The Official 'Latest Purchases' Thread Part V

[brutal_descent]

Originally Posted by mankvill

^ who is this gaylord

some newfag

[Dextrimental]

Originally Posted by DethMaiden

Hey people,

The Honorable illuminatus917 told me to pop in here because people wanted my CD list, and I'm happy to do that on my lunch break, but oy! The slander I'm seeing in this thread! Thought I should pop in and clear a few things up.

Yes, I am selling all of my CDs. The reasons are many, but none of them have to do with shifting music taste or a lessened allegiance to financially supporting bands. Quite the opposite, actually.

A lot of us grew up in the era where the CD was the dominant format, especially in the era when CDs and iTunes did not overlap. If you wanted a high quality music file on your computer as well as your stereo, you had to buy the CD, and that was that.

Today, that simply isn't the case. Between iTunes (and the iTunes Store), Spotify, and a dozen more digital music resources, when you're listening to a "file," it's rarely if ever on the actual laser-read disc that a factory put music onto. How many of you carry around a boombox in 2012?

This has been true for me for years, but I always kept my CDs because they were a "collection." Except this wasn't true either, because as a college student and now young professional, I move all the damn time. Across four moves in as many years, my CDs stayed in cardboard boxes and were constantly in transit. Isn't a huge part of collecting having a display for said collection? Mine wasn't functioning on that level.

Now that I work in the music industry (and have a desk job that keeps me plugged into Spotify and iTunes nine hours a day), I listen to more music than ever. Not wanting a CD collection to hang like a fucking albatross around my neck has nothing to do with the space music occupies in my life.

I simply know that dumping the entire collection will not change my listening habits one iota -- I'll use the aux cord on my iPhone in the car to access any of the music I own or Spotify radio via 3G, I'll stream at work, I'll play from the iTunes interface at home if I'm multitasking or at Barnes & Noble while I write -- and when I start building a vinyl collection, my listening experience will actually improve tenfold as I'm forced to make "music listening" an activity in and of itself more often.

So please, reserve your judgment, and I'll reserve mine. If you want my CDs, I'm happy to sell them to you for dirt nothing (they're going at an average of less than $3 a pop). I'm just not the same listener I was ten or even five years ago.

I moved in October and still haven't unpacked my CD's. That said, hit us up with a list!

[illuminatus917]

Originally Posted by DethMaiden

now young professional

have a desk job

at Barnes & Noble while I write

You're a shell of the man you once were.

[ravenheart]

Originally Posted by illuminatus917

You're a shell of the man you once were.

[ShatteredFlame]

This DVD horror collection of 6 Spanish films called 6 Films to Keep You Awake and this other Spanish horror movie called The Uninvited Guest. Hopefully I find a gem or two in there.

A Dexter poster from one of those college poster sales.

And I needed 7 books for this semester and in total they actually came out to a very low price of $265

[IrritatedTrout]

Yep, I'd love to see a list of stuff. Sounds like a great bargain.

[JRA]

For what it's worth, I understand what he means by moving and the inconvenience of moving massive amounts of physical product. Whenever I buy CD's in Bloomington, I move the CD itself to my big ass carrier, and the cases themselves just sit on a table, waiting for me to bring them home. I guess the reason why I choose to keep my CD's around is because god forbid a day comes when all my electronic shit gets deleted, made worse by the fact that my external harddrive took a massive shit recently (fuck you Time Machine). It may be the day that never comes, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Oh, and while I don't write there, I use Barnes & Noble for internet and schooling all y'all in mad knowledge.

[RAZOR]

Originally Posted by illuminatus917

SubRosa - No Help For the Mighty Ones CD
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss CD

So you're the one who got those before I could.

Anyways, these are the ones I picked that Brad was selling. I'm really happy with what I got. Thanks man.

1. Alcest - Ecailles de Lune
2, Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
4. I - Between Two Worlds
5. Wodensthrone - Loss
6. Fen - The Malediction Fields
7. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
8. Immortal - Battles in the North
9. Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry
10. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
11. Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed
12. Melvins - Houdini
13. Sleep - Dopesmoker 2012 reissue
15. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
16. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
17. Depeche Mode - Violator
18. Opeth -Damnation
19. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
20. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
21. Flogging Molly - Swagger
22. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
23. Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionare
24. Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso
25. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
26. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
27. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
28. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
29. Danzig - Danzig
30. Dio - Strange Highways
31. Witchcraft - The Alchemist

[illuminatus917]

Originally Posted by RAZOR

So you're the one who got those before I could.

[dcmetal108]

Originally Posted by IrritatedTrout

Yep, I'd love to see a list of stuff. Sounds like a great bargain.

This.