Compulsive Disassociative CD Collecting Disease (CDCDCD)

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

That's the spirit! 

I've restricted myself to $100 over June-Sept for CDs. I then extended it to October as I still have a lot I want to listen to again, and besides I had $20 left over. I won't be extending it to the holidays though.  0:)

This year actually was very sober, well so far, just 280 CD'S, all well below the 10 euro tag.

[springrite]

This year actually was very sober, well so far, just 280 CD'S so far, all well below the 10 euro tag.

In my collecting days about ten years ago, I tried to stay under 1 per day. So you are doing well.

Now I am down to about 200 every 3 years or so. Very sober indeed.

[Elgarian]

Welcome to the vicious cycle of addiction: a growing feeling of uneasiness [dukha], at once overcome by anticipation of a new purchase, mild euphoria as the hunt closes in on the quarry [trishna], then a brief moment of ecstasy followed almost immediately by disillusionment and emptiness, leading to a growing feeling of uneasiness, etc. [karma].

The karmic cycle, no less. The Nobel Truths of Buddhism are still noble and true it seems.

[cilgwyn]

After several visits to the local charity shops,with boxes of cds,I can now actually get to the window.
There is hope!

[snyprrr]

This is the kind of weakwilled effort that will result in your account being deleted.

LOL

[DavidRoss]

The karmic cycle, no less. The Nobel Truths of Buddhism are still noble and true it seems.

Dukha, Trishna, and Karma...the Samsara sisters!  (I always get them mixed up with the Andrews sisters, Patty, Maxene, and Laverne.)

[Brian]

Did you actually get to talk to him, Brian?  If so, I hope you told him that his Shostakovich symphony cycle is 'effin' awesome dude!   

Yes, I did get to talk to him. I've also gone for beers with the guy who writes the booklet notes. 

[Mirror Image]

I'm going through a rather sick spell this month and probably next month. Will pick up the following at some point:

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta, Antoni Wit, Warsaw Phil., Naxos
Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Viola Concerto, Ehnes, Noseda, Chandos (I said I wasn't going to buy this but I can't resist)
Shostakovich: Symphonies 6 & 12, Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Phil., Naxos
Reich: WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns, Kronos Quartet, S Percussion, Nonesuch
Bruckner: Symphonies 3-9, Celibidache, Munich Philharmonic, 12 CDs, EMI
Bruckner: Complete Symphonies, Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orch., 10 CDs, DG

For Christmas, I'm going to ask my parents for the Simon Rattle Leaving Home DVD series. I watched the episode Dancing On A Volcano and enjoyed it very much.

[Brian]

Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Viola Concerto, Ehnes, Noseda, Chandos (I said I wasn't going to buy this but I can't resist)

Hurwitz gave that 10/10. "Anything less would be churlish."

Yeah, I'll be buying the Celibidache Bruckner and French/Russian box sets. Oops, forgot - I also bought the Artemis Quartet Beethoven box on pre-order. So that's three CD purchases since March.

[Mirror Image]

Hurwitz gave that 10/10. "Anything less would be churlish."

Yeah, I'll be buying the Celibidache Bruckner and French/Russian box sets.

I've been wanting to hear the famed Celibidache Bruckner performances for years, but that set was always way too expensive. Glad to see that EMI is reissuing it. This is a reissue of theirs I can actually agree with.

[bigshot]

My compulsion has been channeled into digitizing and tagging my existing collection. That is likely going to take me the rest of my life.

[Elgarian]

the Andrews sisters, Patty, Maxene, and Laverne.)

Dave, are they the ones who recorded 'Nirvana's Not Good Enough For Me'?

[snyprrr]

My compulsion has been channeled into digitizing and tagging my existing collection. That is likely going to take me the rest of my life.

See, that's a healthy way to channel The Gorilla! We have more than we know.

[Brian]

I've been wanting to hear the famed Celibidache Bruckner performances for years, but that set was always way too expensive. Glad to see that EMI is reissuing it. This is a reissue of theirs I can actually agree with.

I got to hear Celi's 6, 7, and 8 on Spotify in England. 7 didn't impress me as much as the other two, but his readings of the slow movements of 6 and 8 have ruined all other performances for me...

[DavidRoss]

Dave, are they the ones who recorded 'Nirvana's Not Good Enough For Me'?

"Don't sit under the bodhi tree with anyone else but me!"

[chasmaniac]

"Don't sit under the bodhi tree with anyone else but me!"

"Smells like the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"

[71 dB]

So far 66 CDs have arrived this year + 6 CDs on their way indicating 80-90 CDs this year altogether.

I buy less classical music nowadays as I don't listen to it so much and most of my CDs are classical music anyway. Shockingly exactly 50 % of the 66 arrived CDs are classical music! It was the start of the year when I bought many CDs of Beethoven and Schubert. Recently I have bought many Elgar CDs conducted by Boult on EMI. But it is really that other stuff that I listen to many times over (Tangerine Dream, King Crimson, Rose Royce and of course my recent discovery Carly Simon!). The best of ~20 years old "techno" music is mindblowingly great music too and it's a shame most of people will never understand that. 

[mc ukrneal]

..."techno" music is mindblowingly great music...

Does not compute... 

[The new erato]

Does not compute... 

You can say that again.

[71 dB]

Does not compute... 

What did I just say? Most people will never understand.