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From | "Lawrence Dunn" <thedunns@capecod.net> |
Subject | Re: IPOD question(s), please...... |
Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:48:06 -0400 |
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Of course, drives are cheap these days. When I ever get around to porting
my collection over to my computer (probably not till I get the last daughter
out the door to college), I anticpiate having one backup HD for toons, and
possibly a third. Multiple redunancy -- yeah, THAT's the ticket.
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I'm for bigger-than-life choruses, all the foot stomps you can stomach, and
na-na-na's out the ass.
----Butch of the Marvelous 3
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <flamingo@theworld.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>; <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: IPOD question(s), please......
> 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.
>
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