From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #651 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Tuesday, November 29 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 651 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: impulse buying (njc) [Robert Procyk ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:51 -0600 From: Robert Procyk Subject: Re: impulse buying (njc) Oh Kakki, I so know what you mean! It was always a horrible dilemma to figure out which album to buy. As a child, I remember going to Woolworth's or a record store, and having 6 dollars in my pocket, and taking what seemed like hours to pick what I would buy. I remember buying Fleetwood Mac's "Mystery to Me" when I was 9, based solely on the cover. Also, I know this sounds hokey, but one of my favourite memories is a rainy Friday night in late September in 1980. I was 10 and my dad and I were shopping, while the rest of my family was at my sister's wedding shower. I really, REEAALLY wanted Christopher Cross' album, because I was an old soul back then and loved Sailing. I finally mustered up the courage to ask for the $5.97 for the album and I remember him saying something like "$5.97? Jesus Christ! ARGH, just give it to me!" and then we went home, I put the album on, and we ate chip sand dip. LOLOL, you had to be there. Lots of times, I will hear a song and remember the moment i bought the album/tape/cd. Bittersweet memories. I have to admit that while I totally miss album art and lyrics and something tangible to hold in my hands, itunes can be nice because it is instant gratification. if you suddenly want something, it's there. And I have to admit, I am having a hard time storing music. I have a room in my house that is called "MY room". As in "Well, YOU have a room of your own!" And I try to argue the point, because I am not Virginia Woolf, but this little bedroom in my basement has 3 walls covered with wall to ceiling bookshelves and cd shelves. Then the rest of the room has a weight set and my treadmill, and my clothes are in the closet. And since that room is a disaster, I am trying to reduce, and itunes has been sort of freeing. Of course, this weekend I d/led the new Kate Bush, and i am smitten, and I want liner notes and such, but whatever. I sort of like the freedom itunes offers - just don't ever sign in to itunes drunk. I did that once, and I still have the Big Country and Style Council retrospectives that were bought that fateful night. I wish I was kidding. The Style Council?!? WTF? Bombay gin is evil. Just saying. I have gotten rid of most of my albums, but for some reason, I am having trouble clearing out the cassettes, even if I own the album on cd. I don't even have a cassette player anymore, so that shows you how buggered up THAT is. Anyway, as a child, I spent all of my hard-earned allowance and babysitting money on music. Even as a starving student, when cds were still newish and expensive, I would take my student loan money, and my fake Columbia House subscriptions, and go nuts on music. While I don't really get that excited that much anymore by new music, usually going on these crazy jags of memory lane purchases, I still appreciate music being at my fingertips, especially since I still remember having to order in albums, which would take weeks and weeks to arrive. I remember ordering Cocteau Twins and Joni albums, and I was trying to be a hipster even back in grade 9, with a butt-ugly haircut and hideous 15 year old moustache, with my 100 size cigarettes and ordering 12 inch singles by Lisa Lisa, Severed Heads, and Skinny Puppy. Oh, the 80s were ugly, ugly times. TGIT, Rob On 2011-11-28, at 7:02 PM, kbhla wrote: > Rob, > > Since I was 8 years old most all my "disposable income" went to music albums! Allowance money, babysitting money, part time job and holiday gift money from relatives - it all went to get the latest fave music. In college, I received a modest stipend from my parents for extra-essentials. The bulk of it went to the latest music I wanted and I was perfectly happy to eat rice and ramen to offset the deficit! Even when I was independent and starting out on a low salary, I would forego all the rest to buy a new album, especially Joni. LOL! The past year I have been going through a labor intensive effott to download a lot of that "inventory" to my iPods (yes, plural iPods - because I have so much stuff and keep running out of room!). I also buy from iTunes but have to really restrain myself! > > Kakki ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #651 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------