Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

i'd like to see that!

dearest housemate, why would you set up residence for the evening in the kitchen? why would anyone choose the kitchen as a place to chill by themselves? i just want to go and mooch around for some food and i'm exhausted and really can't talk right now.

Feel like 'innocuous things your roommates do' could be it's own thread!

Without getting into a whole old-school, new-school thing, I like having physical things (booklet, disc) that I can play in my car, and on the various stereos throughout the house, without having to turn on the computer and load up and charge up an iPod and buy a dock, etc etc. And half the time burned CDs don't seem to play on normal stereos.

Totally OTM; it's so bizarre to me paying for something intangible. It's fine for *now* until your hard drive crashes or your laptop gets stolen or whatever; you buy a CD and you don't have to worry about migration or compatability or etc. Also, used CD bins are so fun.

Back up your data.

And buy blanks and burn a copy. And print the booklet. And put them in jewel cases and then print tray cards for those jewel cases so you can look at them on a shelf and quickly grab the one you want.

they have this thing now called 'The Cloud'. Look into it.

Well when it starts suddenly working with all car CD players and stereos and I can go to the cloud and flip through people's used files and grab stuff that catches my eye that I'd probably never otherwise actively seek out, then I'll consider it heavily.

I mean in terms of losing your stuff. cant lose it in the cloud so easily.

also if you use your ipod/phone with your car stereo then its all there

Well sure, but most of them are a yearly fee and also losing stuff is just one of several reasons; even if you fix that there are still others.

But I have way too many CDs to fit on my iPhone and streaming them
costs precious data and all of this is more of a hassle to me than just grabbing a CD and bringing it with me. Also it's cool to lend/share stuff with people which I still do.

buying used music media is rad, fuck a cloud

okay dudes. just trying to chill the irrational anger up in here

buying used music media is rad, fuck a cloud

This. I mean, I found a copy of Engineers' Three Fact Fader used for $1 the other day. Which was great. Sure, I could've bought it on iTunes for $9.99, but why? Thats kinda what bums me out about iTunes dominating the ability to purchase music, the prices will always remain stagnant. I can't even begin to count how many albums I've bought simply because they were cheap used copies.

Oh, I wasn't saying you shouldn't buy CDs/physical media. Whatever makes you happy. But if you were worried about losing hypothetical mp3s, you probably aren't backing up your data, and you should back up your data.

plus buying used music allows me to be pleased with myself for supporting independent sellers. take that, corporate america. yeah.

the local guy in my town is an asshole. like larry david without the charisma.

- People who think there's a superior choice between physical media and streamed or digitally stored copies of the same

- we backup all our digital media but I still buy a lot of cds. And part of it is I still like having the physical *thing*, I like having shelves of cds on display, it's kinda comforting to me. same with books. but if for some horrible reason our backup fails and all our mp3s disappear, I still have the music in its original format. heck I kept my stupid old discman just in case all the ipods in the house die and I need to listen to a cd, lol. there's probably not a lot of logic in that, but I guess the bottom line is haters can blow it out their ear (tee hee)

and I love used record stores

well not 'record' but music

- people who post responses to IA fake bullet points as fake bullet points

- you mean like this? *dances*

dancing on a thin line there, vg

- sorry I can't hear you, too busy dancing

OMG CDs or books 'on display' is def in my top five IAs. You read it? Recycle that shit. Why is it on the shelf still?? Burned that cd? Sell it. Fuck a bookcase.

Jeff? Is that you?

Exceptions: home office, studio or library.

Carl, might as well be. We have the same thoughts.

;_;

I like having stuff to pull out and read again but I kind of get what you mean

i used to think sunny's talk was pure blasphemy, but I've gotten into getting rid of stuff.

I've got a closet full of records, some of them I'm quite certain I'll never play again. Why am I hanging on to them then?

I used to date someone who ordered records even though she had no player. She just like to be in the same room with them. Now that's crazy.

I may be guilty of that to a small extent, wanting to have a physical artifact but mostly listening to the digital copy. Makes me IA at myself sometimes.

