i used to obsess about buying records and then i stopped caring when i decided this hobby was too expensive to maintain and i would rather waste my money on other things such as beer, live shows, art, cameras, guitars, comics etc. i just don’t care enough about it especially when a lot of records that used to be super rare and expensive have been reissued on the cheap. a music fan is a music fan no matter how you listen and a lot of record collectors border on object fetishists which started to irritate me the last couple of months.

but i realized there is a practical reason for it… lately i’ve been missing some of my records and can’t listen to them. when i moved into the big room in my flat, i got greedy about space and put all my records in the foamhead room so i can have more hang out space in my quarters.. on top of that, i put the other turntable in the closet and the one i tried to set up in my room has the most annoying grounding noise and i haven’t been able to figure out what the problem is since january. or maybe i just don’t care enough to do some research or ask them commission hungry folk at radioshack to remedy that. i had a similiar grounding hum with my cumputer audio but was compelled to fix that right away probably cause music via my computer is instantly gratifying. btw, if you don’t know about me or my wire problem here is a rare look behind thee old receiver

so i’m kinda bummed. i realized there are some records i have that i miss that i can’t find on cd and or/would feel really lame about buying on cd because i already own them, but they are stuck in vinyl purgatory and are collecting dust and not being enjoyed which is so lamer. a lot of them are odd jazz records on obscure european labels such as the ironically named “america records” that i’ll probably only play once but there’s also a bunch of tful282 records such as funeral pudding, wormed by leonard, lovelyville and i hope it lands which played a part in the rebuilding of bridges with my former arch-nemesis who is also a fan (as noted in this entry) that i would like to play the shit out of right now. maybe i will muster some courage to ask him to give me digitized copies of these beloved records of mine. anyway, does anyone want to buy my spare technics 1200 turntable? i bought it for $400 back in the day and i think it’s worth $20 now, ha ha ha. i don’t foresee me ever making a mix on 2 turntables again and it doesn’t seem like this shit even matters to anyone anymore when serato is all up in the mix and is generally accepted amongst career deejays who want to protect their valuable artifacts. i still have fantasies about making an epic dance rock mix that is completely blended 4/4 style with no hiccups/negative space and that can only really happen with real records on 2 turntables or 1 turntable & a 4-track. but i’ve been talking about that for years. maybe it’s time to let go. if that makes me lame or a cd/mp3 apologist, then you can call me Lamedrey