To people who collect multiple copies of the same album..

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by DK Pete, Jan 24, 2021.

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  1. DK Pete

    DK Pete Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    ...like myself. How often do you pull out the "extra" copies as opposed to to the usual "go to" of the particular album...and why? Do you get the urge to see the label variation spinning on your turntable or do you want to revisit the variance in sound quality or what...? Or do you collect the multiple copies simply to have and not play....?.
     
  2. mkane

    mkane Strictly Analog

    Location:
    Auburn CA
    When I play one I play em' all. Soon enough the best rises to the top and I give the extras away.
     
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  3. Jmetamatic

    Jmetamatic This is the end of our oxygen supply.

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    Glasgow, Scotland
    Can't see the labels.. in my CD player.
     
  4. David Stilesson

    David Stilesson Forum Resident

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    Precisely why I purchased 27 iterations of MaccaIII; give it a year and I'll be down to 1 or 2.
     
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  5. Thievius

    Thievius Blue Oyster Cult-ist

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    Syracuse, NY
    I don't so much collect as I do accumulate. I have four copies of Yessongs, three on LP.

    I have a favorite CD version and LP version, however. And I just play those depending on the situation.
     
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    Sa likes this and Forum Resident

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    Highland, Indiana
    There are a small number of albums where I can't decide if I like the original or the remaster better; usually genres/from the era of analog recording and mastering, which later had a digital remaster (talking about vinyl of course)

    The White Album is the best example, or Black Sabbath self titled.

    Can't for the life of me choose one over the other. So I choose different ones at different times.
     
  7. DK Pete

    DK Pete Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Hmmm...that's where we differ..unless one of them is extremely, uselessly bad (like those red/orange Parlophone 60's Beatle albums), I hold on to all of them.
     
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  8. walrus

    walrus Staring into nothing

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    Holy hell, where do you people keep all this crap?
     
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  9. DK Pete

    DK Pete Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    TWENTY SEVEN.??..I just bought one of the standard CD versions and have yet to get through all of it.
     
  10. DK Pete

    DK Pete Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    LOL...for me, it's all quite neat and systemic in my well kept Lp and CD cabinets. the only bad thing is going into a used record store and coming across an interesting pressing of an album but not fully remembering if , among the 20 versions you already have, if you have it or not.
     
  11. James5001

    James5001 Forum Resident

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    27 copies of maccaIII lol talk about torture
     
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  12. c-eling

    c-eling They're made of light,We never would have guessed

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    Luckily for me I haven't run into any Rio's lately :hide:
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  13. Keam

    Keam Isn't it funny how the rain gets in?

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    I only got one LP in more copies than one. I usually vary depending on what I want to listen to on the LP. One has a bad pop on the first track on side A, but side B is wonders. The other one has a cleaner side A. My third one is a nearly unplayed test pressing, which sound heaven but I fear ruining (that is, it won't be so heavenly if I play it too often).
     
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  14. walrus

    walrus Staring into nothing

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    Nashville
    Not the organization, just the actual space. (Granted, I've lived in 5 cities and at least 15 different addresses since I turned 19 about 20 years ago, so just thinking about this gives me so much anxiety)
     
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  15. babyblue

    babyblue Patches Pal!

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    I don't have that many albums where I own multiple copies, but those that I do, I sometimes play a different copy for each side. This is especially fun with the White Album and Blonde on Blonde. The pressing/mixing/mastering differences are sometimes striking.
     
  16. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    did it too many times when I was a vinyl hound fanatic! not much with my CD collecting...
     
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  17. Timjosephuk

    Timjosephuk Forum Resident

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    Hull, UK
    If I have multiple copies, it's not to do with mastering as much as reissues with different bonus tracks every time. Fortunately I'm through being fleeced on that score. Downloads of the new tracks are the way to go for me.
     
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  18. showtaper

    showtaper Concert Hoarding Bastard

    You just gotta have the promos from every country, the regular releases from every country, spares to keep for collecting autographs, the sealed backups of everything you buy. Cassettes, reel 2 reels, 8 tracks, singles, EPs, box sets, remasters, furtively obtained 15 ips copies of master tapes, stems from when your favorite multi-tracks were digitized................
     
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  19. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    I’m not a completist. Sometime you buy for perhaps better sonics, or some visual fetish thing .. different cover, Record Logo. But to answer your question... never( apart from listening once .. when purchased). :)
     
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  20. Mark B.

    Mark B. Forum Resident

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    Black triangle. Nice!
     
  21. leeroy jenkins

    leeroy jenkins Forum Resident

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    I'm likely to grab any of them to listen to. If I've just obtained it, I'll listen to that copy.
     
  22. RunningWithScissors

    RunningWithScissors Forum Resident

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    Different masterings, pressings, etc. I'm already this far down the rabbit hole, may as well keep digging. :shrug:
     
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  23. George Blair

    George Blair Senior Member

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    Portland, OR
    I just can't listen to the same classic album all the way through more than once in one sitting, This makes it hard to discern over multiple copies, i.e. "Exile On Main St" (3 copies), "Live At Leeds" (3 copies), "Who's Next" (2 copies), "White Album" (4 copies), what to keep and what to part with. So, they stay on the shelf. :sigh:
     
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  24. Bingo Bongo

    Bingo Bongo Music gives me Eargasms

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    Ottawa, Canada
    I try to find the best copy and get rid of the lesser one. Problem solved.
     
  25. I can't do it anymore. If I do it, it's to determine which pressing is superior. When I find the one that doesn't rise to the challenge, I spank it and send it to bed early with no cookies and chamomille.
     
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