Subscribe'Collector scum', pxe2000? So, someone buys an unusual album, keeps it for twenty or thirty years in good condition while every other copy in existence ends up in land-fill, and then offers it for sale and lets the level of demand set the price - and you want to pay them the same amount they paid for it, or the same as the latest top-40 compilation at Tower?uh, have you never been to a record show? the point is, i get the feeling most record collectors aren't in it for the music. on the one hand one could argue that your average record collector didn't know that -- say -- y kant tori read was going to be worth upwards of $200 at the turn of the decade. when i talk collector scum i'm referring to people like this, who are passing off a copy of said same as the real deal when it is clearly a bootleg, and asking top dollar for an inauthentic item.
Those 'collector scum' are often the ones making your rare MP3s available in the first place.uh, i'll let you in on a little secret here. they wouldn't make any money if they made their "rare mp3s" available, now would they?
I associated it with people like me, who collect records to listen to, not to sell. As have others I've known with huge record collections.when i say "collector scum" i refer not to the fans, who might have a few goodies stashed away, but people who buy records with the express purpose of selling them later, and who generally make jack black's character in high fidelity something other than a fictitious squealing, hairy windbag. the folks who aren't in it for, you know, the music. kind of like michael greene, but with bad personal hygiene (not saying that you, mr rory, smell bad, but you've been to record shows...).
The collectors I've known who put rarities on the web do it o share them with fellow fans.bingo. i think most of the collector scum (here meaning people who pass off counterfeit records as the genuine article, sell records for more than "book price" that are later found to have major defects, etc) would be reticent to put mp3s up online because it would take away from their business.
But thanks for the personal snipe, anyway; much appreciated.it was the least i could do on such short notice. :)
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posted by emptyage at 11:58 PM on February 27, 2002