I Sold a Dream Last Night Thursday, May 08 2008
Everyone wants to play an instrument when they're young. In elementary school I tried to play the tumpet and failed. They moved me onto the trombone because it would be easier for me to play. I swtiched, but I wasn't too thrilled about playing it (I wanted the cool saxophone but they wouldn't let me) and after a year I realized it wasn't for me.
In high school I had some guitarist friends and decided to learn to play. I got a $200 used guitar and an amp and started to play. I learned all the standard beginner songs and eventually realized I was neither good nor did I really want to keep learning how to play.
In college I went to clubs and parties and had a couple DJ friends. I really enjoyed using their tables when they weren't so a few years ago I bought my own. I got a ton of records and set up my turntables and mixer and started to learn how to use them. As it turns out, one of the reasons I've quit so many musical instruments is that I'm tone deaf. As that turns out, not being tone deaf is a requirement to play any sort of musical instrument.
After two years of being locked away in a closet, I decided to list my turntables for sale on Craigslist. I priced out new models of what I had and then cut the price in half. Within hours I had a ton of people interested in buying my barely used, incredibly cheap turntable mix setup.
Last night the first person to come to my apartment and look at them bought them. He seemed pretty amazed at the condition they're in and the price I was asking so pretty quickly said he wanted to buy them from me. He said he plays guitar and drums and he enjoys using his friends' turntables and wanted his own. I thought I'd feel guilty about selling them since it was a dream of mine, but I am glad I sold them to someone who will actually be able to use them.
Anyway, now I get to buy myself a couple 20+ inch LCD monitors for my desktop PC to use in place.
