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Do you feel guilty buying albums and dvd's?

Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited June 2009 in Other Music
Yes I have a problem, there is this certain music store in Melbourne which is my vice.
I always say ''okay no more for a while" then I go there again.
Sometimes I keep away from this store for months at a time then relapse lol
I visited this store like 6 times in the last month, spent probably 200-300 bucks on albums and music related dvd's despite the fact I am going on a holiday overseas for 6 weeks and need to save every penny.
I am seriously addicted.

Having said that there is always guilt associated with these purchases.
If I download an album I like I HAVE to own it!

So does anybody feel the way I do?
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Could be worse.

    You could be a drug addict.
  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    I am addicted but I don't feel guilty about it. It's not just the buying that I'm addicted to though, even if that is a big part of it, it's listening to new music all the time. I love it. Somehow when I need a break at work, I go online and buy muisc. This happends all the time. The nice part, I always have new music waiting for me at home. Don't feel bad, there are worse addictions to have.
  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    PJGARDEN wrote:
    Don't feel bad, there are worse addictions to have.
    Is that ever true. Unless you are failing to pay the rent or support your family (which I seriously doubt), what's wrong with getting more music?! If that's what you like then you will be enjoying it for a long time. And believe me, you've got LOTS of company. ;):lol:

    If this is an addiction then I proudly confess to a habit of 40+ years! I could never have too much music. Fortunately I married someone who loves music as much as I do. 8-)
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    edited June 2009
    whoprincess wrote:
    PJGARDEN wrote:
    Don't feel bad, there are worse addictions to have.
    Is that ever true. Unless you are failing to pay the rent or support your family (which I seriously doubt), what's wrong with getting more music?! If that's what you like then you will be enjoying it for a long time. And believe me, you've got LOTS of company. ;):lol:

    If this is an addiction then I proudly confess to a habit of 40+ years! I could never have too much music. Fortunately I married someone who loves music as much as I do. 8-)

    I'm in the 40+ years category too. Being a former DJ in college I've amassed 1500 cds 800 vinyl albums about a 100 or so dvds. That's some good money I could've used for a down payment for my house years ago.

    Peace
    Post edited by g under p on
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  • evenflowevenflow Posts: 401
    (Standing up)

    My name is EvenFlow and I'm addicted to buying music. The worst part of my addiction is the fact that I don't want to quit. I'm not hurting anyone else, so I don't see the problem.

    My addiction started innocently enough, maybe one CD here, one album there, but I could always control it. That was, until a couple of years ago. I just wanted to have a good time, maybe blow off a little steam. I knew it was getting out of hand whenever I realized I owned twelve copies of the Pearl Jam album "Ten".

    I'll never forget, the morning that I hit rock bottom. I woke up with a best buy bag in my lap. I didn't even realize that I had gone shopping, and whenever I opened the bag and saw that I had purchased Creed CD's that's when I knew I no longer controled it, now it controled me. Now I wonder if I'll ever be able to face my family again, after having shamed and disappointed them in such a way.

    But just knowing that there are people out there going through the same thing gives me hope. Hope in a brighter tomorrow. I look forward to the day that I can walk into a store and not hand over my money for an album that I've never heard, that I'm just buying because I need some new music, no matter how crappy it is.

    I just hope nothing will cause me to relapse or "backspace". 8-)
    It's all about the music...

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  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    At least I never sank so low as to buy Creed CDs. :P :roll: :lol:
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • yokeyoke Posts: 1,440
    Yes I am the same way except I have never downloaded an album. I will buy a vinyl and a cd of the same album not all the time but sometimes. Also, I will not buy anything for a few months at a time and then I drop a few hundred in about 30 minutes of shopping. It is bad and I always feel like I did something wrong but oh well... Its what I do.

    You are not alone
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    yoke wrote:
    Yes I am the same way except I have never downloaded an album. I will buy a vinyl and a cd of the same album not all the time but sometimes. Also, I will not buy anything for a few months at a time and then I drop a few hundred in about 30 minutes of shopping. It is bad and I always feel like I did something wrong but oh well... Its what I do.

    You are not alone

    That's me right there especially if one of my favorite bands came out with an album. It's so bad sometimes I'll buy a dvd like I did with RUSH: Grace Under Pressure Tour Live. Not realizing once I got home I already had a Box set with that dvd in it. I wanted to return it but since it was sealed they were only going to give be back 2 bucks. I said maybe my daughter might want it she likes RUSH too.

