Take a picture of your record collection and post it on ilm

Probably because I am living and working so far away from where my own is stored.

My vinyl is all in a locked storage space on Van Dam Street off Varrick and in my mother's Long Island basement.

haha all of my cd cover art is locked up in that same storage space on van dam. i have to go over there today to put away out christmas stuff

vandam

I was just there this morning, oddly enough.

this thread's going well

All my records and all but maybe 20 CDs have been in a storage space for six months while we look for a new place to live. This was tolerable until my ipod crashed because the backup is in storage too. So for me this thread is more like, Take a mental picture of your record collection and weep.

Well, this isn't a recent picture (it's from last year), but here are some of the discs...

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/img_5239_3.jpg

Sod vinyl, MiniDisc is where it's at:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/243436410_ed4edff729.jpg

Oh, ok then...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/184149653_48e8cc2eb8.jpg

And here's why I'm not playing much of the above thesedays:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1247/1473855952_d1c29e0b1a.jpg

best i can do

http://bp2.blogger.com/_uu1BrAcvVOk/R4eYDvO7oQI/AAAAAAAAAWA/FbNF3ZMJeYE/s1600-h/photo.jpg

http://web.mit.edu/bryand/Public/blog/Pics/wmbr/wmbr4.jpg

Michael Jones, are those the Ikea shelves?

Here's about half of the legitimately acquired stuff.

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3552/cdshelfdv9.jpg

Another old, exciting close-up

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/maiden.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Places/IMG_7635.jpg

she'll hurt her knees like that

That was the first week we moved in - rest assured we've since acquired a sofa, an office chair, a comfy chair, a kitten, blah blah...

Also, as I remember, we had to have the laptop there in the first two weeks cos that was the only position from which we could leech off the "Belmont Bitches" wi-fi network...

Okay, here's today

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/random_pics/img_7159_2.jpg

Will - yes, they're Ikea Traby. We have rather a lot of Traby cubes (some with doors and drawer inserts) - books, DVDs, magazines, kids' shoes, camera gear, financial files, photo albums, they've all ended up in Traby. If I look at my Flickr stats my most popular Yahoo Image referrals are searches for "Ikea Traby"!

This is the only photo I have showing the CD cabinets - this was well over a year ago (you can see yet more Traby on the right). We seem to have set up so many obstacles to prevent the kids getting in there that we're fairly discouraged from going in there ourselves. As a result we just have about 100 CDs permanently stacked in various places and that's all we play...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/281450949_ec1c236ac9.jpg

My God, I've just realised that bag has been hanging off that doorknob for at least 15 months!

pot of gold

> this was well over a year ago

he has since graduated to reading doctor seuss.

2007's cd purchases (and gifts):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2074/2125001286_e196ec5cfa_m.jpg

I think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.

here are most of my records (not including the 200 or so new arrivals) and a shit ton of junk

http://www.robotsinheat.com/images/stacks.jpg

large CD collections are almost silly looking. my CD boxes are all over the place, i imagine we must have a good 700 of them altogether. but they are of course dwarfed by my records:
http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records1.jpg

http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records2.jpg

http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records3.jpg

and these ones which are on the steps to the basement so my cat won't scratch them. im too lazy to take them all the way up to the third floor since i'll just be taking them out for my gig next week again.

my 45's are in a shoebox under the green bag sitting by the tables.

http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records4.jpg
http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records5.jpg

eek. didnt realise there was a pic limit per post. the bottom pic is the crate on the basement steps!

i knew it was you as soon as i saw the FXHE sticker. i didn't even know he did stickers.

on the floor near the turntable
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8264/img0727wr2.jpg

on the shelf far from the turntable
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4475/img0729ah8.jpg

"i knew it was you as soon as i saw the FXHE sticker. i didn't even know he did stickers.

-- elan"

haha. yeah he only got those done recently, i've got one on my ride, too ;)

nice selections in the front row there. douglas adams and orwell too, good selections all around!

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/sw-vinyl.jpg

Are those two copies of "Back to Mono"?

heh, yeah, but I'm not selling one!

where did you get the shelves sw00ds?

we splurged at ikea. they weren't cheap--i think $275/per unit (that's two units).

^ that record 5 across 3 down 17 in is awesome

Ikea is brilliant for cheap music storage though. Short of raiding a closing-down shop you won't get cheaper shelving and it lasts ages.

hmm, i think you mean either Kick Out the Jams or Dancer With the Bruised Knees.

oops-xp

this thread is making me feel like i have the tiniest penis ever.

ah, size is irrelevant (er, I'm talking about records here). I have 35 years or so of collecting behind me, much of it spent on 50-cent goodwill crap. it looks so much more impressive than it actually is, trust me!

Does that copy of England's Newest Hitmakers have the poster?

Also I'm coonnnnstantly having to upgrade CD racks; I have about 350 (CDs} right now and would like something (preferably Ikea) that'd hold up to 6 or 700. Any recommendations, folks? I have a Robin shelf from Ikea (see http://www.hoerspiele.de/specials/aufbewahrung/bilder/a004-1.jpg ) and I can't stand how narrow the shelves are; I wish I could remove the middle barrier.

actually, Thus Sang, that Stones cover on display is a clock! I have a proper version of the album, but no poster.

Glory be, it is a clock!

albeit a clock which does not actually work.

Scott wins. He has the biggest, um, penis!

So what's the box set two to the right of Rhino's Sugar Hill box (and after a Stones one, I believe)? It looks like it says WHITNEY. And it looks like it's on Arista. A Whitney Houston box set??

And why on earth are you KEEPING two Spector boxes? It's an awful box! (Well, okay not AWFUL. But definitely could be one disc.)

LOVE this thread!! And where can we see Seward's collection?

this picture is about 6 months old.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/518440591_13be7bb0ed_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/478943241_f9daf78f84.jpg%3Fv%3D0

This one is from when i was just moving into this current apt and had not unpacked much yet.

hm.. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/478943241_59bc31d277_o.jpg

Scott wins. He has the biggest, um, penis!

Um, okay, you're making me self-conscious (about my records, I mean). I'm not trying to "win"! Honest.

Anyway, Kevin, damn good eye--it is Whitney indeed. My collection is alphabetized, but not the box sets (of which I don't own that many anyway). The Whitney box was actually a promo/freebie from when I worked at HMV. I distinctly remember it was sitting in this promo box for WEEKS--no one else wanted it or no one wanted to be seen with it--I was thrilled to bring it home, but the truth is, I've yet to play it. It's four 12" remix singles, with GREAT labels (each one featuring her FACE).

Yeah, the Spector box sets too long, but so is every box set ever released, except maybe the Doo Wop Box and that Stones singles box you spotted... even the Sugarhill box (between Dylan biograph and the Stones), I really lose interest on or about the third disc.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1025/1492041526_b8cde517c5.jpg

ian, what's that book or magazine you have sitting on top of your crates? it looks like some weird metal mag?

that in the second picture is the 1st Nicodemus record, "Spacechild Squall"

I was just thinking my four shelves of records and two shelves of cds would look a little out of place in this thread.

xxp

more dick-waving. here's some zoom-ins.

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/sw-2.jpg

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/sw-3.jpg

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/sw-6.jpg

Anyone guess what the 45 at the front of the stash is?

Pet Shop Boys to Prince, basically.

My funny vitilago arm holding up Dolly.

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http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/sw-4.jpg
Anyone guess what the 45 at the front of the stash is?

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/sw-5.jpg
Pet Shop Boys to Prince, basically.

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/sw-8.jpg
My funny vitilago arm holding up Dolly.

Anyone guess what the 45 at the front of the stash is?

Something by Sparks...

what, no one took a picture of their iPod?

Will try to grab some photos of my grandfather's record room tomorrow - several thousand country and bluegrass 45s, 78s and LPs, cassettes he made of the 78s to save wear. Now that my grandmother's moved into an assisted living center, the job of figuring out what's in there was dumped on me. Found a dozen Louvin Brothers LPs (incl. Satan Is Real - that one's going in a frame on my wall).

i posted pixs on that vinyl thread, but i keep moving things around:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2177/1564484515_e6d2ffef22.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2092/1564484353_04181c21fb.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2117/2187398094_0545e3b95f.jpg?v=0

closet is way too full. need more shelves:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2167/2186613181_a59cb1ca10_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/2186613121_53dcae0582_b.jpg

plus, bedroom closet is full of 12-inches. need a shelf for those too. and here i thought a big new house would be plenty of room!

Seward - How come I don't see your copy of Stairway to Hell amongst your (music?) books?

Woods - You win the record-collecting-geek award for 2008! I am shamed...

Kevin - 2 copies of Back to Mono was the first thing I noticed about SWoods' pic too. Nerd alert!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2070/2187451584_b58c22a146.jpg

MODEST

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Kevin - 2 copies of Back to Mono was the first thing I noticed about SWoods' pic too. Nerd alert!

shanecavanaugh, rather (and/or Kevin...or sumthin').

records:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2004/2187619238_da09a2f1b6_b.jpg

books & records:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2398/2186832259_3548575efa_b.jpg

CDs:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2355/2186826537_5d83bba467.jpg

more CDs:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2187619988_d8f469fbda_b.jpg

close-up:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2187619988_d8f469fbda_b.jpg

oops, this was meant to be the close-up actually:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2149/2187619704_0ec9169319_b.jpg

I have about 350 (CDs) right now and would like something (preferably Ikea) that'd hold up to 6 or 700. Any recommendations, folks?

For years I've poked around IKEA looking for something with a small footprint + high capacity. It seems, however, that IKEA's taking its cues from the downturn in record sales: plenty of options for small(er) collections, few to none for larg(er) collections.

The best, widely-available racks I've come across are manufactured by Boltz. For $199.00 USD, you can get yourself their accurately named CD Rack 600:

http://www.boltz.com/images/products/largeimages/cd600_large.jpg

Obviously a significant dollar investment, but the biggest upside, in my ever-hoarding view, is that it's "expandable to grow with your collection."

Ioannis - Don't even get me started on the bookshelves! Two copies of Double Trouble--gotta love those remainder bins. And a blue copy of the RS Record Guide--nice. Also, what is Essential Defenders? (Great pics btw.)

Kevin, you're right about the Sparks 45 peeking through ("The Number One Song in Heaven")--I knew you'd come through.

I don't have a camera, thought mine would involve a hideous pile of records and cds on my floor, all heaped together with guitar pedals and half taken apart guitars, books, dirty socks and underwear, empty bags of potato chips, empty root beer cans, soldering equipment, so on, so forth...

The racks themselves are half full at best.

Defenders:

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Defenders-Vol-Marvel-Essentials/dp/0785115471/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200151661&sr=8-2

As if it's not enough being a music geek, I'm a comics geek also!

*Hopeless*

And a blue copy of the RS Record Guide

The red copy is to the left of it (minus much of the cover), btw.

Ah, cool, I have a somewhat ratty copy of the red one also, but have been on a years-long search for the blue.

I'm trying to identify every book on your shelf--can get most of the top but get lost elsewhere. We have a lot of overlap in our collections. The two white spines to the left of the Tosches' reader: I can't guess at the one right next to it, but is the one next to that the Melody Maker anthology?

