Compulsive Disassociative CD Collecting Disease (CDCDCD)

[Mirror Image]

The CDCDCD has hit me hard this week. I've got the following on order:

-Beethoven: Early String Quartets, Takacs Quartet, 2 CDs, Decca
-Beethoven: String Quartets, Takacs Quartet, 2 CDs, Decca
-Beethoven: Late String Quartets, Takacs Quartet, 3 CDs, Decca
-Prokofiev: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2, Sonata for Two Violins, Pavel Haas Quartet, Supraphon
-Szymanowski: Complete Music for Violin and Piano, Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cedric Tiberghien, Hyperion
-Ives: Complete Violin Sonatas, Gregory Fulkerson (violin), Robert Shannon (piano), 2 CDs, Bridge
-Shostakovich: Complete Trios and Violin Sonatas, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, 2 CDs, Koch Classics
-Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain, Natural History, Moon and Star, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Symphony Orch. NMC
-C. Matthews: Landscape, Cello Concerto, Machines & Dreams, Colin Carewe (conductor), Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Berlin Radio Symphony, LSO, London Sinfonietta, 2 CDs, NMC
-D. Matthews: Symphony No. 4, September Music, etc., John Carewe (conductor), Malcolm Nabarro (conductor), Bournemouth Sinfonietta, East of England Orchestra, NMC
-D. Matthews: In The Dark Time, Chaconne, Jac van Steen, BBC Symphony Orch., NMC
-D. Matthews: Concertos, Philippe Graffin (violin), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), George Vass (conductor), Bournemouth Symphony Orch., Orchestra Nova, Dutton
-D. Matthews: Symphonies 1, 3, 5, Martyn Brabbins, BBC National Orch. of Wales, Dutton
-D. Matthews: Symphonies 2 & 6, Jac van Steen, BBC National Orch. of Wales, Dutton

[North Star]

Good to see the Beethoven quartets on your list, they're definitely some of my absolutely favourite music. Endellion Quartet's recordings are superb. I don't remember whether you know Janacek's quartets. If not, do check them out.

[madaboutmahler]

For me...my CDCDCD came alive when I recieved around £70 birthday money! Purchased the following within less than a month of recieving the money! :

Mahler: Symphonies (Tennstedt)
Glazunov: The Seasons (Jarvi)
Ravel D+C: (Dutoit)
Prokofiev: R+J selections (MTT)
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Jarvi)
Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux (Maazel)
Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra, etc (Marriner)
Tippett: A Child of Our Time (Tippett)
Tippett: The Rose Lake (C.Davis)

[DavidW]

Great to see chamber music and great to see Beethoven on your shelf MI.

[Mirror Image]

Good to see the Beethoven quartets on your list, they're definitely some of my absolutely favourite music. Endellion Quartet's recordings are superb. I don't remember whether you know Janacek's quartets. If not, do check them out.

Yeah, I'm excited to hear them, North Star. I do know Janacek's SQs and they are great.

[Mirror Image]

Great to see chamber music and great to see Beethoven on your shelf MI.

I've actually always liked chamber music, but it had never been a favorite genre, but that changed when I heard Debussy's chamber music a year or so ago.

[snyprrr]

Hmm, this is what mine looks like:

Hugues Dufourt (Timpani)
Brahms/Henze- Piano Quintets
Rihm- Morphonie 2cd
Wuorinen- Five (Koch)
Wuorinen- Tashi (Koch)
Schubert/Crumb- Brodsky Qrt.
Chinary Ung- 7 Mirrors (New World)
Donald Erb- Drawing Down the Moon (New World)
Talujon Perc. Ens.- Xenakis, Harrison, Shapey, Rzewski

I think most all of them bent to the $5 rule; still, it adds up! There's a few more on 'The List' (The List HAS gotten much much smaller, and is now almost exclusively populated with the kind of non essential, personal, stuff. I feel like I've FINALLY got 'my' personal "history of essentials" down (as I Posted earlier, I'm down to a few random Ravel and Sibelius pieces).

Still, I HAVE gotten myself into a CDCDCD flareup here (I STILL haven't gotten the Ebay package in the mail after 10 days ), and I'm really hoping that I can spend myself to sanity,... haha,... haha,...a...ah...ahahahahaahahaahaha...

No, seriously, CDCDCD is real, and I just went four months without buying anything and felt good, and now I'm almost 10 cds into a binge and feel like crap,... soooo, you all watch out out there, it's a rough world, and you never know when that panic buying will hit,... DO YOU?

[classicalgeek]

I'm a recovering sufferer (is that the right word?) of CDCDCD but I do have a full-on case of its cousin ailment, CDDLCD.  I download large amounts of music, from all kinds of sources, and even with a backlog that will take me at least a year to catalog and tag for listening, I still can't seem to stop.  What if the recording goes out of print or the files are deleted?  I simply must get it - now!  A 60th Beethoven symphony cycle?  Yes, please! 

Even so, I follow the 'Purchases' thread here, and I'm rather envious of the nice hauls of real, tangible CDs that are flowing into the mailboxes of GMG-ers everywhere.  I miss the thrill of browsing Amazon Marketplace, MDT, JPC, or BRO for great deals, the anticipation and finally getting the package in the mail, tearing into it, rifling through the discs, removing the shrink wrap, opening the jewel case, and even the smell of a fresh booklet

I could order just one CD, right?  I could stop after that.  I could find a good deal on a used disc, or one on clearance, and justify the purchase (my wife handles the family finances) as a bargain I couldn't pass up.  Couldn't I? 

My name is James, and I'm a classicalmusicaholic...