    That's what i get for having so much music around me. :D

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    i used to feel guilty about the amount of money i spent on music... now i just d/l it illegally or check CDs out from the library and burn them... and i sleep like a baby :mrgreen:

    i spend enough on concert tickets and merchandise that it all balances out IMO
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  • pearljimpearljim Posts: 1,312
    edited June 2009
    g under p wrote:
    yoke wrote:
    Yes I am the same way except I have never downloaded an album. I will buy a vinyl and a cd of the same album not all the time but sometimes. Also, I will not buy anything for a few months at a time and then I drop a few hundred in about 30 minutes of shopping. It is bad and I always feel like I did something wrong but oh well... Its what I do.

    You are not alone

    That's me right there especially if one of my favorite bands came out with an album. It's so bad sometimes I'll buy a dvd like I did with RUSH: Grace Under Pressure Tour Live. Not realizing once I got home I already had a Box set with that dvd in it. I wanted to return it but since it was sealed they were only going to give be back 2 bucks. I said maybe my daughter might want it she likes RUSH too.

    That's what i get for having so much music around me. :D

    Peace

    I will usually go to my record store once a month and browse for at least an hour. I probably on average spend 50-100 bucks. I've been buying records 35 years or so and have many times bought vinyl only to discover I had a copy of it lying around!

    NO GUILT by the way!
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,495
    NO.
    I feel guilty when I download or copy music and dont pay for it

    you should never feel guilty about supporting artists or stores

    unless you are spending the rent or milk money
  • yokeyoke Posts: 1,440
    Get_Right wrote:
    NO.
    I feel guilty when I download or copy music and dont pay for it

    you should never feel guilty about supporting artists or stores

    unless you are spending the rent or milk money


    No I never spend money I don't have for music or movies but I always feel like I could spend it better. Maybe take the wife out for an extra night out or maybe put it aside for other needs maybe down the road. I have that little devil on my shoulder and he never leaves me alone :twisted:
    Thats a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?

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  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    yoke wrote:
    Get_Right wrote:
    NO.
    I feel guilty when I download or copy music and dont pay for it

    you should never feel guilty about supporting artists or stores

    unless you are spending the rent or milk money


    No I never spend money I don't have for music or movies but I always feel like I could spend it better. Maybe take the wife out for an extra night out or maybe put it aside for other needs maybe down the road. I have that little devil on my shoulder and he never leaves me alone :twisted:

    Everyone has things they splurge on so don't feel bad. When someone spends $2K on a purse, there are better ways they could have spent that money but that's the choice they made. I don't know about you, but I spend a lot of time at work so I think I deserve my splurges.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,495
    PJGARDEN wrote:

    Everyone has things they splurge on so don't feel bad. When someone spends $2K on a purse, there are better ways they could have spent that money but that's the choice they made. I don't know about you, but I spend a lot of time at work so I think I deserve my splurges.
    exactly

    I do have a bad sushi habit
    I could definitely saved for a family vacation with the amount I spent in the last year
    do I feel guilty about it? sometimes.

    At least you are spending your money on actual tangible things-I just eat my cash :lol::lol:
  • WavesWaves Posts: 7
    A little bit. I allow myself to spend $40 a month. That money could be saved for college or fishing equipment, but I love my music, so I'm gonna get it.
  • musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    I think with the advent of the world of bittorents and filesharing those who do buy albums the conventional way, plopping down 20 bucks for a cd at your local record shop, will increasingly feel guilty.

    I havent bought a cd in years. But when I did used to buy cd's, I frequented my local shops VERY often. The staff knew me. Even now when they see me around town they smile and say hi. At one specific shop I think I spent thousands of dollars on cd's there.

    I used to go in and buy 6 or 7 cd's at a time.

    I think for me, and for many people, the idea of buying 7 cd's at a store at 20 bucks a pop, 140 bucks, its alot easier on the wallet to just get a spindel of 100 blanks, and download stuff.

    That said, yes, even when I was buying records legitimately I felt guilty. I would be spending in excess of 100 bucks each visit, and even though I never regretted a purchase, thats a hell of alot of money to be spending.

    Plus I am one of those people who never listens to a record before I buy it. I used to when I was younger, but 95 plus percent of my record collection is made up of stuff I hadnt heard before buying or downloading. Its okay to spend 100 bucks on something you know is great, and has 10 tracks out of 12 that are great, but to blindly buy 7 records without hearing many of the bands before or any of those records is an act of faith
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