Also, I can't identify the book sandwiched in between the two Bangs collections.

Hah! The white-cover Toches book would be The Devil and Sonny Liston--not exactly music related, but it is by Toches (and a great read besides), so what the hell.

Bangs be between the two Bangs books; it's a Brit edition of Psychotic Reactions.

here's a link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychotic-Reactions-Carburettor-Lester-Bangs/dp/1852425326/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200153820&sr=1-12

Awesome. Maybe later today I'll snap the music books--hours of fun for everyone, this.

btw, Scott, third shelf down and to the left you can spot my Da Capo Best Music Writing series of books which I initially sought out strictly because of your review. Also, this having took place back in late '02 (I believe?), your review introduced me to the wonderful world of ILM. (Yes, my being here is primarilly Scott's fault, folx!)

xp

way cool.

"Seward - How come I don't see your copy of Stairway to Hell amongst your (music?) books?"

we've got books all over the place. lotsa bookshelves. music and otherwise.

pics?

maybe when i get home. i don't have a great collection of music books, sad to say. i do have both volumes of the age of rock though! and bangs on blondie. um, and lots of ned rorem books that nobody likes except me. i dunno, i guess i have some good ones. not much in the way of history/biography though. other than, you know, the standard bios: anita o'day, sun ra, mel tillis.

i have a signed copy of stutterin' boy, by the way. and a signed dion autobio that i found at the dump!

and a signed dion autobio that i found at the dump

That's genuinely kind of sad.

Hands down greatest thread ever! It's like being invited over to all y'all's pads. Many observations/questions.

Ioannis - amaaaaaazing! That Springsteen live box is an annoyance since it seems to be the ONLY record that sticks out from the shelves. And thus if someone asks one question about music, it's "So you like Springsteen?" "Amongst other things..."

My copy of that Dave Marsh 1001 singles book looks almost EXACTLY like yours. Blasé writing (save for the "Soldier Boy" entry - thanx Matos!) AND blasé gluing??

What's the long thing resting on top of the part of the shelf that includes the Springsteen live box? Sorta looks like that Rhino Once in a Lifetime thang.

I'm a comics geek also!

Ok that explains why I never heard of that Avengers box set.

Feel free not to answer this: Is it easy to find books in English where you live or did you purchase most of these via internet or mail order or whatever?

the Melody Maker anthology?

There's a Melody Maker anthology??? Please to explain.

Ah, cool, I have a somewhat ratty copy of the red one also, but have been on a years-long search for the blue.

Exact opposite for me. Although if it's any consolation, someone smashed a fly into the Rush entry. It's too gross to even look at. I may never know what John Swenson or whoever thought of Hemispheres.

What! You mean to say you didn't notice all the Chess boxes (Muddy, Wolf, Berry, etc.) and The Anthology of American Folk Music mixed in with all the records? Hmm, methinks you and Alfred have Springsteen on the brain.

BTW, this is what's resting atop them there records (someday I'll even take the time to read it. Really!):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acme-Novelty-Library-Chris-Ware/dp/0224077023/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200169933&sr=8-3

And yeah, I do most of my shopping online; it's just WAY more convenient that way for me.

There's a Melody Maker anthology??? Please to explain.

Might mean this

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/71N7J8S2ESL_AA240_.jpg

Oooh that looks yummy! Thanx!!!

methinks you and Alfred have Springsteen on the brain.

I did notice the Chess and Harry Smith boxes. But that Springsteen might as well have a searchlight on it.

And I adore The Acme Novelty Library!!!

More pix! I need more pix!

Dude, share the wealth.

I can't remember which one, but one of the Sonic Youth albums has a picture of what I presume was Thurston's record collection on the liner. I thought it was a laughable "mine's bigger than yours" gesture, though maybe intentionally so.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/richardjgibson/Broadcasters2-JohnPeel-Ravenscroft-.jpg

thanks pipecock! after i saw yours i considered bringing out my copy of tour de france but then i got a phone call and had to bounce so i just took the shots.

Kevin - For me, this Dead record (to the left of the Bruce box) is even more glaringly noticeable in that pic:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z6Q369ZSL._SS500_.jpg

Take a picture of your record collection and denim cut-offs and post it on ilm

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40917000/jpg/_40917210_peelbbc2_203.jpg

I think Thurston's records can be seen on one of the pics included in the Washing Machine release.

xp

hohoho

Dude, share the wealth.

Oh gawd, I'd die. It's sorta like taking a picture of yourself to see how fat you really are. My Adorno would kick in and I'd just get depressed.

And I can't even see that Dead record.

Really? You don't notice the white & blue spine glaring out at you about a quarter of the way in (from the left) on the same shelf as the Bruce box?

Oh! I thought you meant immediately to the left of The Boss. Yes, I see it now.

Most noticeable spine ever (on a record that is NOT a box set or ever a 2-record set): The Go-Go's: Vacation

this was the only photo i could find online of it, but waxpoetics had an article on ed motta and this is his record collection. it's just ridiculous

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b59/jbodine/Music%20II/MottasRecords.jpg

That's just insane. How does he even find the time to listen to all those, like, even once?

Sigh, my photo would just be of cardboard boxes stacked in the basement on the one hand, and a hard disk on the other. How sad. Destined to stay that way until we take over our tenants' apartment in circa 2010.

isn't what's his name from the roots supposed to have the biggest record collection. i know he has a seperate building for them.

if i were rich, like, really rich, i would buy a library-sized building and house the biggest hall of records you ever did see. and people could come to listen to whatever they wanted. and make copies of anything they wanted. for free. you could probably buy most of the premier vinyl collections on earth for less than the cost of a jumbo jet and a matisse or two. a boy can dream can't he!

I'll take one copy of Don Howard's "Oh Happy Day" please.

"thanks pipecock! after i saw yours i considered bringing out my copy of tour de france

-- elan"

haha, that is actually my 6 year old son's record! behind it were some of his other records that he brought up to play: "planet rock", "musique non-stop", "ghostbusters" soundtrack, etc. he's a big kraftwerk fan in case you couldnt tell ;)

Obviously a significant dollar investment, but the biggest upside, in my ever-hoarding view, is that it's "expandable to grow with your collection."

-- dblcheeksneek, Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

That is by and far the sleekest CD rack I have ever seen. I would so love to own it, but alas I am officially a Poor College Student, and can't really spend $200 on anything at all, let alone a CD rack. I honestly really don't want to spend more than $60, which is pushing it, but I'm determined that it can be done. I'd get a normal bookshelf, but I don't like how deep the shelves usually are.

look on your local craigslist - furniture section, or cds/dvd/vhs, or just search for "cd rack" "media rack" "cd shelf" etc. - and check daily til you find something good for cheap. works great in college!

Kevin, the MM book David M links to is the one I was referring to. It's a pretty cool book, though not the sort of thing you sit down and read--more a reference guide.

btw, Scott, third shelf down and to the left you can spot my Da Capo Best Music Writing series of books which I initially sought out strictly because of your review. Also, this having took place back in late '02 (I believe?), your review introduced me to the wonderful world of ILM. (Yes, my being here is primarilly Scott's fault, folx!)

I am really, really sorry for this. I feel like I owe you five years of your own life or something.

I wish more people chipped in here with pics.

Linemen have the biggest ones:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/music/article/0,2792,DRMN_54_5496568,00.html

And here's my visually exciting collection of Radio On and Why Music Sucks.

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/radioon.jpg

I'm banking my retirement on this cabinet drawer.

That actually has me salivating more than your records. If I ever visit you, I'm brining my scanner and pots of coffee.

I am really, really sorry for this. I feel like I owe you five years of your own life or something.

heh, you kiddin', how would I kill all this free time I’ve got without this place(?): I’d be climbin’ the walls most likely (well, either that, or reading the many books I’ve been ignoring these past few years; hiya Dream Boogie, how’s you?). Rather, pity the poor ILXors who have been subjected to the plethora of lame poll threads I've started (both past and...future?).

more pix, dammit!

A few fave raves! Chuck - note the mekons EPs.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2205/2189195653_b070a2778b_b.jpg

I has a Dolly, too!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2265/2189982636_4e49975026.jpg

Graphic novels; video tapes; box sets:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2189981476_d19d90fe24.jpg

Close-up: the second shelf from the top holds most of my 2007 CDs. Pityful, no?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2189193411_ee20131ce4_b.jpg

Not a great pic, but this was my old West Village apartment that I'd decorated like a record shop:

http://a915.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/50/l_d185736e57f647aaeaf277f0b24a41b2.jpg

And Opus watches over it all:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/30769451_c0f9bb023e.jpg

in order to get into the cupboard and take this quick snap, i had to move the washing-line, the ironing basket and the ironing board. which says it all, really. i don't think i've played a vinyl record in more than two years now (whereas 15 years ago i spat on CDs as the work of the devil and refused to entertain the notion of anything other than 12 inches of groove).

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/080113records.jpg

the CDs at the top are two piles deep, and pretty much as precarious as they look (as mrs fiendish found to her cost while trying to get some wrapping paper before christmas). there are neat little piles of CDs elsewhere across the house, and another shelf in the bedroom; i considered taking pictures of some of them, but i really should be revising for an exam.

anyway, yeh. a rather sad historical document, i guess: vinyl on a par with a copy of clarisworks 4.0 on 3.5" disks :(

i went through a phase of MP3ing as many records as i could bear to do in a day (such a time-consuming process); then i discovered slsk and realised that perhaps it wasn't really necessary.

somewhere there's also a small DJ box of 7" stuff ... rather concerned as to where that is, actually, but not looking for it now.

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/criticsdrawer.jpg

the larger book in that photo laying flat down is a copy of the Canadian Securities Course manual, thus combining my two passions in one drawer, rock criticism and financial securities.

Good grief, Scott, aren’t those two disciplines like diametrically opposed to one another?

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Here's the sad pathetic state of my records. 99.9% are in boxes @ work. CDs and stuff too.

Interesting new Ikea cab for gear and records (left side is mine, right is my girls). Gear piled on top will go on top shelf (see drill and stuff) after I borrow a hole saw this afternoon). 1200s will go on top w/mixer.

Other photo is by the desk. Shelves being replaced by similar, albeit taller, cab so we don't hafta LOOK at all this stuff all the time. Mixer and 78 ttbl (not shown) will fit inside with printer etc. Typical Chicago-style hutch w/books on right. 1200 on chair for finishing ripping tango wax from Buenos Aires trip LAST YEAR (no, it's not been sitting there all that time... only a couple of weeks.

The cabs come in all stacking modular sizes so we can add another half-size unit next to the horizontal one if we need. All wall mountable too if you like and many diff door styles.

Had hell of a time finding something that was suitable for records and wide enough for the 1200s that we could afford.

Will attempt to avoid submitting pictures of boxes containing 1000s of lonely wax and CDs from my office (sigh)

Good grief, Scott, aren’t those two disciplines like diametrically opposed to one another?

Yeah, I'm joshing. I do work in the securities industry--though I've never completed the course, and probably never will--but it holds next to no interest for me. Other than the fact that it pays the bills.

Pretty sure we have that same shag rug, factcheckr.

D'oh!

