Regrets

SpectreFate wrote:

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But see, the thing is...now you can can go online and find free downloads of all of 'em and not feel bad about it, because both Ace and his record companies already received your money.

Total win win.

Awesome. I'm going to the store tomorrow and I'm going to buy a pack of bubble gum and give it to a friend for a fair trade, and then go back to the store to see if I can get as many free packs of bubble gum I can. The Hubba Bubba people got their money from me, right?

Or, you know, you could make some cheap knock-offs of old Hubba Bubba flavors that they don't produce anymore without their permission. Sort of the same thing, right?

Sorry, but come on, dude.

I've gotten rid of discs only to purchase them back at a later date, but I don't regret it. As far as I know, they weren't of any special value and pretty easily replaced.

What I do regret is when I re-purchase a disc, listen to it and then remember why I ditched it in the first place.

In the 90's, my wife and I were broke (self inflicted foolishness) and I sold original releases of Tourniquet - Stop The Bleeding and Psycho Surgery CD's. I got like $4 each I think. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!

And then to complete the destruction of my Tourniquet collection my original POD cd was IN the stereo that was stolen out of my car!!!! I still have the case...not sure why I've kept it.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

What I do regret is when I re-purchase a disc, listen to it and then remember why I ditched it in the first place.

I have done that with Pantera - Cowboys from Hell... For some reason that album doesnt click but yet i have owned it on four different occasions..

exact33 wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

What I do regret is when I re-purchase a disc, listen to it and then remember why I ditched it in the first place.

I have done that with Pantera - Cowboys from Hell... For some reason that album doesnt click but yet i have owned it on four different occasions..

This is why I have Tourniquet CDs up for trade/sell now. I thought I was being too harsh on them so I re-bought them. Big mistake. Horrible stuff, IMO.

SpectreFate wrote:

exact33 wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

What I do regret is when I re-purchase a disc, listen to it and then remember why I ditched it in the first place.

I have done that with Pantera - Cowboys from Hell... For some reason that album doesnt click but yet i have owned it on four different occasions..

This is why I have Tourniquet CDs up for trade/sell now. I thought I was being too harsh on them so I re-bought them. Big mistake. Horrible stuff, IMO.

I hate wasting good cd money on stuff that isnt good.

The one that sticks out in my mind is Wolfsbane.

When Blaze first joined Maiden, before that turd The X Factor was pooped out onto the waiting public, I remember hearing this Blaze character was in the GREAT band Wolfbane. So I bought the tape. I thought it was ok enough, but nothing that blew me away. During those dark Maiden years, the tape fell into obscurity and I eventually sold it. A few years later, despite my lukewarm memories of it, I found it used on cd. Got it, listened to it, shelved it, sold it. Now I'm into Blaze's solo material. Good stuff, so maybe I'll give that Wolfsbane another chance. Bought it again, listened to it again, shelved it again.

I know if I sell or trade it a third time, it will somehow find me again. I'm stuck with it for all eternity.

SpectreFate wrote:

exact33 wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

What I do regret is when I re-purchase a disc, listen to it and then remember why I ditched it in the first place.

I have done that with Pantera - Cowboys from Hell... For some reason that album doesnt click but yet i have owned it on four different occasions..

This is why I have Tourniquet CDs up for trade/sell now. I thought I was being too harsh on them so I re-bought them. Big mistake. Horrible stuff, IMO.

As much as I loved their first three in the early days...they did not hold up well for me over time. I RARELY listen to them. If I do it's two songs from Psycho Surgery. POD is more listenable to date than the first two but still....rare occasion I go out of my way to listen to it.

Not buying CDs sooner. I've only been buying them for nearly a year.

Eyesore wrote:

God, I couldn't even begin to list them all. I had a few thousand CDs when I joined the Air Force, and I sold a good chunk of them. And not for good money. This was before eBay and whatnot, so I'd just sell them to local shops for next to nothing.

Side effect of sharing a tiny dorm room with someone and being in my early 20s making about $400 every two weeks. (And I bet some of you thought people were paid well in the military!) Either way, I sold all kinds of things that I regret. =(

That's too bad. Have you started rebuilding your collection?

