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Mar. 22nd, 2020 04:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyMy Itunes library has now crossed 70k tracks. About 20k of them were in the last 2.5 years. This is due to mainly harvesting doujin music from M3 and Comiket, as well as buying used CDs for cheap, often 10 or 20 at a time.
I'm starting to think I have too many CDs? After all, I did buy a lot of them, almost in bulk, many of them with no idea of what they'd sound like. It then stands to reason that some of them just weren't going to be good and were cheap for a reason. That was a chance I was willing to take, because...
At the same time, this "strip mining" method yielded some real winners for a similarly low price. For example, I'm surprised that I didn't hear of the group Delerium until recently. Especially since I'm familiar with the related group Front Line Assembly. As both groups are fronted by the same man, the difference in sound is quite surprising: FLA leans more towards Skinny Puppy, while Delerium sounds much closer to Enigma. Then again having different groups for different styles makes sense. It's better than trying to push a bunch of different genres onto the same fanbase.
Many of the other CDs I've bought this way were also things I was passively interested in; where I didn't care enough about it to buy at original MSRP or I had higher priorities, but it was worth getting at $3 or 4. I ended up filling out almost whole discographies like this.
Why so many? Why 10 or 20 at a time? Usually what will happen at these places when they have enough CDs to sell, they'll have a sale going on, and it's usually buy-5-get-5-free. Lately they went even harder, and now they'll take 100 of the ones that have been on the shelf for too long, put them in a box, and sell that for $25. I haven't gotten one of those blind-boxes yet because I figure I'd already skimmed through and picked what I wanted long ago. In fact, I now make it a point to wait a couple months between visits to let the store's selection "recover" with fresh stock.
So, as I go through my CDs, when I find one that doesn't click with me, I'll pull it out and put it in a box that will eventually go back to the used store, along with any doubles that missed the Libib filter for some reason.
Non sequitur: The ice maker in my freezer sounds the same whether making ice at 4PM or 4AM. Except at 4AM it's like a dump truck at a construction site. Especially when the ice bin is empty.
I'm starting to think I have too many CDs? After all, I did buy a lot of them, almost in bulk, many of them with no idea of what they'd sound like. It then stands to reason that some of them just weren't going to be good and were cheap for a reason. That was a chance I was willing to take, because...
At the same time, this "strip mining" method yielded some real winners for a similarly low price. For example, I'm surprised that I didn't hear of the group Delerium until recently. Especially since I'm familiar with the related group Front Line Assembly. As both groups are fronted by the same man, the difference in sound is quite surprising: FLA leans more towards Skinny Puppy, while Delerium sounds much closer to Enigma. Then again having different groups for different styles makes sense. It's better than trying to push a bunch of different genres onto the same fanbase.
Many of the other CDs I've bought this way were also things I was passively interested in; where I didn't care enough about it to buy at original MSRP or I had higher priorities, but it was worth getting at $3 or 4. I ended up filling out almost whole discographies like this.
Why so many? Why 10 or 20 at a time? Usually what will happen at these places when they have enough CDs to sell, they'll have a sale going on, and it's usually buy-5-get-5-free. Lately they went even harder, and now they'll take 100 of the ones that have been on the shelf for too long, put them in a box, and sell that for $25. I haven't gotten one of those blind-boxes yet because I figure I'd already skimmed through and picked what I wanted long ago. In fact, I now make it a point to wait a couple months between visits to let the store's selection "recover" with fresh stock.
So, as I go through my CDs, when I find one that doesn't click with me, I'll pull it out and put it in a box that will eventually go back to the used store, along with any doubles that missed the Libib filter for some reason.
Non sequitur: The ice maker in my freezer sounds the same whether making ice at 4PM or 4AM. Except at 4AM it's like a dump truck at a construction site. Especially when the ice bin is empty.