The Wall of Death, tooken a few months ago.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/WallOfDeathColor.jpg

Used to be more, but I sold about 350 CDs a couple of years ago.

Cool, another Love and Rockets/Avengers/Defenders fan! Also, England's Dreaming is a great book! Best ever on the subject? Maybe.

grimly: if CDs are the work of the devil, why dontcha send me that Fall peel sessions box set...? :X

Ioannis: i spy MIA, Kanye west, Against me, Bjork, Modest mouse, Shins, Dizzee rascal, Thermals, Apples in stereo, and Beck on the second shelf -- amirite?

Right about all except for the Beck.

heheh. nice try, stephen. quickly enough, i realised i was WRONG, of course :)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/hdd002.jpg

YES

Ha. More Ikea. It's the Winter rug. Cheap, and we can toss it when it gets dirty.

Ned, that can't be everything, can it? (No...)

Factcheckr, fascinating! What's that stick in the pic of the open Ikea cab? Looks like it's broke.

Until VERY recently, we had the same cheap ass VCR and DVD player. Loved the VCR (I think we bought three altogether) but it sadly died last month. We couldn't find it again or ndeed a stand alone VCR. So we bought a VCR-DVD combo which gave me an excuse to store away the cheap ass DVD player which I hated.

DVD next to cab: Because I Said So starring Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore.

I don't see the 1200 on the chair in the last pic. Is the ibook resting on it?

And that's great that your job can double as storage. I hope it's a long term job.

Rock Hardy -

Who's the yellow figure five shelves down on the left? It looks like a sexier Homer Simpson.

You have the Children of Nuggets box but not the other two???

Nice to see Blankets up there. I used to work with Craig and overjoyed he got out of there and then some!

Fascinating to see repeat box sets from Coltrane and David Thomas. I JUST got rid of my Coltrane and will be getting rid of the Thomas soon. What does this say about the flow of product? What does this say about those box sets?

one of these books is not like the others...

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/books02.jpg

beardsley?

Never heard of This is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco. Is the writing good?

What's the green book to the left of Classic 80s Pop?

Is the Fascinating Rhythm book a Gershwin bio?

Didn't even know there was a Rick Johnson anthology.

Best book up there: Like Punk Never Happened

Beardsley is correct. Couldn't fit on another shelf, I guess.

This is Uncool... Ehhh. Some of it's okay. I liked the intro and was gearing up for a good read, but I lost some interest (I'm planning to finish it eventually). One of Gary Mulholland's aims with the book is to provide a counter-narrative of sorts to Dave Marsh's singles book, but it strikes me as surface kind of difference at best.

The book beside Classic 80s Pop is Michael Bracewell's England is Mine, which I think I've picked up three times now and given up on quickly (though I'm waiting in the mail for a copy of his new Roxy Music book).

Fascinating Rhythm--yeah, a Gershwin bio... And the Rick Johnson anthology is excellent. Put together in a kind of haphazard way, but it doesn't work against it in my view... Long been a fan of Like Punk Never Happened.

hah--I recognize way too many of those! Boy, Scott, you sure weren't kidding when you said the Stones were your favorite band. I don't think I recognize that Keith Richards book, tho.

Ned, that can't be everything, can it? (No...)

No indeed. That's about...I dunno, one sixth or seventh of it.

good grief...

Used to be worse. Trust me.

heavens!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2300/2190183531_fff3408aa1.jpg

http://www.heartofwisdom.com/images/blog/Stumbleupon/thumbs-up.gif to Historic 6th Ward in the right-hand stack

What Opus watches over it all, Ned?

Clearly you are not familiar with the works of Berkeley Breathed.

I'm amazed you're all so neat and organized. Really, I'm impressed.

this thread almost, almost, makes me wish i wasn't getting rid of 3/4 of my rekkids

just my rare ones ($20+ stuff), everything else is in the basement

http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/sound/Stack-of-Wax.jpg

poor ZZ Top

nah, the more valuable ones are on the bottom

That stack is ungodly!

Why are they stacked like that next to empty shelves?

because i thought that gis was funnier than going with http://www.rhythmism.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=34439&stc=1.jpg

sonned by sanskrit

his record collection:

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2004/10/26/mccabe_peelathome3.jpg

often want to start thread about 'what do you think will happen to your collection when you die' if it hasn't already been done but feels too morbid too often.

^^ good thread idea. this once popped into my head and i blurted to my loved one "if i die don't sell these off for a dollar each to those vultures on craigslist".

i also once surprised her with "hey, if i ever fall into a coma you and the doctors are expressly forbidden to cut my hair and fingernails. i want the full rip van winkle experience when i wake up."

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v182/198/69/13922607/n13922607_43261045_347.jpg
the rest is in the basement.

1. the communal stuff :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/pics/1.JPG

2. the drawers are stuffed with skinny promos = boring, and the paltry record collection.
oh the shame :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/pics/2.JPG

3. the stored away archive pt1 :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/pics/3.JPG

(nb. not all - its a small room, and couldn't stand far anough away)

4. the on-u sound/prince shelf :

5. the hidden archive :

its about 3 feet deep - and completely stuff to the max up in the attic that only i ever access.

fuck .. here are the others.

on-u/prince :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/pics/5.JPG

the hidden archive :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/pics/4.JPG

and yes, we have mice in the attic.
though not anymore - the bastards are all dead.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/hdd002.jpg
-- Pashmina, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:42

hehehe

sexy...

Just moved in September, still haven't finished sorting everything out (you can see the boxes in one pic that shows I need one mor rack). I built the awkward, crooked thing with a space for a tv for my old studio apt, and will replace that eventually.

http://www.fastnbulbous.com/photos/080117_%20011.jpg
http://www.fastnbulbous.com/photos/080117_-017.jpg
http://www.fastnbulbous.com/photos/080117_-016.jpg

Third grade milk squad certificate on the mantle, obv.

Heh, sadly, it's not even mine. It's either my gf's med school or Yale diploma. My G.E.D. would look pretty pathetic next to it ;)

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u20/sonofstan/collectionpic180108.jpg

Most of it - there's a few more boxes upstairs, and about 300 CDs in a press

oh yeah this thread! so here's electronic music (sorry dark phone pic) minus a couple hundred recent ones for listening/dj bag. sold a thousand or so lately too -but thousands more in rock, hip hop etc up in the attic.
lower half shelves to the right are two identical, purpose-built items. post-its & separators for artists/labels/genres.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2203/2202608368_bf3e6ec5e0.jpg

i feel like a messy b*stard now having seen everyones IKEA catalogue collection, and as for proper dividers per alphabet letter, thats just some crazy shit going on.
random chaos is so much more fun.

zones of chaos subsist throughout.

i try to separate my records based on musical lineage, but it doesn't always work neatly

sonofstan, what's the big black box set third shelf down?

sonofstan, what's the big black box set third shelf down?

Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947- 1974; 7 Dbl LPs - think they were issued separately as well

(those three shelves above the turntable/ amp one are the only semi -organised bit; top one is 'rock', middle one jazz and blues, third one is soul/funk/ disco)

the motard has some thoughts on this thread... i hope you're okay with him jacking your photographs!

http://imomus.livejournal.com/345642.html

haha--best bit:

I couldn't helping thinking of them as repositories for something dead

Repeat as necessary.

What an idiot.

eep, that's some precarious shit going on at the top of fastnbulbous's middle-left picture.

My photos would be a decidedly unimpressive two small boxes of records and some weak shelves being terrifyingly weighed down by 400 or so CDs. And a hard drive. But I won't be a poor student forever! Maybe.

MOMUS ONLY BEING IMPRESSED BY JAPANESE AND GERMAN DEEJAY RECORD COLLECTIONS SHOCKER!

If i put all my records in a geodesic dome on top of a mountain in finland he would be my slave.

Get to it, duder!

Actually I agree with Momus on the general point -- having (finally) set up a 1 TB drive and importing all sorts of things into it as quickly as I can swing it, I'd much rather be moving THAT than boxes of CDs again whenever the time comes for said move. I wonder if it also has something to do with looking at a heap of stuff and thinking, "Well, who am I saving it for in the end, really?"

i don't care about the end. and i don't care about CDs. if all my CDs exploded tomorrow, i wouldn't cry. and i love a lot of them! but i adore everything about records. sound, look, etc. i would cry if they died. but when i die? who cares. throw them in the dump. or first come first served.

i mean, i just like listening to them. and the more i have, the more i get surprised by stuff. "hey, forgot how good this is!" "hey, forgot i had this one!" it's like browsing in my own personal shop.

and since he was kind enough to provide a link:

I HEAR ALL MOMUS FANS HAVE UNSIGHTLY THIGHS. AND THEY DON'T USE THE BIDET PROPERLY.

it's like browsing in my own personal shop.

Very true! I'm also finding though that I'm doing the same now with all the old files I'm putting into the drive -- my last.fm plays will likely get a little more random here soon enough. But this isn't meant to be exclusionary, it's more that there are further options now. Which I'm all for!

needless to say, the one picture i was hot for on that german dj thread was this one:

http://thelastbeat.com/img/2007/michael_reinboth.jpg

ahh, that's the one that required structural reinforcements, if i remember correctly.

it makes me hope that i know when to stop

having (finally) set up a 1 TB drive and importing all sorts of things into it as quickly as I can swing it, I'd much rather be moving THAT than boxes of CDs again whenever the time comes for said move.

A 1 TB drive might be better pragmatically in a relocation/move...but aesthetically I'd rather look at a record or cd colection than a hard drive.

But I'm a bit surprised to see this line from Momus. It's no doubt more convenient to have digitised images of paintings, but I wouldn't think much of the National Gallery in London if they disposed of their collection and put it on a hard drive.

aesthetically I'd rather look at a record or cd colection than a hard drive

Both have their places. I rather like the look of the drive on top of my hundred-year-old desk.

I know a ton of people who are just now starting to get into vinyl. It doesn't seem dead at all. This also seems tied to the growing noise metal folk thing that releases tons of vinyl and is growing slowly beyond guys with beards.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/2215707924_bb9c0750d3.jpg

Haha, records piled on the couch too. Typical.

you guys are crazy though

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2198/2215707924_bb9c0750d3.jpg

^^^yo how do i get some shelves really really cheap? right now my recordas are lined up on the carpet. :-/

For records, ikea's probably the best bet. Expedit or Traby. Those up there were built to order and not cheap. I mean, not super expensive either, but ikea would be cheaper.

ooh la la, mister sang freud, i do declare. i'm in your will, right?

i'm taking 'em down with me!

You probably have all of them though. The good ones, anyway.

i had my custom built for like 300$ to fit under the stairs from http://www.stumasa.com/ dunno if they deliver or if that would double yr cost on shipping alone. i had to finish them myself, but that was kinda fun.

looks like sf only, sorry suckas

"the motard has some thoughts on this thread... i hope you're okay with him jacking your photographs!

http://imomus.livejournal.com/345642.html

-- elan"

the only "repository for something dead" is this guy's skull.

I call dibs on Scott's record collection when he dies!

this thread has made me realize 2 things.

a) someone's is always bigger
b) i want to totally purge myself of all this "stuff". as beautiful as Thus Sang Freud's pic looks, man, i just can't keep doing this. it's literally and figuratively weighing me down.

