I'm close to 300 (ie albums not singles or EPs) CDs, not counting the few burnt ones I have (I burn then buy). My close friends are fellow addicts, although they're lagging around the 150-200 mark, but everyone else thinks I've got a problem. Now what I want to know is where I'm fitting in terms of OKP collections, like am I a minnow in terms of collections or getting up there? In other words, how many CDs have you all got?

To keep things properly in perspective how many do you folks own..but don't count 12", singles, EPs etc, because that's not fair, especially to us people on the bottom of the globe that just plain don't get access to anything other than top 40 singles let alone limited edition presses.

Oh yeah, and burns don't count either, nor do MP3 collections, because things could get silly.

then you got too much

blaow!

eom.

LMAO, that's kinda sad you know.

and u ain't playing it

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"Some say I'm too deep, I'm in too deep to sleep" Common

"Dem say dem clean, but dem still ah flex dutty
Say dem ah nuh no dog and still live like puppy
How you nuh love badness, but still you ah chuck it
from you diss Capleton, yuh unlucky" Capleton

"It is important to understand that in reality we don't learn how to grow spritually. We learn how to remove the impediments to the coming to the foreground of our submerged divine self." Ra Un Nefer Amen

Just straight cds I have about 450. It all started when I first got a cd player and planned on buying a cd a week to build a good collection and then slowing. Never happened. This summer I converted everything to mp3 disks so i could move to college easier without lugging them around or worrying. And in the process copied my friends and local library collections. I'm now at over 800 maybe close to 900 albums. Not only does my computer play them but my stereo and I have an IRiver SlimX portable cd player also. I still buy cds but switch them over to MP3 just for ease of use.

when you get rid of furniture to make room for your collection.

and then after you have no room, you start foolishly stacking cabinets on top of other cabinets...

this is just 2 of the things that happen when you have too many dvds, laserdiscs, cds and live in a studio apt.
m.
--
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580 @ $8.29

I'm only at the point where I sell useful possessions (like Subwoofers) to be able to continue my habit, but I can see things going downhill

....30 crates of vinyl taking up most of the real estate in your tiny apartment. Don't get me wrong, I love my records but this is not normal.

_____________________
Pete Rock, DJ Premier,
Diamond D, Large
Professor, Buckwild,
Showbiz.....

thats who's doing my
album.

Free Slick Rick...

Bring back
A Tribe Called Quest

>....30 crates of vinyl taking up most of the real estate in
>your tiny apartment. Don't get me wrong, I love my records
>but this is not normal.

heheh, that's what i'm talking about. not vinyl, but so many dvds that you now don't have anywhere to put them.

i think george carlin had something to say about this ;) lol!
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when you buy the newspaper strictly to thumb thru the office depot/officemax/staples catalogs to see if the good and sturdy bookcases are on sale this week

when you contemplate traveling to London because their Ikeas have the dope vinyl furniture (vinyl cabinets) and the US Ikea's aint trynna hear why they should carry that type of shit.

when you contemplate getting a carpenter to come to the house and give you estimates on ice'n out some built-in storage units with glass doors, locks, low voltage lights and such

when the house is a sty because vinyl litters every corner and most points in between.

when you accidentally buy duplicates of vinyl.

when you purposely buy duplicates of an album and create reasons for doing so(look they have SITKOL with the extra bonus disk for a $1!! the fools!! Oh my gawd there's another copy of Minnie Riperton's Stay In Love in here for a buck! at worse i can sell this shit on ebay. it pays to have 2 copies. well i could juggle this when i learn how to. ummmmmmmm maybe somebody will wanna trade in the future, yeah thas the ticket!)




Rotating!

oO 12s Oo
Ms Dynamite - Dynamitee
Soul Central - Soul Music
Shade Of Soul - NuStance
Erro - Change4Me
Chris Gray - Mental Patient ep
Son Dexter - Painting

oO albuhlums Oo
Blaze - Spiritually Speaking
Phil Asher is Focus - Sweet & Sour
Xaver Fischer Trio - Songs4You
Goapele - Even Closer

....::::MusicIsMySanctuary::::....

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Wednesdays 10a-12n
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>when you purposely buy duplicates of an album and create
>reasons for doing so(look they have SITKOL with the extra
>bonus disk for a $1!! the fools!! Oh my gawd there's another
>copy of Minnie Riperton's Stay In Love in here for a buck!
>at worse i can sell this shit on ebay. it pays to have 2
>copies. well i could juggle this when i learn how to.
>ummmmmmmm maybe somebody will wanna trade in the future,
>yeah thas the ticket!)
>
*raises hand* guilty as hell of that.. esp. on ebay

But my rap collection has exploded ever since I've had some steady income coming in. Most of my friends cannot understand why I would buy 3 or 4 CD's during one mall trip. If I could, I'd buy 120 right now...

not counting vinyl.


