The biggest regrets concerning your record collection

[Bulldog]

Mine are:

1.  I want more Stravinsky.
2.  Having bought many Vivaldi recordings.
3.  I spilled a cup of hot chocolate all over a pile of discs.

[Brahmsian]

3.  I spilled a cup of hot chocolate all over a pile of discs.

Ouch!

I can't say I have any regrets regarding my collection.

However, I wish I had gotten into classical music when I was much younger, and learned how to play an instrument growing up.

[DavidW]

I tossed the jewel cases and the liner notes to save on shipping costs when I moved a few years ago.

Also I sold way too many cds in grad school.  Also Wish I had known about the streaming options back then would have saved alot of money.

[DavidW]

I thought of two more:

I accidentally lost/perhaps threw away? one cd in the huge Angeles Q set of Haydn SQs. I also lost a cd in the Pinnock Vivaldi set, but I don't really care about that as much.

[Brahmsian]

2.  Having bought many Vivaldi recordings.

At least, your regret is your daughter's gain. 

[Octo_Russ]

1 I bought too many Naxos discs early on, the idea was to pad my collection out with low cost recordings, now i've sold most of them as i'm replacing quantity with quality, now i feel they were false economy.

2 Selling all my unwanted discs to a second hand shop for £1 each, now i realize i can get roughly £5 for each on Ebay or Amazon. 

3 My record collection is way too Classical heavy, roughly 75%, i wish i got into Jazz a lot sooner.

[Scarpia]

Mine are:

1.  I want more Stravinsky.
2.  Having bought many Vivaldi recordings.
3.  I spilled a cup of hot chocolate all over a pile of discs.

Mine are very similar. 

1.  I want more Ravel Chamber Music
2.  Having bought many Vivaldi recordings (I think I am up to 3, maybe 4)
3.  In a prodigeous rain storm, water came in through a window and showered on one of my CD shelf units.  It hit the B's (you know what that means, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckne affected.   )

[Florestan]

I am not Harry. 

[Scarpia]

I tossed the jewel cases and the liner notes to save on shipping costs when I moved a few years ago.

  Wow, what were you thinking?  I'm thinking of converting my CDs to FLAC files and perhaps dumping the jewel cases, but I would certainly keep the booklets. 

[karlhenning]

Yes, many are the jewel cases I have sent to recycling, but I am careful to hold on to booklets with actual notes.

[Brahmsian]

1 I bought too many Naxos discs early on, the idea was to pad my collection out with low cost recordings, now i've sold most of them as i'm replacing quantity with quality, now i feel they were false economy.

That, is an absolute crock.  Yes, Naxos is low cost, but in no way does that indicate the quality of their recordings.  Generally, their recordings are of high quality.

[Szykneij]

Not having more time to listen to it.

[Scarpia]

That, is an absolute crock.  Yes, Naxos is low cost, but in no way does that indicate the quality of their recordings.  Generally, their recordings are of high quality.

That is also an absolute crock.  Certainly there are fine recordings on Naxos, and there are bad recordings on other labels, but a collection obtained by routine acquisition of Naxos recordings will be a prosaic one.

[DavidW]

  Wow, what were you thinking?  I'm thinking of converting my CDs to FLAC files and perhaps dumping the jewel cases, but I would certainly keep the booklets.

Yeah I don't know.  I wasn't listening to music at the time and pissed off at having to move my cds.  I actually stopped listening to music for a year, and I had no sense of the value of those cds then.  I guess you can say that I still don't because that old collection has been collecting dust for four years now.

[DavidW]

That, is an absolute crock.  Yes, Naxos is low cost, but in no way does that indicate the quality of their recordings.  Generally, their recordings are of high quality.

Naxos in the last 10 years or so has signed up some excellent ensembles but in their early days it is like choosing between the VPO and Yugoslavian prostitutes.  I think this is what Octo Russ is talking about.  I never had his problem though because there are bargain lines from all of the major labels.  My favorite were the Philips duos and the remastered Sony Essential Classics.

[Florestan]

choosing between the VPO and Yugoslavian prostitutes. 

You're such a nerd! 

[Octo_Russ]

That is also an absolute crock.  Certainly there are fine recordings on Naxos, and there are bad recordings on other labels, but a collection obtained by routine acquisition of Naxos recordings will be a prosaic one.

Like David W said, it was in the early days of Naxos, when they made some questionable recordings with second / third rate Orchestras / Artists, now they've improved a lot, i'm quite impressed with them, and there's some desirable discs that they've recently issued that i want to get.

But buying something because it's cheap, and then hardly listening to it, over buying the very best, regardless of price, ends up as false economy in the long run. 

[Wendell_E]

I thought of two more:
I accidentally lost/perhaps threw away? one cd in the huge Angeles Q set of Haydn SQs.

I'd really hate for that to happen.  Surely you know someone who could make you a copy.

I was just listening to the last disc of that set earlier today. 

[Scarpia]

Naxos in the last 10 years or so has signed up some excellent ensembles but in their early days it is like choosing between the VPO and Yugoslavian prostitutes.

For all I know, Yugoslavia might have the best prostitutes in the world.   

[Philoctetes]

Not purchasing enough Vivaldi.