Le Baron
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After the pandemic, probably like many others, I had to make a few financial sacrifices and the unit I had for storing mostly records and other things had to go. Now maybe a few here have a bigger house than I have, but it meant cutting into useful space at home. What I was shocked at is the number of vinyl records and CDs. When I dragged them out I'd actually forgotten about two thirds of them. It was like being in a shop. Now they're in the much smaller storage unit I have at home and a bloody great industrial sewing machine motor. I already had a conservative' 300 records at home just for listening.
Have you ever done this? Had stored records then been forced to face them all as a giant bulk object? I started to think how ridiculous the collection was in some ways. And it's not that I don't like the records. I sat down and fondly looked at many I bought as a teenager, I know pretty much where each one came from. So there's all that memoire stuff wrapped up with them, but as an object they are actually a nuisance or even a burden in some ways. And still I gathered some of them up, like Alberni string quartet playing Rawsthorne on the defunct 'Argo' label. Played it and loved it. Some Yello albums, Kraftwerk what-have-you.
But what will happen with it. I'm not at death's door or anything, but I remember a few years ago I used to talk to this old geezer and he told me about his life as a Polydor exec in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. About the people he'd met. In his little house he had a sizeable record collection. He lived in a sort of 'unit' attached to a posh nursing home. Then he died suddenly and because no-one came to collect his belongings they were dumped in the road for the bulk waste collection! I took some obviously, but still. Is this what happens?
Do you think about what will happen to your physical music? Maybe you just enjoy it now and don't care what happens after? Or you have a plan for it to go somewhere else?
Have you ever done this? Had stored records then been forced to face them all as a giant bulk object? I started to think how ridiculous the collection was in some ways. And it's not that I don't like the records. I sat down and fondly looked at many I bought as a teenager, I know pretty much where each one came from. So there's all that memoire stuff wrapped up with them, but as an object they are actually a nuisance or even a burden in some ways. And still I gathered some of them up, like Alberni string quartet playing Rawsthorne on the defunct 'Argo' label. Played it and loved it. Some Yello albums, Kraftwerk what-have-you.
But what will happen with it. I'm not at death's door or anything, but I remember a few years ago I used to talk to this old geezer and he told me about his life as a Polydor exec in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. About the people he'd met. In his little house he had a sizeable record collection. He lived in a sort of 'unit' attached to a posh nursing home. Then he died suddenly and because no-one came to collect his belongings they were dumped in the road for the bulk waste collection! I took some obviously, but still. Is this what happens?
Do you think about what will happen to your physical music? Maybe you just enjoy it now and don't care what happens after? Or you have a plan for it to go somewhere else?
