#1
Posted: 7/7/07 at 4:52pm
you buy something you didn't even know you had. I need help! Can I be on that series Intervention?
You Know You Have a Cast Album Addiction When...
#2
Posted: 7/7/07 at 5:03pm
^
Ugh! I know! I find myself perusing Virgin every week looking for somehting new. Last week it was Summer of '42, we'll see what I snatch up this week... I've been thinking about Merrilly... (but Sondheim shows I don't know and haven't seen always intimidate me)
Ugh! I know! I find myself perusing Virgin every week looking for somehting new. Last week it was Summer of '42, we'll see what I snatch up this week... I've been thinking about Merrilly... (but Sondheim shows I don't know and haven't seen always intimidate me)
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#3
Posted: 7/7/07 at 5:03pm
That's me too! I bought Pirate Queen and High Fidelity and thought, why am I buying these? I'm never going to listen to them.
Ah well, never can have too many coasters.
Ah well, never can have too many coasters.
#4
Posted: 7/7/07 at 5:05pm
Merrily is a must have. I need to pick up the remaster.
#5
Posted: 7/7/07 at 5:13pm
I think it's worse when you already have a cast album, and then buy the remaster.
Not like I didn't do that when the Sondheim ones were re-released.
I've also bought an album on iTunes, and then had to have the actual album...
Not like I didn't do that when the Sondheim ones were re-released.
I've also bought an album on iTunes, and then had to have the actual album...
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LizzieCurry: No, you're more memorable
#6
Posted: 7/7/07 at 5:18pm
I ALWAYS have to have the actual album. Even though I'm running out of storage space. And I have this thing about actually buying them in stores. I didn't buy Summer of '42 online. I waited until I saw it in a store and snatched it up.
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#7
Posted: 7/7/07 at 6:50pm
I can't even tell you how many times I've bought something on iTunes and bought the actual CD version as well.
I have an addiction too. I've become such a completist and I want everything.
I have an addiction too. I've become such a completist and I want everything.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#8
Posted: 7/7/07 at 9:36pm
When you have more cast recordings than actual albums. My friends get in my car and they're like "what are you listening to?" and then I turn it on and they're like "oh, figures."
#9
Posted: 7/7/07 at 9:53pm
Actual albums? You mean people actually buy those things?
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#10
Posted: 7/7/07 at 11:01pm
When there's nothing wrong with having four different recordings of Les Miserables on your iPod.
Or four different recordings of Little Shop.
No, they are not all exactly the same.
Or four different recordings of Little Shop.
No, they are not all exactly the same.
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Updated On: 7/8/07 at 11:01 PM
#11
Posted: 7/8/07 at 3:48am
Or 5 versions of Gypsy.
Sometimes, I must have the music, so I get it on iTunes, and then I feel incomplete without the physical album.
Sometimes, I must have the music, so I get it on iTunes, and then I feel incomplete without the physical album.
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#12
Posted: 7/8/07 at 4:14am
...when you need to own every version, every cast, including multi-language.
aida- concept, OBCR, Austrian casts
bat boy- london and off broadway
chicago- original, broadway, movie, and london
hair- original, london, and actors fund
into the woods- original, revival, and london
jekyll and hyde- concept album, gothic musical album, obcr
little shop- 4 casts...and i agree with a previous poster, they arent all the same! lol
rent- five casts, including italian
sweeney todd- five recordings inclusing the Catalan verion from Barcelona!
the worst....Beauty and the beast- 12 casts. yea, i used to be a little obsessed....
aida- concept, OBCR, Austrian casts
bat boy- london and off broadway
chicago- original, broadway, movie, and london
hair- original, london, and actors fund
into the woods- original, revival, and london
jekyll and hyde- concept album, gothic musical album, obcr
little shop- 4 casts...and i agree with a previous poster, they arent all the same! lol
rent- five casts, including italian
sweeney todd- five recordings inclusing the Catalan verion from Barcelona!
the worst....Beauty and the beast- 12 casts. yea, i used to be a little obsessed....
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#13
Posted: 7/8/07 at 7:18am
Whe your cast recordings hit the 500 mark....
the joys of living in the UK and having easy access to London cast recordings and Broadway, Off Broadway and European Casts!
the joys of living in the UK and having easy access to London cast recordings and Broadway, Off Broadway and European Casts!
#14
Posted: 7/8/07 at 7:43am
when apart from 10 operas and a holiday CD (of Broadway stars singing Christmas songs), they're the only freakin' thing on your freakin' iPod.
