The last albums you bought but hate
 

Me:

Love - Forever Changes (puts me to sleep!)

Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (can you say, boring)

The Sonics - Introducing.... (neandrathal frat rock at its dumbest)

Lou Reed - The bells (What a fucking piece of shit!)

DJ Krush - Kakusei
Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
Ida - Will You Find Me (faggy slowcore)

What do you do with albums you hate? I can't bring myself to trade them in, knowing I'd only get like a measly 3 bucks a piece, at best, for them. They sit on the shelf and remind me of their disgusting lack of merit every time I want to play music.

they collect dust.

I do periodic purges.
Luckily for me, a lot of the stuff I buy seems to retain or even accrue value whether I hate it or not. Being a vinyl buyer has its upside that way.

Yeh, I guess I've learned to hang on to even the cheesiest stuff. You never know...

I can bring myself to trade in CDs much easier, but there's something to be said for hanging on to vinyl these days. Maybe in another 30 years selling my Sundazed copy of Forever Changes on eBay will help me pay my nursing home bill! If Kim Jong II lets me get that far along...

I really like Kill the Moonight myself. I could reccomend not checking out Gimmie Fiction, it's terrible compared to moonlight

I keep thinking I'll like it. I get it out, play it, and just get bored w/ it before the end of the first side, every time.

Most of my friends are into decent stuff, so if I don't like an album I'll swap it for something they have that they don't like. Recently, I got a terrible Homestead label punk record that I traded for a Man or Astroman Picture disc. Both were worth an amount more than paid for, both appreciated by their respective swapees.

I find often that records I really hate are worth sticking with and waiting a few years until my taste changes. Cobra Killer's first album was the worst album I heard when I got it, but my taste has changed and I actually quite enjoy it now. I was bequeathed a load of jazz records when I was 15 or so. I listened to them at the time, hated them, and put them away. 6 or 7 years later I realised I was sat on a shitload of great stuff. Less haste, more good records, as the phrase doesn't say.

I've also probably traded and then regretted trading and then had to rebuy more records than anyone else I know. Another reason I don't trade them in anymore.

Oh dear. I worry about getting to that point. One of my big concerns about my record collection is if I forget to let some records go. I think there are very, very few records in my collection that are genuinely good enough to merit being entirely 'essential' that I own it.

I try not to buy any album unless I have heard at least 2 songs from the band, which are ussually enough to let me know if I will enoy their albums.

Sometimes I buy things on word of mouth, or because of who the artist is and it sucks. The last such album I bought was Mike Johnson's (ex- dinosaur bassist) album which was mope rock in the extreme all dull and shit. also, jason lowensteins (of sebadoh) solo album which I bought at his solo show sucked ass. generic punky rock.

that was quite a few years ago that I was doing that. Went through sort of a broke period where the only way I could get new stuff was to trade in old stuff. That was before the Internet, downloading, etc. I would have done better to hang on to all the old shit becuz in most cases the shit I was trading was halfway valuable (collectible, label-wise, or out-of-print, etc.) and the new shit was not as enjoyable. I've learned my lesson.

I think it really hit home when I brought in my ORIGINAL ISSUE !! copy of The Modern Lovers on the Beserkley label. Guy looks at me, hands over a twenty, then runs back to his office and I hear him on the phone, "You'll never BELIEVE what some kid just brought in!" Me: sinking feeling in pit of stomach, what did I just DO????

I have to say, too, that I don't make many record purchases I don't like anymore--but the bad ones I do make really annoy me. Like Forever Changes. I hate that shit.

That is exactly what I do too. Therefore, I have no albums in my collection that I have regretted.

None!? Wow.

Some of my album regrets are albums I've outgrown. Maybe that's what comes from decades of collecting. Like, you know, Clapton's 461 Ocean Blvd was hot shit in August of 1974 when I picked it up. Now it's a cold gray moldy piece of crap in my LP closet.

gmku,

He probably has 10 LPs.

I regret alot of the albums I purchased. I've spent so much money on limited edition 7 inches it's not even funny.

hey money wasters: i have a solution for you.

it's called "downloading"

inhuman: i absolutely love gimme fiction, one of the best albums of last year.

even the ridiculous shit i have gets spun every once in a while for nostalgic reasons.

Hey, H.A., Any of those limited 7-inchers on old (circa 1988-91) SubPop? I have a weakness for anything SubPop, good or bad (and there was a lot of bad back then).

A few of them are. I have a nirvana single. I forget what one it is.

I have a ton of Xiu Xiu 7 inches. I have 4 of the 200 Devendra/XX purple 7 inches.

those are obscenely overpriced (well, not obscenely, but they are overpriced)

I got all of mine for under 5 bucks.

Well, H.A., ahem... If you want to get rid of those nasty SubPop things...

i've always seen them for 5-plus bucks. 5 bucks for a 7" is a lot.

You could purchase them off of me for a really steep price.

UNDER 5 bucks. Most of them were 3 bucks or so.

I'm a 7 inch junky.

every time i've seen them it's more than 5, whatever.

It's because I won.

Well, I don't know about steep. Maybe moderately steep. What're your asking prices, and what ya got?

The ones I have are mostly from the old SubPop Singles Club mailings. I have Poster Children, a split Fluid/Nirvana, a great pink vinyl Smashing Pumpkins, and one or two others.

yeah i purge once a year, works well

I have the Fluid/Nirvana split too. Most of my stuff is still in boxes from moving. I'll have to dig it all out.

i haven't bought anything i hate in a loooong time since i know my tastes. i'll go with

Yeah, I bought this album a few years ago. Has a few memorable songs on it, but the overall content of the cd doesn't, and never did, draw me into it.

It's only money. I buy alot of used vinyl and cds. I don't mind the gamble or the surprise.

Then your record buying habits are entirely wrong. 'Knowing your taste' tells me you buy exclusively shit records. Go outside, now, and buy a proper pop album with three good singles and a load of filler. It's the only way you'll learn.

forever changes is the one for me too, I keep giving it a go and it always bores me after track one. and dj krush kakusei is dull as shit too.

The new Beck. I knew it was gonna suck but somewhere, deep inside of me, is a love for his musicianship. I'm pissed it sucked that bad.

I have to say, that's sort of my philosophy, too. I think record buying is much more interesting that way (although generally these days I know what I'm getting into--and sorry, I don't like downloading stuff). So I guess I have to just realize that taking that kind of risk means sometimes ending up with stuff I don't love.

I usually have people upload something I'm interested in for me. If I don't like it I delete it from my harddrive. If I do, I order the record.

Of course, not so many years ago, one could not upload or even hear samples of songs from an album, unless one could convince the record store owner to let you listen before buying (very rare), heard an album in its entirety on the radio (yeah, right), or borrowed records from friends (this is assuming your friends have good records, likelihood of which is thrown into doubt when they too have to rely on the record store and radio).

So, many of my LPs were bought based on reviews, word of mouth, hearing one song, or out of curiosity. That said, I think it's a wonder that most (80 percent) of my collection is actually very decent. It's a wonder, too, that I bought such gems as Horses, Modern Lovers, Ramones, Marquee Moon, Blank Generation, etc., when they first came out, because in most cases I was buying them purely on instinct, liking how they looked or what I remembered hearing about them.