Theme Song Of The Moment: Tool - "The Grudge"

"You're running and you're running and you're running away, but you can't run away from yourself" - Robert Nesta Marley

♀¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤♀

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"Youth full of fire ain't got nowhere to go, nowhere to go" - Andre3000



It's a whole new millenium, and so I'm rolling with an Internet posse now: The Illgaluminati. You'd better ask somebody...

poor ass college students just try to get by. i'm up to about 180. would have a lot more if i hadn't stopped buying cds for three+ years when everything on the radio became crap and i didn't know where to turn (circa 96). now i'm back with a vengeance but i still can only afford to buy about 25 a year.

which, at australian prices, is basically worth a deposit on a house- i choose not to think about that, though

would have been a lot more, but i had approx 300 cds stolen a few years back

>would have been a lot more, but i had approx 300 cds stolen a few years back

everyone cringed when they read that :\
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the subsequent years of therapy have done some good
i've stopped from waking myself up screaming, at any rate..

No women, no kids, no music.

They done broke the code.

But that was the bulk in my collection.

I just stood in the street glaring at people who walked by me, wondering if they were the thief. It was like take the tv, take the videogames, take the computer, but NOT THE CD's. I still haven't gotten most of them shits back...

a few weeks ago. a bunch of imports, hard to find, and out of print stuff from my car. i wouldn't have even cared if they took my car, as long as they left my CDs behind. i feel you. i'm lookin at my neighbors crazy.

Me too...had like 170+ taken from my car from who...yeah a tow company after I got in a car accident...

Its funny cuz I was always sayin to people, "Ya know, thats a brand new car, and if it was stolen, I wouldn't care, just as long as they left me my CDs..."

Sure enough, God played a mean joke...

SOme fuck friend of a friend stole most of mine.

it blows man...IMO you really don't love music if you're stealin CDs

There really should be a code of something...get medievel on that shit and cut off people's ears when they pull that shit...

Stealing someone's CDs is a gross violation in the eyes of god, shouldv'e been the 11th commandment.

is there a compelling reason to do this?

20 or 30 I can see, but hundreds?

nah, really, in my case, i was moving some stuff and i went back upstairs to get another box. came back downstairs, and just like that, my shit was gone.

See I'm thinking that world leaders should be working to stop this kind of heinous act first, and worry about the terrorists later. Stealing CDs or Records, even bad ones is an evil act.

laziness...i guess thats what I get...I drive a ridiculous amount, and I'm never sure what I'll be in the mood for. Ive now learned my lesson, and keep about 15-20 essentials, and leave the rest at home.

I'm working on gettin a burner. Once that happens, 2 copies of every CD is going to be made, one for home, one for the car, and the originals are being put away somewhere safe...

I've got a burned copy of all the albums I would want to carry with me for outside the house. all the originals are for inside the house.

Peace,
Illnes

Listening to: Aesop Rock - Float

and edit out all the stupid skits and shit too...

I put the A to G EP, the Prefuse 73 EP, DJ Shadow's What Does Your Soul Look Like Suite, and Billy Wooten's "In The Rain" on one cd. Screw carrying a buncha seperates.

Peace,
Illnes

Listening to: smashing pumpkins - why am I so tired

That's what I'm talkin about...

I dont use a fuckin booklet. Mine were stolen in thier jewel cases from my place.

aaah man that hurt.....i'm killing somebody that day

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"Some say I'm too deep, I'm in too deep to sleep" Common

"Dem say dem clean, but dem still ah flex dutty
Say dem ah nuh no dog and still live like puppy
How you nuh love badness, but still you ah chuck it
from you diss Capleton, yuh unlucky" Capleton

"It is important to understand that in reality we don't learn how to grow spritually. We learn how to remove the impediments to the coming to the foreground of our submerged divine self." Ra Un Nefer Amen

i'm a junkie. thanks to bmg, working at 2 different record stores and a radio station