In the mid-nineties I traded away a bunch in one lot that consisted of Tora Tora, Sea Hags, Cats In Boots, D.A.D. and those types of bands. Really didn't regret it till several years later when I started re-visiting a lot of that stuff. Fortunately some of them have gotten nice re-issues. Still several that I'm still trying to re-acquire.

95% OF MY VINYL...AND TAPES...ALL GONE...PROMO COPIES OF MAIDEN,MSG,PRIEST....

SpectreFate wrote:

exact33 wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

What I do regret is when I re-purchase a disc, listen to it and then remember why I ditched it in the first place.

I have done that with Pantera - Cowboys from Hell... For some reason that album doesnt click but yet i have owned it on four different occasions..

This is why I have Tourniquet CDs up for trade/sell now. I thought I was being too harsh on them so I re-bought them. Big mistake. Horrible stuff, IMO.

Though I don't 'hate' Tourniquet. I'm inclined to agree with you here.

For some reason I was a HUGE fan of Tourniquet when I was a kid. Don't care for them now.

I think it was a case of my parents only allowing me to listen to "Christian only" music.

You take what you can find when your selection of metal is limited to a few hundred crappy Christian albums.

Gilbert wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

God, I couldn't even begin to list them all. I had a few thousand CDs when I joined the Air Force, and I sold a good chunk of them. And not for good money. This was before eBay and whatnot, so I'd just sell them to local shops for next to nothing.

Side effect of sharing a tiny dorm room with someone and being in my early 20s making about $400 every two weeks. (And I bet some of you thought people were paid well in the military!) Either way, I sold all kinds of things that I regret. =(

That's too bad. Have you started rebuilding your collection?

Um...and then some. Haha. I have over 7,000 albums now.

Metallic Blaze wrote:

You take what you can find when your selection of metal is limited to a few hundred crappy Christian albums.

I know what your talking about. I was one of those 'Christian-only' people for a long time. I have since grown out of that...

I sold off huge chunks of my Christian collection in the late 90s/early 2000s -a Lightforce demo, VR -Human Sacrifice, the Sacred Warrior discog, signed Mort debut, the Barren Cross, Bloodgood discogs and most of the Pure Metal roster.... it's taken me years to track most of it down again!

I've lent some records to people that I never got back. I regret that!

Leatherface wrote:

I've lent some records to people that I never got back. I regret that!

Me too. Part of the reason I won't loan my stuff out anymore.

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Leatherface wrote:

I've lent some records to people that I never got back. I regret that!

Me too. Part of the reason I won't loan my stuff out anymore.

me too!

exact33 wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:

Leatherface wrote:

I've lent some records to people that I never got back. I regret that!

Me too. Part of the reason I won't loan my stuff out anymore.

me too!

me three!

Glenn Rogers wrote:

95% OF MY VINYL...AND TAPES...ALL GONE...PROMO COPIES OF MAIDEN,MSG,PRIEST....

Why? you needed money??? because if not i dont understand. How can you sell a part of your heart? it must be hard.

I've sold and re-purchased so many times... i just may have made a few people in the record industry rich.

There are a handful that I've regretted getting rid of over the years, yeah. Most painful was selling off Bal-Sagoth's 2nd album, even though I got top dollar for it, and letting go of the Madgallen album "Revolution Mind", though I did recently re-acquire that gem

I bought tons of rock music from around the time I started earning money ('81) to the time I gave up on rock and turned to thrash ('85) and bought tons of thrash and death metal from '85 up to 1993. Then I gave it all away.
I mostly miss the rock and some of the early thrash like Metallica and Anthrax and a few others here and there but I dont miss most of it, especially the satanic stuff. But I miss the 70's and early 80's rock, and alot of LP's that I had I gave to a buddy of mine. The other day I went to his house and he broke out his huge collection of LP's, most of them were MINE! but oh well, I dont miss 'em too much, just a little.

kmorg wrote:

Have you ever sold or traded away a CD you regretted afterwards?

Ummmm, yah. Only about 700 of them.....