You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
#0You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 9:34am
...you buy the highlights CD when it comes out, even though you already have the complete recording CD.
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"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"
#1re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 9:39amYou have five different recordings of a show, none of which are in a language you understand. Updated On: 12/15/05 at 09:39 AM
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#2re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 9:42am
You own "Late Nite Comic" and you have played it more than once.
You have a cast recording salute to Cyril Ritchard.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#3re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 10:33am
why would I ever want hi-lights if I have the entire thing? I want my money for new complate recordings.....
But I do try to buy things I like in English, German, and if there's a British or Canadian recording....and Hell I own RENT in Icelandic........
You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when you buy a recording based on the name of the musical........whether you know anything about it or not.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#4re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 10:48amYou carry around a list of all the recordings you have so you can bore your friends to death telling them about each one and show off your amazing collection. I know...that's scary...
#5re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 10:51amwell, once you pass one hundred, I think it's important to have a list so as to keep proper inventory. why is that so obsessive?
#6re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:02am
Elphaba, nice to know I am not the only one who ponied out the cash for Rent Iceland and German recordings. 
...when you carry around a list of your recordings to ensure that you don't buy something you already have as well calling friends to look things up on the internet when you feel you've found something rare but aren't sure.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#7re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:02amyou've bought recordings of shows you don't particularly like just because you think your collection "needs" them; in particular the revivals of wonderful town, and sweet charity
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#8re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:12am
Why would you get highlight discs when you already have the full thing. That's not obsessive - that's a waste of money.
You're obsessive when you can thumb through a rack at any store as quickly as Danny Kaye can recite Russian composers and know exactly which CDs you have/you want/you have no interest in ever owning.
You're obsessive when you buy cast recordings of shows you know nothing about, because, well, they're cast recordings and your collection wouldn't be complete without them. It's a crapshoot whether or not you'll ever listen to them a second time, but you somehow feel good about having them anyway.
You're obsessive when you're Jewish and the show you have the most versions of is Jesus Christ Superstar.
You're obsessive when you don't feel like you really have a show on CD unless you have every song that was ever recorded for the show in your collection.
You're obsessive when you stop at every record store you pass just so you can see if some moron traded in a cast recording that is now in the discount bin that hopefully the sales clerk had no idea of its actual value.
You're obsessive when you check ebay, amazon, sh-k-boom, jayrecords, footlight, dresscircle, talkinbroadway and psclassics at least once a day to say if anything new is coming out/available.
You're obsessive when people you've "met" online send you a link to this thread knowing you're obsessed (hi Madame X).
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
Updated On: 12/15/05 at 11:12 AM
whatacharacter
Leading Actor Joined: 8/19/05
#9re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:16am
You bought both versions of the Grease and Wonderful Town Revivals just to hear Brooke Shields' revolutionary take on the characters 
#10re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 11:42am
--You pay extra pounds/dollars to get the London recordings the AS SOON as they are released in the UK because you can't wait for the US release.
--You already own the CD, but you buy the re-issue because it has (sometimes interesting but often lame) BONUS tracks! Or pretty new artwork!
"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"
#11re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 12:12pm
If you find you don't have all of the music with you, you can't listen to any of it (even if you hate the music you left at home)
See, I think that's just weird, not obsessive... but it's how I am.
#12re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 12:36pmYou buy more than one copy of the same recording in case something happens to the original!
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"
myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#13re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:02pmChris> its even worse when you get a free DRS Cd at the theatre then buy it for the bonus songs.
"Have they come yet?"
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#14re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:04pm
"You're obsessive when you're Jewish and the show you have the most versions of is Jesus Christ Superstar."
After Les Mis, AMEN to that!
#15re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:38pm
Youre an obsessive recording cast collector when you go to the store to buy a specific CD, and leave with 5 others you had no intention of buying....
You lose hours of sleep when a release date is pushed back....
You sleep with your new recording on the pillow next to you....
You have skipped meals in order to pay for the CD excursions later in the day....
The Audio clerk at Barnes and Noble has asked you personally to apply for a job.....
You can tell what is New in the Musical Theater section within 30 seconds of arriving.....
Barnes and Noble is on your speed-dial....
You miss classes to be the first to pick up a newley released cd....
You cancel all your plans the day a new recording comes out....just so you can listen to each song......
You feel like throwing up when someone mentions a musical you've never heard of .
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#16re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:45pm...when you buy the newest CD before you worry about paying rent or having food in the fridge....
#17re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:51pm...you have this daily, big debate in your head about whether or not to organize your collection by composer, by date, by star, or alphabetical... and have tried ALL at least once.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Flahooley
Leading Actor Joined: 11/17/05
#18re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:54pm
You have the original issue of a show you don't really care for, and still buy the re-issue.
Guess, I qualify. Is there a 12-step program for showtune collectors?
#19re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:57pm
You have the original cast, revival cast, and concert cast recordings of a show that you do not like.
You buy the demo recording and original cast recording and listened to both because they are different enough that make it worth listening to the differences.
"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
#20re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:59pm
When you have every recording you can get your hands on in every language they are recorded in. Including re-issues and revivals.
You have to see this collection to believe it.
Just give the world Love.
#21re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 6:01pm
...you have this daily, big debate in your head about whether or not to organize your collection by composer, by date, by star, or alphabetical... and have tried ALL at least once.
Guilty as charged.
#22re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/15/05 at 6:03pmyou've bought a record player just so you can listen to the OBC's in their original state
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#23re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/22/05 at 9:04pmWhen you have decide on which recording of a show you want to listen to, the original London cast, original bway cast, the complete symphonic recording, or the tenth anniversary cast.
#24re: You know you're an obsessive cast recording collector when...
Posted: 12/22/05 at 9:09pm
"...you have this daily, big debate in your head about whether or not to organize your collection by composer, by date, by star, or alphabetical... and have tried ALL at least once. "
hahaha thats funny!
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