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"This mathematical rhythmatical mechanism enhances my wisdom
Prodigal Sunn of Islam, keeps me calm
from doing you harm, when I attack, it's Vietnam
Through CD-ROM, the mega bomb severs the ice in your charm
Too late for Salaam, slugs rip through your arm
Double lead arm supreme head some fled from the bloodshed
Painting many in red, leavin Iranians dead
Chief Indian Head , hangin fast on they deathbed
Out the window, lyrics flow like hot chemicals
Burning competitors, from they ears to they asshole
You wanna battle, I seperate your Adam's Apple
Crack your skully with a Snapple bottle, on the Apollo
Can you read black, ease back, we bleed tracks
Breeze through facts, contacts smack your wolfpack"
- Collaboration '98

"That's what I love about high school girls...I keep getting older, they stay the same age." - Wooderson

"fucking...what the fucking fuck? who the fuck, fucked this fucking...how did you two fucking fucks...FUCK!!" - The Funny Man

Shit, if I had money to spend, I'd probably own every album to ever come out. I'm addicted! It's not just to the music either. It's to the whole package, the music, cover art, liner notes etc. I probably have around 2 hundo. But I buy albums and bring a lot back to get money if I need the doe and don't feel the album at the time. But I've then bought albums that I've turned in again. When you act like I do, then you have a problem. My problem is that I don't have the money to buy all this shit! I probably have bought around 500 albums in my life. But what I want to know is how many albums ?uestlove has. I know he's a musaholic like a muthafucka! He buys everything!

"I'd probably own every album to ever come out. I'm addicted! It's not just to the music either. It's to the whole package, the music, cover art, liner notes etc. "


Theme Song Of The Moment: Tool - "The Grudge"

"You're running and you're running and you're running away, but you can't run away from yourself" - Robert Nesta Marley

♀¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤♀

that's why i'll buy a cd if i already have a burned copy and really like it.

I'm 52 crates of albums and 12"'s deep in my studio and over 8,000 CD's in my den and still going strong.

at that point, you got A LOT of shit...i'd say 1,000 for CDs

one of the best collections in the world...he has 70,000 vinyl LP's...that's without adding a few thousand 45's and a shitload of cd's...

You talkin' about Mr. Supreme?


p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
http://www.mp3.com/Crut

I was gonna ask the same thing.

Oh, and PROMO's collections consists of promos j/p :)

"I got into hip hop when I
first ordered Wu-Tang
forever from my Dad's
Columbia House music
catalog" (c) JRennolds

600 LPs and 400 cds...

but i'm addicted to getting records now, and working at a place where we're buying people's collections isn't helping...i've got a SHITLOAD of records that i'm holding to buy...everyday we get at least 5 lp's that i want...i'm gonna have to start selling drugs to support the vinyl habit

>but i'm addicted to getting records now, and working at a
>place where we're buying people's collections isn't
>helping...i've got a SHITLOAD of records that i'm holding to
>buy...everyday we get at least 5 lp's that i want...i'm
>gonna have to start selling drugs to support the vinyl habit

We got a lot of meth labs down here in the Tri-Cities, let's go to the feed lot and make some.



p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
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fa sheez.

I saw your avatar, so I figured if you know someone with 70,000 records, it has to be Supreme. We were supposed to meet at the Shadow show, but I didn't catch him. Him and I have been wanting to bump into each other and just talk shop. Aaaah.


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-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
http://www.mp3.com/Crut

has about 30,000...i might have to kill myself if i get that many...the upkeep on like 4 storage sheds is ridiculous...i better have a GOOD job by then or be getting paid off making beats, LOL.

True. I only have about 2700 records and I complain about maintaining my storage.




p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
http://www.mp3.com/Crut

When you walk out of a CD store and you have spent $50 when all you wanted was the new J5 CD...then you know you have a problem. F'realtho, I estimate I have around 800+.


And now...the ever-changing sig...

"I grew up hearing De La Soul and Run-DMC on the radio. But to some people today, if your shit's on the radio, it's commercial. They might say 'There's no good hip-hop on MTV, that's why we don't watch it.' But if they think Jurassic 5 is good hip-hop, and we get on MTV, they think we sold out. It's all fucked up."
--Jurassic 5's Akil

Here's an excerpt from a conversation between Jack White (White Stripes) and Beck from Interview Magazine...

JW - I think when rappers freestyle, it's like speaking in tongues, because it's going by so quickly and ideas are forming--it's like running as fast as you can through barricades and tires, you know?

B - Like boot camps. You can't stumble or fall.

JW - There should be freestyle boot camps.

B - I think there are. On the streets, my friend.

aim: cflartey

That's EXACTLY what happened.

