Hey my IQ is definately over room temp, since I’m in Europe and we’ve got centigrades over here… this also means that at least a vast majority of rap-lovers also have IQ’s high enough for your standards, Diver - at least on this side of the Atlantic (temporarily ignoring that strange but fascinating island on our west coast 
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I’ll start a “What’s your IQ thread” now 
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
aseymayo: all the Beatles US albums are available as bootlegs. I don’t know if they are genuine US versions, though.
My starting comment referred to the fact that, I’m guessing, you will have bought maybe 90% of the rock recordings you will buy by age 40.Then you switch to something else (classical, whatever). Country fans just keep going at a steady pace.
OldBroad - great hint on the www.ubl.com site – someone recommended Robben Ford and I was able to listen before buying – and buying – and buying – he’s great.
As an old person, I think I get where SunBear is coming from.
I haven’t bought any “new” rock ‘n’ roll for years but have been steadily building a collection that I couldn’t afford before the kids left home – Springsteen, George Thorogood, John Fogerty, Dire Straits, Neil Young, Elton John. Old stuff.
I still buy new country and blues though (Dwight Yoakam, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Ron Ely, Steve Earle, Robert Cray).
But no new rock. (Well, unless you count Cinderella or Barenaked Ladies – and you probably don’t!)
Yep, I’m imprinted.
The reason gentlemen prefer blondes is that there are not enough redheads to go around.
I’ve got another 10 years to go before I see 40, and I still buy vinyl.
pld wrote
A dish best served up cold but appropo?
Still buys vinyl. Whoa don’t that raise your coolness factor.
You got another ten years before you see what? Me in the mirror when I was still young? I’m even uglier now ten years past that.
Call me sonny?
I don’t think so.
In the last year: Ruben Blades, Taj Majal, Johnny Clegg, Keb Mo, Boz Scaggs, Tom Waits, Oliver Mtuzudzi, , Aretha Franklin, U2, Black Uhuru, Sheryl Crow, Emmy Lou Harris and a bunch of other stuff! They didn’t HAVE CDs before I was 40.
Yes, I’ve confused a few with CD/vinyl. I should have phrased it “recordings” in OP. I have about 300 vinyl albums left. I don’t really count replacing vinyl by CD as “buying CD’s”, I was thinking of new titles to your collection.
I end up buying CDs for one or two songs, even, when I almost can’t stand the rest of of the CD. Some day, when prices come down, I’ll get a CD recorder that plugs into the stereo. Sells for some $500 now.
Hey, BugZap, fuck you. I mean, how goddamned pathetic can you be when, rather than add anything to the thread, you attempt to insult me for something I said to you . . . what, three weeks ago? Do you ever add anything useful to a thread? No. You’re about as useless as tits on a bull.
If you have something to say to me or about me, e-mail me or take it to the pit. What a sad, pathetic life you have. I bet that this was the most exciting thing in your life today, and probably for the last three weeks as you got bigger and bigger erections thinking of when you could finally submit that gem of a reply. Kudos to you, jackass. Say “Hi” to the voices in your head for me.
Sunbear,
I end up buying CDs for one or two songs, even, when I almost can’t stand the rest of of the CD. Some day, when prices come down, I’ll get a CD recorder that plugs into the stereo. Sells for some $500 now.
Have you considered a CDwriter for your computer? I got one made by HP for $150 - as I recall. I left the old CDrom in place and use them in tandem to take favorite tracks from several CDs and record them on a single CD.
I also make copies of my CDs to use in my car so I can keep the original safe at home. Takes about 14 minutes to make a CD to CD copy
I also want to record some old LP’s. They’re old, they can wait. I don’t have any software to copy, people at work can do that for me.
Hey sun: finally got to listen to the “new and improved” Yellow Submarine. General impression is that the sound is crisper (on CD at least), which is a plus given the rather limited means they had to record with more than thirty years ago (kudos to the unsung heroes George Martin and Geoff Emerick). Having said that, is it worth the price if you already have the music on separate LPs/CDs/cassettes? Tough call. Had it been a re-edition of the original, with George Martin instrumentals, I probably would have passed. Let’s face it: YS is not one of their best, by a long shot. I bought it for two main reasons: I didn’t have the original on CD, and they added several songs to replace the instrumentals. All in all, a decent buy.
Diver…1955 became ill, by 1960 dead!
Zymurgist
omniscientnot: thanks
I’ll let my kids get it for me for Christmas. I have the original on LP, so it’ll be an improvement for sure! I kind of liked it, I listen to it(on tape) more than Abbey Road, which I do have on CD. My kids like 3 songs on Submarine and none on Abbey Road.
There was talk of an alternate take of Hey Bulldog, which may surface yet.
sunbear,
I also want to record some old LP’s. They’re old, they can wait.
When you ready to do that, if you want, post something here and I will give you the names of a couple of programs that will help you. I have recently climbed the learning curve for this process.
You guys should get the recordable mini 3" cds. They are virtually Anti-Skip so you can run with them. That is the only thing cassettes have over CDs.
To find vinyl try looking on the net for places that have German imports. Most lables put out a few vinyls for the German market. The other nice thing about vinyl is you can go to used record shops and get records for one penny.
Diver, thanks.But this is sort of a five year plan. By then we’ll have cell phones too. I think by then there willl be lots of new gismos. I’m waiting to see where the video technology goes. And, there are no DVD-ROMS yet, that I could find. Only DVD movies, which you can play on my wife’s laptop.