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Crazy. I suppose this means the set is being deleted if DG can get a number of them at this price. I also have the set, but will probably order one for a friend.

I like how eBay helpfully notes a couple of Japanese CDs of the same session for about $20. That will probably be the route I go. Or just wait 4 more years for Lonehill to get its mitts on it...

PM sent on Bill Carrothers

Nope -- nothing would. I guess it means I am boycotting Borders (and really all brick n mortars) in all but name.

On the whole, my experiences with Caiman have been good, but I agree that it is not worth going to them for a super-rare item. There are a small number of items of interest to me that you can get through Caiman-amerique on the amazon.fr site (or the amazon.uk site) which are not available on amazon.com. I do wish these were available on all their outlets. I suppose if I want it badly enough, I can find a way to get it.

I've already got one. This was available a long time ago. I picked one up through Amazon.fr

I saw him 2 years ago and he was good. He got decent reviews for a recent show in London. He doesn't do as much uptempo material as he used to, but he was still great on ballads. If I was in NYC, I would probably go just to see a legend. (He is a lot shorter than I imagined.)

I think it depends a lot on your bank and its fees for small accounts. Chicago is dominated by big banks that generally discourage keeping low-balance accounts, even savings accounts, though I am sure it could be done if you really wanted to.

Great story. All the best to the two of you. That is a good story. The last serious girlfriend I had before I met my wife, we met on a train. She told me later that she sort of pushed someone else aside to sit next to me as the train was filling up (apparently I had the tortured romantic look she liked). I was trying to grade papers, and she kept making conversation, so I decided at the end of the trip to get her phone number. For better or worse, she decided she wasn't ready for a really serious relationship and called it off after a few months. I suspect if we had continued dating, we would have gotten married. That would have been a pretty cool "How I Met Your Mother."

So I printed this out and walked over to the store. They insisted that I needed a Border card to use it and then tried to look me up by my email address. So I walked out empty handed. That's it for me. I never had that happen before and am through with Borders once I use up a couple of gift cards. Too many companies already have my email address and I get too much spam as it is. Plus, their prices suck. I ran into the Borders coupon police for the first time too. They asked for my card and I said I didn't have it on me. They asked for a phone # and I said I didn't provide it on the application (which was technically true, since I didn't apply.) They then asked for an email address. I gave them my spam address, knowing full well as I didn't have a card it wouldn't turn up. "Hmm, not there, is there another email address?" So I gave them a made up Yahoo one. "No...hmm..." I continued to act befuddled. Finally the checker issued my a rewards card tied to the original spam address without me providing any other info. Get yourself a spam address (I use Excite) for rebates, warranties, relatives who forward jokes (actually I have a separate one for those) etc. etc. I agree their prices suck, but they don't on those rare days when the coupons are > 35% off. I'm guessing they've started tying the coupons to the cards to prevent people from using the coupons multiple times. You certainly have more patience than I do. Actually, walking off in a huff every now and then is not such a bad thing, especially as I didn't really need the DVDs (nowhere near the top of my to get list). Even with the coupons, they are only approaching Amazon prices, and I don't pay sales tax with Amazon. The sales tax in Chicago is pretty high. So one less reason for me to step through their doors. Well, it won't be much longer and we won't be dealing with physical stores anymore whether we like it or not.

So I printed this out and walked over to the store. They insisted that I needed a Border card to use it and then tried to look me up by my email address. So I walked out empty handed. That's it for me. I never had that happen before and am through with Borders once I use up a couple of gift cards. Too many companies already have my email address and I get too much spam as it is. Plus, their prices suck.

Hmm -- interesting. I guess under those circumstances I might pick it up, though I am not in a hurry. I wonder if YourMusic is going to get these eventually.

I am waiting on the Tyner, which I never owned. I have the rest in one form or another, though I am having trouble finding out much about the two bonus tracks on Ezz-thetics, specifically the personnel. As already noted if this is left-over from Stratus Seekers it isn't quite as interesting as a version with Dolphy, which would be worth seeking out. Ah well, I guess all will be revealed soon.

Ok, if we are going to get technical. However, making false statements to the police, impeding the course of an investigation and a host of other related activities are crimes. Now we don't know if he is saying the same things to the police as he is in the media, but I guess we will find out shortly.

'cause he's got to stay in Vegas ... What may end up causing him more problems is he keeps denying that guns were involved, when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. A perjury charge on top of all this other shit is not going to help matters.

I don't talk about it too much, but my wife and I met through the personals (she placed it). We're from much different backgrounds than if I had met someone in my natural haunts (grad school/art world) but there are good aspects to that as well as some frustrations. Anyway, we've been together about 9 years (married 6) with 2 kids. So it can work out.