2700+ pieces of vinyl (including 45's, LP's & 12" singles)
2200+ CD's (I came close to 3000 CD's but have sold quite a lot in the last few years).


p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
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- BUT -

My collection only increased by 10 discs from 2001-02.

Can I get some applause, y'all?!!!

We will be coming to you when we need a loan!

Thank you... it's been hard... but my minimalism may be here to stay.

And yes, my banker likes me more now.

When you come out of Amoeba with a $300 receipt, then you know it's a bit much...ha ha.

But for real...I don't try to rationalize it. I remember in high school when I was buying CD's all the time, this kid said that I was wasting my money. He was on some..."You coulda bought blah blah blah w/ all that loot you're spending." True, but I would be without some bomb music. I just hit over 500 a couple weeks ago, and I'm currently looking for a case to hold 1,000.

Look, if you like the music, then who cares how many cd's you got. But if you're buying it just to be buying it...eh...that's another.

Stars and stripes shirt an' e'ythang...

I had to call a friend, on some "I'm in a massive record store warehouse."

She was like, get out, get out now, I'm coming to get you.

I maintained, bought an old 101 North record for $2. But the Mexican lady that took the cash was like, "That's it? Whateva. You'll be back. They always come back."

I had to go defcon four on my salbutamol inhaler 'soon as I crossed the threshhold into sunlight.

To celebrate me and my girl's 4-year anniversary this December, I told her that I want to go to San Fran. We celebrate that night of, whatever. I told her the next day that I would be in Amoeba for ten hours. She got a little mad but understands that I love music so much that she's willing to compromise. Keep in mind that I've never been to Amoeba. After all the stories I've heard about it, I plan to go in there wearing some Depends or some shit.

There should be a therapy group or something. I plan to drop a lot of money down there.


"I got into hip hop when I
first ordered Wu-Tang
forever from my Dad's
Columbia House music
catalog" (c) JRennolds

i just can't digest that much music at a time. it's nice to get one or too, but $300 worth of music? damn, that's a grocery bill for a family of four . . .

I do this type of stuff to myself. I go on tears and buy like $500 bucks workth of music in like 2-3 weeks and its just too much for one sitting, and I never really get to fully digest it...and then I go a solid month, and a sale hits, or an album I been waitin for drops or some other reason pops up and I walk into a store or log online and drop another $100-$200...its crazy, I hate it, but whatever...theres worse things I could be doin...

That's $300 once a year. I live in Chicago, and we don't have an Amoeba out here. So when I get out to LA or the bay area, I get my finances together so I can shop there. Plus, I'm a single man with a salary...after rent, car note and other misc. bills, it's all spending money.

I'm in the same boat...after my bills, its all spending money. I've been buying a ridiculous amount lately because I'm trying to rebuild my collection (all of my CDs were stolen like 6 months ago) and because of this site turning me on to all types of new music.

Its all good though, I'm seriously gonna slow down soon, only buy 1 per week or some shit.

of the records you own

Or ...when you only have time to rock what's in front of your stereo(the latest dig)-yes, I have a problem!

If you buy Lps or CDs on your lunch break(INSTEAD of lunch) you have this all too common malady.(as part of my therapy, I will admit to actually getting on the Metro on my lunch hour and hitting up spots. Hell, I may go on a bender today!)

http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/lesson/48491.html

but that's including my vinyl...

i've had to cut back in a major way, since i'm finally out and about on my own (well, living with my girlfriend). i've only been buying a few cds a month... in a way though, it's been a blessing. you know those times i used to spend 75 bucks a pop at the record store? it became something i took for granted... now when i walk into the store with a limit to how much i can spend... i really relish those records.

but i'm on sabbatical, because i've fallen behind on the star trek: tng dvd collections... i haven't been able to afford season 4 yet.

-thebigfunk

Dave Carter
August 13, 1952 - July 19, 2002

~ Sigh, mournful sister, whisper and turn / I will rattle like dry leaves when I go / Stand in the mists, where my fire used to burn / I will camp on the night breeze when I go / And should you glimpse my wandering form out on the borderline / Between death and resurrection and the counsel of the pines / Do not worry for my comfort, do not sorrow for me so / All your diamond tears will rise up and adorn the skies beside me when I go~ - "When I Go" Dave Carter

i'm in the thousands...that's including records, CDs, and tapes-yes, i still have all of my cassettes. everything is in alphabetical order. i'm basically out of room. i have CDs piled on top of my computer and tv. it's pretty sad.

so you ain't that bad yet, but it sounds like you're on you way!

right now about 500+ cds and about 5 crates of wax.

