On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:25:45 -0500, "Thomas D. Cox, Jr." wrote: > no matter what its still a better addiction than drugs > or drink or > gambling : )
i justify my record collection--(and it is not easy in the face of friends, fiance, and parents who, every time i move, plead: "andrew, why don't you get rid of the--at least some--records!" moving for me has always been about two steps: #1: a load of all the records, #2: a load with everything else :))--with the legacy i want to leave my children (don't have any yet, but in the future): i want my daughter(s) and/or son(s) to grow up listening to stevie wonder and mantronix and public enemy and juan atkins and etc etc; and i want them to have the records (and my 1200s) when they're old enough and hopefully they'll pass the records (and the 1200s) on to their kids when that time comes and so on and so on. heck, 99% of these records don't even exist on cd, and that alone makes them unique. i worked at a music store for a couple of years a few years back (we sold new and used cds) and it was a very very sad thing to see that the majority of the people had collections (judging from what was sold) that were all UNunique ie one averaged person's collection was very similar to another's and if you had 10 collections in front of you, there would be about 90% crossover between them. i want a unique musical environment for my kids growing up. (i had to grow up in a house with abba, fleetwood mac, supertramp, barbra streisand, etc, etc; i don't mind fleetwood mac and supertramp, but to this day, listening to abba and barbra streisand make me gag! i still remember the day clearly when i was babysitting--probably aged 16 or so--for a family one night and i dug through their record collection and came upon early genesis, tangerine dream, and frank zappa records. wow! what an ear-opener after all that abba and barbra i had been inundated with whilst growing up in the duke household!) i look forward to a day in the future when my kids are looking back on their childhood and talk about growing up in a house where good music was always being played--and on record, not CD--and talk about stevie wonder, mantronix, public enemy, juan atkins, et al to their classmates and do it with JOY, not with the sad remembrance of being inundated growing up having to listen over and over to something like the 00's equivalent of abba or barbra. so i feel my collection is not just for me now, it is also for the future--my future family's future--and to perpetuate the future memories of these artists. andrew duke Jason Trenholm was born 31 August 1969 and died 1 January 2004. We met when we were 5 years old; he was my best friend for the next 29 years.***** Andrew Duke releases out now: Take Nothing For Granted http://cognitionaudioworks.com Environmental Politics http://and-oar.org Sprung http://bip-hop.com http://warprecords.com/mart/music/release.php? cat=BLEEP12&fc_type=CD *Canadian electronica album of the year nominee* More Destructive Than Organized http://staalplaat.com Highest Common Denominator http://pieheadrecords.com Physical and Mental Health http://dialrecords.com 74'02 (split with Hypo) http://tsunami-addiction.com http://cognitionaudioworks.com
