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Topic: My Collection
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Camillu
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In July 2007, after exactly 7.5 years of collecting soundtracks, my collection has now passed the 1,000 mark. It's hard to tell exactly when and with which CD, because when I went abroad on 1st July my collection stood at 999, and when I came back I found 5 boxes of 2nd hand CDs I had ordered waiting on my desk. But for ceremony's sake I'll say it's Elliot Goldenthal's score to SWAT, since that was the first CD I saw when I opened the first box. I started collecting in January 1999, when due to slowly building Phantom Menace hype, I decided to buy myself a birthday present and 'splash out' (I was a starving student) on the double CD set of Return of the Jedi. I remember buying it from a tiny record store called D'Amato in our capital, Valletta. The same day I bought The Truman Show from another store, because I had just watched the film and noticed the music. Other than those 2, the only other soundtracks I had ever heard were Out of Africa, which my parents had on tape, and Gandhi, which my father has on LP. I also had a compilation of main themes performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, including Star Wars, ET, Chariots of Fire and For Your Eyes Only. Of the circa 1,025 I now have, I bought the vast majority from online 2nd hand CD shops, so it's very difficult to calculate how much I have spent on my hobby. However I still have all the receipts and invoices, so one day I'll sit down and do some maths. [Message edited by Camillu on 07-20-2007]
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posted 07-20-2007 12:34 PM PT (US) ip
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Marian Schedenig
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Keep going, then!I also keep all my receipts*... I started collecting in '94, and must be at about 1000 now, though not all of them are originals. I'm currently in the process of ripping all CDs to my computer (as FLACs)... so far I'm somewhere around 60 GB, which equals about 2 weeks worth of continuous music, but that's not even close to half my collection yet. I need a bigger drive... *) http://marian.musgit.com/gfx/firstbill.jpg
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posted 07-20-2007 01:59 PM PT (US) ip
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Kevin
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I don't have any of my receipts, and I actually can't tell when I started with the CD's. I had vinyl originally of many of them.For some reason a friend of mine as a mint, sealed, virgin copy of the original Star Wars 2-disc LP that he bought the same time as I did back in 1977.
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posted 07-20-2007 02:32 PM PT (US) ip
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