So true! Moving far away now and taking as little as I can, selling at least half my collection (to pay for moving the other half)... No longer DJing much, so any incentives to keep so much dusty plastic evaporated.

I had to move one of those cabinets when they came to install the new internet hookup. They needed access to an outlet. Each cabinet is three bins wide by five high. It was no problem at the time, taking all the records out and putting them back in. But I must have strained something 'cause I could hardly walk for the next two days. Moving the whole collection would be an enterprise. They are a presence.

Jesus, Thus Sang Freud, that looks amazing.

I want to totally purge myself of all this "stuff". as beautiful as Thus Sang Freud's pic looks, man, i just can't keep doing this. it's literally and figuratively weighing me down.

I know what you mean--and there's nothing in the world worse than moving day, trust me--but I've actually come to love my record collection not even so much as music but as comforting furniture. Not being flippant--I don't play the things often, but I love having them around, and I do take some weird comfort in knowing that they're there. (I also just purchased a USB turntable recently, which I think may have the curious effect of rekindling my interest in listening to the things, while making the transformation into mp3s complete, at least until the next thing comes along--started transferring all sorts of cool songs from compilations last night I'd never even listened to before.)

I meant to say "the curious dual effect"

speaking of dying, i can't imagine right now who i'd in fact leave my record collection to. if he have kids, it'll obviously be them--IF they have any interest in the things. I imagine for some people it would be more of a liability "inheriting" a few thousand records, many of them scratched up and clawed on the spines by various cats.

Argh - "if WE have kids" not "he"

also, when i was transfering songs last night from LPs and 45s to mp3, I have to say--I totally started to believe, for the first time in my life, the cliché about how much "warmer" vinyl sounds. Even through my small computer speakers, the sound coming off the turntable had soooo much presence. it's possible i was just expecting it to, but i don't think so. so maybe what i said above ain't entirely true--maybe i will start listening to records more often again.

i have a kid already, im hoping he will be interested in taking mine. he has a small collection built up already, about 10 records, but he is only 6. and he enjoys listening to my records with me! i love it. he wants to start making some electro, i told him he has to be a little big bigger before he can touch the mpc.

Is momus hotlinking anyone? can someone pop an http password on his page?

I've got two of the Expedit 2x4 shelves on the way. Oh so excited. And I'm hoping my 3-year-old will want my records when I go. He certainly is interested in driving his cars on them now, much to my chagrin. The other day I had thrown away a cd-r that had screwed up during an attempted burn. He was under the desk playing and found it in the trash can. So he grabbed it and ran to me in the kitchen and said, as if someone was about to be in big trouble, "Dada, Mama throwed away dis record!"

xpost

no, he hosted them himself in his photobucket account. maybe you can get photobucket to remove them? or you could just blast him on your blog. i wouldn't mind seeing a momus/jw blog fite.

I went record shopping yesterday largely as a result of this thread.
I suggest everyone that listens to music read this thread at least once, all of the record industries problems will be solved.

He certainly is interested in driving his cars on them now, much to my chagrin.

Have you seen that VW minivan record player?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uYsjs_xleg

I haven't seen that, but I'll definitely be showing it to my son. I'm actually pretty amazed that thing works as well as it does.

vinyl killer

many of them scratched up and clawed on the spines by various cats.

OMG! I've always been afraid to confess this! I figured someone would call for my banning cuz I didn't put my (ugh) Jandek vinyl up high enough so that Baby Snacky couldn't use it as a scratching post.

There should be new standards of grading so as to forgive bad kitten behavior, i.e. Mint With Claw Marks.

he has a small collection built up already, about 10 records, but he is only 6.

That's a TON of records for a 6 year old. You're sending him on his way towards a vinyl addiction. :)

oh jesus. i'm moving across the country this week, and i just got really anxious trying to find another milk crate for my records. but i found it from the container store website. i guess i'll go there in the morning. i need some chemical relaxation.

i had a lot of records by the time i was six. i just took the ones from my parents that i liked and bought others at garage sales.

will post pictures soon.

http://blog.audiovideointeriors.com/208great/

speechless

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/376872887_4af75f3beb.jpg
This is a year old, after I weeded out about 200 CDs to go into storage.
I've since put all the CD singles into storage as well and the 2007 purchases have taken up their space.

curb alert !

i am throwing out
all my music..

i live next to dunkin donuts

Just out of curiosity, how do you all organize your music collection.

Right now I have enough (read so few) that I can put them all in chronological order (of when I acquired them), and can remember where everything goes, but obsessive compulsiveness is making me want to either organize by label or by artist, even though this probably would make things more confusing. I'd be interested in hearing what ways people with infinitely more records than I'll probably ever have do it.

This thread doesn't cease to shock and amaze me, though

this thread is making me feel like i have the tiniest penis ever.

― Stevie D, Friday, January 11, 2008 11:56 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink couldn't have said it better myself.

I'm somewhere between the boutique and the insane sprawl level - 2,500 LPs, maybe 1,000 singles and a few hundred Cds under the desk in my bedroom. Organisation is loose, but without even this minimum it would be a huge headfuck - as it is stuff goes missing and I waste hours flicking through every shelf.

One shelf is Jazz, alphabetically with no sub- divisions by genre, so Peggy Lee sits next to Steve Lacy, Sinatra by Archie Shepp. Next shelf is Soul/ Rn'b/ Hip-Hop (embarrassingly little) - again alphabetically, although a little disorganised, and compilations willy-nilly at the end.

Next one down is Brazil/ Latin/ Irish Folk/ Reggae/ African - not further organised; under a 100 of each so not too difficult to find as long as stuff goes back.

Half a shelf of Country, and then a shelf and half of Rock/ Pop nearly completely unorganised, although some artist have been grouped. And boxes of random crap behind the sofa/ in the bedroom.

Singles are a mess.

You guys make me feel terrible about having a mostly converted mp3 collection :(

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k139/moteldemoka/mokacoll.jpg

This thread needs to be revived!

I'll start:

Not too bad considering I'm not yet 22, and 80% of the vinyl (which excludes the 80 or so records I've sold) has all been bought in the last 2 years. I should have a quite impressive looking collection when I'm about 28-30 and move into a place with hardwood floors.
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/7702/1111kfm.jpg
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/586/2222zvm.jpg

I must do something about those damn wires!

cool setup

my shit is all in boxes scattered around due to "life transition". fuck you, life, i want to look at all my records at once

I just boxed up half my records and cd's and moved them into storage. damn "life transition". i've already needed 2 of the items I moved to storage and it's only been 3 days.

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/arkwarehouse.jpg

I'm so scared of that life transition boxes period.

that's where i'm at too. i feel so average

This is so gorgeous. Does anyone know if Ikea or someone who sells furniture for not much money offers these individual boxes.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2070/2187451584_b58c22a146.jpg

My mess of Lps. They used to be in perfect order before I started to Dj.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/pointlineplane/records070410.jpg

Think I'm gonna start a WDYLivingRoomLL thread thanks to this.

I'm so scared of that life transition boxes period.

Me too, but this may be here some day soon.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/records.JPG

3/5 of a record collection in 10 seconds; there's the shelf that's only partially visible at the left edge of the frame, and another shelf on the wall opposite. Thus Sang Freud's picture above is awesome.

Jeez I must have 5 or 600 CDs now. Cannot wait to organize them all.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3609/3599481153_bf9f5a52cf.jpg
A-M and digipaks (in the towers to the left & right).

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2424/3599481439_cdbca49c7e.jpg
M-Z & various artists (although you can't actually see past W, as there's another shelf with 2 more rows of CDs on beneath what's visible.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3557/3619393764_f93f95464d.jpg
The stereo - well, before I bought a new CD player and put the record player into storage. There's normally a big sofa where that chair is; I took the day off and moved my favourite chair into the sweet spot. Must take a day of leave sans wife and do that again soon.

http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20080528/Apple_iMac_Leopard_540x324.jpg

My collection's pretty dope collection imo.

Can't write a sentence this morning.

I do like seeing pictures of other ilxors' collections though!

Much nicer photos (if a moderator wants to delete the above one's I urge you to do so).

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4763883586_e579b210a1_b.jpghttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4763246245_8fc9df9cfb_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4762899052_8e2515f8da_b.jpg

You only get so many opportunities to have records conspicuously visible in these photos to show off and there I am with puttin on the ritz out.

some people are just too damn neat and tidy.

making me wish i was allowed the time and space to sort out my archive

(most is hidden out of sight in specially designated corners of the house)

oh, and love the special prominence for the skull disco comp ebd.

Hey Nick, that thing your TV is sitting on looks pretty awesome, where'd you get it?

Also, can we morph this into a general furniture thread?

The thing my TV is sitting on is from habitat, and still available. Pricy, though - we got it on sale about 2 years ago for around £350, but it's about £500 RRP now. Top left bit is a drawer, bottom bit is a cabinet that opens - DVD player, Playstation, boardgames, and handheld hoover live in there.

that's pretty awesome, EDB

Thanks.

But believe me, it's not always that neat and tidy.

^thumbs up on the Becher print, too!

Nice looking setups, Scik Mouthy and EDB. But why the lack of bass? Are there subwoofers hiding out somewhere?

A; I live above someone, and B; honestly don't need anymore bass - the speakers, amplifier, and CD player output plenty. I like a taut, natural bass sound rather than enormous anus-opening trembles.

Look at my floor! I rigged up an old stereo which has a nice low end (set to the bassiest EQ'ing it can muster) as a makeshift sub. Pretty ghetto, but it actually sounds really nice; I also agree with natural bass comment, it's too easy to upset the balance with muddy bass). Living in a big house all my life has spoiled me, I fear having to deal with neighbours.

I love that Becher poster too; frankly it's amazing I still like the posters in my room, given that I bought them at 16 years old.

Also, I should have posted better shots so you can clearly see the vintage ninja turtles figurine on the bookshelf on the left side of my room.

EDB, those individual boxes look like Spybox boxes, but they're not cheap.

If anyone knows of a cheap alternative which might vaguely match them I'd be interested to know, as I have a couple myself, but my collection has grown quite a bit since I got them.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/781/dsc0283q.jpg

http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/7894/dsc0280s.jpg

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5339/dsc0281gb.jpg

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6348/dsc0282ul.jpg

and then there's the cassettes, 45s, oversized box sets etc upstairs.

that looks fantastic! esp. all the vinyl O_O

stopped buying vinyl about a year ago...it's been good for my mental health (and bank account).

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1351/img1235l.jpg

And much less glamorous...not that Ikea LP shelves are glamorous...

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9757/img1237u.jpg

NAD CD player and amp, and what looks like an old purple CDRecorder? Awesome.

^ yep, HHB cd recorder. built like a tank, despite its purple color! the other day, i had to explain to a visitor what the cassette deck was.

Haha, cassette recorders.

Had an HHB CD recorder at work in my last job, ancient but awesome, cooed everything, even stuff newer players had copy-protection issues with. The button layout on the fascia pretty perfectly matched a Pioneer minidisc deck I once had, made me think perhaps they had the same parent company.