My record collection is rediculous now. I have racks that go almost all they way up to the wall and I still records that I can't put away anywhere. I can't move around in my production room and it's to the point where I don't want to work sometimes. It gets worse after a day of crate digging because I am allergic to the smell of mildew from the old flea market/dollar bin records.

You know the collection is ridiculous when:

-You have over 5 hundred but could with time list them all one by one.

-In times of boredom you organize the collection (novice collectors go with alphabetical, some by genre, then artists who work or have worked with other artists, time period, record label).

-When you no longer take hours at a record store because any given store probably only has MAYBE 1 album you need for your collection (and that is a big MAYBE, as you only have about a dozen "Holy Grail" albums left to buy, not including new stuff)

-But you check the Import Section of every major record store-- just in case--and if said major record store doesn't have an Import Section, then later for that place.

-When people ask you how many albums you have, you sometimes get mixed up and don't know whether or not to count vinyl, cds or both. You don't even bother counting cassette tape (mostly because you bought all those again on cd and vinyl anyway).

-You got a credit card mainly because you can only find several "Holy Grail" albums online.

-You can easily connect The Beach Boys to Mos Def in the six degrees of separation music game, using your liner notes as proof to back you up.

-If you have your cds in cd book cases, you have the liner notes organized separately.

-You keep open slots in your collection, placed in a precise spot, for upcoming albums or albums you need to pick up.

-Without thinking about it, one of the first things you notice when walking into someone's room/living room/etc. is their record collection, where it is, how big it is, what's in it and how it's organized.

-You learned not to put pressure on the cds from putting too many together in a case thus forming those bubbles inside them that makes the album skip and cannot be fixed.

-You have dozens of albums in your collections that you consider MUST HAVES for anyone that calls him/herself a serious music collector (ie: Songs in the Key of Life, Kind of Blue, Blue, What's Goin On', 3 Feet High and Rising, Abbey Road, Blonde on Blonde etc) Moreover, if people DO NOT own them, suddenly their opinion concerning music no longer matter.

-If you see a good soundtrack and buy it only if it is all original music/score or containing mostly songs you can't get anywhere else--otherwise you just buy all the albums with songs on the soundtrack.

-You saw High Fidelity and thought it was your biography.

-Many of your albums you haven't listened to all the way through. Quite a few you only scanned through when you first bought it, for about five minutes, just to assure yourself that it was a worthwhile buy.

1Love,
Samurai X

>-In times of boredom you organize the collection (novice
>collectors go with alphabetical, some by genre, then artists
>who work or have worked with other artists, time period,
>record label).

Currently alphabetically but previously had them in order of year of release

>-You keep open slots in your collection, placed in a precise
>spot, for upcoming albums or albums you need to pick up.

Guilty

>-Without thinking about it, one of the first things you
>notice when walking into someone's room/living room/etc. is
>their record collection, where it is, how big it is, what's
>in it and how it's organized.

Guilty


>-You have dozens of albums in your collections that you
>consider MUST HAVES for anyone that calls him/herself a
>serious music collector (ie: Songs in the Key of Life, Kind
>of Blue, Blue, What's Goin On', 3 Feet High and Rising,
>Abbey Road, Blonde on Blonde etc) Moreover, if people DO NOT
>own them, suddenly their opinion concerning music no longer
>matter.

Tending towards guilty, but I am trying to tolerate the unwashed masses

>-You saw High Fidelity and thought it was your biography.

Sigh..guilty again

>-Many of your albums you haven't listened to all the way
>through. Quite a few you only scanned through when you first
>bought it, for about five minutes, just to assure yourself
>that it was a worthwhile buy.

Ummm..some, several I'll listen to for 10 minutes, totally enjoy it wonder why I never listen to it, turn it off and forget to ever listen right through, and I'm not talking rubbish albums, I'm meaning Blackstar, Blue Lines (Massive Attack), Maxinquaye (Tricky) etc

Oh well...

game. set. match.

>-You keep open slots in your collection, placed in a precise
>spot, for upcoming albums or albums you need to pick up.

you try to own a particular release (or group of releases) in every format that it was available in. (8-track, vinyl, cassette, cd, mini-disc...)

--me--

...
how long will it last?

"Ladies, never let a man eat your booty. Cuz everything he says from there on out will be full of Sh**"- a comedian on comicview ( And it's SOOO true!)

