great video about GAS and urge of buying new gear

Samu

This one was spot on, goes for 'apps' too

You will never buy a synth again - unless you use one of these excuses

Gavinski

Hahaha, spot on!

dendy

Why excuses ? I buy gear simply when i like it and want to try it :-)) I don’t need any excuse, as soon as i earn money that i can afford it there is nothing wrong about it .. i buy it to have fun with it and when fun ends i sell it .. Simple like that .. Life is too short to avoid things which bring joy ..

raabje

@dendy said:
Why excuses ? I buy gear simply when i like it and want to try it :-)) I don’t need any excuse, as soon as i earn money that i can afford it there is nothing wrong about it .. i buy it to have fun with it and when fun ends i sell it .. Simple like that .. Life is too short to avoid things which bring joy ..

man that is just pure junkie talk.... :-) I have a nice PDF for you, I have posted it before:

https://unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/books/27/#:~:text=Description,energy and bringer of happiness

BroCoast

@Samu said:
This one was spot on, goes for 'apps' too

You will never buy a synth again - unless you use one of these excuses

I can’t say I buy anything for those reasons.

Usually I buy stuff for 2 reasons:

1. Because it’s a good deal on something classic I have always wanted
2. Because it’s broken and I can easily fix it. I can then either sell it on for a good profit or keep it.

dendy

@BroCoast
Because it’s a good deal on something classic I have always wanted

this exactly .. not always classic in meaning of it is very old for me (sometimes yes - my Korg EMX-1 purchase was exactly from this category, old gold classics). It is important for me that i can really name few objective reasons why it's worth to put money into that gear (usually it has some features which i miss in my current setup, or general sound, whatever) .. usually before i buy something i spend lot of time watching reviews and many other people using that gear, also reading manuals to get very deeply familiar with that gear .. so no impulsive purchases at all, more i think about it not sure if i'm even "suffering" by GAS cause it's more like slow long process of making decision where i often sit on fence for months ..

Positive result of such approach is that after i decide to buy, from the day one i can use that gear like expert lol :-) When i bought Digitone (my first elektron) literally in same day i finished and recorded first jam, it felt like i own it for years :-)

ervin

@raabje said:

@dendy said:
Why excuses ? I buy gear simply when i like it and want to try it :-)) I don’t need any excuse, as soon as i earn money that i can afford it there is nothing wrong about it .. i buy it to have fun with it and when fun ends i sell it .. Simple like that .. Life is too short to avoid things which bring joy ..

man that is just pure junkie talk.... :-) I have a nice PDF for you, I have posted it before:

https://unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/books/27/#:~:text=Description,energy and bringer of happiness

Doesn't sound like junkie talk to me at all tbh. I think what @dendy says is the exact opposite of GAS, actually. His clarity and practical honesty is quite refreshing.

Speaking of GAS though, did you guys notice how many people here in the forum tend to use alternative words for the verb "buy"? To me, that's a syndrome of GAS, or more exactly, catching yourself and trying to hide it behind creative language. 🙂 Like, when you (and this is a general you) don't simply say you buy an app - instead you grab it, pick it up, pull the trigger on it, pull it in etc. The telltale sign is that you would never use these words for an item of grocery that may well cost the same amount of money. For that, you just use buy.

GAS conscience right there if you ask me. 👍

Krupa

Asa a native English speaker, I would say that I definitely use both grab and pick up in terms of groceries very regularly. Pull the trigger wouldn’t make sense for those, but might in terms of a big purchase, or something that wasn’t regularly available, pull it in probably never, unless I was fishing 😁

Samu

‘want’ and ‘need’ are two completely different things

It’s easy to fall into the trap that we ‘need’ something because we deeply ‘want’ or ‘desire’ it.

This is the ‘string’ marketers pull as hard as they can in order to make customers believe they can’t live without ‘it’.

Even ‘shit’ can be sold with lucrative enough marketing but it’s still ‘shit’ with some fancy ‘marketing makeup’ slapped on top…

dendy

.> @Samu said:

‘want’ and ‘need’ are two completely different things
It’s easy to fall into the trap that we ‘need’ something because we deeply ‘want’ or ‘desire’ it.
This is the ‘string’ marketers pull as hard as they can in order to make customers believe they can’t live without ‘it’.
Even ‘shit’ can be sold with lucrative enough marketing but it’s still ‘shit’ with some fancy ‘marketing makeup’ slapped on top…

In that way we can say we don't need anything except of being healthy :-D

In my point of view it's always "i want this in my setup, because it does thing X and thing Y and none of these things can be done by other gear i have in my setup, or not in the way it can be done on that new piece of gear" ...

reading this whole thread, looks like some people are too much sweating GAS topic ) at the end it's just hobby, like fishing or collecting train models ))

DMfan

@Samu said:
‘want’ and ‘need’ are two completely different things

It’s easy to fall into the trap that we ‘need’ something because we deeply ‘want’ or ‘desire’ it.

This is the ‘string’ marketers pull as hard as they can in order to make customers believe they can’t live without ‘it’.

Even ‘shit’ can be sold with lucrative enough marketing but it’s still ‘shit’ with some fancy ‘marketing makeup’ slapped on top…

True.

And even if you buy fancy new “shit”, if the “shit” playing the “shit” don’t know his or her “shit”, the newly aquired “shit” will probably sound like “shit” anyway so why buy it in the first place?

😁

/DMfan🇸🇪

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