Does anyone else have this problem?

Crumb · #1 02-21-2005, 01:31 AM

Well, I can't seem to walk by a rack of DVDs in a store without picking out some that I want. Today I was grocery shopping and had to sneak by the DVDs and see a rack of them at $7.50. How could I pass up Dead Calm for $7.50? So I bought it, along with U-571 to round out my small submarine movie collection. Well, does anyone else find themselves spending too much money on DVDs? :giggle:

livius drusus · #2 02-21-2005, 01:34 AM

Yes. Yes I do. Tower Records is like the world's biggest Meth lab to me. I can easily spend 200 bucks a pop on DVDs in there, and that's when I'm making an effort to control myself.

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Ensign Steve · #3 02-21-2005, 01:36 AM

Hi. My name is J.D., and I'm a DVD addict.

I buy Star Trek box sets. When I finish one, I buy the next one. I can usually manage to stretch it out to one per paycheck, but lately I've been watching them as compulsively as I buy them, so the last few have lasted less than a week each. When I finished Voyager, season 4, I went to the PX, then Wal-Mart, then Suncoast Motion Picture company to track down Season 5. PX and Wal-Mart charge about $90 per season. Suncoast wanted $140. And I paid it.

:paperbag:

Crumb · #4 02-21-2005, 01:47 AM

Wow, well at least have the will power to avoid the boxed sets. Though if I hadn't gotten the first few seasons of Homicide at the library, I may have been doing the same thing as you Ensign.

I will not however, let you turn this into a Star Trek thread! :hmph:

Ensign Steve · #5 02-21-2005, 01:53 AM

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Did you see that?! Isn't that the cutest thing? He thinks he actually has a say in the matter! :roflmao:

Resistance is futile, my friend.

Crumb · #6 02-21-2005, 01:55 AM

Dingfod · #7 02-21-2005, 02:41 AM

Gawd no. I have a few that have been given to me, even fewer that I have bought specifically for me. Hell, we didn't even get a DVD player until about five years ago. We didn't even get a CD player until well into the 90s.

beyelzu · #8 02-21-2005, 04:55 AM

hell, I love me some dvds

but I mostly buy them from fleamarkets or download to hold down expenses.

Crumb · #9 02-21-2005, 05:06 AM

Well consider yourself lucky warrenly, I am addicted to the darn things.

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but I mostly buy them from fleamarkets or download to hold down expenses.

I thought about this, but I would need a larger hard drive and a dvd burner. If I got me a DVD burner I would want a dvd-9 burner, and I don't have the cash.

Dingfod · #10 02-21-2005, 05:36 AM

I suppose one reason is that I don't think I can have anything that others won't mess with or mess up. This goes back to sharing a bedroom as a child with my two brothers and two sisters, all younger than me. No matter what I possessed, it got messed up. My model airplanes? My first stereo? My first "pocket" calculator? My first car? My 10-speed Schwinn? My record album collection? My CDs? It goes on and on and on. All, broken, lost, stolen, appropriated or just generally abused by various members of my family that I used to live with or live with me now. Perhaps you see why I don't bother.

Crumb · #11 02-21-2005, 05:43 AM

Ick, that must suck...

maddog · #12 02-21-2005, 08:16 AM

I got a DVD player for Xmas last year (i.e., Xmas 2003). I got my nephew to hook it up, I think it was in September. I have 3 DVD discs. I own one of them. I have watched the one I own. The other two I borrowed, maybe 6 months to a year ago. I have watched one of them, maybe it was in November or December. The other I haven't watched yet.

Get me into a bookstore, however, . . .
I'll spend all day, and I'll spend $200. I do not allow myself to go there very often.
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Dingfod · #13 02-21-2005, 08:20 AM

That's what they make public libraries for, lots and lots of free books. I love 'em. Same applies to video rental stores. I feel the same about movies, it makes a lot more sense to me to spend $3 to rent a movie for 2 to 5 days than it does to buy it.

Barefoot Bree · #14 02-21-2005, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by warrenly

That's what they make public libraries for, lots and lots of free books. I love 'em. Same applies to video rental stores. I feel the same about movies, it makes a lot more sense to me to spend $3 to rent a movie for 2 to 5 days than it does to buy it.

