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Reader Patrick Tracy claims that he's addicted to buying music: "As in the studies of lab mice and cocaine, I will repeatedly choose music over most any other pursuit. Like a longtime drug addict, I now need larger and larger doses of new music to achieve the rush that a single recording might give a normal person."<P>How about you?
I am living in Mexico City, where CDs average in the $25-30 USD range. Every time I travel to the US or Canada I buy the allotted maximum (20) allowed by Mexican customs. When I am out, yeah, I buy---sometimes new, sometimes used, but always my maximum limit. Good thing I only take 8-10 trips a year, or I would have to reclassify myself as "out of control"!!
Got to the Gym and excercise, lift weights, and do TRUE AEROBIC excercise... it is a CURE ALL. Besides, no that I've heard a few multichannel recordings, I'm bored with stereo. I anxiously await multichannel DVD software whether it is SACD or DVD-A. Stereo recordings, HDCD, 24/96 DVD stereo are not nearly as interesting as 5 channel 24/96 discrete channels of MLP or DSD (SACD). I may be a MUSIC ADDICT again when DVD and/or SACD becomes a reality in both hardware and software.
My name is Joel, and I'm an addict. My problem was going to my favorite CD shop and trying to find the perfect-sounding CD---not necessarily something that I really liked, but one that would make my system sound the best it possibly could. But since getting treatment from my wife (putting me on a strict budget), I've fully recovered. Now I'll only get music that I know I listen to. The good thing that happened just picking up CDs at random was to experience a broader range of music, such as jazz.
Absolutely not. I have so much music by now that I prefer to relisten as much as possible. It's a rare new release indeed that causes me to open my wallet. I still buy, but only a few times a year, and then only a few albums at most each trip.
Not a problem yet. The quantity of new music I buy rises and falls in direct proportion to my overall financial situation. When times are fat, I buy a lot. During hard times, I buy little or none. Like most other hi-fi bugs, I'd like to think that if I were truly wealthy, I'd still have some self-restraint about it . . . but I really can't swear to that.
I agree ... it and equipment tweaking are a 'drug' for me .... The Stereophile Rendevous CD is my current favorite ... although, a $7.95 "freight charge" is a RIP OFF .... the USPO meter showed $1.43 postage ... a wonderful CD ... butthe shipping charge is Robery!
I'm always looking for new and used vinyl, CDs, laserdiscs, DVDs, cassettes, anything and everything. To keep my expenditures in check, I often check out materials from local public libraries. I often make inter-library loan requests for materials that are not local to my library. I highly recommend everybody to check out their local public libraries.
Yes, I have a touch of Audiophilia nervosa, but what I have that's far worse is "I heard it on the radio or read a review and it's hard to find or maybe even out of print and I want but I don't have nervosa." I also have substantial stacks of purchased-but-not-yet-played discs, and now when I hear something on the radio that I like, I think, "That sounds great, I hope I already own it!"
Scary. Really scary. Online shopping available on the internet may push me up to out of control. Oh Well. Isn't this why we but equipment in the first place?? The spouse factor is what keeps me barley in check. By the way any decent media storage systems out there (CD and LP)?
the problem is as my life becomes busier, while I continually buy more new recordings, the amount of time needed to learn/ appreciate the new music becomes difficult to manage. I probably knew the music on favorite discs much more completely when I could only afford a small number (and had more free time)