have you ever given away (whoopee!) music because you thought someone else might appreciate IT more? https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17391#msg-17391 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:22:04 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17523#msg-17523 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17523#msg-17523 breno Trouser Press Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:41:18 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17522#msg-17522 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17522#msg-17522
Slammin' Watusis
Tar Babies
Balaam & The Angel
The Connells
Dead or Alive
Face to Face
Fishbone
Flesh For Lulu
Game Theory
Husker Du
The Royal Court Of China
INXS
Lone Justice
Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
Mental As Anything
Peter Murphy
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Oingo Boingo
Railway Children
Rave-Ups
Shriekback
Sting
That Petrol Emotion
Echo & The Bunnymen
Three O’ Clock
Thrashing Doves
Ultravox
Vapors
Woodentops

Before anyone starts sharpening their knives, allow me to point out that in some cases (That Petrol Emotion’s “Chemicrazy,” or Husker Du’s “Warehouse: Songs & Stories” for example) there was only one lame album by an otherwise decent band in my collection and it turns out that I was right to junk it anyway. Others (“Wooden Foot Cops” by Woodentops comes to mind … or any major label release by The Rave-Ups) represent later releases by good bands that just didn’t possess all the quality of the debut or better parts of the catalogue. Some (“Echo & The Bunnymen’s “Reverberation”) were just outright garbage and I should have known better. That, or I was reaching. THAT, or I just wasn’t ever going to “get it” (see: Game Theory. I know a lot of people like them. Allegedly!).

Mostly, there are no regrets on the aforementioned list. Some of those old Shriekback titles weren’t awful. The Zodiac Mindwarp tape was a guilty pleasure. But life has not suffered on bit from dumping those titles in the hopes that they would find a loving home elsewhere. I wonder if they ever did.

The burning question I have now is:

Why in the name of all that is holy did I keep all those stupid Gene Loves Jezebel tapes?

(((“note to self …”)))]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:33:38 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17461#msg-17461 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17461#msg-17461 ira Trouser Press Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:34:51 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17412#msg-17412 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17412#msg-17412 Pop Will Eat Itself's Box Frenzy (1987) to my oldest friend (whom I met on the first day of first grade in 1976). As it was released by Rough Trade, distribution was spotty even before they went bankrupt. The thing was practically OOP about the day it came out, and my friend had been trying unsuccessfully to track down a copy for at least 2 years at that point.
Out of sympathy, I gave him mine. Of course, I found a used copy of it about a week later. It was $3.
Sanctuary came out with a deluxe Box Frenzy reissue in 2003.]]> Jermoe Trouser Press Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:50:15 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17408#msg-17408 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17408#msg-17408
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The kid across the street gave me two albums he'd gotten from his record club (for not sending back his card on time), on the notion that I'd like them a lot more than he did: More Songs About Buildings and Food and Armed Forces. He was so right.

My brother bought Remain in Light and U2's first album, both on the strength of the then-current buzz. He decided to give them to me, because he didn't like either of them very much.

]]> Delvin Trouser Press Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:14:20 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17403#msg-17403 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17403#msg-17403 Tom_Violence Trouser Press Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:52:15 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17402#msg-17402 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17402#msg-17402 erikalbany Trouser Press Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:26:16 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17401#msg-17401 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17401#msg-17401 perhaps i made copies of them cause subliminally i thought we werent going to last.
i recently gave away some of my vinyl cause i knew the person i gave them to was so into it that their happiness would 10 times surpass mine having it collecting dust.

unfornately i gave up on giving away my cassettes and threw them out.
i put and ad even on craigs list and tried to give them away and asked every friend or friends friend or even anybody who is into music if they wanted a few hundred cassettes . no deal]]> rebelwithoutaclue Trouser Press Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:42:43 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17399#msg-17399 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17399#msg-17399
Damned if I can remember what it was she took. Whatever. They're both long gone and I hope she's happy with it.]]> Nile Trouser Press Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:22:55 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17393#msg-17393 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17393#msg-17393
I hole hearedly gave to the unsuspecting public p'orrige & adrian borland's SOUND.

plus peele wimberly's soundrack to the Connels deep south '92 tour.



Post Edited (11-19-08 23:05)]]> STEVE Trouser Press Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:55:46 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17392#msg-17392 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17392#msg-17392 satchmykels Trouser Press Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:38:30 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17391#msg-17391 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,17391,17391#msg-17391 STEVE Trouser Press Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:32:01 +0000