Please explain why DH needs to keep 400 old punk LPs when we don't own a record player?

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This is a man thing, right?

and I bet they're all arranged in either alphabetical/chronological order... or does he arrange his by genre?

Whatever you do, do NOT buy him a record player - they are all new and modern and "not the same"

(yes, it's a man thing)

Our vinyl is in dd's room cos there's nowhere else to put it , but we just can't throw it away. Not a man thing in our house - half of it's mine.

Because it makes him feel that at heart he is still oh a wild tearaway rock'n'roll type.

Men are very odd.

Yeah, ebay them!

dp is the same, but he's slowly selling them on ebay (big market in Italy and Japan for old punk records, though the Italians will try it on ime). worse thing is, he buys more to sell from car boots. men in their 40s all congregate round the records stalls waiting to pounce.

He said some are worth money so I looked up the ones he claimed were worth a fortune and I can assure you THEY ARE NOT

They are VERY DUSTY

We did briefly dabble with a record player a couple of years ago but he couldn't be arsed to listen to them because it's so much easier playing everything via the Music Computer (10 year old Dell which is loaded with itunes)

because you will soon be getting a record player?

because he can't bear to think he will never re-live those times again?

because he looks forward to showing them to his son?

How can yo9u be so heartless!

(mind you I don't think DP's collection is quite that big)

Size isn't everything, you know.

We have a cupboard full, in fact bursting out of said cupboard....no turntable however...

I HATE THEM, there is nowhere else to put anything. They do have one good use however. They are very useful to bring up in an argument you fear you may be losing. Just switch subject to this, and.....voila, he hasn't got a leg to stand on!!

snurk.

he has about 10 million CDs though - also unplayed since the advent of iPod/itunes.

Hey, Blu

(a) the cat has just emerged from a corner of the room, surging furrily out

(b) we are too old to fill in the survey on newspapers

He wants a USB turntable.

He doesn't have a son AFAIK

Yes yes I know he wants to recapture his youth but there is viagra for that

I just want to recapture some space to put books

Because one day you will get a really expensive record player and he will get to play them all day long.

hmm... these books, MP... have you read them? Are you going to read them again? Do you just want to keep them because they are yours and you love them?

Not that I am in any way suggesting that he feels that way about his punk records...

We compromised and put wall to wall bookcases in what is supposed to be the dining room - the bottom shelves are full of his (and a couple of my) records and the top shelves are full of my (and a couple of his) books

No he won't get another turntable, he really couldn't be arsed with the faff of changing records - he is itunes lazy

And he is too old/deaf to notice that his ipod headphones are utterly tinny, although he claims that the expensive hi-fi is 'brilliant' (even though I knocked half the cables out and it sounds like static, but he CAN'T HEAR because he is ancient)

he only listens to itunes

I have to say that if Mr Inferior suggested we ditch my university English texts I'd be outraged

As it is, we live in a kind of decaying gentility, lined with tomes from our respective pasts.

hehe no definitely JOINT books...

Is it a man thing then? In this house I own the acres of vinyl, dh owns.... a Cher cd

Repeat to self: 'it's a willy thing'.

We have a whole room devoted to DH's record collection which he never plays.

beano's in croydon is the best place to sell them

But the way he hoards books drives me mad as well!

I used to do this, but got fed up of having nowhere to put them, so unless they are really special I get rid of pretty soon.

He has 7 sheves of books, AND the cupboard of lp@ He ALSO has another small cupboard full of videos, AND 3 drawers of CDs, all of which he has transferred onto MP3 etc. WHY do we need all this crap? He never looks at/ reads/ plays any of them!!!

And of course the 3 boxes full of random cables