This past thanksgiving I lost two hard drives. They contained the total of my downloads since feb, 2005. Thanksgiving day 2008, my secondary drive, which had been quietly clicking for weeks, gave out. I had tried to copy the contents several times but the attempts ended in my drive hanging and freezing. So I didn’t get the chance to copy anything that was not already on disc. The drive was only 20gig. Later that day as I was putting my pc back together after removing the dead drive, my primary 20gig died as well. I literally lost everything I had saved. Actually that was not my largest lost.
2004 i lost two 80 gig drives that had over 20,000 songs on them. I mean I had damn near every song I ever heard and liked. This was my napster drive. It took me almost a year to even get my will to download again. Napster was gone. My files were gone. And all I had was shitty bearshare and limewire. I was crushed.
Well yesterday was a sad day for me as well. The great cd dvd dump of 2009. It is summer cleaning time around here and I needed to toss out a little bit of everything that was not being used and in the way. Today that meant cds and dvds. Now. For the record, I am notorious for treating cds and dvds badly. I can’t keep from scratching and stacking them no matter how hard I try. It doesnt help any that no one in this house believes the disc goes back in the case it came out of.
I am not going to blame these ruined discs on anyone but myself. Many of the discs that I tossed out have cracks and chips in them, I had been holding them to remind myself to buy (that’s it) that cd again or to remind myself to get a cut off of it. Mainly. But sometimes I held on to cds for no apparent reason whats so ever. And we won’t even talk about the discs I have no idea how I got. And there were a BUNCH of those. Cds and bootleg dvds.
Bootlegs. Terrible. I know. I apologize to everyone involved in the production of said materials that I enjoyed. But I am not apologizing to those of you who made crap. I’m glad I didn’t pay full price for that horrible shit.
I threw out maybe 100 bootleg dvds. Most of them I didn’t look at and had no interest is seeing. Movies I am pretty sure should never have been made. And then there were the hiphop artist movies. I mean, just because we like your music doesn’t mean you can act.
Don’t ask me how I came into all those boots. It aint a pretty story really. But no I did not go out and purchase five copies of “The Matrix” bootleg. I just had that many. Same thing for the audio cds. Music I would never buy or listen to. Wild random shit. India Arie and Clint Black. Godspeed You Black Emperor (ok i did buy that one…) and Ike and Tina Turner’s greatest hits. I was tossing crap left and right.
Now. There was several discs I had to toss that were shot that I have been holding for years. “Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol. 1″ is a great cd by the Brand New Heavies. I chipped it and I have always meant to replace it but never have. I also threw out my X Clan cd, “To The East Blackwards”. (sissy!) I actually only have half that cd. It was broken in two. I’m sure it’s a great story but it’s one I don’t remember so make up your own.
What I’m sure was on some of those mp3 mixes that I may never get back were live performances that were bootlegged from back in the day. I had almost 20 different live takes of “Since I Been Loving You” by Led Zepplin recorded in a bunch of different locations. I know my favorite live version was on one of the discs I tossed out yesterday.
Please allow me time to pout and remember.
