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frahse · 03-02-2014, 10:12 PM

"Do you have the urge to purge LPs or CDs, but not books and magazines?"
Steve Guttenberg, CNET
March 2, 2014 8:06 AM PST

"Are people more obsessed with reducing clutter now than they were in times past? A mastering and recording engineer friend recently told me he was selling off all of his CDs and LPs, and from now on Spotify would be his only music source. I was taken aback by that remark; this man has spent his entire working life making the best-sounding music he could, but from now on he'll be streaming tunes. So I asked if he heard something new on Spotify he really liked, would he buy it? He just smiled and said, "Why?" So it seems that for some industry pros, supporting musicians by buying their tunes has stopped making sense."

"I get it; he wanted to take back some living space in his NYC apartment, so eliminating CDs and LPs would be a big clutter reduction."
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I have to admit that though most of my books are gone except those I have saved for reference when I start writing again, down in the storage section of the basement, are boxes of LPs, cassettes, and CDs with mp3s. Probably also a few 8 tracks and certainly VHS cartridges. I keep promising my wife and myself that one day I will retire and have time to look into those clutter matters.

03-02-2014, 10:12 PM	#1
frahse occasional author Posts: 2,315 Karma: 2064403292 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Wandering God's glorious hills, valleys and plains. Device: A Franklin BI (before Internet) was the first. I still have it.	Do you have a problem with clutter? (Yeah, I mean YOU!) "Do you have the urge to purge LPs or CDs, but not books and magazines?" Steve Guttenberg, CNET March 2, 2014 8:06 AM PST "Are people more obsessed with reducing clutter now than they were in times past? A mastering and recording engineer friend recently told me he was selling off all of his CDs and LPs, and from now on Spotify would be his only music source. I was taken aback by that remark; this man has spent his entire working life making the best-sounding music he could, but from now on he'll be streaming tunes. So I asked if he heard something new on Spotify he really liked, would he buy it? He just smiled and said, "Why?" So it seems that for some industry pros, supporting musicians by buying their tunes has stopped making sense." "I get it; he wanted to take back some living space in his NYC apartment, so eliminating CDs and LPs would be a big clutter reduction." More I have to admit that though most of my books are gone except those I have saved for reference when I start writing again, down in the storage section of the basement, are boxes of LPs, cassettes, and CDs with mp3s. Probably also a few 8 tracks and certainly VHS cartridges. I keep promising my wife and myself that one day I will retire and have time to look into those clutter matters.