Yikes, I’m in collector’s hell right now!
Circumstance has forced me to find a place in my cramped quarters for my extensive and space-consuming LP, casette, and CD collection. I know how to deal with the few thousand compact discs – gonna have to go high tech and invest in a decent home computer system and an ipod, back em up – and put them in trunks that will also function as furniture.
Consolidation and making space is crucial.
I guess a lifetime of consuming music has put me into a real hole.
And I haven’t even started to think about the books yet
But with the dozens of LPs and hundreds of cassettes – all essential stuff and going back more than a few decades, we’re talking the history of punk, essential jazz recordings, the S.tones, Dylan, and The Doors, classic new wave 12 inches, historical Marion Anderson & Paul Robeson, rare Lotte Lenya/Kurt Weill 78s- the entirety of which is essential to me and I’m not selling anything - is there any way I can just find storage for the “hard” copies and put it all on a hard drive?
I’m clueless about transferring records and cassette to digital media? Is there such technology? Is it inexpensive?
I’m such a luddite when it comes to these things – any expertise is appreciated.
Anyways, the last couple of days as I’ve been cleaning and sorting out my grandmother’s house, my family home, my scratchy, dogged copy of Os Mutante’s 1968 debut has brought me a good deal of wonderful company.
“Baby” and “Le Premier Bonheur du Jour” are my current theme songs! And if I get to be too pondering I can always freak out to “Bat macumba”!
My LP edition has seen better days though…
Why the hell is classic Os Mutante material so hard to get on CD? Obviously there’s an interest and market and I’m not paying top dollar for that out-of-print Luaka Bop collection.
Anyways, if you haven’t already, check out Os Mutantes, and prepare to pay the price.
Related:
Os Mutantes resources. And some more.
Transferring everything to mp3 is not difficult, but it IS time consuming.
I made the jump two years ago and haven't looked back.
Posted by: forksclovetofu | March 26, 2005 at 06:35 PM