To what percentage of your collection do you regularly listen?

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I have roughly 250 CDs, and I only have about 10% of my collection on active rotation in, say, a one week period.

― Lee, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got 800 cds and, currently, only listen to about the latest 20 or so. Every so often I pull out something I haven't heard for a while to see if I still like it. Usually I do, unfortunately, - I've got space to store 3 more cds before I'll have to buy something else to put them in. I often think about selling them all but then I simply remember the pain I went through to get back cd versions of all the vinyl I gave away / sold years ago. Never again.

― philT, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

About 3-4% I think.

― j>e>l, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would think about 5 percent. I have too many records. Tried getting rid of some but they keep coming back.
Of course it doesn't help that I now also download MP3s.
I do try to play old records as well as new purchases.

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i got approx 38 boxes of approx 70 albums each, approx 17 boxes of approx average maybe 120 singles each, dunno how many tapes, a few CDs, all sitting round this rm...i guess there's probably only 2 or 3 things i've listened to twice in the last week out of the whole bunch. (approx count of boxes is 'cause i'm making a rough calculation of the stuff that isnt in boxes too). ( song i've listened to the most this wk is something i don't own a copy of in any format i.e. "Hey Baby" by No Doubt)

― duane, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(recount - 41 boxes of albums)

― duane, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i need to work out a way to use this stuff more efficiently, is what i'm thinking.

― duane, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

God, what exciting and purposeful lives we do lead.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've decided to hire an outside consultant to do this survey. I would think it's probably no more than 2-5% typically.

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

God, what exciting and purposeful lives we do lead.
This in retort to the question or being on a message board?

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Both, I think.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got well over one thousand cd's and i listen to about ten of them.

― Poops McGee, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My wife and I have about 6000 CDs and another 2500 LPs or so between us. Right now, we're systematically listening to everything we haven't both already heard, in alphabetical order. We started at the beginning of the year, and just finished the A's.

― Douglas, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have around 1200 albums. I also borrow extensively from the library. Plus extensive downloading.

I spend more than 90% of my listening time listening to stuff that I have borrowed, downloaded or bought within the previous month or so. Time spent listening to my "collection" is pretty minimal.

I could get rid of 95% of what I own and hardly notice. A combination of lethargy and an irrational sense that not having a collection would lead to a mysterious gap in my life means its pretty unlikely to happen.

Oddly enough when I do occasionally suggest selling stuff to my wife she always discourages me, despite the fact that I chose about 95% of it and she listens to it much less than I do.

― ArfArf, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Douglas! It's no substitute!

unless of course engaged in simultaneous other activity heh heh

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been doing the same thing, Douglas. I own about 1500 to 2000 CDs and started listening to them in alphabetical order without skipping a track in August. By October I had to stop when I got to the letter C. Doing this made me realize that I don't need to own a single Beastie Boys album (because I hate them, don't know why I bought any in the first place), and that I don't need 15 Archers of Loaf records. I listened to them at work, maybe 8 records a day. The two days that were all Archers were tough, very tough. Thank God I didn't make it to Crooked Fingers. Even one more song from Eric Bachman could have pushed me over the edge.

But I plan to start over soon. It's a nice project, to see if you can take your own taste.

― Yancey, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My AMG reviews are this to a large extent -- I just started plowing through my discs and asking to review either what didn't have any reviews or could do with an upgrade. This has been going on now for two years, and I'm currently in the M section.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my penis is undeniably massive.

and conversely my record collection is pretty modest. I subscribe more to the mindset of the library visitor/video cassette renter than to that of "I must own and hang on to every record I plan on listening to several times".

Very few albums are worth owning on a "I NEED TO HEAR THIS RECORD RIGHT NOW" basis, for me at least.

I've listened to about 20% of the 100 CDs, 50 or so LPs I own as of year to date.

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I subscribe more to the mindset of the library visitor/video cassette renter

For that matter, I don't think I have watched any of the twenty or so videos I have bought more than once, if that. Before buying them, sure, many times, but owning them seems to kill my desire to watch. It's the same with albums I've had on LP or tape. Once i get the CD, I might play it once, but then it just sits on a shelf.

― Curt, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wow, I'm glad to see I'm not the only person listening in alpha. order. I did it to cull a bunch of stuff after acquiring a lot through various Amoeba bargain bin excursions, and I've definitely cut a lot of fat out.

Although, after trudging through seven Boredoms albums and a bunch of Bowie that has overlapping material on it back to back, I've decided to do it letter by letter. Working on the D's right now.

In the CD player: Drunk Tank, Disjecta, Distorted Pony, and Dawson.

Also doing something similar with my tapes: working out 1/2 hour a day, and arbitrarily trudging through my tapes in the order they're stored. That old Wingtip Sloat tape was quite, um, something.

― doug, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1% if I'm lucky. At the moment, it's more like 0.1%

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

0% because i listen to nothing "regularly" ha ha.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, what's "regularly"? :) Of my 300 or so albums, I listen to about 5 a week. I spend probably 2-3 times as much time listening to new stuff (MP3's, borrowed albums and recent purchases).

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, the old alpha listening technique. I decided to try it out because I thought that if these people could be bothered to make an LP, the least I could do is listen to it all the way through. Four years later, I gave up on 's' when faced with about 6 Soup Dragons 12"s.

― braces tower, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if i had a dollar for every record i don't own, i'd have a dollar.

― , Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

probably about 4-5 percent

― ernest, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

0.01%

― David Inglesfield, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

20-30

― anthony, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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