In my younger days, I made some embarrassing purchases - Third Eye Blind's first two albums, Goo Goo Dolls' "Dizzy Up the Girl," the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" soundtrack, 3 Blues Traveler albums. Go back to the days of cassettes, and I may have purchased my fair share of Bon Jovi and Def Leppard. While I have made some cash trading these (and other regrettable choices) in at Amoeba Records, Hartlaub warns that, "as much as we fight it, certain music will always be part of our lives. Used-record stores are merely an expensive vacation spot for our Neil Diamond, Supertramp and Scorpions records before they all end up in our collections again." He then goes on to track down the previous owner of a used copy of "Use Your Illusion II" he purchases. I wish I had thought of that.
I recently had the strange urge to purchase Puff Daddy's "No Way Out" for $.99 because it reminded me of how awful my high school experience was.
Please share the CD purchases that you regret, or the ones you regret trading in.
3 comments:
big willy style. enough said. lol
Everything by the Cranberries, ever. Reselling their singles, even the ones with the special collector's edition sleeve did not yield a lot of revenue.
I actually bought tons of CDs in 6th grade and would pretty much buy anything that was on MTV's Most Wanted with Jon Sencio. Ha. So I had the worst CD ever, the Crash Test Dummies. Other baddies: Spice Girls Wannabe single, Sponge, Candlebox (shouldn't have sold that, though because i still have a little love for them), Collective Soul... Then in High School I had a sizable ska collection that had to go. I don't really miss that one. I kept "Girls Go Ska" because that was pretty good. Silly sexist marketing, yes, but some fun ones.
I could go on but that's enough confession for one day.
I once purged my collection of a lot of embarrassing vinyl. I now miss stuff like "Band On the Run," "Can't Slow Down," "Ringo," "You're Gonna Get It" and "Serenade."
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