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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: IPOD question(s), please...... |
| Date | Tue, 08 Jul 2003 00:33:55 -0400 |
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At 01:26 PM 7/7/2003 -0600, Not Lame wrote:
>Like many out there, going to start culling down so many of the thousands of
>cd's I have and collect the best of the best and dump the rest.
Every time I see a variant of this sentence, my flesh crawls.
Number one: seriously, am I the *only* person here who has experienced a
massive catastrophic hard drive loss? Trusting a music collection that has
undoubtedly cost me many thousands of dollars to the whims and vagaries of
a small hunk of metal does not strike me as a good idea.
Number two: I just can't be sure that what I think is "the best of the
best" on July 8, 2003, is what I'm going to think is "the best of the best"
on July 8, 2013. The number of times I have either belatedly discovered a
brilliant song on an album I had previously overlooked or heard something
new by a band that made me re-evaluate everything else they had ever done
is already huge; I shudder to think how many albums I'd have to re-buy in
the ensuing years if I tried to do something like this.
Number three: Well, let's just say I agree with the central thesis of
Nicholson Baker's DOUBLE FOLD.
It's not that I don't de-accession. (And it's not that I don't kind of
covet an iPod, but as something to listen to on the T or while I'm walking
the dog, not a primary music resource.) I've bought too many albums blind
at 10 cents or a quarter each on a hunch for all of them to be winners.
But massive purges based on a new toy just strike me as a bad idea.
Not that I'm not having fun snapping things up out of the used bins just
because somebody thought he was moving ahead with the times. I did the
same thing in the '80s.
S
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