Cooed = copied.

http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx343/Mount_Analogue/records.jpg

They're there somewhere, lurking behing bike parts, old magazines and gardening stuff. Such a fucking pit. I really ought to tidy this dump up.

http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx343/Mount_Analogue/cds.jpg

^ CD pile is slightly more accessible, still a shithole though

http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/jimmythek_bucket/IMG_0099.jpg

the albums and some of the books.

Had to take a crappy panorama photo because the room is less that 6ft sq. Got the cd shelves from a place in Holland (iirc) via and ad in Record Collector magazine.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4764666541_ecfec7ff6d_b.jpg

^^Two copies of Marsh!

In case one breaks.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs442.snc3/25399_1401105547336_1223244145_1187161_5560060_n.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f204/saulgravy/IMG_4399.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs259.ash1/18676_1363706532384_1223244145_1089054_2287029_n.jpg

plus another bookshelf full of hip-hop, and some shelves of cds.

Photo from January 2010...

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s6/v6/p710681506-5.jpg

All the stuff piled between the 7''s and the LPs & 12''s is the Haino collection.

am I misidentifying things, or are a surprising number of people here using KRK monitors as stereo speakers?

I don't know if this thread is making me think I need a lot more records (which most of you certainly have) or a lot fewer (because I can't keep even my paltry and rarely-played collection tidy). krakow's 7" pile has left me wanting to hear Urusei Yatsura, though. And I could really do with a real hi-fi rack and not just a corner of a cheap MFI desk.

This thread could be expensive.

Yatsura 7''s are relatively cheap, excellent listening and come in all kinds of funky colours. Highly recommended.

they all look like big walls of death to me. i'd happily get rid of every last bit of mine.

I used old 50s Pepsi crates as CD holders in the apartment:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4765442787_2bb2ffaacb.jpg

Heres my desk:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4766082160_a859b715c0.jpg

Our coffee table is also made out of old Pepsi crates, but deeper ones:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4766082706_4b1826c9a4.jpg

Some newer CD arrivals I need to find room for:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4766081660_481d1c8ec2.jpg

i like yr pepsi crate shelves!

my stuff is very messy compared to ya'll

some of my 45's
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/5061/dsci0003z.jpg

some more of them that have yet to really be sorted
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/5594/dsci0002ry.jpg

lps i listen to most:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1858/dsci0001fw.jpg

other lps:
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9648/dsci0004o.jpg

78's i never listen to at all:
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9057/dsci0033j.jpg

the messiest desk in town:
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/4649/dsci0008s.jpg

heart shaped al green on my wall beside record shelf:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/807/dsci0005e.jpg

i like yr pepsi crate shelves!

― call all destroyer, Monday, July 5, 2010 8:42 PM (46 minutes ago)

Thanks!

I'm going to give myself a headache trying to find out ways to copy those pepsi crate shelves.

Let me also stipulate that, despite the previous comment, I am totally down with Puttin' on the Ritz.

Last time I checked, similar crates aren't very expensive on ebay, if you're interested.

Mares I'm totally jealous of your YMO poster!

they all look like big walls of death to me. i'd happily get rid of every last bit of mine.

― jed_, Monday, July 5, 2010 11:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

here's a bit of one of my walls of death, built by jed.

http://www.optimo.co.uk/images/optpics/wall.JPG

Wondering if the staggered surfaces of these walls of records have a sound-dampering effect.

most definitely and for that very reason i rarely listen to music in the room where my records are as it sounds so bad.

i like yr pepsi crate shelves!

yes!

stir should have overlaid a single deep colour on that phone photo for woebot.nostalgia

since I got hard floors, my listening room is kind of echoey. I'm considering alternating shifting angles in the cd dowel racks to bounce sound in tiny directions. Also a rug.

Pepsi crates win.

Hardwood floors are a killer for acoustics. Put a rug down.

More recent photo (as in 30 minutes ago)...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4767277826_4b486b308e_z.jpg

stirmonster, you've shown about 1/5 of what you have there ;)

Scik I really like your room there. Very well designed!

Wow Maresnest you wasted no time picking up that giant new Mile Davis boxset.

Thank you very much.

Turned out kind of blurry, but a decentish shot of my collection that is in massive need of cleaning up.

http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/rec_collection0710.jpg

omg dude, what a gloriously sprawling CD collection! O_O

how many CDs are in that picture?

They aren't all in the picture, but I've got 3400ish.

wow

Yeah, well, except it is going to be a pain finding a place for all of them when we eventually turn the spare room into a kid's room.

why does this thread cause my lungs to constrict? I need my inhaler.

Wow Maresnest you wasted no time picking up that giant new Mile Davis boxset.

― Evan, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 18:39 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Hah yep, It was a b'day present.

one of my shelving units just collapsed (no records were harmed, thankfully) so this thread makes me sad and jealous.

wdy(records)ll stacked in piles on the floor, propped up against doors, etc.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4768480443_ebc8032f9b_m.jpg
^^^mostly rock vinyl

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4769119638_36b3e0ca57_m.jpg
upper cubes from left-to-right = country, reggae, metal, hip hop (lol currently hidden by XtC Oranges and Lemons sleeve, jazz.
underneath jazz is 45s, and underneath that is random newer stuff
red cubes along bottom row are filled with CDs, thinking I'll get rid of those sometime soon though.

A; I live above someone, and B; honestly don't need anymore bass - the speakers, amplifier, and CD player output plenty. I like a taut, natural bass sound rather than enormous anus-opening trembles.

Heh. Eensy teensy lil' 2-way speakers on stands are not made to produce full range. It's not taut, it's lacking! Can't tell who makes yours, but they probably have two or three other full-range floorstanding speakers in that series, and if it's a good brand, the bass should be plenty natural without being overkill. Sorry this is off-topic -- if anyone wants to discuss bass on a new thread, I'd be up for it.

It's a value-for-money thing - if you can deal with roll-off below about 55Hz, then $xxx gets you much better mid-range, top-end, imaging, etc than the same amount spent on floorstanders. Monitors plus a well-placed/well-integrated sub is definitely the way to go, but not if you have downstairs neighbours... Us Brits don't have that much living space, y'know.

This is a very old photo - four years ago now - but the system hasn't really changed since. Click through for details...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/195320839_6a41382884.jpg

I guess if I were in the middle of nowhere we could have a sprawling estate, but here in Chicago we're stuck with 900 sq ft condo with downstairs and upstairs neighbors. I've had downstairs neighbors for the full 18 years I've lived in the city, and had a subwoofer just as long. Subs are good in that I can turn them down in the evening for the neighbors' sake (headphones go on after 10 on weekdays), and good for explosions in movies, but found that full range is the way to go for music.

Fair enough. That's why subs are so appealing - the control. I'd agree that good bass is the root of good reproduction; the problem with a lot of mid-price floorstanders is that, while they might be moving some air below 80Hz, it's pretty flabby and ends up throwing a blanket over the whole sound. Pleasant enough though - never tired of my pal's Castle Chesters (though he insisted my Heybrook monitors just threw out so much more detail).

A sub is on the wishlist for when we get a proper house with ground underneath us rather than medical students.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4771503764_23a6226a90.jpg

Whoa! I love the fact that's it a bit cosier (aka cluttered) now - kids' toys, Father's Day card on the Gyrodec, Wii, CDs we never put away.

(Koogs was at my house earlier today)

I have no photos of my CD collection to post right now, however this thread has shamed me into tidying up and making a start on some more organisation. I have a very small flat, so things are stored wherever there is space.

As you can see, storing CDs sensibly is not really my forte. At the moment they fill three CD towers and one bookshelf, but there still isn't enough room for them, so some of them are lying on my writing desk and nearby. At the moment my vinyls are in a cupboard, because they don't fit anywhere in here.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/17012011004.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/17012011001.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/17012011002.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/17012011010.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/17012011011.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/17012011012.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/17012011013.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/17012011.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/2h5kz2p.jpg

I have about a terabyte of mp3s. About 75 percent of them are organized correctly into folders by Artist/Title. I need to figure something out about what to do with all my loose mp3s, probably a script to organize stuff based on ID3 tags or something.

Well that's depressing.

for realz

Well that's depressing.

― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, January 17, 2011 2:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

If you're 'having stuff' more than the music, yeah.

Specifically: it's ugly to look at in a thread dedicated to the aesthetic value of "stuff". I'm sure it works for you, tunes-wise.

agreed.

lol. haha peace.

imagine all the people, living life in peace

I don't think "john lennon's" collection is ugly.

YO Nijoli that "YEAH!" 45 case is so freaking cool

i love this thread.

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/4519/clipboard02v.gif

Mirrored on laptop and portable HD. Some 900 CDs in vinyl sleeves in boxes. I'll part with them if I ever get around to FLAC encoding.

^ um, for us old-timers--what does 'Mirrored on laptop and portable HD' mean?

Redundant storage in case of fire/theft. Every week or so I hook them up to the mothership and sync any new arrivals/modifications/deletions with MS SyncToy.

I can't keep lilly from sleeping on my records
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/905/img9341jpg.jpg

This isn't all of it but it's a good chunk of my CDs.

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/125/l_ec3a2ebf1a61470081b27370040768bb.jpg

That was from a year ago when I first moved in. In that time I got some more CDs however nearly the entire vinyl collection - probably 600 LPs - were destroyed when the basement flooded... :(

jesus, how many cds is that??

Ah, a beautiful sight. It's so rare to visit someone with a collection of any significant size, and equally rare that a guest bothers to peruse my shelves after a quick glance.

I haven't counted in some time. Last I did it was about 6,000. Probably a thousand more since then.

1000 new CDs in a year?

Ah, a beautiful sight. It's so rare to visit someone with a collection of any significant size, and equally rare that a guest bothers to peruse my shelves after a quick glance.

When people visit me, the two comments I usually hear are "You should open a CD store" is "I have never seen so many CDs by bands I never heard of..."

1000 new CDs in a year?

Hah, no. The picture was from a year ago but I last counted a lot longer ago than that...

I get similar comments. I'd post a photo but the music room is full of our bedroom furniture during repainting. Kind of a drag as it means my annual New Years filing & culling has to wait.

The largest personal collection I've ever seen is Jack Rabid's, walls and walls of CDs and vinyl.

Kind of a drag as it means my annual New Years filing & culling has to wait.

ah yes, i am in the middle of this now... now so much filing (unless into storage boxes counts) as culling

YO Nijoli that "YEAH!" 45 case is so freaking cool

― skip shuffle fusion (los blue jeans), Monday, January 17, 2011 9:59 PM

Thanks! I like it because when you open it up, you can put the 45's you already played in what was the lid when it was closed. Does that make sense? It makes it easy to dj a set of 45's and keep everything in order.

NYCNative, how are those CDs organized?

the more i have, the more i get surprised by stuff. "hey, forgot how good this is!" "hey, forgot i had this one!" it's like browsing in my own personal shop.

i've been stepping into this zone recently.
currently digging out forgotten promos from years back that i didn't really give enough attention to (or wasn't tuned into the genre at the time), and finding out i love'em.

