Yes,it finally happened yesterday!
After 4pm yesterday (Friday) at the downtown oldies store I've been frequenting since the summer of '89,I nabbed their "one"-repeat! "one" 45rpm copy of 1986's "One Step Closer To You" by Gavin Christopher w/ Picture Sleeve!
All for,thankfully,$3.00 + tx.
With that,I concluded this oddesy I've been on since June 2006.
Did I get all 133 back?
No...more like 128 but those five weren't exactly necessary to the collection. In fact,while finding these,I gave away or sold about 30 lps,some casettes & a few Cd's.
Why? I realzed that there were a great many I wasn't listening to anymore (one's without hits or that had songs that I now had on "Best of" CDs). I also just needed to make room because I didn't want to end up with over 700 vinyl albums either.
I'm glad I did finish this but at the same time,given what 's been going on in America the last year and to me in 2007. I know that it's not as important as I made it seem in my mind. Near the end,it was more of just wanting to finish what I started.....and I did.
Simply,a personal victory but compared to bigger problems,not that grand a thing. One of the stores that helped is going out of "in person" business next month and will be strictly an Internet business,they just don't have the clientel anymore. (They certainly had the prices though!)
So,from this point,music takes a back seat. Still buy every now and then but not like before. I've realized,especially after I turned 40,what's truly takes precidence in one's life and now that this is done,I can focus on those things.
Thanks to all of you for your support & messages during this. I just hope that I wasn't annoying about it. So ends that bad day from 2006 and last but not least,things are such a "360" turn now from that time,thank God.