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 technick

I highly treasure my 2,000 or so LP’s, and I kinda like going “shopping” through them and realizing I forgot I owned this or that one. Hmm, I think I’ll give it a listen. I’d say maybe 300-400 of em could go to the dumpster, which are usually ones in a take em all or nothing situation when taking a collection someone’s trying to get rid of. If at least 20-30%ish aren’t worth taking, I’ll leave em there.
I certainly don’t worry about not being able to find an original copy. Worst case scenario, I can get a high quality CD copy of a copy if I’ve gotta.