That's just unfortunate. Shame on you if you've bought it, shame I say :p

Hell, even if it you spent postage on it, it's still wrong.



p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
http://www.mp3.com/Crut

guilty. On CD and vinyl. (because the artwork is so much bigger!)

It's an addiction just about as bad as crack. I've been buying 3-5 cd's a week lately, mostly going back to pick up things I missed in the past.





"drink drink drunk until I can't hack-it, until the little man falls of the horse on my Polo jacket"-J-Ro

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p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
http://www.mp3.com/Crut

I didn't read everyone's replies, but for me, record shelves take up the majority of wall space in my bedroom... and my closet.

I'd say it starts to get ridiculous when you're even saying to yourself, "Man, where in the F@#$ am I gonna put THESE?" yet you buy them anyway.

Or another example is when you don't put records away right after buying them because putting them away requires making space and moving things down (and possibly to other shelves if needed), so you have to set aside a certain amount of time just to file things away.

And yes, that's autobiographical right there. Right now I've got about two feet of records and two 8 inch tall stacks of CD's that need to be put away. That'll take me about an hour and a half. I've been slacking off lately.

i'm in high school, and ever since 7th or 8th grade, i'd forego eating in favor of getting that new album coming out next tuesday. i'm around 500 now, but i need some sort of way to organize 'em all. and i realized that you i buy a lot of stuff and dont listen to it, but i got it b/c i just couldnt resist letting it sit there for someone else to pick up. the good ol' "hiding in the country section" shit didnt work for me last time, so i'm leery to visit the record store b/c i know i'll end up getting too much...

ZERØ

-When you go to your best local music store 1)they know you personally; 2)they have saved albums for you that you wanted; 3)they have saved albums for you that you didn't know you wanted but now desperately need; 4)they let you in the storage rooms alone for hours on end

-When you work at a music store(where you get everything at cost) yet continue to shop at many other places

-When namechecking The Roots, Nick Cave, Joe McPhee, Midnight Oil, James MacMillan, Art Blakey and Henry Cow all in one sentence makes total sense to you.

-When you have an album on CD but you buy it on vinyl just so the artwork is bigger

-When you really DO care if a record is a first pressing.

-When you look for "white labels"

-When Tuesdays are the best day of the week.

>-When Tuesdays are the best day of the week.

hahaha...its gettin to that point with me...

Its an addiction almost worse than crack, you can't buy crack on a credit card...

>Its an addiction almost worse than crack, you can't buy
>crack on a credit card...

But I'm sure you can use PayPal.


p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
http://www.mp3.com/Crut

When your PayPal account becomes your secret stash.



p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
http://www.mp3.com/Crut

When you use that Paypal stash to buy OTHER people's records on eBay..I gotta fiure this out.

>When you use that Paypal stash to buy OTHER people's records
>on eBay..I gotta fiure this out.

That's what I meant. I can sell a good record and make some decent money on eBay, then use that money to also get other albums I've been wanting for awhile, sometimes much cheaper than getting it elsewhere. Always better than tossing it at Goodwill.


p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://www.john-book.com
http://www.mp3.com/Crut

hahahahaha

Actually the internet has made things worse because I can mail-order stuff I can't find in the crappy music stores here in DC.

The first half of this year I was doing pretty good but I've been going nuts lately.

Hell, the only thing that can keep me away from Tower Records (and they suck in comparison to most places) for more than a week is this damn sniper.

Shaun G.

about half albums, and half singles.
I don't buy much cd's unless they are blank cd's

...and you set up one move for your records and another move for the rest of your possessions, that's when it's ridiculous.

And you're more concerned about storing your collection in a good room than you are about having a bed.(Hell, you can sleep on the couch!)

Yup!

>...and you set up one move for your records and another move
>for the rest of your possessions, that's when it's
>ridiculous.

I've got 1500 cd's and 3000 to 4000 albums, *not sure how many cassettes* - Music is my life!

Sale at Echo (local record store) today...

Ernest Ranglin - Below the Bassline
Outkast - Aquemini
Bjork - Homogenic

NZ$37 all up (About US$17-18)

Two and a half weeks without a hit, that's not too bad I guess.

I did it too...I said I was gonna wait. Ah well, that didn't happen.

I bought a host of stuff...

