Old CDs and records

@elmo2

So 16,000 disks. You are a collector. If you play one a day… it would take 43 years to listen to them all. How old are you? When I was working my average was 6 per week. Now that I am retired it is maybe 10 per week.

I did this calculation when about when I was 65 and realized I would be lucky to listen all my albums in during the rest of my life. I think at some point it really is a lot more about collecting than listening. But it is way better than collecting door knobs or stamps, you can do something with them. Nothing wrong with collecting.

I did say vast majority of artists always get screwed. I can't help we live in society/culture that doesn't value artists more highly. If we did, artists as a whole would have the power to alter supply/demand structure to favor themselves. As things stand only a select few have this power, this unchanged since before streaming. 

Streaming isn't the issue, power structures are, until that changes, things will remain as they always have.

@sns

Time to cue up that old quote attributed to Hunter S Thompson -

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench - a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.

There’s also a negative side..."

Let's face it, half of the music business seems to be entirely devoted to endless lawsuits.

+1 cd318

Another Hunter S Thompson classic:

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."

So go ahead and toss them while you have the opportunity to. (Maybe I can pick through them at Value Village or The Sally Anne and grab a bargin or two...)