FSM # 44: Do you regret selling or trading off stuff?
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As I’m currently going through my entire collection from A to Z, I’m often furious with myself about trading or selling off CDs over the years. I’m guessing there was a reason at the time, perhaps to get things I needed due to completist reasons or whatever, but I sooooo regret it. Was about to play my old Varese CD of ALIENS now, which is one of my top 10 Horners and one of the earliest soundtrack CDs I ever got, and even THAT it seems I’ve traded away. WTF?!? (doesn’t help that I obviously still own them as digital files).
I’ve “installed” a new rule for myself now — I only trade off things that I have doubles of, or that I don’t like at all. Anything else remaining is absolutely shielded.
Didn’t we have this topic somewhere already? Anyway, my rule as well. Regret selling and it wasn’t even paying off 15 years ago or so… The idea was downsizing of stuff I rarely listen to. Needless to say that the idea didn’t work at all, especially with the raise of digital downloads and such 😉
Among those sold was even the sacrilege of selling the old Williams album of HOME ALONE (“ah christmas music, when do I listen to that actually?”) or the – in my view – rather minor Goldsmith POWDER. A rule is to never sell or part with any of these composers of course. However HOME ALONE I have back digitally – the expanded one – but POWDER I still don’t 😉Nowadays I would give them to friends or just donate them to my library.
Didn’t we have this topic somewhere already?
Maybe discussed in the collection thread or something. But we can’t jam everything into these threads. Sometimes, there are spinoff discussions that are worthy of their own. I have another “spinoff” forthcoming.
I also rid myself of POWDER once upon a time. Not because of the troublesome man who directed it, but because it didn’t really ignite me. But later, when I checked it out again, I found many things to enjoy. One of many that exemplify this.
I never really traded with old CDs. I rather just gave them away for free to people remotely interested as I am always happy when people listen to movie scores.
The idea was downsizing of stuff I rarely listen to.
Yes. The space topic. The only time I regreted a little giving away CDs was after I had given the first three Harry Potter albums to my piano teacher after I had purchased the 7-disc Harry Potter box from LaLaLand. I thought, I don’t need them anymore because now I had the complete thing. And I would still say, that’s correct related to the first score. But for the 2nd and 3rd I’d rather listen to the OST as these flow much better.
But regrets in context of film scores I rather feel when I think about not getting certain albums at a time when they were still easily available.
I never regretted trading a CD or giving away a CD, I never regretted those. However, a few years ago I bulk-sold a bunch of CDs that I had doubled up over the years or where I got better editions… so that was downsizing… I sold a box of them… and I do regret that. Or perhaps “regret” is to strong a word, it’s not as if it’s a big load to carry or so, but I shouldn’t have done that. I should have kept them or given them away to someone… or traded them.
Yes I regret selling around 50 (?) soundtrack CDs to Gerry Kroll in the US 20-25 years ago. At least some of them, like Zimmer’s PACIFIC HEIGHTS, possibly the third CD I ever bought.
I also sold a big bunch of electronic music CDs to musician Ron Boots from Holland. I don’t regret that as much, perhaps.
But later, when I checked it out again, I found many things to enjoy. One of many that exemplify this.
Maybe I would as well if I revisit POWDER. Since it is a Goldsmith I might do at some time and chance. But back then it didn’t grab me, too. The 90s are not my favorite Goldsmith decade anyway.
But regrets in context of film scores I rather feel when I think about not getting certain albums at a time when they were still easily available.
Yeah, I think we all have some of those we thought it had time for later and then were gone. Gladly nowadays some resurface digitally at least but not everything…
I think it’s healthy to get rid of things one’s not interested in. If I don’t think I’ll want/prioritize to listen to an album again, it goes out. Of course, taste can change, but then it’s usually possible to re-acquire for a decent price unless we’re talking about expansions from the specialty labels.
When CD-Rs were a new technology, I backed up a lot of CDs that I also had on LP, and unloaded the CDs. I thought that CD-Rs would last forever, like CDs. I learned otherwise.
I thought that CD-Rs would last forever, like CDs. I learned otherwise.
It really depends on the speed you burnt (the slowe the better at least back then) and the CD-R brand/type used. I had several – some realy the same cheaper brand – going bad as well over the years. They start to produce a scratchy sound towards the end mostly, especially if really 70+ minutes. But the very first CD-R I ever burned 25+ years ago still works. Last time I tried it at least. I have imported all CD-R to my hard drive already.
I have never dealt much with CD-Rs for audio CDs. I have a few of rare or hard to get releases, but by far most of them have eventually been replaced by actual CD releases of the stuff. However, the CD-Rs I do have, as far as I ever got to check on them in between, were all fine, never had one go out on me. And they are all twenty years old or more.
As far as music is concerned, all my music is now digital files, so that’s about the safest you can have it. It’s easily backed up and regularly verified with a hash strategy, so if even a single bit would ever flip anywhere, I’d know about it.Sometimes yes. NEAR DARK I have on LP. I did sell one TD album once: CYCLONE which IMHO is still one of the worst I have heard by them 😉
But how many of you have re-bought stuff you’ve sold or traded off?
Never done that so far… because I wouldn’t want to just own “another” CD of something I once owned. It would have to be the exact same copy. Also, since I never sold or traded any score I didn’t have another copy of (for example, I gave sold some “First Blood/Rambo” copies because I had updated versions), I never felt the actual urge to re-buy previous version.
As I mentioned in the Francis Lai thread, I unloaded and re-purchased Live for Life because I was haunted by the track “Zoom.”
It’s a cool track, and a great score overall, but I’m surprised that THAT track is your go-to, of all things. Is it something with the weird vocalizations?
TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, which I’m listening to now. Sold or traded this off, I remember it vividly. But I must have re-acquired it later on. Good!
When I was young, I used to have the CD to RANSOM. I was a diehard Horner fan, and bought it without knowing it had so little of his music on it. I think I must have thought it wasn’t worth the money or something, and returned it. What was my 15-year-old self thinking? It’s certainly not his best score, but I kinda wish I still had it because my collection would really grow over the years. I also missed out on COURAGE UNDER FIRE. I saw it at a secondhand shop and assumed I already had it, so I passed it by. I was so sad to see I didn’t when I got home. Upon returning to the store, it had already been snapped up. That lead me to signup for Discogs so I could keep better track of what I had and hope that it wouldn’t happen again. I still only have a CD-R of it, sigh.
I saw it at a secondhand shop and assumed I already had it, so I passed it by.
Nearly another topic: Not buying because you thought you already had it or other way round buying because you thought you didn’t 😉
It actually happened to me once that I traded away a CD which I thought I had doubled up, but in the end I had not. I must have dreamt it.
I regret trading 7 CD’s, which I agreed to (mostly) out of love for the neediness of others. I recall the time, the year, exuberant details…
For me, it is about having a larger than life collection I can call upon whenever needed. I also have 20 (!) digital preservations of all psychical CD’s and a rather endless lists of double CD copies, of which most – but still about a 1000 CD#s of uninteresting scores – are among the things I love the most.
Hey Cailin, regarding Ransom by James Horner.
There’s actually 50 minutes of score on the CD, with the other 20 minutes given over to the Billy Corgan stuff.
But it’s mainly his tension and suspense music ala Pelican Brief and Apollo 13.
It has got a great End Title capper though. Like he was pent up and needed to release some lovely stuff at the very end.Hmm, well maybe it was all the Billy Corgan tracks that threw me off and made me think that it contained very little music of James’. I’ll have to try and hunt it down again!
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