Continuing the discussion from Shiny brand new second hand things in my system today V1.2 (Part 1) - #10107 by Pan.
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Just buying records I know now, mostly used .
Visiting the Peter Doig exhibit (House of Music) a couple of weekends back, i enjoyed the Winston Edwards dub LP they were playing & still enjoyed it when I got home on Amazon music.
Rare for me these days, I ordered a re-issue of that LP as well as another by Edwards & a Prince Jammy one aswell. All new re-issues I guess but not silly money. Ā£8, Ā£10 & Ā£12. Iām pleasantly surprised by how good each of them sounds & that theyāre quiet & flat. From ebay sellers too!
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Loving jazz does have one advantage. You can buy just about anything on Blue Note, Impulse, Prestige etc and it will be good - same goes for the musicians.
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Cheap exits stage left, though.
Cheap art is disposible.
That doesnāt chime with @murrayjohnson 's post a couple up.
We all see this differently, and Guy is sensible.
A nothing reply which, if anything, validates my point.
I suspect a grate many of the traits being described so ably by Ritchie, Matt and others are also enumerated in those faintly annoying, but sometimes enlightening ā10 Ways To Tell If You Have ADHD/OCD/Aspergers/Whateverā clickbait compendia.
I do kinda hate the hypersymptomatisaton of mildly exaggerated character traits with which 2020s 'culture is so besotted, but there is a spectrum, and all of us are on itā¦ 
I donāt exactly sail serenely through this - combining a really fucking shoddy memory, with propensity to laziness-driven perfection-paralysis, where I have maybe 100 albums at most which are inevitable go-tos, which nothing else gets near, so the other 2000-ish albums mostly get ignored in favour of them.
This madness interfingers with the knowledge that most days Iāve failed to achieve anything worth so much as a picofuck, and thus donāt ādeserveā to relax and listen to musicā¦
If Laughing-Academies would let me have a hifi Iād be golden 
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The conversation here is really about obsession. Itās easy to poke at it or make it seem āweird,ā but weāre on an āaudio forumā, and I can say that many record collectors find audiophiles critically weird. Iām with Sodders on the ADHD angle, but good old-fashioned obsession is really the key thing. Thinking about records, dreaming about kit, reading everything, reckless spending, believing that next box or record will somehow fix the hole which frankly there isnāt enough kit or records to fillā¦
Add compulsion to the mix and what weāre starting to look at is addiction (OCD). With addiction, itās easy to look at the person whoās gone further down the hole and say, āFuck it, Iāll never be like that,ā until you suddenly find yourself being exactly like that.
A close friend of mine had a heart attack over records. Iāve got a few mates whoāve lost their houses and marriages to them too. (Vinyl junkies are real) In the same way, audiophiles can get equally twisted. Iāve been affected both ways, and personally I see no difference in fact it āfeelsā exactly the same.
These days things are a lot more fluid, but 10ā15 years ago was an intense time indeed.
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Itās not just us btw 
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Can I recommend playing your record collection from one end to the other? You donāt have to play every one but you will at least see them in passing. Breaks unconscious selection strategies ( going to the middle of the shelf). You will find forgotten gems. Donāt try to match record and mood.
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I wonder what new generations of addicts / enablers (two sides / same coin) do now that the forum format is moribund unto extinction?
Iām past the peak of it now, but have long since learned never to say āNever!ā.
Mobile phones.
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Donāt worry. Someone will be working on how to monetize your innermost private thoughts and feelings.
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Truth.
I think that a lot of the records I feel are meh, come from a time when I was definitely like this. So perhaps they not only seem kind of random to me, they actually do come from a time when I did actually hate myself. So I look through them for things to play and Im reminded of a less happy time in my life. Although, maybe I should give myself some peace because yāknow, itās all a journey, and I have learnt a few things along the way, including about what I like music wise.
Itās setting up the deck this week though that has reminded me of all this. The vinyl front end I have is off the chart good. Itās so entertaining. The last couple of days I have been playing record after record, and mostly I have been riveted by it. But, the other side of that is the fucker needs feeding. My steaming set-up doesnāt have this issue. I can flick through millions of records on my phone, select something and play it/ turn it off, work while itās playing etc, etc. Vinyl is different, you have to attend to it, and also, you arenāt selecting from a few million. A couple of thousand seems like you are feeding off crumbs, and stale ones at that. 
Randomly, Ava last night said that she thinks my records are amazing. She did also say that she hasnāt a clue what to play, though!
The last record we played yesterday was Tusk by Fleetwood Mac, Avaās choice. The record buying public thought it was meh at the time. A difficult, sprawling thing if you are hoping for further Rumours. It did occur to me that itās probably in peopleās collections, and their fingers pass over it in just the same way mine do with other stuff I have, their internal mehometer swinging hard to the right. Great record though, if you give it a chance, which I did because my daughter put it on. I may well have passed over it myselfā¦
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Iāve not really listened to any LPs in the last year, bought a few and sold some that had risen in value that I didnāt really like.
Had the arrival of the new TT and arm but just not felt it and real dedicated listening time is rare these days.
So much so, at Xmas, went to play an LP to show the little one how it works and my old at least 3rd hand AT33PTG/II is clearly shot. Sent back to AT for a p/x against a new one, possibly one of the new AT33x models.
Tik Tok
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