appreciate that Bob and Elvis could never have become Bob and Elvis without people like Blind Willie, but still, it's Bob and Elvis I want to listen to.

[mc ukrneal]

People always say things like this, but ultimately they give in and acquire yet another CD that they didn't "want."

So true. Earlier this year, I bought up pretty much all the Opera Rara Cds I wanted at MDT's sale on the label. So I figured it would be a while before I wanted any more of their CDs. Well, I just noticed I have 7-8 of their works on my wish list!! How did that happen? I have plenty to keep me busy, so I will wait for a good price, but how could that have happened?  I went through the entire catalog, work by work and picked up a good dozen recordings!! So despite one's best efforts, it's a losing cause (thank goodness!!)...

[Mirror Image]

So true. Earlier this year, I bought up pretty much all the Opera Rara Cds I wanted at MDT's sale on the label. So I figured it would be a while before I wanted any more of their CDs. Well, I just noticed I have 7-8 of their works on my wish list!! How did that happen? I have plenty to keep me busy, so I will wait for a good price, but how could that have happened?  I went through the entire catalog, work by work and picked up a good dozen recordings!! So despite one's best efforts, it's a losing cause (thank goodness!!)...

There's the rub. There are so many recordings this past week that have flown under my radar. I just can't get ahead!

[snyprrr]

Log, STarDate 2010, somewhere in the Pleaidean Singularity



Well, I've done it again.

Just when you think you can back your way out, theey come to drag you back in. I have been delicately nursing my previous wounds (reality infringing on my ability to aquire more more MORE! ), and backing away from any interests, whilst at the same time shoring up any finalities of the postal service; but, as things go, a few particular sellers at Ebay had been hired by my rivals to do me in by making me bid on a bunch of stuff that God knows I would have had a hard time resisting even on a good day, which, I thought it was.

Kristen Stewart
So the last thing I was just gonna bid on it just to pull the trigger, but I was just going to bid once, and I was sure that the single bidder (who had bid twice) knew what he was doing. So, I could get the thrill of blowin one off without the pain of buying.

But you know that's not how it went, don't you?



I know, I want you to think about it for a while. What was your worst impulse buy? Hmmm?,...h,..ah,...aha,..ha,..haaha,...hahahaahaaaha...

pk, it wasn't that bad. Considering it lists on any Amazon for around $150, at least, $10 wasn't the bank. Except, it kind of was. It was just another line in the sand broken, another wiggling of the toe across the line for the thrill. I am thankful, though, that I can play the 'it was on the "old" list anyway' game, haha.

It's just that this came out of the blue and disrupted the rhythmic flowing decrescendo I had been engineering. Add to this that everything in the pipeline is late, and daddy is oh so hot like a little baked potato, just ready to burst through my own sweetly charred skin to suckle at the teat of disappointment afresh. Black coals.

ok, maybe I overreacted a little. And lost my point. But that was on purpose anyhow.



I keep telling myself, You have all you need, now you just have to put them in order. You have all you need...



ok, now my mouse has stopped working, and I can't post. I'm sure you all are very grateful, though you don't know it yet, haha!,...ah, I can't even put a smiley on, arrgh,...

Did ya hear the one about...

ok,...alt+s,...you suffer after all, haha



EDIT:

ok, it's two days later,...just "fixed" the mouse . Wow,...hoppin mad ,...they make the computers 100%, then they disable to 87%, then they make you buy the thing to get it back to 100%.

Nice!

[prémont]

I would like to draw attention to two variants of CDCDCD which have been described recently:

SACDCD       =     Severe acute CD collecting disease

HDCDCD       =     Harry´s diffuse CD collecting disease

Whereas the former condition seems to be rather common, only one single case of the latter has been described so far. Dates based upon the actual case seems to indicate that it is a cronic lifelong condition.

[snyprrr]

I would like to draw attention to two variants of CDCDCD which have been described recently:

SACDCD       =     Severe acute CD collecting disease

HDCDCD       =     Harry´s diffuse CD collecting disease

Whereas the former condition seems to be rather common, only one single case of the latter has been described so far. Dates based upon the actual case seems to indicate that it is a cronic lifelong condition.

Does the latter have an adjunct for the suffering wives?

[snyprrr]

Well, well, well,...

Here we are, Dec.31. Be honest, has anybody been sweating out what to buy before the end? I did.

I just didn't feeeeeel like I had GOTTEN everything that I NEEDED, but, alas, I could not find anything I WANTED. But, the compulsion was upon me.

Mmm, very bad place to be in, when CDCDCD comes a'knocking, but you just don't have the ummph for it.

Yea, so I opened up a vein and spent the money. $35 for two cds.



No, I don't feel any better.



I think I'm depressed because I don't feel like buying a billion cds in the coming year. Or, everything that's left on The List is currently OOP or ridiculously priced.

I hate you all. waah

[Que]

Seems you currently buy CDs just to feel good, not because you want them. That means the problem lies somewhere else. Try to focus on that.

Not in any way judging you BTW - I've been there myself...

Q

[OzRadio]

I passed 1,000 discs and lps in the last couple weeks in just about three years of listening so I probably must admit I have symptoms. At least half of that comes from Brilliant's big box sets so there are blocks of lieder cds which I have not listened to. Also, some vocal works and operas that I don't have libretto to yet. But the more I read these boards the more I want to hear. Just got a big batch of Ives and Bartok this week. It's almost like crack but no one's getting hurt, right?

[DavidRoss]

I passed 1,000 discs and lps in the last couple weeks in just about three years of listening so I probably must admit I have symptoms. At least half of that comes from Brilliant's big box sets so there are blocks of lieder cds which I have not listened to. Also, some vocal works and operas that I don't have libretto to yet. But the more I read these boards the more I want to hear. Just got a big batch of Ives and Bartok this week. It's almost like crack but no one's getting hurt, right?

Wow.  A disc a day?  Soon your collecting interests may shift to quality rather than quantity.  And through The Web there are many resources that allow you to hear works at modest expense and without having to acquire CDs that you might hear only once (or never at all!).  Naxos subscription service, for instance.

Of course you might be wealthy, in which case the expense is a trifle to you and your purchases help a struggling industry.  If so, then please keep it up!  And buy lots of stuff from the smaller specialty outfits like Bridge and Channel Classics to keep them in business!

This past year I doubt I've purchased more than two dozen titles--probably fewer than twenty.  I might still be compulsive (just popped for MAK's Tafelmusik seconds after seeing the reference on another thread), but it helps to have almost no disposable income, thanks to the economy's contraction. 

[snyprrr]

I passed 1,000 discs and lps in the last couple weeks in just about three years of listening so I probably must admit I have symptoms. At least half of that comes from Brilliant's big box sets so there are blocks of lieder cds which I have not listened to. Also, some vocal works and operas that I don't have libretto to yet. But the more I read these boards the more I want to hear. Just got a big batch of Ives and Bartok this week. It's almost like crack but no one's getting hurt, right?

Welcome. You're in the right place. Coffee's in the back. Meeting starts in five minutes!

[snyprrr]

Seems you currently buy CDs just to feel good, not because you want them. That means the problem lies somewhere else. Try to focus on that.

Not in any way judging you BTW - I've been there myself...

Q

Lack of feminine attention!!!

[Que]

Lack of feminine attention!!!

Sounds like a good New year's resolution.

Q

[snyprrr]

Sounds like a good New year's resolution.

Q

Well ,...I mean ,... I'm resolved to get MORE female attention!



The good kind, I mean.

[The new erato]

Haven't bought a single CD all year! What about you?

[Antoine Marchand]

Guilty... Yesterday, Schubert and Mozart on fortepiano.