2 years on and the archive has changed very little from the photos posted up above.
just had to hide another big box in the attic to stop the all too familiar 'where the f*ck are they all going' heated debates.

however nearly the entire vinyl collection - probably 600 LPs - were destroyed when the basement flooded... :(

― NYCNative, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

sorry to hear that man

i'd take a photo of my records but they're currently somewhere in the atlantic ocean. godspeed

NYCNative, how are those CDs organized?

Autobiographically.

No, I kid. Loved that answer in High Fidelity. Alphabetically.

This rack originally used to shelve grain samples:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19023569/IMG_1874.jpg

My wife built this rack as a gift a few years back...it'll probably be retired soon:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19023569/IMG_1872.JPG

little bit o' vinyl in this corner...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19023569/IMG_1878.JPG

Your wife has a nice looking rack!

It had to be said!

Damn, I want to visit you all and roll around in your physical music.

Ok, too far, maybe just peruse the racks and ask lots of questions and sample all sorts of weird sounds.

Maybe I'll just visit Scott's store in Greenfield.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/IMG_3262.jpg

my cds, in 12 boxes.
l to r:
warp records, avantgarde, embarrassing 90s alt-rock;
eu dance albums, eu dance mixes, us dance albums & mixes;
pure drone, not-so-pure drone, "electronica";
krautrock, nww/c93, zoviet france & storey solo.

Lol @ Mr Veg's Rockband drum kit in the middle

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/5e58ca0c.jpg

i want to buy the contents of all 12 of those boxes that i do not already own

xp

curious re: 'not-so-pure drone'...?

My categorizing of records goes like this:

- electronic music (except for drum'n'bass & breaks)
* subcategories: techno & house, trance & rave, ambient & weird shit
- drum'n'bass & breaks
- "pure" jazz
- Finnish pop & schlager
- Finnish rap
- soul & funk & disco
- rap & rnb
- synth pop & other pop music & uncategorizable
- jazz-funk and other such stuff that's not "pure" jazz
- Brazilian stuff and other "world music"
- (plus the "shame drawer" for records I don't want everyone to see)

not-so-pure = has singing and/or field recordings in it. xpost.

Here's my vinyl, 1000+ CDs are tucked away all over the house in spin-racks and boxes in the basement. plus 250+ GB of mp3s

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/IMG_5850.jpg

living room cabinets next to the stereo (daughter's playing Mario Party 8 waiting for late post-ice storm school). The big rainbow block on the 2nd shelf is all my Nonesuch classical. Top shelf is my top-shelf exotica (Denny, Baxter, Lyman, Esquivel et al).

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/IMG_5852.jpg

basement vault, was the Wall of Swank w/ all my sleazy-listening but I've mixed it up (classic rock, country, swank, weird, dollar, misc)

i clearly need a swank playlist.
now.

"Maybe I'll just visit Scott's store in Greenfield."

you should!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5221074869_22c2567b62_z.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5085/5221671954_af61ed8ab7_z.jpg

I just looked up your store's site - you have carpet in your store? That's pretty rare in my experience. Classy touch!

the carpet is a good color too. absorbs all the dirt.

What's that "HAUNTED" lp in the first photo? Looks like a great cover.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2780/4206907333_54fa06c5a1.jpg

That's great! Would put that up on my wall.

I guess this is a comparatively small record collection, though my family would say otherwise. I try to keep everything fitting on these shelves (about 7' x 8' total) so I do a bit of a purge/refinement every so often. Right now roughly 1000 each of lps, 45s, and cds. And some 10"s, tapes, books, etc. thrown in for good measure. And our dog Jolene.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5166/5373148632_e799cb7185_z.jpg

Looks sharp, city worker!
(first thing i noticed was the fan...my wife collects vintage fans and they're all over the house it seems...)

rockin' the new mcsweeney's.

Looks as if my record collection will be going into storage. :(

I've been begrudgingly coming to terms with this, but until we find ourselves a bigger place to live it just isn't working out to have my collection taking up this much space.

You can start a thread called "Take a picture of your record collection in storage and post it on ilm" so we can still ooh and ahhh over it.

Sorry to joke. That would be rough. I only moved the cream of my record collection to the Outer Banks and put the rest in storage but only until we get our year round rental house next month. We came out here with just what would fit in our cars for our furnished winter rental but I made sure it fit my turntable and some of my fave records. I can't wait to get the rest of my stuff next month because it has been two months of just two crates and it ain't cutting it for me.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5208/5373296538_8c5b786214.jpg

Thanks Sanford -- that's our only old fan, about 90 or so years old I think. It's more powerful on low than most other fans are on high and has so little protection from digit slicing. We have a 2 year old in the house so it has moved to "highest spot in the house" status. The two year old also doesn't like that fat, red face on the McSweeney's so she keeps pushing it in as far as it'll go. "No face, no face."

Jon -- I was running into the same thing here a few years ago and finally resigned to just never have a massive collection, rather to just frequently sell stuff I wasn't super-wild about (or stuff that crossed a point on the graph that maps "how much I like it" vs "people are paying crazy dollars on ebay for this"). I came to the acceptance that if I sell something and then later really end up wanting to hear it, I'm sure I can find/buy it again (or resigned to be happy with the mp3s/flacs). Which isn't to say I don't still drool over some of pics upthread (TS Freud's, for example)...

And missing from that photo are a couple hard drives and 100+ dvd-rs.

Well, the good thing is that my wife is entirely understanding and supportive of my music collection and she is 100% on board with me having some sort of "music room" in our next house. Its just that the economy and reality has pushed that off more than we originally thought, so I'll just have to deal with the temporary storage. I'm not heartbroken, but its weird to imagine that I'll soon be boxing all this stuff up.

Well, the good thing is that my wife is entirely understanding and supportive of my music collection and she is 100% on board with me having some sort of "music room" in our next house. Its just that the economy and reality has pushed that off more than we originally thought, so I'll just have to deal with the temporary storage.

join the club my friend

90% of my CDs are currently boxed up and sitting in the outdoor storage closet ;_;

having some sort of "music room" in our next house.

That's seriously awesome. I hope for something like that in the future too, but am currently in the same boat wrt economy, hungry/growing kiddo, etc

damn kids, always hungry

I have a music room. It also serves as the guest room. I finally acquiesed and replaced the couch with a day bed & trundle. It's only a matter of time before the media center gets moved out and replaced with a dresser. So even having a room doesn't mean you get to keep it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKjIeRWRBgU

I thought I did this, but not on this thread... these are old.

non-rock, ie jazz/world/folk/techno/funk/soul /classical)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2439/3623987614_2d39e4f339_m.jpg

CDs

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3641/3623987052_00e9b0f337_m.jpg

regular rock etc section

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2460/3623986396_3c3f599db0_m.jpg

wow those are tiny, sorry.

(change the _m to _z in the image url to get bigger versions.)

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f204/saulgravy/records/IMG_2000.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f204/saulgravy/records/IMG_1995.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f204/saulgravy/records/IMG_1998.jpg
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http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f204/saulgravy/records/IMG_1999.jpg

again... thanks koogs

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That rack looks like it's barely holding on, dude...

optical illusion on the side there I think, it is all 3/4" maple. the bottom shelves are a bit sagged but that's it.

Xp - Mangrove Earthshoe - good to see the Krazy Kat books in your photo above^^^^^^.

L7! Throbbing Gristle! What's the swirly one with the Heino/Steve Severin guy vs Jim Reid?

xpost good eye Offiser, I need the rest - they're shoehorned between D.R. and Quinch's Totally Awesome Guide To Life and the old Psychotronic Video Guide

would house sit for any of you for free any time

What's the swirly one with the Heino/Steve Severin guy vs Jim Reid?

that's a 12" single by The Glove

Sleeve - kudos on the Essential Logic LP.

Not a particularly great shot, but you get the idea. Two shelves of the CD rack (and a crate's worth of vinyl) are exclusively Spacemen 3 & co.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4618265622_a6fd35effb.jpg

future posts should list the approx start of the collection - as in how much time you've had this collection - for my sole benefit of curiosity

thank u in advanced

I love these threads. Makes me want to come into these homes and hang out and have a beer and listen to records.

I wish I had friends who just wanted to come over and listen to my records with me.

Can't believe I mistook Siouxsie for Jim Reid

xpost
absolutely. and i'm always disappointed when someone comes to the house for the first time and shows no interest in having a flip through. i love digging through other people's collections.

Well, we always have each other... So who's first to open their home to any randon ILXor?

http://991.com/newGallery/Feeder-Buck-Rogers---ora-257282.jpg

i've been collecting since I was a little kid (early 1970s) and now my daughter listens to my old children's records.

future posts should list the approx start of the collection - as in how much time you've had this collection - for my sole benefit of curiosity

Our parents bought us records (Free to be You and Me, Chipmunk Punk, Muppet everything) and we listened to theirs (Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Moody Blues) and my aunt's (Elvis Costello, Queen, Grease sndtrk). So what I have now started with all those, and then I bought my first lp with lawn mowing money in 1982 when I was 9 (Men At Work's Business as Usual). The CDs started in 1988 (New Order's Substance) when I got a cd player. I regularly sell off / give away lps/cds/tapes so it's kinda morphed a bit through the years.

I'll second or third the hanging out with records/beers/etc!

my collection (as posted way up this thread) started in 1979 when someone bought me My Girls on 7" by Madness.

Any of you near Hoboken?

thread of envy

my collection (as posted way up this thread) started in 1979 1966 when someone bought me My Girls on 7" by Madness The Best of Herman's Hermits.

Following up on those tiny Ed Motta shots upthread...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQIpmNkqUtc

Brad Balfour who was my former editor at New York Review Of Records a million years ago had an amazing vinyl collection, an entire NY apartment with nothing but vinyl in it. He used to demand 2 copies of everything from publicists so he had extras on a lot of things too. Wonder whatever happened to the collection... and him!

one time also coming correct w/ the 45 cases

Fantastic thread. I totally flip through peoples collection when they're on display!

We recently moved house which has an awesome attic that we're planning to use as a music room/library.
http://img8.imageshack.us/i/zolder1.jpg

It's still a mess, but I've unpacked my cd's. Same racks as maresnest's upthread.
http://img163.imageshack.us/i/zolder2.jpg

At this moment I put my vinyl into the spare spaces under the roof into which a previous tenant put some shelves. Will buy/make something nicer for them in the future.
http://img203.imageshack.us/i/zolder3.jpg
Bonus points for who can guess which record's playing :-)

Am currently contemplating getting a pool table XD

Background info for kelpolaris: came to this town twenty years ago with about 25 lp's, 20 7" and 5 cd's.
First 7" - Kajagoogoo, "Too Shy"
First LP - DeBarge, Rhythm of the Night
First cd - The Stone Roses (An accidental acquisition as I ordered the LP. Had waited for it to arrive for such a long time that I took the cd anyway. Which I then played incessantly on my parents cd player)

I can't see the photos!

Damn. I hate it when that happens..

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/8672/zolder1.jpg

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1870/zolder2.jpg

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5954/zolder3.jpg

does the vinyl version of chris carter's "space between" look like that?

wow

wow yes?

yes! :)

Wait... in that last picture I see Television's "Adventure".

Yes it's there. Great 4 Men with Beards reissue.
Now who can guess the 7" by its back cover? ;)

dunno, but i do see a mark hollis cd, amirite?