I was a books-n-cds-n-records kind of girl but Jeff has converted me to his ways, mostly because I really really hate clutter and also hate hauling heavy boxes of books every time we move. I would probably be less enthusiastic about going full digital with our music if Jeff weren't the most meticulous mp3 tagger I have ever encountered in my life. Our shit is crazy organized.

I totally take it for granted, too, and forget how much more pleasant life is with well-organized digital music until I get a look at somebody else's mp3s and am like "Why the shit do you have The Smiths and Smiths and the smiths and The smiths all listed as separate bands?!??!?!?"

I was grabbing some stuff from my safe deposit box at the bank today. Reminded me I really need to start doing offsite backups on some sort of interval.

xpost carl otm, hate disorganized mp3s

I've got this Kid Rock CD, given to me at the college station back when he was another vanilla ice/3rd bass wannabe. The album is so bad that I used to hide twenties in it.

It's long been retired to the closet and I don't have to hide money anymore, but each time I move - 6 or 7 times since - I look at that thing and wonder why the hell I still have it.

"ooh, I could sell it on eBay" - *continues to rot next to Kiss covers comp.*

i keep books around because i'll likely reread them. a lot of my books are art books, and i like to have them for reference, too. and there are things to which i have weird nostalgic/personal attachments, a winnie-the-pooh book with gnaw marks on the spine from when i was teething.

i have a bunch of LPs too, but i get rid of CDs as soon as i burn them. in recent years, i've even ditched most of my records. given the choice, i'll almost always listen to stuff digitally.

We still have some books, but after a lot of "Will I really ever read this again? Really?" soul searching, enthusiastic library patronage, and embracing e-books, we're down to one bookshelf (one shelf of which is comics, and half of one shelf of which is Wii game boxes).

i can't bring myself to get rid of the books i already have, but i refrain from buying any more books and exclusively use the library, more for $$ reasons than for clutter, but that's a nice side effect too. since using spotify i've felt like even my mp3 collection is a drain on my computer's hd space and am considering moving most of them to an external drive and freeing up some space

i used to be / currently still am a packrat, so this is a huge step for me

im proud. hoarding, or even signs of it like i spot a magazine I bought 3 months ago, is so anxiety inducing to me

People that drag an unwilling friend with them into a record store while they pore over the racks, when said disinterested party stands right next to their friend completely oblivious to the fact that they are blocking the racks from other customers while they are absorbed in texting or w/e.

xp Yeah, my clutter opposition borders on neurotic sometimes. My mother keeps giving me a subscription to Better Homes and Gardens (speaking of things that make me IA - the magazine itself, the fact that my mother keeps subscribing me to it even though I told her it's not really my cup of tea, the fact that she really wants it to be my cup of tea (I don't own a home! I don't have a garden!)) and I give it a cursory flip through (the things I do to make my mother happy) and then it goes in the recycling. If it's more than a couple of days out and unread, I just toss it and lie to my mom when she asks if I saw that salsa recipe with the cute little American flag dishes that they featured in the Fourth of July issue. "Oh, I must have missed that! What was in it?"

The only magazines I get, other than alumni magazines that I can't convince either alma mater to stop sending me, is Better Homes and Gardens and Bitch. Ha.

My dad thought it was cute to subscribe our daughter up for a subscription to Time Magazine after she was born.

Now if you do any sort of zabasearch on us, you'll find her full name listed in the "related" column with us. And she gets credit card offers and timeshare invitations all the time.

Thanks Pops!

In a way, it's karma since he and I share the same name, but it's his name that my drunken college friends and former co-workers call instead of my number, listed under my initials.

I have a bookshelf of defunct/old arts and music magazines. Entire years worth! Worth it for now.

I've been buying a lot more CDs lately because Amazon often give me the choice of a mp3 download for $9(!!) or a used cd of the same for $0.01 with $2.98 for shipping. So I wait a week, rip the cd and add it to the shelf in the basement with the other thousand discs that will never be played again in physical form.