Red Hot + Riot
Meshell's Peace Beyond Passion
Air - Moon Safari (used)
Automator's Handsome Boy Modeling School
Deltron3030
Bumpy Knuckles -- Industry Shakedown(used)
Nirvana - Unplugged
Nirvana - In utero (used)
Van Morrison - Moondance
Lo-Fidelity Allstars - how to operate with a blown mind (used $5)
Solesides greatest bumps (used) -- original was stolen so I didnt feel bad about buyin it used.

I only went in their to buy 3-4, red hot, meshell and deltron...ah well

It's only because I'm strapped for cash that I only bought three. Haven't quite got to the point where I'd rather buy CDs than eat yet (notice the yet).

my friends think i am the same way 300 come on you got some buying to do I'm up to 528 albums.

At one point I began working as a freelance journalist just to feed my habit and my editors would get pissed because they'd want me to interview somebody like Eve or Nas and I'd be pitching them stories on shit like Aphex Twin or Aceyalone just to get the promo CD. I've got hundreds of em'

P.S.
I got 30-40 CDs in a day once and I damn near had about 12 non-sexual orgasms at the sheer excitement of the situation.

is that you are posting about your collection being too big and it hasnt even topped 300 yet

sure by your normal standards you are considered an obsessive

but on here? you are a featherweight

i tried to explain this to my girl last night...

"But baby, i only have 375. of course i need this 6 discs, i'm BEHIND THE CURVE"

>is that you are posting about your collection being too big
>and it hasnt even topped 300 yet
>
>sure by your normal standards you are considered an
>obsessive
>
>but on here? you are a featherweight


When I look at The Sharper Image catalogs I get, I look at the racks and go "shit, I'll need 22 of those" but with that money, I can buy more music.



p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=johnbook

God, this post is the truth !

I've got over 500 CD's, 300 pieces of wax and 300 tapes. Everything from Anticon to early drum n' bass, appalacian folk songs, Neil Young, Biggie, 2step, punk, Cannibal Ox, Chaka Khan, Dj Spooky etc. I find it perplexing when friends of mine discuss their favorite "type" of music.

P.S.
I agree with whoever said that the net makes things worse between Dustygroove.com, Midheaven, Sandbox Automatic, ATAK etc. I can barely sleep.

n/m

-you use qtip's misfortune as an excuse to build your wet dream library. meaning you scream on studio owner about setting up proper fire estinguishers in the ceiling.

-you neglect copping ma dukes a crib so that your room can have a+ cherrywood floors. the most prime wood you can walk on.

-the equivalent of charting your own plane and not flying first class in the collecting world is hiring a broker. he finds collections for you. widow of a collector? you getting a call. aids related illness forcing someone to give up prime house collection? you getting a call. too lazy to pack shit to move so you leave it there? you getting a call. you a mob associated wherehouse owner who could give a fuck that you took over a mom and pop wherehouse where 200,000 records reside? riiiiiiiiiing. my broker is the jerry meguire of record collectors. no orbituary is too off limits. he will call you.

-you follow biz's lead and cop every version of that rare break record just so that no one else can have it.

-and you have weeklong pilgramages to record stores searching for yet another biz told lie: ie "mardi gras" on 12 inch without bells. that's like a 2 live crew rhyme about the lord. DOSN'T EXISIT BUT WE STILL ASK!

-you stop counting at 30,000

-you have a disguise for certain stores knowing they will charge you more cause you own a grammy. but they have no clue what a great diet, some braids, a hat, and bottlecap glasse will do for you.

-you hire a staff to alphabetize.

-you are too lazy to climb ladder in room for "eric b is president" so you cop another copy instead.

-you get aroused typing your advantages on your website.

-you dream of day that you will overtake dj shadows title of the king of diggin ---he has 150,000 i heard.

-when you buy a house and your friend suggests you put supports beneath your "den", just as a precaution(true story)

-your occupation(dj, producer,grammy award winner,record dealer) allows you to write off your habit as a business expense

-you know the other bleary-eyed diggers on a Saturday morning on a first name basis, and still can't figure out how they beat you to spots every time! Plus, you get up earlier on a saturday than you would EVER think of getting up during the week just to get in the game!

-and as ?uest alluded, you transcend normal social conventions in the search for rare vinyl. Of course, you don't want to seem cold if someone recently passed, but you don't want a basement worth of vinyl to be thrown out! And that still happens way too often!

you've got everythang! I would like to take a look thru your CD's, but I might be tempted to take a few. HA!

