Columbia House filed for bankruptcy today

[ML Dog]

Great thing about Columbia House back in the Seventies was getting the free albums and stiffing them.

I was hesitant to "out" myself but since the elephant in the room in regards to Columbia House got mentioned....I think I eventually had 4 separate addresses involved....friend's houses 2 of those. Their parents were very very upset with me lol.

Like I said above it was just very very HARD to select just 5 FREE CDs....for me it was downright impossible.

I had to go to The Dark Side. There was just literally no thing else I could do.

I always wondered, my whole life really, how that defense would play in court. "I just love music so much Your Honor...Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Your Honor & members of the Jury."

 

[MikeB]

Nothing compared to what Wilbur recalls, I know, having to carve on stone with a sharp rock if he wanted to make a picture of a thing but nonetheless weird to think back on how completely different Life was.

He brags about his record collection.

He said he listens to his Lawrence Welk on 78 every Saturday Night as soon as he gets home from "The Early Bird Special" at 3 O'clock.

 

[HarryCaray]

I still go to the pawn shops and buy CDs for $1. Rip them into lossless format then sell them back to the pawn shop for .50.

So it only cost me .50 to get a superior MP3 cut of an entire album.

I tunes and most of the other downloading services don't offer nearly the same quality that I can get ripping it myself.

I also have 8 160GB IPod classics fully loaded and another custom made 320G iPod classic.

Got well over 2 terabytes of music combined all in lossless format.

Thats not as much music as it sounds because that format takes up a ton of space

How do you back this up? Redundant storage?

 

[MikeB]

How do you back this up? Redundant storage?

Thumb Drive?

 

[HarryCaray]

Thumb Drive?

2TB thumb drive?

 

[ML Dog]

He brags about his record collection.

He said he listens to his Lawrence Welk on 78 every Saturday Night as soon as he gets home from "The Early Bird Special" at 3 O'clock.

A specific Routine is good. Removes Stress from a Life and none can debate that Lawrence & his magnificent orchestra could really "bring it". Shit Sizzled like a blazing hot griddle filled with Bacon sitting atop another blazing hot griddle filled with Bacon. 78s though would be the complete Polar Opposite of what CHOP described. Wil ever experienced LossLess it'd prolly make him think he'd been kidnapped by Aliens and transported to another planet....it'd prolly just break his Hearing Aid though.

I'm just thankful Wil in his Horse & Buggy didn't run over Robert Johnson when he was on his way to The Crossroads. IIRC correctly Wil was headed North outta The Louisiana Purchase to Ohioland about that time....might have put him right near Clarksdale. Depending on his rate of travel of course.

 

[ML Dog]

How do you back this up? Redundant storage?

That was my wonder. I hope the Hell this collection is backed up then backed up again.

 

[ML Dog]

2TB thumb drive?

Oh yeah THAT sound "reliable"...stable

 

[MikeB]

2TB thumb drive?

Forgot about the size.......carry on......

 

[HarryCaray]

Reason I brought it up is I have about 600gb of music and mp4 movies. Right now I have two 1TB external hard drives with identical content.

One is my workhorse drive and the other is exclusively for backup. I make changes on the workhorse and then once a week or so I sync them manually (depending on how many changes I've made), which is kind of a pain in the ass.

Wondering if anyone had any better ways. And I am not interested in cloud storage solutions for various reasons, the primary of which is that I don't need to be throwing hundreds of illegally pirated movies onto someone else's server.

 

[ML Dog]

Wondering if anyone had any better ways. And I am not interested in cloud storage solutions for various reasons, the primary of which is that I don't need to be throwing hundreds of illegally pirated movies onto someone else's server.

I was gonna ask for thoughts on Cloud but....there they are. And precisely what I thought, expected. Too damn bad cuz Cloud would be a hella nice backup solution.

 

[pocketrockets]

I have not bought a record since January 2005, and what I bought was the Nirvana Boxset (3 cds and a dvd) for $60 or so.

Right now I have the biggest, meanest music collection out there... 85,608 songs on my library right now, that occupies 615 GB of one of my drives. All MP3 files unfortunately... FLAC takes just TOO MUCH space... to have my current collection on that format I'd prolly need 20-30 TB, or even more, currently impossible until new technology is created.