Collecting is an "art" that starts with, "I need this 1962." a rare (nobody needs) tape recorder "Gintaras" and ends with the house becoming a private museum with everything from antique glasses to the friend on the couch who said in 1989 that he came to spend the night just for one night.
It's a hobby that starts innocently and ends up being the reason your girlfriend ghost you - because, frankly, no one wants to count the cost of all your overpriced audiophile cables and figure out why "we're not going to the Philippines again this year."
Collecting is like playing Tetris, only with the real thing: you keep trying to fit yet another artist-signed vinyl record onto an overcrowded shelf, hoping it will somehow fit together this time. Of course, there comes a point when you realize that your collection is worth more than two new cars, if you had bought those cars instead of continuing to fill those collections of ill-fated antiques, trophies that no one cares about, forgotten stories and time capsules. It's a pity that neither the bank, nor the insurance, nor the parents can believe that value.
Collecting is a great reason to explain your financial bankruptcy as an "investment in the future". After all, who knows? Maybe one day the mask from Bali hanging on the wall will become your honorable ticket to retirement. Or you will buy another American 1981 for it. JBL L112 vintage speaker or Japanese 1984. Luxman M-03 power amplifier, which will become prominent figures in the collection of "unusable electrical devices".
But remember, Collectors, each "unique" item you collect will bring you one step closer to making your home a tourist (or party) attraction. Of course, if "tourists" want to browse the 1931 Lithuanian books about prostitution or biographies of Wham! and the Beastie Boys. But don't worry, you can always take comfort in the fact that it's an "investment in the future"... or at least in a very, very "interesting" blue market.
Collectors are people who pay more for old things than they ever cost new. So it's better to collect adventures, not things. For valuable impressions, use the most upbeat music mix of me, an experienced (adventure and girl) collector. The DJ compilation was recorded with some retro stuff before the sync button was invented.
CD players Technics SL DZ-1200 (2005) and mixer Formula Sound FF-4000 (2009)
(Click this video at the bottom of the "Kolekcionieri(AI)" and listen to my new (house music) mix, the visual part of which was not created by Hollywood, but generated by AI. Will Smith will not eat pasta in it, I promise).
Comments