On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:31:57 -0500 Zachary Steiner wrote:
Want to hear something pathetic? Don't ask how many of those titles are still *shrinkwrapped.*
This is something I have yet to understand: How and why people buy CDs and then leave them in the shrink wrap for long period of times? When I first pick up a CD, I get too excited to hear it to leave it in the wrap for long. I may not listen to it all for awhile, but I do at least crack it open. Is this just a product of being young or having more time on my hands? Or not having much money and "choosing" my albums carefully?
In fact it is easy to understand: when time becomes a more precious resource to you than money (to buy records), then such slip can happen. I can buy more records than I have time to listen to them. Once in a while I cut purchases to empty the pipe, but sometimes some records can stay unopened for a long time. Another reason is that I tend (more and more) to be more excited by buying than by listening. Too many records that are simply interesting, I guess. Too many records that promised and did not, for me, delivered. For that reason, yes, I can buy records because I like the artist and still do not open them for a while. Another reason but rarer: the object is so pretty that I have no courage to open it. I have a Daniel Menche and an Aube in this category. But these had special packaging that would have been destroyed by opening them. Patrice.