question for people who buy too many records
 

how do you stop yourself buying too many records? do you have rules you set yourself? or do you not think that it matters?

I suppose if you go negative in your bank account, you'll stop.

I've been trying to limit myself, but its hard. Really hard.

On a related note, that Gal Costa CD came in the mail yesterday!

It depends.I have matured a bit in that respect because i've learned to prioritize things a bit more.I think i've reached insane spending on records in the mid nineties when i wasn't even thinking that in order to live you have to eat and all that.

ahahaha thats the funniest thing i have ever heard, deez.

i would buybuybuy like crazy if i could afford it.

i've started taking shopping lists with me when i go record shopping and if it's not on the list i can't buy it.

I just buy when I have money. It's painfully obvious when I am not in the market for LPs.

do you find that your record buying has narrowed down as you've got older, or is the opposite true?

as soon as the money drys out...sometimes i even pick cheaper albums in order to get more stuff...bang for the buck, you know?

i really think i'm about to be all overdrawn from my savings account, i'm glad there are no good record stores here; if there were, i would be skinter then usual.

Well now that I'm a student (around here jobless people make more money than students or interns), I've had to cut down my record purchasing habits.
It's not that I can't possibly afford, I didn't buy that many records before either, but now I've just drank all my money.

It's about the same volume-wise. The only difference is a willingness to spend a lot more money on a single LP as I have gotten older.

if i havmt got the money then i wont.

I'd be interested in knowing what gmku's answer would be.

Have children.

I went through a stage in my early twenties of buying everything I fancied and sticking it on the credit card, and I ended up with a debt that took me three years to pay off. That's over 15 years ago now, but it still stops me from going overboard on the buying sprees.

i'm trying to train myself to want less

I've once spent a fortune on buying records that are deemed as 'classics'.I've hardly listened to them so i've sold them.Having a girlfriend helps,Toilet.

Of course Nefeli.Boyfriends should be there only for presents and compliments.hehe

There is a song on Quasimoto’s second album that goes:

"If I could, I’d buy records every day of the week / But then I’d have no money for when I’m with my freak"

An ex-girlfriend of mine used to make me feel bad about buying too many records. We would have conversations like this:

- Hey, where did you just go?
- Hmmm… to the record store…
- Again? Did you buy something?
- Erm… yes.
- What? How many records did you buy this time?
- Well… ok, three… but two of them were really cheap!... and the other one, it's quite rare and I was looking for it for a long time!
(she then looked at me sort of upset, and as if I am crazy)

I thought for a moment that i would start buying records secretly and lying to her...

I can understand why she became your ex. :)

A topic I find endlessly fascinating. I always want to know how people manage this, too. In fact, I started a thread a few days ago called "Your music collecting habits". Sorry, I don't know how to link to it, duh.

Anyway, I'll quote one of my posts to that thread. I found the link contained within very enlightening:

"This article is too funny! Maybe mostly cuz I've almost crossed that line... (How many freaking double copies do I think I can accumulate in one lifetime...?!)

I especially like the advice under #7 at the bottom of the page:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articl...rd-licking.htm

'What seperates the freakish collector from the monster that is the Licker can be summed up in one word: proportion. Understand your place in this world, and understand the impossibility of ever comprehensively knowing all there is to know about even one genre of music, and you should make out OK. There is no need to panic, to paw, to obsess, or even to collect. Like what you like, love what you love, and track down one or two rare things if need be. But please, stay away from eBay. No piece of vinyl is worth getting in a bidding war over. Especially not with the Japanese—they will defeat you. And for Christ's sake, please put the records away once in a while and go outside. There's a whole world out there that has nothing to do with dusty old crates of secondhand records, or even shiny new CDs.' "