No. Which one would that be?

dang i'm seeing things.. white cd w/ grayish box.... on closer inspection and a look at the artwork again, i'm clearly wrong

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oP3yLyCBL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://diskunion.net/images/jacket/RY070810-BW01.jpg

Willem, great to see you creating a music room!

Is Can's Monster Movie bottom left in the cd rack? (first thought it was Bowie's Earthling :-))

Depardieu, cher ami! How've you been? You have to drop by when the attic is ready.
Monster Movie is correct. There's still à couple of cd's "en face" that could be guessed...

Moi Guillaume, cher ami! Been tied up, in life mostly! Be careful what you wish for, I just might take you up on that visit! ;-)

The place looks really suitable for a music room too, lovely tiling on the old fireplace.

I see the first Nuggets box on the shelf.

Nuggets box is in hidden in my 1st pic too.
hands up, who has Nuggets?

i have nuggets box. and brit nuggets box. and both rubble boxes.

i have the nuggets 2xLP that came out in the 70s

i like cheese.

I have Nuggets 1 and the Brit/other Nuggets, and almost bought Children of Nuggets at the Wherehouse going out of business sale (think it was $30) but passed because my sister worked at Rhino (free CDs!). They laid her off about 6 months ago, the bastards.

two nuggets box sets right where they belong (between James Brown and Stax boxes):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19023569/IMG_1878.JPG

*raises hand* it's four shelves up on the left, along with other boxes (velvets, muddy waters, stax, and mingus candid)

i noticed that! plus, the VU box that i got as a steal ($15 new!) back in '96, i think.

xp

d'oh!

My Nuggets, with other sets, all Rhino.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/nickn/misc/P1010133x.jpg

My Nuggets, ...

Safe For Work, btw.

"...no you're never gonna get 'em"

Not the record collection (which is upthread anyway, pretty much), but just as important (and I'm geeking-out over other peoples)...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5205/5379895985_65b1e8231a_z.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/cd1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/cd2.jpg

plush Charles Darwin keeps watch over everything
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/darwin.jpg

My tiny vinyl collection
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/vinyl.jpg

sick mouthy, why do you have all yr gear mounted at a 45º angle?? O_O

It sounds better that way.

Just noticed the Meier Audio Corda headphone amp. I have the Cantante.2 in my office, love it. Was working the nerve up to get a Symphony but he discontinued it.

I narrowed down my CD collection since everything is in my NAS server and backed up now. Anyone in Chicago wanting CD shelves, I'm selling mine.

where'd you sell the cds?

OMG I want your CD shelves, but there is absolutely no way my wife will let me buy them until we get a new house to hold them. Seriously jealous of whomever snags those.

http://i.imgur.com/sNMpy.jpg

some vinyls

http://i.imgur.com/erfwi.jpg

more vinyls

plus a load of 45, and another couple hundred lp's in another room I couldn't be bothered to photographize.

Oh say it isn't so, Tony! You're not ditching your CDs in their entirety, are you? I just can't bring muself to do that, I only prune stuff I don't want anymore.

I pruned in a big way. I sold about 6,000 CDs over the course of a few months to Reckless and Dusty Groove. I got some box sets/reissues in trade, but mostly cash. I still have 1,500 of my absolute favorites, and deluxe editions and such. The only time I ever actually play CDs is in the car, and most of the time it's a burned CDR of new albums I want to listen to. I just couldn't justify the space that they took up. I needed to make room so that we can more easily make our condo look nice if we want to sell, or have room if we breed, ha. Two years ago I ripped everything to FLAC, and listen to my music on my NAS, transmitted via router to Squeezebox receivers in nearly every room in the house. It's all backed up to 3TB drives at work too.

I also just got rid of a bunch of music books at After-Words books on E. Illinois just last night. There's also a box of free books that they didn't buy because of condition/stock value.

Although by now someone from the offices of The Reader next door most likely snatched them up, ha.

Sigh... I hear what you're saying, I rarely play CDs in the house too. But every now and then I find cause to look at liner notes, without which I'd lose alot of key information down the road. I'll have to ditch the jewel cases in the near future, which will save tons of space, but even now when I download something I like I make an effort to obtain a physical CD. I have about 4000 CDs and that's my limit - when new stuff comes in each year, I sell stuff in order to make it all fit.

Yeah, I'm struggling with what to do with my collection. I'm slowly creeping up to 5,000 CDs and about 300 LPs. We had to clean out our house a little in the effort to sell it, so as of now all but my LPs and my most recently purchased CDs are in storage at a friend's house. Luckily I've archived the majority of them but, of course, I keep remembering stuff I want to hear that I hadn't ripped yet. Anyway, it is looking more and more like we'll be stuck in this house for another year or two so I'm trying to cope with not having my collection easily accessible for a long period of time. Kinda sad, but I suppose thats a first world problem and I shouldn't get too upset about it. I'm just looking forward to finally getting our new house with a dedicated music area, whenever that may be.

I had to store all my records at my parents' house due to moving/storage and my solution is to buy more records

I sold two of my shelves, and now trying to give away the entertainment center monstrosity for free. Next step after the space is freed up is to find new furniture. I should hire SickMouthy to pick it out and decorate, heh. Another issue is at some point the office might have to be converted to a baby room. It probably wouldn't appreciate a sweet sound system and cds for another 10 yrs.

XXP Regarding liner notes, that's why I keep most of my reissues and deluxe editions. However most new albums offer next to nothing for interesting liner notes, and thus little incentive to keep them.

"At some point" you "might" need a baby room? That's an awful lot of ambiguity for family planning! Is there a little reviewer in your near future? Babys definitely appreciate great sound systems - they can hear the high-end we lost!

I posted this over on another forum but I thought I'd share it here as well because it's one of my favourite ever threads. Some of the collections on display are just ridiculous, in a good way!. A real testament to the amazing knowledge and unrivalled scope of the ILM community.

Ma wee den;

http://www.edinburghrecordclub.co.uk/collection

http://www.edinburghrecordclub.co.uk/collection2

Is anyone else's record collection quickly becoming a death trap as well? I have to use ladders to get to the top, which, when I'm drunk at 3am and wanting to listen to Boards of Canada can be pretty damn dangerous!

Well done. I spy a pair of Fall box sets, the Siouxsie BBC box, that recent Durutti Column box (which I passed on), the expanded "Murmur", a pair of The The albums, and on and on.

Here's a part of my collection, set up in the new house:
http://yfrog.com/z/h3533juj

The records are in a different space and there's another small section of more specialized stuff behind me, no photo yet.

What does your room look like improbably clean?

http://soupofturtles.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/room-1.png

NB about 100 CDs are in that shoebox on the floor.

Not including the Gas boxset on the floor, there is only one identifiable album in this photo, see if you can name it (hint: it's neither a CD or a record).

I was initially going to say Dead Can Dance's Passage in Time but thinking that's not what I'm seeing is, upon closer inspection.

Love this thread. I like looking at Ian's collection

http://i53.tinypic.com/9q8tms.png

mortal kombat OST?

congrats for cleaning btw. I need to get on that

Xpost: Yes!

I think los blue jeans just won! That's the thing I was looking at too, but seeing it blown up like that makes me realize I was way off.

xpost obvs

2nd time today i have justified my existence

record room in our new place. uh, kinda full. i'm working on it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-blbyzFsM9s0/Ty0wb84ztxI/AAAAAAAAAYc/wjEocQdIJs8/s1600/skotrekerds%2B012.JPG

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ytmjjE_Anog/Ty0wblXWsHI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/hO-CRlAgubM/s1600/skotrekerds%2B011.JPG

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http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i11N8xksvCs/Ty0wJarId8I/AAAAAAAAAXo/SdAzrtECYD4/s1600/skotrekerds%2B008.JPG

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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DdvXbe6r3mo/Ty0wJxLDsFI/AAAAAAAAAYA/of7wTMT53BE/s1600/skotrekerds%2B010.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-enKthkW70m0/Ty0v0OVnxnI/AAAAAAAAAW4/Vor0p7fVN58/s1600/skotrekerds%2B004.JPG

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R3xGCmQMEpo/Ty0vzp4ndkI/AAAAAAAAAWs/pOclhDu8c6s/s1600/skotrekerds%2B003.JPG

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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0812E-L9iaI/Ty0vzCv_GGI/AAAAAAAAAWU/ggOjdj1i43Q/s1600/skotrekerds%2B001.JPG

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xe-vYUVBfo4/Ty0v0bO0GoI/AAAAAAAAAXA/2-cT9EH3WQ4/s1600/skotrekerds%2B005.JPG

Damn, this thread, gonna contribute soon.

Scott - is it in any sort of order? How do you find anything?

scott! are those 70s pioneer speakers in pic #2? They look quite a bit like the ones I now have upstairs that I finally appropriated from my Dad

yes, they are! and pioneer turntable. i like that turntable. i brought my rega to the store.

order? um, uh...my 12 inches are all in one place. and most of the jazz and blues...but i've got lke a dozen or more boxes that are all random and not even on shelves at the moment. luckily, i'm a pretty random listener.

actually mine are nearly identical except on the side where you have two little speakers there are two knobs on mine

oh and everything in the big closet is classical.

that little closet behind the door was a secret closet! we didn't even know it was there until we moved in. the door was always open before we moved in and we didn't see it. gotta love a secret bonus space.

I haven't really been in the unfinished attic or crawlspace areas of my house yet and I keep hoping I'll find something secret like that. a cool little space, or maybe some records. hopefully not anything or anyone dead

i've just been slow about buying more bookshelves. and getting books out of there. then i'll have more room. get some more record shelves that will fit. i have some nice wooden ones at the store like the one that is in that closet. then i could get stuff off of the floor. hasn't been a priority because i spend so much time at the store...moving and finding room for records...

I got more furniture and the corner where I had a giant tub of CDs is full now so I have a bunch of stuff sitting in the middle of the room

Damn, love that room skot! So sad that my stuff is all in storage right now, I can't wait to have room for that again.

it also doubles as an insane guest room. thus, the futon thing. man, now that i've posted those, i'm really ready to bring those shelves from the store and get the books out. make it easier to breathe in there. though i am fond of hoarder rooms. that room is also cat and dog free. under penalty of death.

nothing special but i thought posting it might encourage others to share their own!

http://i46.tinypic.com/2sbmihk.jpg

(ignore coffee/beer stain on dirty rug please)

inspired by FINALLY finishing the cataloging of all of my records on Discogs last night. It's a good thing I have a searchable digital catalog now, because the actual records are packed so tight that thumbing through them isn't really an option.