Ayah, unless you're a compulsive watcher of good movies, over and over and over and OVER again..... I do like to rent the movie the first time to make sure I like it, but if so - it is bought and watched oh, 100 times or so the first year alone.....

I need a life...

wei yau · #15 02-21-2005, 03:11 PM

I wouldn't say that I'm a DVD addict. But, simply because I can't afford to be.

Most times, it's the special features that draw me in. If the DVD is nothing more than the movie and maybe some trailers, I am not interested. My most recent purchase is "The Iron Giant". Damn, that's a good DVD. Horrible cover, but good DVD.

lisarea · #16 02-21-2005, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by warrenly

That's what they make public libraries for, lots and lots of free books. I love 'em. Same applies to video rental stores. I feel the same about movies, it makes a lot more sense to me to spend $3 to rent a movie for 2 to 5 days than it does to buy it.

Libraries have movies, too, you know.

I don't usually buy movies unless they're really cheap, something I am going to rewatch a lot, or something I can't rent nearby. So I tend to buy things like old monster movies, documentaries, and stuff I rewatch a lot, mostly things like Wes Anderson and Coen Brothers' movies and movies that are just so insanely perfect that you tend to get a very specific, very targeted jones to watch them sometimes. Like Citizen Kane and Night of the Hunter and stuff. So I have a decent amount of DVDs, probably, but nothing like that one ODB guy. I really don't think he rented movies at all before he moved out here. He has good movies, blockbusters, straight to video crapfests, box sets of TV series, videos of standup comics, you name it. And a million different movies about war and shit about sports and a million different movies about submarines and a million different movies about wars set in submarines where people play football, probably, and a whole bunch of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies and movies about Arnold Schwarzenegger being in a submarine during a war. And, like, a bunch of animated features about people with big plaster foreheads who play football during a war starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in a submarine in space with soundtracks by Chicago, I'll bet.

I don't know. It's not like I'm going to watch them.

Oh, AND: In our blended video collection, we have THREE copies of The Brain That Wouldn't Die. I had a regular one, and he had both regular and MST3K. Who has two Brains That Wouldn't Die? The ODB is who.

My problem, like maddog, is books. I rationalize buying rather than borrowing because I am more likely to look something up in a book I've read than in a video I've watched. But the real reasons are: I get squoodged reading books that lots of other people have read before because I think people pick their noses while they're reading them; and I forget to bring them back sometimes. It can get expensive, though, especially when I'm on a tear. When I was taking the bus to work, I was going through four or five new books a week for a while. That was expensive, let me tell you what. And it was compounded by my poor memory, too. I bought redundant copies of James Ellroy's American Tabloid TWICE, forgetting that I'd already read it. So I'd open it, start reading, then say, "Hey. Wait a minute!"

I've been reading much more slowly lately, but I'm also much poorer, so I have been borrowing books from the library. I'm still squoodged a little, though. And I still bought two books yesterday.

Ensign Steve · #17 02-21-2005, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by lisarea

When I was taking the bus to work, I was going through four or five new books a week for a while. That was expensive, let me tell you what. And it was compounded by my poor memory, too. I bought redundant copies of James Ellroy's American Tabloid TWICE, forgetting that I'd already read it. So I'd open it, start reading, then say, "Hey. Wait a minute!"

I knew it! I knew she was the crazy lady on the bus who exclaimed things at her books.

Crumb · #18 02-21-2005, 06:09 PM

Well, for the health of my bank account I avoid bookstores unless I have gift cards. Recently I have started using the library for movies and books. It is a tremendous resource for free, but there are certain movies that a decide I MUST own and watch again and again....its a sickness really...but I manage to resist my impulses when it is necessary.

lisarea · #19 02-21-2005, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

I knew it! I knew she was the crazy lady on the bus who exclaimed things at her books.

Well, at least you don't know about the ODB sneaking in and busting me giving the spice cupboard a long, stern talking to the other day.

Oh.

Wait.

Shit.