>-the equivalent of charting your own plane and not flying
>first class in the collecting world is hiring a broker. he
>finds collections for you. widow of a collector? you getting
>a call. aids related illness forcing someone to give up
>prime house collection? you getting a call. too lazy to pack
>shit to move so you leave it there? you getting a call. you
>a mob associated wherehouse owner who could give a fuck that
>you took over a mom and pop wherehouse where 200,000 records
>reside? riiiiiiiiiing. my broker is the jerry meguire of
>record collectors. no orbituary is too off limits. he will
>call you.

Yes! Now that's talent right there.


>-you have a disguise for certain stores knowing they will
>charge you more cause you own a grammy. but they have no
>clue what a great diet, some braids, a hat, and bottlecap
>glasse will do for you.

Better watch it, or you might be asked to do your moves from the "Bad" video.

> you hire a staff to alphabetize. <
That's luxury right there.


>-you get aroused typing your advantages on your website.
Or when you read posts on OkayPlayer about... hold on, I'll be right back.


>-you dream of day that you will overtake dj shadows title of
>the king of diggin ---he has 150,000 i heard.
Did you give him that title, or did MCA?




p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=johnbook

^

>-you are too lazy to climb ladder in room for "eric b is
>president" so you cop another copy instead.

that is ridiculous!
consider it the best and newest diet trend...reorganizing your collection

>
>-you get aroused typing your advantages on your website.


um, ?uest, there's something on your screen and i think the keys are starting to stick a tad...

If archived, when you accidentally spend your rent money on CDs, you can just come back, re-read ?uestlove's post and console yourself (Hey, I've got no problems compared to this man, type thing).

hahhaha..."forget" eh?

And its not all silly, it can be a valuable lesson to people to not carry around CDs in cars...

And yeah, when I dont take my girl out for a nice night out because I blew all my money on music, I can be like "Look, see, im not the only one..."

:)

that "forget" should be "acidentally"...my bad

You look at you bank account and think, sweet, I've got $160 more bucks than I thought I did. Next you, thinking you're being sensible, only spend $100 on music, and walk out proud of yourself for showing some restraint....I think you can guess what happens next, it involves a lot of swearing, begging and selling of furniture (but not music).

Yeah, I'm definitely guilty of doin that...

>-the equivalent of charting your own plane and not flying
>first class in the collecting world is hiring a broker. he
>finds collections for you. widow of a collector? you getting
>a call. aids related illness forcing someone to give up
>prime house collection? you getting a call. too lazy to pack
>shit to move so you leave it there? you getting a call. you
>a mob associated wherehouse owner who could give a fuck that
>you took over a mom and pop wherehouse where 200,000 records
>reside? riiiiiiiiiing. my broker is the jerry meguire of
>record collectors. no orbituary is too off limits. he will
>call you.

i'm like blown away right now. i had no idea stuff like that even existed. that's just amazing.

d

NOW
NOW
NOW
NOW
NOW
NOW
NOW
NOW


or i will stop coming to th site

hey what the fuck, why arent u archiving it....

and i need you down here *motions lower*

i feel like im watching a gay porno flick.

-mr.thompson



i go to religious chatrooms and cuss at folks for fun.

-?uest in response to fonsworth's hating ass

Ja Rule is as "real" as Talib Kweli--

:Fonsworth

This is a business---don't forget that
:BKyle

but eff a bread.
only bread i love is money.

:?uestlove

Due to yesterday's brief hiatus from the world wide web, I'm sure your level of productivity at home, school, or the office reached an all time high.

: Bkyle, not ?uestlove as previously mentioned. sorry

"i have no guilt whatsoever asking for one legged hookers with an iq above room tempeture."

-mr. thompson


"If somebody told me I had only one hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow."

- Miles Davis


“Gotta have Black Thought and sorta B like Malik,
So don't Question a Brother, to the Roots I get deep”

-Common

"Not going to New Jersey isnt procrastination, it's common sense" - Igby Goes Down

record-digging has over taken horse-racing as the sport of kings

>record-digging has over taken horse-racing as the sport of
>kings

As it should be.


p.e.a.c.e.
-John Book
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=johnbook

Man, and I even gave up all this (as in, sold and/or gave away hundreds upon hundreds of records, vinyl, tapes, etc). But once I start making waves again, it's ON.

I will make your shit look like grandma's beenie baby collection. You and Biz both will get the vapors. I mean, I'm gonna, I'm gonna...

I got nothing.

You win again.

Can't beat the Geek.

1Love,
Dexter Handsomely

I'm thinking about getting into this:

http://www.cadencebuilding.com/cadence/cdsleeve.html

Would this count? Has anyone done this?