[78-L] Record collecting, buying, preserving, or???

[don ward]

I guess i make up a fourth category ... record accumulator.
I buy records just because 1) i like the sound/beat/feel  2) i like the song and the orchestra playing it. 
I could care less if its rare or  as common as a Paul Whiteman or Nat Shilkret.... as one jazz lyric puts it.....  "if it aint got that swing, it dont mean a thing".
Nough  said ....
dnward 



-----Original Message-----
>From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net>
>Sent: Apr 3, 2009 2:40 PM
>To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at 78online.com>
>Subject: Re: [78-L] Record collecting [was (no subject)]
>
>At 02:33 PM 4/3/2009, you wrote:
>>
>>In a message dated 4/3/2009 2:24:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk writes:
>>
>>A  related subject: when did record collecting, as opposed to record
>>buying,  start?
>>
>>
>>
>>When, as a kid, someone gives you their records.
>>
>
>I don't know they exact year when people started collecting records 
>as opposed to buying them. Whats the difference between a record 
>collector & a record buyer anyway? The fact that a record collector 
>takes good to excellent care of whatever records he (or she) has in 
>their collection? Or is it something else?
>
>I started buying records when I was 16 (1975) & became a collector at 
>pretty much the same time as I found the record collector shops in 
>Houston Texas fairly quickly. Instead of chasing girls I was spending 
>good money on records at the collector shops instead!! Didn't start 
>dating until I was 18 & out of high school. What is it about women & 
>records? Very few are collectors & the ones I've met (except one 
>female collector I know) find the hunt for records very boring..... 
>
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