Media: Should we start hoarding?


Doubtless you’ve heard of the catastrophic loss of thousands of master recordings
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html

What occurs to me as I’m sitting here listening to “Monk: Straight No Chaser” is that a LOT of recordings we are listening to today can never be re-released or remastered. The ONLY way to make new versions/re-releases  is to use copies...

It got me to consider upping my music budget and buying everything I can made either from the original master or recently remastered. 


musicfan2349

Showing 1 response by skyscraper

Elizabeth, that's a stupendous number of records you've disposed of. It's none of my business, but I'm curious what what kind of stuff you longer wanted and got rid of.

I've nowhere near what you had, maybe 1500 records and cd's tops. I gave away an additional 300 records to my brother I probably shouldn't have, that subsequently disappeared. Also six more to help support a local used record store that has since gone out of business. I still miss some of those 300, and replaced many if not the majority of them with better copies. Maybe I'm too much a hoarder. Books, records, and tools are all my addictions. 

Mike