[snyprrr]

I follow the 'Purchases' thread here, and I'm rather envious of the nice hauls of real, tangible CDs that are flowing into the mailboxes of GMG-ers everywhere

Definitely a no no!! I'm getting jealous just thinking about it!!

I know, you can just about feeeeeeel them...mmm...






Stop, Stop!!

[Gurn Blanston]

.....Couldn't I? 

My name is James, and I'm a classicalmusicaholic...

No, you couldn't! You're a backsliding git, ya weakling! Stick with your downloads, stay away from the hard stuff. I knew ever since your first post that you were one of those sissy-boys who couldn't resist a silver platter! Man up, dammit!

There. tough love, that's all you needed.

(Tell your wife she owes me $20) 





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Now playing:

Le Concert des Nations; Savall - Hob 20_1 The Seven Last Words - Orchestral version pt 6 - Sonata V - Adagio

[classicalgeek]

No, you couldn't! You're a backsliding git, ya weakling! Stick with your downloads, stay away from the hard stuff. I knew ever since your first post that you were one of those sissy-boys who couldn't resist a silver platter! Man up, dammit!

Yes, yes, you're right, I'm powerless!  It would all start harmlessly enough, with a three-dollar Amazon MP used disc.  Then before you know it, I'd be opening new credit cards, shipping the CDs to my office, sneaking them home and hiding them in my sock drawer...     Thank you!  Your tough love has spared me a lot of pain...

(Tell your wife she owes me $20) 

Hey!  That coulda gone toward a nice box set   Or another external hard drive...

[Gurn Blanston]

Yes, yes, you're right, I'm powerless!  It would all start harmlessly enough, with a three-dollar Amazon MP used disc.  Then before you know it, I'd be opening new credit cards, shipping the CDs to my office, sneaking them home and hiding them in my sock drawer...     Thank you!  Your tough love has spared me a lot of pain...
Hey!  That coulda gone toward a nice box set   Or another external hard drive...

  Anytime, James. That's what we mods were hired for, to help save people from themselves.   0:)

Well, if she will just slip it into my PayPal account, that's what it will go for. I seem to be more help to others than I am for myself...




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Now playing:

Musicians of the Louvre, Grenoble \ Minkowski - Hob 01_100 Symphony in G 2nd mvmt - Allegretto

[North Star]

Yeah, I'm excited to hear them, North Star. I do know Janacek's SQs and they are great.

Excellent, John.

No, you couldn't! You're a backsliding git, ya weakling! Stick with your downloads, stay away from the hard stuff. I knew ever since your first post that you were one of those sissy-boys who couldn't resist a silver platter! Man up, dammit!

[Ataraxia]

I've been caught up in this ridiculous buying cycle lately, attempting to fill the bottomless pit of desire for new music.

It must stop. 

I'd like to limit my purchases. Hm. I wonder how that would work.

[snyprrr]

I've been caught up in this ridiculous buying cycle lately, attempting to fill the bottomless pit of desire for new music.

It must stop. 

I'd like to limit my purchases. Hm. I wonder how that would work.

You're going to have to 'Buy It Now!' your way out of it,... there's no other way!


My Ebay STILL didn't come today,... nothing can quite flare up the old CDCDCD like a shipment of rare stuff not showing up... on time (hopefully). I seriously could have an issue if it... NO NO, I just WON'T believe it, wah wah ...

The Art of Letting Go

[snyprrr]

AGAIN no mail!!

I don't buy for 4 months, and the first purchase is MIA. God does work in mysterious ways, uh uh uh uh uh.

[snyprrr]

Yup, so I've had to litigate my first order of the year! God DOES work in mysterious ways. Oy!

And I knew, when I saw that $6.66 that it was gonna be funny, mm mm mm.


But, now, I THINK I'VE GIVEN MYSELF ENOUGH CONSOLATION PRIZES (woooah) so I can back out of this flareup. And, except for this last cd which I paid full price for ($20), everything else was around $5, so, hopefully, I can forget this happened and move on. whew!

[madaboutmahler]

I think I am going into a massive Sibelius/Nielsen phase, but do not have the money to help with it!!!!

 

I desperately want the 15 cd BIS Sibelius boxset... but it's £40. I don't know when I'll be able to get that much!!!! 

Oh well... until then, I can buy this Rattle cd, which I can get for just £1.80!

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[spooky]

A proposal

Compulsive Disassociative CD Collecting - Amazon Database app

-- anyone computer savvy enough to grade how difficult it would be to create
an application that that could compare Amazon's cd's across the various countries .com, .co.uk, .de, etc
- then generate a list of asin#,s as a database that met a predetermined threshold for price differential

as an example check all price for Mahler cd's from all Amazon sites & report as a database those ASIN#'s
which on one site are say 1/3 or 1/4 the price compared to the remainder

-- thus freeing-up time spent CDCDCD'ing to better spend listening to music

Is this Evil Genuis or what !!!!!!

[mc ukrneal]

A proposal

Compulsive Disassociative CD Collecting - Amazon Database app

-- anyone computer savvy enough to grade how difficult it would be to create
an application that that could compare Amazon's cd's across the various countries .com, .co.uk, .de, etc
- then generate a list of asin#,s as a database that met a predetermined threshold for price differential

as an example check all price for Mahler cd's from all Amazon sites & report as a database those ASIN#'s
which on one site are say 1/3 or 1/4 the price compared to the remainder

-- thus freeing-up time spent CDCDCD'ing to better spend listening to music

Is this Evil Genuis or what !!!!!!

This is kinda like that: http://www.camelcamelcamel.com/. I forget who originally posted it, but it may be of interest.