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Even if I lived that long, I don't want to hear them all. I'm a collector, not an accumulator. I've spend my life so far discovering and honing my tastes. I do keep discovering music I didn't know about that I like, in fact ARSC is a tremendous resource for this. But, I also am very clear that there are many styles and artists that I do not like, and my finite time I can spend listening to music will be spent with what I enjoy. I do not crave "kale" (bitter, harsh, suddenly trendy roughage) in my music diet. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald Clarke" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Paramount Box Set Review > Hear, hear! I'd like to live long enough to hear to every record ever made, but that ain't gonna > happen, so give me the goods! > > Donald Clarke > > On Oct 23, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Tom Fine wrote: > > I can see a niche appeal for a completist set of an early-era label that made many acoustic > records, some of which are of terrible audio quality. But for me, I just want the best MUSIC > recorded on that label. The label's history is interesting, and there's a $30 book for that. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cary Ginell" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:29 PM > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Paramount Box Set Review > > >> Amazon's pre-order price is $474.23. Too rich for my blood >> >> Cary >> >>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:52 PM, "Arthur Gaer" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> "Who writes like this?" >>> >>> Jack White and friends. They're quite obviously treating this release as more of an historicist >>> art object than as a way of distributing new transfers of old 78s. >>> >>> If it were only the latter, they could just put the audio and a PDF book on a USB drive, stick >>> it in a manila envelope, and sell it for one hell of a lot less than this hand-made quarter-sawn >>> oak box, etc. >>> >>> And I bet they'd get a whole lot less interest and a whole lot fewer sales as a result. >>> >>> Like much of the resurgence of vinyl sales, even if the audio content is fantastic, the >>> predominant appeal is really to the collectors market. Wonder how many of the current vinyl new >>> and re-issues ever get played even once--it's the object that people are buying for far more >>> money than a digital disk or download? >>> >>> Personally I think it looks gorgeous. And I'd love to have the music and documentation. But is >>> it worth $400 or so (I don't think the price has yet been officially announced) to me? That's >>> mighty steep for what's kind of a coffee-table book--or, given what it's made out of, an >>> *actual* coffee table! >>> >>> If someone wants to buy me a Hanukkah present, though, I'm happy to send my address. ;-) >>> >>> Arthur Gaer >>> >>>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Cary Ginell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Check out the description of the set, which has this flowery, almost Victorian prose Crafted as >>>> an object to keep and cherish for a lifetime, its form is designed to reveal evidence of the >>>> hand at work, to bring out the tactile richness of hand-sculpted woods and metals, and to meld >>>> the rough-hewn with the earliest burblings of American modernism in the 1920s. >>>> "Earliest burblings"?? Really? Who writes like this? >>>> Cary Ginell >>>> >>>>> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:41:40 -0500 >>>>> From: [log in to unmask] >>>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Paramount Box Set Review >>>>> To: [log in to unmask] >>>>> >>>>> I believe there will be a review in NYTimes this coming Sunday about it. >>>>> >>>>> Matt Appleby >>>>> >>>>>> On 10/23/2013 8:00 AM, Steve Ramm wrote: >>>>>> onder if Will got through all 8 >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Matt Appleby >>>>> >>>>> Mills Music Library >>>>> University of Wisconsin-Madison >>>>> 728 State St. >>>>> Madison, WI 53706-1418 >>>>> >>>>> 608-262-2816 >>>>> [log in to unmask] >>>> >> > >