Since I last posted pics here I've changed residences, shelving, and have acquired hundreds of records and cds. So...

http://soupofturtles.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/2012-12-03-22-07-34.jpg?w=640&h=480
http://soupofturtles.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/2012-12-03-22-05-56.jpg?w=480&h=640
http://soupofturtles.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/2012-12-03-22-06-26.jpg?w=640&h=480

This hideous overlighting makes up for the gloomy underlighting/is more clear:

http://soupofturtles.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/2012-12-03-22-06-52.jpg?w=640

cd collection (some of it):

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8197/8243640648_0d12b7138f.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8345/8243639020_d737868855.jpg

I finally got that Pere Ubu box I see and am considering the Orange Juice box as well.

both well worth it!

other box sets and boxy sets pictured: cabaret voltaire the attic tapes, bunnybrains box the bunny, zang tumb tuum: the ztt box set, the fall the wonderful and frightening world of the fall expanded reissue thingy, big star keep an eye on the sky, can the lost tapes, conrad schnitzler trigger trilogy, this heat out of cold storage, tony conrad early minimalism, the 1-2-3-4 punk rock box, how low can you go: anthology of the string bass, the byrds there is a season, forever changing: the golden age of elektra records, gravikords, whirlies & pyrophones: experimental musical instruments, friends of old time music: the folk arrival 1961-1965.

gravikords, whirlies & pyrophones

Yesssssss.

Ha, I also just got that Big Star box earlier this year! And, oh man, that "1-2-3-4" box is just fantastic, isn't it? I could go for a volume 2!

Here's my CD collection, taken with my iPhone and varying light sources. All alphabetized.

http://i.imgur.com/QZeNR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sg58H.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/FX2kz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/NB4wT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ATy05.jpg

HamsterFall!!! \m/

Ha ha, YES.

I should also mention that there's an entire section of archives at my parents' house of stuff I've pulled from the collection for space reasons (the CD racks above are basically all I can fit in my apartment at the moment).

And yes, that is a Batman shrine.

That is a lot of CDs, man.

Man I can't fucking wait to move into our new house in January and get my collection out of storage, this thread makes me really miss it.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

There will be pictures when I move and get settled in.

that set-up almost makes CDs look good! makes me want to listen to them all most. nice shelves too.

i like the library feel that comes with quantity. but who doesn't? monks, i guess. fuck them though.

Some of the shelves come courtesy of our friendly neighborhood Raggett.

that guy spells class. except for the whole pumpkins thing, but nobody's perfect.

YO Nijoli that "YEAH!" 45 case is so freaking cool
― skip shuffle fusion (los blue jeans), Monday, January 17, 2011 9:59 PM

Thanks! I like it because when you open it up, you can put the 45's you already played in what was the lid when it was closed. Does that make sense? It makes it easy to dj a set of 45's and keep everything in order.
― Sister is dating a (CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT) (Nijoli), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:20 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

I had the exact box in a different color when I was 4-5 years old. I didn't realize it would break if I stuffed it with too many records.

look at you all with your clean, organized homes. well, here's my modest pile:

http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy282/everytownexceptpaducah/rakkerds.jpg
http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy282/everytownexceptpaducah/cds.jpg

my question: where do you guys find these perfectly vinyl suited shelves? ikea? i buy everything online so i have no idea what to search for. it's especially hard considering i want something w/ solid shelves - nothing that you can adjust. they're great for books but always seem to deteriorate after a year, the weight putting everything on a slight slope that nags the hell out of me but i imagine nobody has ever noticed, ever

yeah, i'm just using ikea shelves. they're well suited for records, and pretty cheap.

Expedit is the one to get as recommended by dj's the world over http://www.dj-rooms.com/category/rooms/

Thanks so much for reviving this thread Z S, re-scrolling is always a hoot. Cataloging your stuff in discogs sounds like a lot of work but a lot of good work! Would be nice to spend a fixed evening/week or so in my 'music attic' - while I love the place I'm not spending as much time there as I would like, it being on the second floor and all..

kelpolaris, those solid shelves are indeed ikea's. Expedit is the name of the series. Available in 2x2, 1x5, 2x4, 4x4 and 5x5.

x-post: well there you go

Cataloging your stuff in discogs sounds like a lot of work but a lot of good work!

yeah, it was actually kinda fun! when i was going through my records, i'd do 20 at a time, and while i'd catalog them i'd pick one out of that batch that i'd never really gave much time to and give it a fair listen. i can now say that side 1 of arlo guthrie's Arlo album is...pretty fucking terrible!
also, i revived the discogs thread to discuss it, but there's a nice feature on discogs that shows you the minimum, median and maximum value for each of your records, based upon the last 10 user transactions on discogs. pretty cool.

...so that's what's been keeping you from running ;-)

serious question :

can someone explain the need to catalogue collections in discogs (you are not along amongst people i have seen this z s, so this aint aimed at you !) ?

i mean beyond a "pissing up the wall" competition (which this thread is a worthy contender), i dont get it ..

for me, at least, it has a few functions. for completists it can be a great resource. i'm slowly trying to get all the pylon records (there aren't many, which helps!) so it's a nice to be able to click on pylon on discogs and then quickly see what i have and what i'm still missing. discogs is also a good place to buy records, so it's really simple to look at your collection, see something you're missing but that you want, and put it on your "wantlist". then, whenever someone puts up that particular record for sale, you get a notification. also, it may be extremely lazy, but it's a easy way for me to "look" through my records and pick out something to play. my records are all tightly packed together these days so thumbing through them isn't very pleasant.

i'm not sure it's useful for pissing up the wall contests, because i don't think you can share your collection with others unless you're "friends" on discogs. and it appears that no one is friends on discogs.

i'm also kind of obsessed with organization, at least when it comes to music. my mp3 folders are all meticulously organized, and i like to do the same for my records. it's fun to be able to sort them chronologically and realize you have virtually nothing from 1986 (or whatever)

fair enough.
my archive, like life, is totally random.
i like it that way.
hence such needs are beyond my scope.

I don't know how to post an image, but https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1484956/rekkids.JPG

Piano Man is doing hard time in the corner for misbehavior

Feel like someone itt has surely already posted the obnoxious "Time magazine was right" photo of their iPod, so I will abstain. But it was either that or a stack of boxes in a storage unit.

you just use image tags, like this:

http://i47.tinypic.com/wva4x4.jpg

you can click "Show Formatting Help" below if you ever forget.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Growing_Pains_screenshot1.jpg

Thanks, Z S

great choice for your first image tag!

haha

ty. I have a feeling that 'Robin Thicke's dad was the dude from growing pains" is the "Billy Corgan was the little boy in "Small Wonder" of this generation. Only it's true 0_0

the stacks in my parents' basement:
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/resized_P1290584.jpg

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/resized_P1290571.jpg

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/reisized_P1290585.jpg

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/reisized_P1290582.jpg

plus a bunch more in boxes and at my apartment

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/ocd.jpg

3", 5", 7", 10", 12", 16"

(i think EAR put out an 8" record once. yes: http://www.discogs.com/Experimental-Audio-Research-Falling-Tail-Chaser/release/200884 )

(and, according to discogs, a 9" that i don't have: http://www.discogs.com/Experimental-Audio-Research-Death-Of-A-Robot/release/183129 )

after moving to nyc nearly 3 years ago I *finally* was able to get my records moved out. now I never want to relocate again...

most of em
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/148209_10200118875955471_767909991_n.jpg

plus some stragglers
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/76999_10200118880755591_1804193352_n.jpg

and some unpictured ones in a cabinet beneath the record player.

and pete shelley peaking of the top of the 7" box

of=over

Love that comparative size photo, lbj.

thanks, I was inspired by the photo that someone (sarahell?) posted with all the lined up toys

It's always weird to see a familiar interior in a different context. I have no idea if that looks like a crazy hoarder basement or just a bunch of records or what

a den of iniquity

and cool jams

all those likker boxes are actually full of more records

this thread makes me feel envious. i have a formidable mp3 collection though, practically no CDs anymore, and like maybe 30 LPs.

I just picked up a free CD shelf dealy from Craigslist. When I find a place for it I'll get rid of some of the cardboard boxes I'm using now.

alleys and dumpsters are the best place to find cd storage these days

For real? And they don't smell like urine?

Not the ones I've found. People usually pee behind the dumpsters and I guess dogs don't hate CD storage enough to pee on it.

Unless the owner peed on it before placing it out in the alley, but that's none of my business.

The one I got was about 5 feet high and 2.5 feet wide, and there was another one twice as wide but I couldn't fit it into my car. Both in good condition, not peed on.

Got some new cubes in which have attracted some attention:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8049/8437769701_5a8de16e19_m.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/71872_10152498679150584_1307310952_n.jpg

Hmm, too small and too big in one post...

My post above has a broken image... Here it is again.

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/125/ec3a2ebf1a61470081b27370040768bb/l.jpg

Not everything but a good chunk of it. Taken a couple years ago but it's only marginally bigger now.

oh colonel .. that is one seriously cute cat ..
as for your pic native, thats fantastically insane ..

The 1st photo is our tiny small cat, no idea how she got up there, I put that box of 7"s there to stop the cats getting up there!

cats are ace.
my hands are constantly scratched to f*ck due to my mad mad tort who uses me as hunting practice ..
i mean i have to genuinely play hide and seek with my killer kat ..
but hey, this is a thread re music collections .. not bird killers with cute eyes ..

NYCNative how do you arrange your cds?

what does yer used record store look like in feb 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APl7YaIYGo8

Looks great. Very neat and tidy. What is the music you're playing?

Not my record collection, but I enjoyed this Ikea advert...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMIYX_bNnF0

I have a shed load of cd's (approx 1000+) that I would love to shelve but practically it ain't possible. Does anyone have any recommendations for storage boxes specifically designed for cd's? Sorry if it's been discussed before but this thread is a monster.

I use and like these: http://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/uk/html/onlineshop/rub_music.php

NYCNative how do you arrange your cds?

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Sunday, February 3, 2013 6:29 AM

Ha! I am having deja vu all over again...

NYCNative, how are those CDs organized?

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 5:15 AM

Here was my response two years ago (now in video form)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQvOnDlql5g

(Not really. Just alphabetical.)

Just my records. . .
http://i.imgur.com/vgn5dEs.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/45tHwUq.jpg

Also have CDs, but. . . enh. . .

I use and like these: http://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/uk/html/onlineshop/rub_music.php

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow)

excellent thanks. will give those a go.

updated version.

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=7f1e6d9156c17959&id=7F1E6D9156C17959%21578&ithint=folder,&authkey=!APXqev5P9dPqeoQ

Just wanted to share this relatively recently acquired old bar set we got to store my records in a fun way/add something to our small living room in our small apartment.
Bonus obligatory shot of our cute cat too.
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc364/aerialnostalgia/photo3-4.jpg
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc364/aerialnostalgia/photo1-6.jpg
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc364/aerialnostalgia/photo3-5.jpg
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc364/aerialnostalgia/photo4-2.jpg
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc364/aerialnostalgia/photo4-1.jpg
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc364/aerialnostalgia/photo1-7.jpg

That is indeed one cute cat.

Those look good. How many records do they hold?

She is!

Roughly 450? Not enough, ultimately. We wanted to find something interesting looking for the apartment rather than just straight storage. The upper left side opens to reveal a full original glassware set and a light that turns on- though the glasses are boxed up at the moment.

That's a decent amount. I'll be looking out for something to store records in the near future. Something like that could work. At this point I'd probably need three of them.

Good luck on your search! It takes a bit more dedication to find this sort of thing but we're happy with it. Tied the room together nicely.

Evan those are the most beautiful record shelves I have seen!!!! Are they from the 50's or 60's?

They really are perfect. Great find!

what great discography is that book?