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  • Re: To cull or not to cull? Mozart / Böhm

    From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to Roland van Gaalen on Thu Aug 29 11:36:24 2024
    On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:17:34 -0700, Roland van Gaalen wrote:

    YES, I'm going to cull:

    - Mozart / Requiem / Vienna Philh (etc) / Karl B÷hm / 1971
    DG 413 553-2
    Reason: boring, bloated (even ghastly, according to some opinions stated
    in this forum)

    - Mozart / Symphonies 35-41 / Berlin Philh / Karl B÷hm / 1962, 1966
    Reason: rather dull on the whole, not elegant
    DG 447 416-2 (2 CDs)

    In my case, culling a CD means: moving it from the CD cabinet in the
    living room to the shoeboxes in the attic.

    If not having it on a shelf is "culling" something,
    I've "culled" a lot of stuff and didn't realize it!

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  • From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to Roland van Gaalen on Fri Aug 30 16:08:05 2024
    On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:24:05 -0700, Roland van Gaalen wrote:

    On 29/08/2024 20:36, Pluted Pup wrote:

    If not having it on a shelf is "culling" something,
    I've "culled" a lot of stuff and didn't realize it!
    What can we do?

    Selling CDs on eBay (or the Dutch site Marktplaats) for a few euros each isn't worth the effort.

    I live in a fairly big house, I save CDs I don't like very much in
    shoeboxes.

    A two-stage disposal process (like 'DELETE', which can be reversed, and 'EXPUNGE', which is permanent) has an obvious advantage, at least for
    some time, in case I change my mind.

    I change my mind enuf that I keep everything.
    Plastic storage boxes take care of much of it.

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