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#15
Posted: 7/8/07 at 7:46am
Last month, I decided it was time to clean out the collections in general, so I surprised a director friend of mine with close to 250 cast album CDs (as well as five boxes of various theatre books). I kept my favourites, of course: the Papermill FOLLIES, the original COMPANY, perhaps a dozen more of various shows... but I gotta tell you -- I feel so cleansed.....
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#16
Posted: 7/8/07 at 11:59am
My ratio of "regular" albums to cast recordings on my ipod is something like 20:1 (though I have over 65 gigs worth of stuff on there). I've spent ludicrous amounts of time (looking for cheap cds) and money to get stuff.
I'm at the point now where I have a special playlist of anything on my ipod that's NOT a musical that I can put on whenever I have someone in the car who doesn't like musicals (thankfully Caitie is just as addicted as I am, so she doesn't mind)
I'm at the point now where I have a special playlist of anything on my ipod that's NOT a musical that I can put on whenever I have someone in the car who doesn't like musicals (thankfully Caitie is just as addicted as I am, so she doesn't mind)
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#17
Posted: 7/8/07 at 12:02pm
I too have an mp3 player and you should see the amount of space that the musical theatre section of it alone inhabits. It only holds 1 gig overall, and because of all of the showtunes I have on there, the other sections of it (opera, classic rock, and miscellaneous) can basically only have 20 songs at least.
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#18
Posted: 7/8/07 at 12:30pm
When your hard drive is 90 percent full, and the only thing you have on it are your cast albums...
#19
Posted: 7/8/07 at 1:09pm
how about when you realize the money you have spent(or wasted in the case of itunes and then buying the physical cd, why not just get the cd to begin with?) could be a down payment on a house had you put it in a savings account or something that would have made you money instead of having another version of Sweeney Todd or Merrilly or whatever
#20
Posted: 7/8/07 at 2:31pm
...when you play jekyll & hyde so much in your car that your friends are able to sing along, word for word. and they are familiar with the foreign language casts.
...you plan your schedule around cast album release dates.
...you are late to work because you couldnt decide on a show to listen to in the car.
...you plan your schedule around cast album release dates.
...you are late to work because you couldnt decide on a show to listen to in the car.
#21
Posted: 7/8/07 at 2:39pm
When your uncle gives you a $75 gift certificate to amazon.com at 2:00pm and by 4:00pm you already have 7 cast recordings ordered and ready to ship...
When your friends get in your car, hear whats on, and say "I'm going to burn you copies of some REAL music."
*I think there should be some kind of support group for us*
When your friends get in your car, hear whats on, and say "I'm going to burn you copies of some REAL music."
*I think there should be some kind of support group for us*
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- Eeyore
- Eeyore
#22
Posted: 7/8/07 at 5:41pm
The worst is when technology passes you by . . . you have to buy something you already own. I have some shows on vinyl, cassette AND CD. I'm glad I never got caught up in the 8-track craze! I did once have an RCA Selectavision Video Disk Player, though, and inherited a Sony Betamax player.
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#23
Posted: 7/8/07 at 5:53pm
I am needing to replace stuff on vinyl. Luckily I can burn vinyl and cassette to cd at home. But I have some burned copies of cast recordings that I am thinking of replacing just so I have the booklets/liner notes. I am trying to convince myself that all I need is the music!!
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#24
Posted: 7/8/07 at 6:01pm
When you buy a cast recording, not knowing anything about, on the sole basis that it's cheap. Some of my favorite cast recordings are results of this.
My brother said to me the other day, after coming home with a few new CRs:
"Rivi, why don't you buy important things like clothes?"
It's true, all of my money goes into new music.
My brother said to me the other day, after coming home with a few new CRs:
"Rivi, why don't you buy important things like clothes?"
It's true, all of my money goes into new music.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#25
Posted: 7/8/07 at 6:09pm
When you have so many recordings of one show that you take the best songs from each cast recording and make one "ultimate" recording of the show...
Is anyone else here so anal retentive that when a cast recording imports w/ "original broadway cast" or "various artists" under the artists column on itunes that they have to go scour the internet and find which actor sings what song? It drives me nuts not knowing who's singing...
Is anyone else here so anal retentive that when a cast recording imports w/ "original broadway cast" or "various artists" under the artists column on itunes that they have to go scour the internet and find which actor sings what song? It drives me nuts not knowing who's singing...
Does the sun really rise in the east?
Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
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Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
What's real to me ain't real to everyone.
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