I found out only the other day that Winamp can "rip" flac files back to .wav files and then you can convert wav to mp3 as usual. I thought that was pretty cool, and it takes about 10 seconds per file.

I have several of his novels, but only finished (so far) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. What made it especially cool was wrapping it up while staying at a posh hotel in Tokyo. It definitely gave me a bit more appreciation for the discussion of the Toyko subway system. It sounds like maybe I should leave Wind-Up Bird for last. Though I am intrigued by After Dark, which has a jazz musician as a recurring character. Pity he's a trombone player.

One could make the argument that producing a high quality, "purest sound possible" reissue in the vinyl format will do more to preserve the sound of the original tapes than it would be to lock up the tapes in Iron Mountain. The tapes deteriorate - both from use and non-use - and the CDs that have been made from them in the past haven't always sounded that good. What's closer to the spirit of Rudy's original tapes: an eq-tweaked and narrowed stereo spread RVG CD or an LP made with minimal tweaking and full stereo spread? There's also the issue that vinyl may have a longer "shelf life" than CDs - though obviously more time is needed to prove that in real world conditions. Or would we rather have these artistic treasures "archived" only in the digital medium? Damn, now where did I put those old 5" floppy discs? And yet using the tapes to make 1000 copies of a product that is priced to keep all but the most serious collectors away seems the worst of both worlds. To me, this is just a vanity product and thus criticism of the use of the tapes for its creation is perfectly valid and indeed well-justified.

I think a couple of things are intertwined here in the discussion. If we define addiction broadly, then probably all of us on the board would have to cop to it. But when defined so broadly, almost everyone has some kind of addiction. Most people are addicted to TV or surfing the Web. Most people are addicted to food. I think most people in western society have a bit too much time on their hands after work and thus spend it on some kind of addictive behavior and/or hobby. On the other hand, defining addiction so broadly reminds me of the discussion about how everything, water included, is a kind of drug because it induces changes in the body. Is this a useful definition? Not really. Thus, I think more narrowly defining addiction into shades of addiction is far more useful. Does your collecting interfere with work? Does listening to a wide variety music enhance your work experience? Is collecting/reviewing music part of your work (you lucky dog)? Does your collecting interfere with/upset your family? Does anyone else in the family like music, and will you be able to pass on the collection? Do you find that your collecting is putting a crimp into other aspects of your life? Would you be able to recoup some of the money you've spent on music if you went cold turkey? All these are questions that are far more telling (even if they are just a way of justifying your behavior to yourself) than just saying well, it's an addiction.

True, but if the downloads are free or essentially free, that does wonders for the bank balance compared to a serious jones for CDs. Doesn't help much on the time front though -- both searching time and trying to find listening time.

Ain't that the truth. Some things just can't bear too much scrunity. Even during those times I have the CD buying mostly under control -- maybe a couple a month -- then I am constantly taping stuff of the radio (BBC3) and only very rarely listening to it. I am afraid that if I joined one of the Dime-like sites, then it would be all over. It's probably too much to expect to go cold turkey, but maybe if I only tape my three favorite radio shows per week and don't even pay attention to the rest of it, I could get a little more peace of mind. It's worth a shot.

Probably the most noteworthy thing on Sat. was that in the "Cookers" show George Cables had to drop out due to health reasons, but they replaced him with Stanley Cowell! That was a real surprise to me, and I thought he was excellent. In general, I thought the Cookers show was good, though it seemed a bit too free for much of the audience back where I was sitting. I moved up to sit with sal and jazzkrow for the remaining sets. Sal and sheldonm took off to get to the Velvet early, while jazzkrow and I stayed for Charlie Haden and the Liberation Orchestra. I do think they were terrific, and were my favorite set of Sat. They played roughly half the material on their 2005 album Not in Our Name.

If I was rigorous enough about it, I think I could listen to my entire collection in 3 years (not counting downloads though). So by my calculations I have about 15 times through all of it before I croak. With that in mind, I'll probably keep collecting for a while, though I have slowed down now that I have covered the basics pretty well.

But then doesn't that ensure you are buying music you will never listen to? I think I have come up with a reasonable compromise for myself. I have a 600 CD rack on the wall with the stuff I like the most. The rest are tucked into bookcases which I bought extra deep, so that I can fill the front with books. That way they are still fairly accessible, but are not always in the way, on the floor, etc. But I certainly admit it is a compulsion. Still, you never know when that CD you pick up on a whim turns out to be great, if not entirely life-changing. I just picked up Art Farmer's Farmers Market and can see this going into my top 600 pretty soon. So of course, I then had to get the remaining Farmer OJCs I was missing before they get extremely expensive (as noted on other threads).