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 Lurking.  Several years of lurking.

After a number of years of writing about music, focusing on volume of posts at the cost of quality of posts, I was burned out.  What started out as a passion became a burden, and then something I just didn't want to do anymore.  So I stopped.  Oh, I've posted here and there, now and again, over the last eight or nine years, but never with frequency or much gusto.

What happened in between?  Raising children.  Professional growth and development in my "real" jobs.  Losing one, gaining another.  Recalibrating the finances afterward (still working on that).  After a number of years of closing off to new music (there had been just too much for too long), in the last couple of years I've begun to discover some new and interesting acts. (The Fratellis, Emily Kinney, Emma Langford, Chris Trapper, Christina Custode, to name a few).  Many of these aren't new, per se, but they were new to me.  And they started to open up the yearning to discover more again.

In the time in between, I also became a buyer and seller of second hand (mostly) music on CD.  Anyone who has read this forum over the years knows that CD is my preferred delivery system.  I don't understand how people will pay twice as much for vinyl that breaks down over time, and costs twice as much.  But to each their own!

I do a lot of thrifting - stores, garage sales, flea markets, etc.  I collect, but I also sell off some of what I find.  If you're interested in checking out what I sell, I am on both Discogs and eBay.

I will revive doing music reviews here, pacing myself as I go.  

I will also spend some time talking about interesting things I find along the way.  Highlighting old releases that come to my attention through the random flux of thrifting.  More to come on that.

For now, if you're still here and still have Wildy's World on your radar, I thank you.  It will be a little bit different going forward, but hopefully still worth your time.

If you are interested in my more mercenary activities, details are below.

Have a most excellent day.

Wildy

Discogs has mostly CDs, some some DVD/BluRay and a handful of cassettes and 8-tracks.  Thousands of titles are $3.00 or less.  My rating here is 99.8%.

https://www.discogs.com/seller/wildysworld/profile

Ebay has, primarily, autographed CDs I have collected over the years.  Many of the autographs are indie or regional bands that I have picked up in thrift shops.  You might just find something odd you've been looking for for years here.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/amherstcds