Size of your album collection

If I had to guess-timate, I'd say I had about 1,300 discs.

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Everything I can buy in my country I have. I used to import a lot of cds but the brazilian tax organs are trying very hard to disistimulate me. All in all, I have more than a thousand, almost two counting with the peer to peer friends' contributions (all substituted by the original when I find it).

Metalstrm wrote: How many original albums have you got? LP, CD, casettes, whatever.   I only got about 45 CDs and 20 LPs or so. I wish I was richer...

being poor sucks doesn't it.. we've all been there.. 

no idea about the size of mine to be honest...  never counted.

Come this summer though...  when my collection is merged with Raff's,  whose overall  collection might even be larger than mine.. and whose prog collection includes many I don't have (loves her English prog .. me Italian, Spanish, and French prog ...we mostly only have duplicates of the Big groups). We will have the collection to die for hahhahah.

I've been buying for over 35 years (I don't collect - I just buy) and reached the stage where I am too scared to actually count the exact number, because If I knew that then I'd know their total value and then would never sleep at night. Several people have volunteered to catalogue them for me, but the answer is always no. I know there are over 600 vinyl LP's because the removal men like to count the boxes every time we move house ("Wot you got in here then? Heavy metal?" - was funny the first time, but 20 boxes later I found it difficult to raise a smile). I have three pre-recorded cassettes. Forced to guess the total number of CD's I would say I have lots. My iPlod is sitting at 30G - all tx'd from CD's I own since I don't download.

Not really rich here so much as persistent. I'm about to hit 1300 CD titles.

I got started in the age of LP. I have cassettes that I can't even play back anymore. I'm 42 and have been collecting CDs since the mid to early '80's.  If you're a music nut like me you can't help but start out gradually.  The older prog in my collection still give me pleasure as much as the new stuff. 

 

I an imagine it's hard to be patient as the prog universe has grown so much since I first encountered it (the '70's).  I have found adding too much too soon can kind of give you a musical indigestion, or at the very least you tend to not absorb the newcomers enough to properly appreciate.

Metalstrm wrote: How many original albums have you got? LP, CD, casettes, whatever.   I only got about 45 CDs and 20 LPs or so. I wish I was richer...

You got time. Just know that as your collection grows, you may find yourself listening to each particular album less than you do now. SO where you may have listened to some of your favourites 20- 30 times, when you get a large number of albums, you'll see that even the new favourites get less air time.

Over 1,000.  Not quite sure though.  CD's only - doesn't count cassettes or LPs.

I have about 85 albums in CD. Not so bad for collecting for 2 years

tszirmay wrote: I never counted either but I would say about 1200 CDs , around 400 Cassettes (yuk!) and about 1600 vinyls . BIg Big collection, mostly prog or prog related : no Stones, very little outright pop, no rap, no hip-hop, no country (all yuk for me) . I have 12 snarling dogs, three slithering King cobras and a nasty partridge with a machine gun in a pear tree guarding them.

every time I trade in original Cd's I can't believe how worthless they are second hand I soon lost respect for them and decided that CDrs are the way to go in my part of the world anyway ,  I have about 1000 CD`s half are Cd`s,  my friends and myself share our music similar to what people did back in the vinyl days   with tapes  there's no difference don`t get all self righteous on me

most  CD`s are only worth a fraction of the price second hand had they held closer to their value I`m sure they would be more popular


Edited by Snakes & Arrows - May 24 2007 at 23:38